B.A., University of Chicago; General Studies in the Humanities, 1988
M.A., University of Chicago; Russian History, 1993
Ph.D., University of Chicago; Russian History, 1997
Ph.D. Thesis Topic: "Stalinist Mass Journalism and the Transformation of Soviet Newspapers, 1926-1932."

Sample of Publications
Lenoe, Matthew. Agitation, Propaganda, and the ‘Stalinization’ of the Soviet Press, 1925-1933. The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, 1998.
Lenoe, Matthew. "Letter Writing and the State: Reader Correspondence with Newspapers as a Source for Early Soviet History." Cahiers du monde russe 40, 1999.
Lenoe, Matthew. "A Precedent for Putin in 19th Century Japan." The Boston Globe, 2000.

Sample of Presentations
"Socialist Competitions and Socialist Realism: The Journalistic Origins of High Stalinist Literature." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Convention, 2000.
"Did Stalin Kill Kirov and Does It Matter?" Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Association of College History Teachers, 2000.
"The Bolshevik Press in the Axial Age of Propaganda." Historians Seminar, Harvard University, 1999.