Anna Kuxhausen
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Michigan, 2006
Russian History
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kuxhause@stolaf.edu


Anna Kuxhausen earned her Ph.D. in history at the University of Michigan, after graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin.  Her dissertation thesis, "Raising the Nation:  Medicine, Morality, and Vospitanie in Enlightenment Russia," funded in part by a Fulbright grant and a Charlotte Newcombe award, was based on more than two years of archival research in Russia.  The thesis won a Distinguished Dissertation Award from Michigan's Department of History.  Currently, Prof. Kuxhausen is revising her dissertation into a book on the political discourse of childrearing and its construction of "subject-citizens" during the reign of Catherine the Great.   In the future, Prof. Kuxhausen will extend her research on the connections between domesticity and national identity to different eras of Russian history.

While a graduate student, the University of Michigan honored Prof. Kuxhausen with an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award.  At St. Olaf, she teaches courses in Russian and European history and will teach "Introduction to Women's Studies" in 2007-2008.

Prof. Kuxhausen lives in Northfield with her husband Matt and daughter.

In addition to her love of teaching and motherhood, she is enthusiastic about Russian film, Polish and Czech poetry, travel and hiking.