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Jehanne Gheith

Associate Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
321C Languages Bldg, 133 Franklin Center, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Overhauling US Long-Term Services and Supports: Looking Toward Japan.

Journal article Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · April 2026 In the context of a rapidly growing aging population, the United States must address challenges with long term services and supports as that is what the acronym refers to. These challenges include affordability and access to home- and-community-based servi ... Full text Cite

A Therapeutic Welcome: Mental Health within the Reality Ministries Disability Community

Journal article Journal of Disability and Religion · January 1, 2023 Discrimination and exclusion have been associated with mental health issues for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This mixed-methods study examines the impact of Reality Ministries (RM), a Christian community center open to all abili ... Full text Cite

Article on Gulag Research

Journal article Encompass · 2012 Cite

Not the Atom Bomb? Interviewing/Filming Gulag Survivors in a Culture of Dangerous Memory

Journal article Kritika · 2011 An article detailing the intricacies of filming Gulag survivors and the different considerations, given that remembering and telling one's Gulag experiences has been dangerous for over 70 years. Gulag survivors both want and don't want to be filmed; there ... Cite

“’The doctors said I was normal’: Trauma, the non-narrative, and the Gulag”

Journal article Slavic Review · 2010 Much trauma theory developed in western contexts argues that it is essential for trauma survivors to compose and share their narratives in a supportive atmosphere. This option was not open to Gulag survivors as they risked rearrest or harm to their familie ... Cite

’Trudno peredat’: Traumatic Memory and the Gulag

Journal article Gulag Studies · 2009 In this article, I examine issues related to cultural memory, gender, oral history and the Gulag through comparing two very different interviews. One person became the–often military–hero of every story; the other retreated into herself. In close readings ... Cite

"Solovki"; "Legacy of the Gulag"

Journal article on-line "Stalin Project" · 2008 Cite

’I Never Talked...’: Enforced Silence, Non-Narrative Memory, and the Gulag

Journal article Mortality · May 2007 Jehanne Gheith’s essay comes from a larger project of life history interviews with Gulag survivors which she conducted over the course of several years (multiple interviews with each person) in which she explores the Gulag as cultural haunting. The Gulag i ... Cite

Women and gender in 18th-century Russia.

Journal article RUSSIAN REVIEW · January 2005 Link to item Cite

Essays on Karolina Pavlova

Journal article RUSSIAN REVIEW · October 2002 Link to item Cite

Karolina Pavlova

Journal article Russian Review · 2002 Cite

Till My Tale Is Told: Women’s Memoirs of the Gulag

Journal article Canadian-American Slavic Studies · 2001 Cite

The superfluous man and the necessary woman: A "re-vision"

Journal article Russian Review · January 1, 1996 Full text Cite

Women in Russian and the Soviet Union

Journal article Russian Review · April 1994 Cite

Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union

Journal article Russian Review · April 1994 Full text Cite

Reflections on Sibling Grief

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