Maya Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9914-0481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Steppes to Health
This paper examines the rise of the "climate-kumys cure" in late imperial Russia and how it shaped perceptions of the steppes as a "curative place." By positing that kumys (fermented mare's milk), a traditional food produced by steppe nomads, interacted with unique qualities of the steppe climate-including aromatic air, abundant sunshine, cool forest groves, rich feathergrasses, and brilliant wildflowers-to cure tuberculosis patients of their sym…
Pipe Dreams
US to USSR
In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of Americans traveled to the Soviet Union to help build the first socialist country in the world. American experts in the Soviet Union offered general scientific and technical advice that was grounded in a seemingly apolitical transnational ideology. And yet development work is inherently political. Using published and unpublished sources from archives and libraries in the United States and the former Soviet Unio…
US to USSR
In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of Americans traveled to the Soviet Union to help build the first socialist country in the world. American experts in the Soviet Union offered general scientific and technical advice that was grounded in a seemingly apolitical transnational ideology. And yet development work is inherently political. Using published and unpublished sources from archives and libraries in the United States and the former Soviet Unio…
Steppes to Health
This paper examines the rise of the "climate-kumys cure" in late imperial Russia and how it shaped perceptions of the steppes as a "curative place." By positing that kumys (fermented mare's milk), a traditional food produced by steppe nomads, interacted with unique qualities of the steppe climate-including aromatic air, abundant sunshine, cool forest groves, rich feathergrasses, and brilliant wildflowers-to cure tuberculosis patients of their sym…
US to USSR
In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of Americans traveled to the Soviet Union to help build the first socialist country in the world. American experts in the Soviet Union offered general scientific and technical advice that was grounded in a seemingly apolitical transnational ideology. And yet development work is inherently political. Using published and unpublished sources from archives and libraries in the United States and the former Soviet Unio…
Pipe Dreams
Steppes to Health
This paper examines the rise of the "climate-kumys cure" in late imperial Russia and how it shaped perceptions of the steppes as a "curative place." By positing that kumys (fermented mare's milk), a traditional food produced by steppe nomads, interacted with unique qualities of the steppe climate-including aromatic air, abundant sunshine, cool forest groves, rich feathergrasses, and brilliant wildflowers-to cure tuberculosis patients of their sym…
Political science (3 works) · Soviet and Russian History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Central asia (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 works) · History (2 works)