Rebecca Friedman

Founding Director, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab
Associate Professor of History at Florida International University

Rebecca Friedman is Founding Director of the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab and Associate Professor of History at Florida International University and did her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is an expert in the cultural and gender history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union and is author of the first English-language monograph on Russian masculinity. Her recent book, Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality: Time at Home, explores modern time and home in twentieth century Russia (Bloomsbury 2020). Much of her work at present involves public humanities and community engagement, especially highlighting the cultural and intellectual spirit of the Greater Miami region.