Tricia Starks

Tricia Starks completed her B.A. in Russian Area Studies at the University of Missouri and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history at the Ohio State University. She joined the history department at the University of Arkansas in 2000 and has taught courses in the history of medicine, world history, Russian and Soviet history, and gender history. Starks’s primary area of expertise is the history of medicine in Russia and the Soviet Union. She is author of The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008) and the forthcoming Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia. (Cornell University Press, 2018). She is completing a manuscript on tobacco use in the Soviet period and has begun work on popular and official responses to demographic problems in the late Soviet period.