Steven G. Jug

Research/Teaching Interests

• Russian Military Culture and Propaganda
• Masculinity and Subjectivity
• Epistolary writing, memoirs, and oral history interviews
• Martial Arts and National Identity

Areas of Specialization

Modern Russia, East Central Europe, Ukraine, Military History, Masculinity and Gender History

Education

History, University of Illinois, Ph.D. 2013

History, University of Toronto, M.A. 2004

History, University of Toronto, B.A. 2003

Courses Taught

MLC and Area and Gender Studies

• RUS 1301 |  Elementary Russian I
• RUS 1302 | Elementary Russian II
• SEES 2380 | Introduction to Slavic & East European Studies
• SEES 3381  | History of East Central Europe
• AST 2380 | Peoples and Culture of Asia
• WGS 2300 | Women and Gender: Introduction

History

• HIS 1300 | US in Global Perspective: Diplomacy, Empire, and Propaganda
• HIS 3337 | Nineteenth Century Europe
• HIS 3340 | Russia to 1861
• HIS 3343 | History of Ukraine
• HIS 3345 | European Military History

Selected Publications

Articles

“Military Women: Pursuing Equality, Defending Nations, and Threatening Masculinity”Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, 18:1 (June 2024).

“‘My Comrades Will Avenge me’: Feminine Heroic Death” in Florence Hervé, editor, Ihr wisst nicht, wo mein Mut endet: Europäische Frauen im Widerstand gegen Faschismus und Krieg [You don't know where my courage ends: European women in resistance against fascism and war], PapyRossa Verlag, 2024

““Forces spirituelles et physiques sans précédent. Réappropriation du sambo par l’Église orthodoxe en Russie” [“Unprecedented Spiritual and Physical Forces”: Reclaiming Sambo for Orthodoxy in Russia]” in Olivier Bernard, editor, L’univers social des arts martiaux [The social universe of martial arts], Presses de l'Université Laval, 2023.

“Reconnoitering Masculine Subjectivities among Soldiers & Officers on Russia’s Fronts, 1914-1917” in Melissa K. Stockdale and Adele Lindenmeyr, eds., Russian Women and Gender in War and Revolution, 1914-1922, Slavica Publishers, 2022.

“Mourning Deaths and Constructing Afterlives in the Red Army at War” in Candi K. Cann, ed., Death & Afterlife, Routledge, 2018, pp. 136-152.

“Sensing Danger: The Red Army during the Second World War” in Matthew P. Romaniello and Tricia Starks, eds., Russian History through the Senses: From 1700 to the Present, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, pp. 219-240.

“Militarizing masculinities in Red Army discourse and subjectivity, 1942-1943” Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture, Issue 3 (Feb 2015), pp. 189-212.

“Red Army Romance: preserving masculine hegemony in mixed gender combat units, 1943-1944.” Journal of War and Culture Studies, 5:3 (Sept 2012), pp. 321-334.