Greta Bucher

Prof. Greta Bucher, Ph.D.

Professor of History

History

greta.bucher [at] westpoint.edu

Professor Greta Bucher joined the History Department in 1995. She holds a BA from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. She teaches Russian history and European history. 

She has published two books, Women, the Bureaucracy and Daily Life in Postwar Moscow, 1945-1953, and Daily Life in Imperial Russia, as well as articles outlets like The Russian Review. 

She has served as president of the New York Association of European Historians and is on the editorial board of the journal Teaching History.

Ph.D in History - The Ohio State University

M. A. in History - The Ohio State University

B. A. in History and Russian and European Studies - Trinity University

Research Interests

Imperial Russian and Soviet History, History of Medicine

Current Research

History of Healthcare in Imperial and Soviet Russia

Selected Publications

Bucher, Greta. (2025). Midwifing Modernity: Popularizing Modern Health Care for Women in Late Imperial Russia. The Russian Review 84, 51–71 https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12710

Bucher, Greta. (2009). Stalinist Families: Motherhood, Fatherhood and Building the New Soviet Person. In The Making of Russian History: Society, Culture, and the Politics of Modern Russia. Essays in Honor of Allan K. Wildman, eds., Rex Wade and John Steinberg. Slavica Publishers.

Bucher, Greta. (2008). Daily Life in Imperial Russia. Greenwood Publishing Group.