Professor Farnsworth specializes in Russian history with areas of interest in Russian peasant and Russian women's history. Her ideal women’s class is one in which every student contributes - whether with questions or comments - creating an interactive classroom with informal lectures and considerable discussion. She strives to ensure that Wells students graduate with excellent communication skills, the ability to think critically, and consider several different points of view before reaching a conclusion.

Education:
1955     B.A. Indiana University
1956     M.A. Yale University
1959     Ph.D. Yale University

Select Publications:
Farnsworth, Beatrice. Russian Peasant Women. Oxford University Press: 1992.

Farnsworth, Beatrice. Aleksandra Kollontai. Stanford University Press: 1980.

Courses Taught:
Old Russia
Modern Russia
Women in Modern China
Voices of African-American Women
Russia Since Stalin
Bourgeois Century: 1815-1914
History of American Feminism
Women as Revolutionaries