I have been at Seton Hall teaching Russian history, Western Civilization and Historical Research since 1998. Before that I received my Ph.D. from Columbia University and lived in Russia for several years. In addition to my teaching duties, I am also the director of the Russian and East European Studies Program. In my research on nineteenth century Russia I have written, among other things, about scientific societies, folklore collectors, ethnographic exhibitions and expeditions, Orientalism, and Russian conceptions of nationhood. My most recent article, “Was the Intelligentsia Part of the Nation? Visions of Society in Post-Emancipation Russia” was published in the Fall 2006 issue of the journal Kritika.
Education:
- Ph.D., Columbia University 1995
- M.A., Columbia University 1989
- B.A., Oberlin College 1984
Courses at Seton Hall:
- HIST1201-1202, Western Civilization I and II
- HIST 3246, Kievan Rus’ and Moscovy
- HIST 3256, History of Imperial Russia
- HIST 3257, East Central Europe
- HIST 3266, Twentieth Century Russia
- HIST 3276, The Transformation of Russia, 1894-1932
- HIST 3290, Topics in Russian History
- HIST 2180, Introduction to Historical Research
- HIST 5199, Senior Seminar
Awards, grants and fellowships (in descending order starting with the most recent):
- 2005 -- Seton Hall University Research Council Summer Research Stipend
- 2004 – Social Science Research Council, Teaching Fellowship
- 2001 – Seton Hall University Research Council, Faculty Stipend
- 1999 – National Council for East European and Eurasian Research, Research Grant
- 1998 – International Research Exchange Board, Short-term Travel Grant
- 1998 – Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Post-doctoral fellowship
- 1997 – Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Study, Research fellowship
Representative publications: “Was the Intelligentsia Part of the Nation? Visions of Society in Post-Emancipation Russia.” Kritika: Explorations in Eurasian History, v. 7, no. 4 (Fall 2006).
“Imperiia napokaz: vserossiiskaia etnograficheskaia vystavka 1867 g.” Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (NLO), no. 51 (2001), 111-131.
“V. V. Grigor’ev in Orenburg, 1851-1862: Russian Orientalism in Service of Empire?” Slavic Review. v. 59, no. 1. (Spring 2000).
“Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost’ and Modernity in Imperial Russia.” in Russian Modernity, eds. David Hoffmann and Yanni Kotsonis, New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 1999.
"Science, Empire and Nationality: Ethnography in the Russian Geographical Society, 1845-1855." in Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire, eds. Jane Burbank and David Ransel, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998.
