Russian Studies Workshop

Maria Cristina Galmarini is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies at William & Mary. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and, before coming to Williamsburg in 2017, held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University and an Assistant Professor position at James Madison University. She is the author of The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016). She also published articles in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, The Slavic Review, Historical Research, European History Quarterly, and The Russian Review. Galmarini has won the Disability History Association’s award for best published article in the field of Disability History in 2018. Her current research explores the history of international blind activism during the Cold War.