Dan Healey (born

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) is a Canadian and English historian and

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. He is a pioneer of the study of the history of homosexuality in Russia. In 1981 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Russian Language and Literature at the

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. In the 1980s he worked in the tourism industry in Canada, Great Britain, and the USSR. In the 1990s, he returned to academia and in 1998 completed the Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. Healey taught at the

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(2000-2011), at the

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(2011-2013), at

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of the

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(from 2013). His book ''Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia'' (2001) won the second place of the

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of the

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. His scholarly interests include the history of LGBT people of Russia, Russian and Soviet medicine and psychiatry, Russian and Soviet penitentiary institutions,

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Bibliography

* ''Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent''. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2001. — 376 p. — , ** Гомосексуальное влечение в революционной России: регулирование сексуально-гендерного диссидентства / науч. ред. Л. В. Бессмертных, Ю. А. Михайлов, пер. с англ. Т .Ю. Логачева. В. И. Новиков. — Москва: НИЦ «Ладомир», 2008. — 624 p. — (Русская потаенная литература). — . * ''Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939.'' DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. — 260 p. — . * Editor, with Frances L. Bernstein and Christopher Burton. ''Soviet Medicine: Culture, Practice, and Science''. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013. — 312 p. — . * Editor, with Barbara Evans Clements and Rebecca Friedman. ''Russian Masculinities in History and Culture''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 255 p. — . * ''Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi''. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 272 p. — .

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Professor Dan Healey
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies.

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Professor Dan Healey

. {{DEFAULTSORT:Healey, Dan Living people LGBT studies academics Historians of LGBT topics Historians of Russia LGBT in Russia Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford University of Toronto alumni 1957 births