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Ekaterina Haskins

Ekaterina Haskins

Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences
244 Sparks building University Park , PA 16802

Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.A. Moscow State University, Russia, 1991
M.A., Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 1993
Ph.D., University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1999

Professional Bio

Ekaterina V. Haskins is a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Visual Studies.  She investigates official and grassroots memory practices as important sites of civic engagement and political rhetoric. She is the author of three monographs, including Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship (The University of South Carolina Press, 2015) and Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin’s Russia (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024) as well as numerous articles on rhetoric, memory, and visual culture. Her current project explores how Soviet political terror is being remembered (and forgotten) in Russia and the former republics of the USSR.