Faculty & Staff

William B. Husband

Professor
Russia
Department of History
302F Milam Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: (541) 737-1263
Fax: (541) 737-1257
Email: whusband@oregonstate.edu

• William B. Husband, a specialist in Soviet history, received his Ph.D. from Princeton. His research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the Cotsen Library, the Oregon Council for the Humanities, and the Summer Russian Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
• Husband's current book project is Nature in Modern Russia: A Social History.

Selected Publications

• "Godless Communists": Atheism in State and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000).
• The Human Tradition in Modern Russia (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2000).
• Revolution in the Factory: The Birth of the Soviet Textile Industry, 1917-1920 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).
• "Happy Birthday, Siberia! Russia's 'Colony' and Public Opinion, 1881-1882," in The Human Tradition in Imperial Russia (2009).
• “Correcting Nature’s Mistakes’: Transforming the Environment and Soviet Children’s Literature, 1928-1941,” in Environmental History (April 2006).
• "Mythical Communities and the New Soviet Woman: Bolshevik Antireligious Chastushki, 1917-1932," in Russian Review (January 2004).
• "The Russian Experiment in Communism: The New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-1928," in Gregory L. Freeze, ed., Russia: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).