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Our Faculty:

Margaret Peacock
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, 2008

mepeacock@ua.edu

Research Interests:

Russian and Soviet History
Semiotics and Visual Culture
The Cold War

Courses Currently Taught:
Imperial Russian History
Soviet History
Modern Western Civilizations

Current Projects:

Contested Innocence: Images, Childhood, and the Struggle for Cold War Legitimacy (book project).
“For Peace and Friendship: The Soviet Union’s Struggle to Transform Hooligans into Heroes at the Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students, 1957” (article).
Publications:
"Broadcasting Benevolence: Images of the Child in Soviet, American, and NLF Propaganda to Vietnam, 1965-1973," The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 3 (Winter 2010): 15-38.
"Duck and Cover: Children's Cold War Experiences in 1950s America," in Perspectives in American Social History: The Cold War and McCarthy Eras, ed. Caroline Emmons (New York: ABC-Clio, 2009).
"Nauchnaia rabota: sem’ia i programma Fulbraita," ["The Science of Work: Family and the Fulbright Program"], Poslednie Obnovleniia [Final Thoughts], Fall, 2005.
Review of Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture, by Rachel Devlin. The Journal of Material Culture 39 (2007): 91-4.
Review of America’s Nuclear Wastelands, by Max Power. Pacific Northwest Quarterly 99 (Fall 2008): 201-2.
Grants, Awards and Honors:
Continuing Education Grant, University of Texas (2007)
Gardner F. Marston Endowed History Fellow, University of Texas (2006)
Fulbright-Hays Scholar (2005)
Michael J. Hogan Fellow, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (2004)
Alice Jane Drysdal Sheffield Fellow in European History, University of Texas (2003)
Dora Bonham Dissertation Grant, University of Texas (2002)
Foreign Language Area Scholar, U.S. Department of State (2000-2003)

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