Dan Healey
Dan Healey is a Canadian and English historian, slavist.
In 1981 he graduated from the bachelor's degree in Russian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. In the 1980s he worked in the tourism industry in Canada, Great Britain and the USSR. In the 1990s, he returned to science and in 1998 became a doctor of philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Healey taught at the University of Swansea, at the University of Reading, at the St Antony's College of the Oxford University.
His book Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia won the second place of the Gladstone Prize of the Royal Historical Society.
His scientific interests include the history of LGBT of Russia, Russian and Soviet medicine and psychiatry, Russian and Soviet penitentiary institutions, GULAG. He is a pioneer of the study of the history of homosexuality in Russia.
