Diane P. Koenker

Diane P. Koenker is Professor of History, with interests in modern Russian and Soviet history.

She earned A.B. in History, Grinnell College, 1969, A.M. in Comparative Studies in History, University of Michigan, 1971, and Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan, 1976

While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign she chaired the Department of History (2011-2015) and directed the Russian and East European Center (1990-1996). In 2018 she was appointed at University College London as Director of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Outstanding Achievement Award, Association for Women in Slavic Studies, 2014 2006: Guggenheim Fellow Chester Higby Prize of the Modern European Section of the American Historical Association, for best article in preceding two years in Journal of Modern History, 2003 Arnold O. Beckman Research Board Award, 1990-91, 2002-2003, 2012-13