Director, Center for Democratic Deliberation
Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences
244 Sparks Building
University Park , PA 16802
Biography:
Ekaterina V. Haskins is a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Visual Studies. She investigates official and grassroots memory practices as important sites of civic engagement and political rhetoric. She is the author of three monographs, including Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship (The University of South Carolina Press, 2015) and Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin’s Russia (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024) as well as numerous articles on rhetoric, memory, and visual culture. Her current project explores how Soviet political terror is being remembered (and forgotten) in Russia and the former republics of the USSR.