Rebecca Friedman

Rebecca Friedman is a Professor at Florida International University's School of International and Public Affairs, affiliated with the Department of History. She serves as the Director of the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab and focuses on modern Russian history, gender ideologies, and cultural studies.

• Research explores Russian masculinity, childhood, and domestic spaces as reflections of historical time
• Current project Time at Home examines modern time concepts through domestic environments (1890-1930)
• Authored Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 and co-edited Russian Masculinities in History and Culture

Her teaching spans Imperial Russian/Soviet gender history, European identities, history of childhood, nationalism in East Central Europe, and modernity. At the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, she leads initiatives connecting historical research with public engagement. Scientific accolades include a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Grant.