| Henrietta Mondry | |
| Fields: | Russian cultural history |
| Workplaces: | University of Witwatersrand University of Canterbury |
| Alma Mater: | University of Witwatersrand |
| Thesis1 Title: | The Evaluation Of Recent Trends In Soviet Dostoevsky Scholarship (1970s–1980s) |
| Thesis1 Year: | 1984 |
| Awards: | FRSNZ, FNZAH |
Henrietta Mondry is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in Russian cultural history, especially in relation to the history of Jewish people in Russia. Mondry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi as of 2009.
After an MA, Mondry earned a PhD titled The Evaluation Of Recent Trends In Soviet Dostoevsky Scholarship (1970s–1980s) at the University of Witwatersrand.[1] [2] Mondry taught at Witwatersrand from 1980, and was made Head of Russian Studies in 1987 and then associate professor in Russian.[3] She was appointed to the University of Canterbury in 1994. She is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, where she coordinates the Russian programme.
Mondry has written more than ten books, over seventy scholarly articles and over forty book chapters. She was involved in developing two international journals, the New Zealand Slavonic Journal and the South African-published Slavic Almanac.
Mondry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2009.[4] She was also elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities (now the Humanities Society of New Zealand) the same year.