Alissa Klots won two prizes for her first book

Alissa Klots, associate professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of History, earned two awards for her book, “Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women’s Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

The book, Klots’ first, received the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History from the American Historical Association. It was also awarded the Heldt Prize for the Best Book in Women’s and Gender Studies by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.

Klot's current research project, in collaboration with Maria Romashova of Perm State University in Russia, explores the meanings of old age and retirement for the first generation of the builders of communism as well as their role in the development of late socialism.