Margaret E. Peacock

Margaret Peacock completed her Ph.D. in Russian History at the University of Texas – Austin in 2010. Her first book, Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War (Chapel Hill: 2014), examined the role that childhood played in mediating the culture wars that defined the Cold War in the 1950s and 60s. She argued that while the image of the innocent and endangered child was useful in Soviet and American state efforts to construct domestic consensus and compliance, it ultimately contributed to the collapse of that consensus by the late 1960s. Dr. Peacock has written a collection of Russian primary sources: Documents in Modern Russia (New York: Cognella, 2016). In 2022, she co-authored a book that examined the historical roots of the COVID pandemic entitled, A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year (New York: Beacon Press, 2022)