Contact Information
Research Interests
My research concerns the link between technologies of recorded sound and Soviet power and the creation of song culture in the USSR. It explores popular song in the USSR through a study of urban subcultures, spatial history, and sound studies. My love for spatial history and the interaction of sound and spaces brought me to the School of Architecture, where I advise first and second year students.
Education
2017 - MA, Global, International, and Comparative History, Georgetown University
2024 - PhD, History, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Grants
2020 ASEEES Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Grant
2018-2020 FLAS fellowship
Additional Campus Affiliations
Illinois School of Architecture
Highlighted Publications
Abosch, Elizabeth, "Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union," Russian Review (forthcoming).
Abosch, Elizabeth. “Moldavanka on the Magnitofon: The Music of Arkadii Severnyi and Singing the Streets ‘Old Odessa’ in the Soviet Apartment Block.” Slavic & East European Journal 65, no. 3 (Fall 2021): 499–517.