ProfessorJudith Devlin

After a decade in Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs, including a stint in the Moscow embassy in the mid- to late 1980s and eighteen months in Paris at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, I took up a post-doctoral fellowship in the School of History, UCD, following which I moved back to academic life. My D.Phil and first book dealt with 19th century French popular culture and psychiatry. Since returning to research, my work has focused on Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, and especially on the culture and politics of the Stalin era. I published two books on post-Soviet Russia and my current research project concerns the Stalin cult. I have wider interests in Russian and Eastern European history of the 19th and 20th centuries, which are reflected in my edited volumes.