Maria Fedorova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1172955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Fedorova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Fedorova |
| SIGNATURE | FEDOROVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor, Department of Russian Studies, Faculty of Russian Studies, Macalester College Saint Paul, MN USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7744-0130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Coding Beauty and Decoding Ugliness
In this article, we analyze the productive role of aesthetics in organizing technoscientific work. Specifically, we investigate how aesthetic judgments form and inform code-writing practices at a large web services company in Russia. We focus on how programmers express aesthetic judgments about code and software design in everyday practice and explore how language with positive and negative valences is deployed. We find that programmers label cod…
States of Anxiety
Mapping Food Riots—Teaching Global Connections
Writing and teaching using global history is by no means a novel concept. Students in both K–12 and postsecondary education systems have been exposed to them to varying degrees since the 1990s. Despite having clear connections to world history, agricultural history has largely been taught through national and or regional lenses. Recently, agricultural education specialists have identified the integration of “a more globalized approach” to teachin…
Bread or Iron? Competing Visions of American Aid to Soviet Russia, 1921–1923
World War I was a watershed moment in the rise of a new network of international humanitarian organizations that sought to develop systematic responses to the unprecedented social and economic crises caused by the war. Many organizational questions about types of relief, distribution networks, and roles of relief workers, among others, became points of discussion and an open confrontation ensued among different organizations. This article analyze…
Pedocomplex buried under the Cabin of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg (1703)
Seasoned Socialism
Seeds as Technology
The article analyzes the significance of seeds in the modernization of Soviet agriculture and illuminates the international dimension of Soviet efforts to establish a planned seed economy in the 1920s. Beyond the reorganization of the village and mechanization of farming, Soviet agricultural experts sought to rationalize agricultural production through the introduction of “improved” seeds. By focusing on the history of the Russian Agricultural Bu…
Event
Grains
Framing the Pussy Riot between the USA and Russia
This research analyzes news stories of the American New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Russian Izvestiya and Argumenty i Fakty toward the Russian punk group Pussy Riot. The study used qualitative framing analysis to (1) extract the frames and framing devices employed by the newspapers in their coverage of the Russian group, and (2) to identify if the coverage aligned with the official positions of the corresponding governments. The time…
Framing the Pussy Riot between the USA and Russia
This research analyzes news stories of the American New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Russian Izvestiya and Argumenty i Fakty toward the Russian punk group Pussy Riot. The study used qualitative framing analysis to (1) extract the frames and framing devices employed by the newspapers in their coverage of the Russian group, and (2) to identify if the coverage aligned with the official positions of the corresponding governments. The time…
Framing the Pussy Riot between the USA and Russia
This research analyzes news stories of the American New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Russian Izvestiya and Argumenty i Fakty toward the Russian punk group Pussy Riot. The study used qualitative framing analysis to (1) extract the frames and framing devices employed by the newspapers in their coverage of the Russian group, and (2) to identify if the coverage aligned with the official positions of the corresponding governments. The time…
Grains
Event
Seasoned Socialism
Seeds as Technology
The article analyzes the significance of seeds in the modernization of Soviet agriculture and illuminates the international dimension of Soviet efforts to establish a planned seed economy in the 1920s. Beyond the reorganization of the village and mechanization of farming, Soviet agricultural experts sought to rationalize agricultural production through the introduction of “improved” seeds. By focusing on the history of the Russian Agricultural Bu…
Pedocomplex buried under the Cabin of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg (1703)
Mapping Food Riots—Teaching Global Connections
Writing and teaching using global history is by no means a novel concept. Students in both K–12 and postsecondary education systems have been exposed to them to varying degrees since the 1990s. Despite having clear connections to world history, agricultural history has largely been taught through national and or regional lenses. Recently, agricultural education specialists have identified the integration of “a more globalized approach” to teachin…
Bread or Iron? Competing Visions of American Aid to Soviet Russia, 1921–1923
World War I was a watershed moment in the rise of a new network of international humanitarian organizations that sought to develop systematic responses to the unprecedented social and economic crises caused by the war. Many organizational questions about types of relief, distribution networks, and roles of relief workers, among others, became points of discussion and an open confrontation ensued among different organizations. This article analyze…
States of Anxiety
Coding Beauty and Decoding Ugliness
In this article, we analyze the productive role of aesthetics in organizing technoscientific work. Specifically, we investigate how aesthetic judgments form and inform code-writing practices at a large web services company in Russia. We focus on how programmers express aesthetic judgments about code and software design in everyday practice and explore how language with positive and negative valences is deployed. We find that programmers label cod…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)