Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Russia
- Social
- State, Politics, and Law
Areas of Interest
Russian/Soviet history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; urban history; everyday life; poverty and inequality; political culture.
Name of Postdoctoral Fellowship
Biography
Felix Cowan is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying late imperial Russian history, and is currently working on a book manuscript about the imperial Russian penny press and beginning a new project on urban poverty and inequality in revolutionary Russia. Dr. Cowan's research interests lie in political culture, urban history, and the history of everyday life across the Russian Empire, arising from a strong feeling of empathy with the marginalized and disenfranchised throughout history and a fascination with the ways that patterns of everyday life and culture have changed during periods of dramatic historical upheaval.
Dr. Cowan's first book, entitled The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, is under contract with University of Toronto Press.
Education
Publications
- "Lower-class Reading in Late Imperial Russia" ( : 2023)
- “Kopeck Journalism as a Social Profession: Upward Mobility, Service, and the Civil Society Spectrum in Late Imperial Russia” ( : 2022)
- “Hidden Lives: Uncovering Gender Non-conformity in the Russian Press, 1911–1914” ( : 2022)
- “The Democracy Versus Democracy: Representation and Politics in Odessa During the 1912 State Duma Election” ( : 2020)