ALEXANDER M. SEMYONOV Ph. D

ALEXANDER M. SEMYONOV Ph. D. Current position: Associate Professor of History and Political Science, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. ...
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ALEXANDER M. SEMYONOV Ph. D. Current position: Associate Professor of History and Political Science, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Bard College (USA) Email: [email protected] Mailing address: 199000, Russia, St. Petersburg, Galernaya str. 58-60; phone/fax: +7 (812) 3200729 Editor, Central and Eastern Europe, International Journal Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in Post Soviet Space Email: [email protected] Fax: 1 530 504 8962 Education: 1998-2006, Ph. D. in History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Major: Russian history Minor: Central European comparative history Dissertation Project: “The Political Language of Russian Liberalism: The Liberation Movement, Constitutional-Democratic Party, and Public Politics in Late Imperial Russia” 1997-1998, M.A., Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 1992-1997, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia (B.A., M.A. equivalent) Professional Research Experience 2000-to the present, Co-founder and editor of Ab Imperio Journal (http://www.abimperio.net) 2010, Mellon Foundation European Scholar Fellow and Associate Visiting Professor, University of Chicago (USA) 2009- Editor of the volume "Empire and Nationalism at War" in the project "Russian Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: A Centennial Reappraisal" (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/history/research/acreeh/rgwr) 2006-2008, Research fellow of the collaborative project "Languages of Self-Description and Representation in the Russian Empire" Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, (http://www.oegempire.geschichte.uni-mainz.de/52.php) 2007, Research fellow at the Center for European Studies, Rutgers University (USA)

2001-2003, Bibliography expert, History of the Russian Empire in Comparative Perspective Project (The Central European University, the Open Society Institute) 1999-2000, Visiting Scholar at the W. Averell Harriman Institute, Columbia University (USA) Professional Teaching and University Administration Experience: 2006-to the present, Associate Professor of History and Political Science, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Bard College (USA) 2010, Associate Visiting Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of History, University of Chicago (USA) 2009, Associate Visiting Professor, History Department, University of Michigan (USA) 2008-09, Methodology and curriculum expert (based in Smolny Institute) for the Russian Ministry of Education's project "The Program for the Advancement of Religious (Muslim) Education" 2006-07, Methodology and curriculum expert (based in Smolny Institute) for the Russian Ministry of Education's project "Innovative Educational Ecology in a Classical University" 2003-2006, Assistant Professor of History, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia 2004-2006, Associate Dean for International Students, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Bard College (USA) 2005-2010, Fellow of Academic Fellowship Program, HESP, OSI. 2004- 2005, Academic director of the “Building Democracy in Multi-Ethnic Societies” Project of the US Department of State’s Freedom Support Educational Partnerships Program, Rutgers University (US), Kazan State University (Russia), on a rotating basis. 2002-2003, History dept., Central European University, Teaching Assistant, Course title: “Modern Historiography,” language of instruction: English 2001-2002, Civic Education Project Lecturer in Russian History at the History Department of the Ivanovo State University. 2000-2001, Director of a Curriculum Development Project “New Approaches to History of Empire and Nationalities in Russia and Soviet Union” (Supported by the Open Society Institute) 1995-1997, The Hague International Model of the United Nations; Ivanovo College, lecturer in European Political and Intellectual History, History of International Organizations; instructor of Parliamentary Procedure. Language of instruction: English. Professional Affiliation Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire, Kazan’, Russia

Member of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Guest and Public Lectures Combined session of the Slavic seminar and Workshop of Modern European and Russian History, University of Chicago, May 11, 2010, talk title: “Entangled History of British and Russian Ideological Construction of Empire” "Mirrors of Russian Imperial History: A Case of Ideological Construction of Empire in Early Twentieth Century and a Reflection on Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Historical Debates", September 23, 2009, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, US) "Multifaceted Borders of Russian Historical Experience," 10th Anniversary Seminar of the Norwegian University Center, St. Petersburg, 23-24 May, 2008 "Remembering Imperial Past, Forgetting the Empire: Historical Memory and Scholarship in Putin’s Russia," Smith College, US (February 22, 2007) “Theories of Nationalism and Post Soviet Perspective on Studies of Empire and Nationalism,” the 8th International Summer School of Gender Studies, The Kharkov University Center for Gender Studies, Ukraine (Aug. 29 –Sept. 18, 2005, Crimea, Ukraine) “Contending with the Modern: US, Russia, and Soviet Union in the First Half of the 20th Century” Virtual Campus Course, Bard College (Spring 2004) “Past’s Future: the Concept of Empire in Studies of Russian History” Japanese Learned Society of Russian History (February 2004, Tokyo). “Past’s Future: Empire in Russian History” Harriman Institute, Columbia University (December 2003) “Dilemmas of Liberalism in a Multinational Empire” Huizinga Institute, Amsterdam (January 2002) “Theories of Nationalism from a Russian Perspective” Center Judaica, Kazan’ State University (December 2001) Conference and Workshop Papers: International editorial conference of the project “Russia’s Great War and Revolution,” Uppsala University, 23-26 JULY 2010 Workshop for the Armenian-Turkish Scholarship (VII), University of California, Berkeley, March 4-6, 2010, paper title: “Imperial Decay or Renewal? Empire and Nationalism in the Russian Empire of the Early Twentieth Century” International Conference "Victims of Empire, Empire as a Victim," the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, February 19-21, 2009, paper title: "Mirrors of Imperial Imagination: The British Trace in Russian Ideological Construction of Empire" International conference of the Lithuanian Institute of History "Russian Empire and Its Subjects: Criteria and Practices of Identification of the Empire's Population", paper: "Rationalization of the Political Space of Empire: Ethnicity and Territory in the Formation of the ConstitutionalDemocratic Party," Sept. 17-18, 2008, Vilnius, Lithuania

"Imperium Inter Pares: Reflections on Imperial Identity and Inter-imperial Transfers in the Russian Empire (1700-1917)" German Historical Institute in Moscow, Sept. 9-11, 2008, paper presented: "Mirrors of Imperial Imagination: Entangled Histories of Ideological Construction of Empire in Britain and Russia" 39th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, November 15-18, 2007, key-note speaker at the presidential panel (Chair, Professor and President, Mark Beissinger) “The Persistence of Empire,” paper at the panel “The Imperium of Knowledge: Modern Knowledge in the ‘Archaic Empire’, ” paper title: “Scholars into Professional Politicians: Kadet Politics and Empire in the Duma Period,” participant in the roundtable: “Ad Imperium-Ab Imperio: The Persistence of Empire and Problems of New Imperial History.” Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Volkswagen Stiftung, International Quarterly Ab Imperio, Workshop “Languages of Self Description and Representation in Russian Empire”, Mainz, Germany, August 21-22, 2006, paper: “(Re)Defining Empire Politically: The Rationalization of the Imperial Situation in the Liberal Discourses and Practices at the Beginning of the 20th Century” International Workshop “Classic Republicanism as a Freedom-Affirming Alternative to Liberalism,” European University in St. Petersburg, April 22, 2006 (St. Petersburg, Russia), paper title: “Anarchism, Republicanism, and Liberalism: Making Sense of Russian Political Discourses With the Help of Contextual Approach” (In English). Commentary by Quentin Skinner. VI Symposium of the Finnish Association for Russian and East European Studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, March 30-31, 2006; Key-note address: “In Search of Center and Periphery: Historical and Historiographic Perspectives on Elusive Boundaries and Conceptual Fluctuations” (In English) The State Council of Tatarstan, “Russian Parliamentarism: Historical Experience and Current Trends of Development,” March 23, 2006, Kazan, Russia; paper title: “The Challenge of Public Politics: The Constitutional-Democratic Party in the First and Second State Duma” (In Russian) VII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), Berlin, Germany, July 2005, discussant at the panel: “Methods of Constructing Identity in Russian Empire,” paper presentation: “Defining Empire Politically: Russian Liberals’ Perception and Politics at the Beginning of the 20th century” International Workshop “Doing History of Concepts”, European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 17-19, 2005, paper title: “The Problem of Modern Temporality of Russian Political Discourses” Annual Conference of the Research Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe at Leipzig University (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas an der Universität Leipzig/GWZO): Lost Greatness and Past Oppression in East Central Europe. Representations of Imperial Experience in Historiography since 1918, Leipzig, December 10 12, 2004, paper title: “Elusive Concept of Empire: A History of Multinational State Through the Prism of Nationalism and Imperialism” International Symposium "Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries. Histories Revived or Improvised" (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 28-31

January 2004); paper title: “Making Politics, Undoing Empire: Political Reform in Russia at the Beginning of the 20th Century” Workshop “Beyond the Nation: Writing European History Today” (Universitat Bielefeld / St. Petersburg State University, Zentrum fur Deutschland- und Europastudien), St. Petersburg, Russia, November 21-23, 2003; paper title: “Deviant or European? Fin-de-Siècle Russian Debates on Science, Culture, and Politics” Workshop of the Zentrum für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas (Freie Universität / HumboldtUniversität, Berlin) “Framing the Historian National, Institutional, and Social Grand Narratives in East and West,” October 24-27, 2002, paper title: “Conceptual Dimensions of Debates on Russian Sonderweg” “Narration and History: Turn of the Century in Russian Culture” (Dept. of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, University of Helsinki, August 15-18, 2002), paper title: “Political Language, Text, and Intellectual History of Revolution and Constitutional Experiment in Beginning of the 20th Century Russia” “New Literary Review” sponsored roundtable-discussion of the first volume of “Scenarios of Power” by Richard Wortman (Moscow, June 25 2002); Russian State University for Humanities, Discussant at a conference “Nationalism in Imperial Russia: Ideological Models and Discursive Practices.” (Moscow, June 24, 2002); Workshop “Students of Humanities in Search of Identity” Organized by the Journal “The New Literary Review” (March 16, 2002, Moscow, The Russian Federation), paper title: “History at the Cross-Roads of Multidisciplinarity in Russia” An Expert Meeting of the Project History of the Russian Empire in Comparative Perspective (January 2002, Kostroma, The Russian Federation), report title: “The Role of New Academic Media in Establishment of Nationalism Studies in Russia” Joint CEU- Zentrum für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas/Freie Universität Conference “Changing Historical Studies in Central and Eastern Europe: How Does Methodological Transfer Generate New Research?” Paper title: “New Approaches to Studies in Russian Politics” (October 26-28, 2001, Budapest, Hungary) Annual Conference of History of Social and Political Concepts Group “Rhetoric and Conceptual Change” (June 28-30th, 2001, Tampere, Finland), paper title: “Political Rhetoric and Conceptual Change in the Context of Political Reform in early 20th Century Russia” Association for Studies of Nationalities 5th Convention (April 2000, Columbia U./ New York), paper title: “Political Mobilization in the Russian Empire, 1905-1918: The ConstitutionalDemocratic Party Between the National and the Nationality Questions” Conferences organized: October 8-10, 2010, Kazan’, Russia, Ab Imperio Annual Seminar: “Empire Studies: A Roadmap for the 2010s” August 14-18, 2007, Kazan’, Russia, “Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Self-Description and Representation in the Russian Empire,” sponsored by Volkswagen Stiftung and Department of East European History, Johannes Guttenberg University, Mainz, Germany June 28-30, 2002, Kazan’, Russia, “ ‘New Westernizers’ and Modernization of Russian Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Higher Education,” International CEP-Russia conference November 2000, Kazan, Russia, International workshop “Empire and Nation in Russian and Soviet History: New Research Approaches and the Problems of Teaching Methodology”

Grants, Scholarships, and Awards: 2010, Mellon Foundation Fellowship in the program "Visiting European Scholar Initiative" 2004-2008 Teaching Fellowship of the Academic Fellowship Program, HESP, OSI. 2006-2008 Research grant from Volkswagen Stiftung (program “Einheit in der Vielfalt? Grundlagen und Voraussetzungen eines erweiterten Europas”) for the project “Redefining Empire Politically: Rationalization of Imperial Entanglements in the Discourse and Practices of Russian Liberalism at the Beginning of the 20th Century” 2004-2008 The John and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Collaborative Research and Publication Project Grant 2007 US Department of State, fellowship in the framework of the project “Building Democracy in Multi-Ethnic Societies” 2004 Incentive grant for research and curriculum development from Andrew Gagarin Trust, administered by Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2003 Academic Achievement Award by the Central European University Dissertation Committee 2001-2002, 2003-2009 Teaching Fellowship from the Civic Education Project 2000-2001 Open Society Institute, Special and Extensions Program, Curriculum Development Grant 1999-2000, Open Society Institute, Doctoral Support Grant 1997-2003, Central European University, scholarship for MA and Ph. D. degree programs Languages Russian (native), English (spoken, written) Television and Radio Broadcasts Regular participation in radio broadcasts of Russian radio networks “Ekho Moskvy,” “Radio Svobody” (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), Russian Service of the BBC Latest: Guest at the talking show “The Night with the Fifth Channel,” Russia’s federal Fifth Channel. The topic of conversation: National Identity. Guest at the program Fifth Floor, Russian Service of the BBC, theme: The Great French Revolution and Its Legacy 22.08.2010 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/radio/2009/04/000000_radio_5etazh_sun.shtml) Guest at the program Fifth Floor, Russian Service of the BBC, theme: Why certain peoples seek independence? 26.07.2010

Guest at the program "Vam Slovo" Russian Service of the BBC, 08.05.2009 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_7722000/7722613.stm). Guest at the program "Smoke of the Fatherland" (Vladimir Ryzhkov and Vitalii Dymarskii, anchors), radio station “Ekho Moskvy,” 22.06.2008 (http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/smoke/521102-echo/) Guest-expert at the program Konflikt Swedish Radio service (September 22, 2007), http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/P1/program/index.asp?programID=1300 Guest-expert at “Talking Point” program of the Russian Service of the BBC (“Restoration of National History in Russia” 30.08.07; “Revision of History of the Second World War”12.04.2007) Guest-expert for the Radio Svobody’s analytical program “The Time of Freedom,” 09.26.2006: http://www.svobodanews.ru/Transcript/2006/09/27/20060927161527377.html Selected Publications Books: 1. Co-edited volume New Imperial History of Post Soviet Space (Kazan: Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire, 2004), (In Russian) Book’s webpage: http://abimperio.net/nih/ Reviewed by Adeeb Khalid: The Russian Review, 64:4 (2005): 712-713. Reviewed by Ricarda Vulpius. Review of Novaia imperskaia istoriia postsovetskogo prostranstva. Kazan’, 2004, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2005-2-110. 2. Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber, and Alexander Semyonov, eds., Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009) http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=33587 3. Ilya Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner, and Alexander Semyonov, eds., Mify i zabluzhdenia v izuchenii imperii i natsionalizma [Myths and Misconceptions in Studies of Nationalism and Empire] (Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2010) [in Russian] Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes: “Russian Liberalism at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century,” History Compass (forthcoming) (together with Ilya Gerasimov and Marina Mogilner), “V poiskakh iasnosti v istoricheskoi prirode natsionalizma i imperii [Elucidating the Historical Nature of Nationalism and Empire],” in Ilya Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner, and Alexander Semyonov, eds., Mify i zabluzhdenia v izuchenii imperii i natsionalizma [Myths and Misconceptions in Studies of Nationalism and Empire] (Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2010) [in Russian]

“Mirrors of Imperial Imagination in Early Twentieth Century Russia Empire,” in Andrzej Nowak, ed., Imperial Victims–Empires as Victims: 44 Views (Krakow: Arcana, forthcoming in 2010), 139-152. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov and Marina Mogilner), “Russian Sociology in Imperial Context,” George Steinmetz, ed., Sociology and Empire (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2010) [in English] (coauthored with Marina Mogilner) Entry on “Empire,” in: Handbuch Globalisierung. Anthropologische und sozialwissenschaftliche Zugänge zur Praxis. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, forthcoming in 2010. [in German] (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Jan Kusber, Marina Mogilner), "New Imperial History and the Challenges of Empire," in: Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber, and Alexander Semyonov, eds., Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009), 3-32. [in English] “ ‘The Real and Live Ethnographic Map of Russia’: The Russian Empire in the Mirror of the State Duma,” in: Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber, and Alexander Semyonov, eds., Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009), 191-228. [in English] “Revoliutsiia 1905 goda: uskol’zaiushchaia liberal’naia al’ternativa [The Revolution of 1905: The Elusive Liberal Alternative],” Irina Prokhorova, Alexander Dmitriev, Ilya Kukulin, Mariia Maiofis, eds., Antropologiia revoliutsii [Anthropology of Revolution] (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2009), 101-126. [in Russian] "Empire as a Context Setting Category," Ab Imperio, no. 1 (2008): 193-204 [in English] Coauthored, Why Ab Imperio? Ukraina-Moderna, 1 (12) (Kyiv, L’viv, 2007): 129-136 [in Ukrainian] “Wither the Liberal Alternative?” in Jan Kusber, Andreas Frings (Hg.), Das Zarenreich, das Jahr 1905 und seine Wirkungen. Bestandsaufnahmen (Mainzer Beiträge zur Geschichte Osteuropas, Bd. 3) (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007), 351-381. [in English] “Poor History, Bad Politics,” Neprikosnovennyi Zapas 1 (2007): 119-123 [in Russian] “A Difficult Choice for Historians: Historical Memory, Genealogy, and Mythology,” Neprikosnovennyi Zapas, no. 3 (2006): 192-200 [in Russian] “Empire and Nation in Russian Liberal Thought,” Iván Dénes, ed., Liberty and the Search for Identity: Liberal Nationalisms and the Legacy of Empires (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2006), 329-344 [in English] (Together with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergei Glebov, Aleksandr Kaplunovskii, Marina Mogilner), “In Search of New Imperial History,” Ab Imperio, no. 1 (2005): 33-56 [in English]

“Making Politics, Undoing Empire: Political Reform in Russia at the Beginning of the 20th Century,” Zentrum fuer Deutschland- und Eurapastudien Working Papers, no. 1 (BielefeldSt. Petersburg, 2004): 79-96 [in English] Обзор работы международной конференции … // Российская империя в сравнительной перспективе. М., 2004. С. 15-30 [in Russian] “Interview with Benedict Anderson, “We Study Empires as We Do Dinosaurs,” Nations, Nationalism, and Empire in a Critical Perspective,” Ab Imperio 3 (2003): 57-73 [in English] “A Window on Dilemmas of History Writing on Empire and Nation,” Ab Imperio 2 (2003): 377-394 [in English and Russian] “Knowledge as Politics and Vocation: A History of the Constitutional-Democratic Party in Russia,” Politics and Scholarship- Knowledge and Power (1880-1922). St. Petersburg: Dm. Bulanin, 2003. [in Russian] Co-authored with S. Glebov and M. Mogilner, “The Story of Us: History and Perspectives of Modernization of Humanities in Russia. A Historians’ View,” Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 59 (2003): 190-210. [in Russian] “The State of Art in History Writing on Nation and Empire,” Ab Imperio 3 (2003): 526528 [in English and Russian] Co-authored with S. Glebov, “Politics, Empire, and Nationalism During the Early Soviet Period,” Ab Imperio 2 (2002): 339-344 [in Russian] Published presentation: in the forum “New Scholars of Humanities in Search of Identity,” Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 55 (2002): 174-220 [in Russian] “What Was the Soviet Union and What Does Its Collapse Mean: Western Historiographic Debates,” Neprikosnovennyi Zapas 6:20 (2001-2002): 26-32 [in Russian] “Conceptual Change and the Problem of Political Dialogue in Political Struggle and Ideological Debates in Early 20th Century Russia,” Filosofskii Vek: Istoria idei kak metodologia gumanitarnykh issledovanii. Part 2. St. Petersburg: S. Peterburgskii Tsentr Istorii Idei, 2001, 4460 [in English] “Interview with Mark von Hagen and Richard Wortman on the Problem of a New Curriculum in Russian History,” Ab Imperio, no. 1-2 (Spring 2001): 373-391 [in Russian] “On the Question of Authorship of One Document: An Earlier Evidence of S. Iu. Witte’s Political Activity?” Ab Imperio, no. 3-4 (Winter 2000): 187-204 [in Russian] Reviews and other published materials

"Empire as a Moving Target. Review on Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, and Anatolyi Remnev, eds., Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007). 538 p.," Ab Imperio, no. 2 (2008): 377-392 (co-authored), "Letter to the Editors of Kritika Journal," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, no. 1 (2007): 222-224 Published presentation: in the forum “How History is Made (discussion of the book Scenarios of Power by Richard Wortman),” Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 56 (2002). In Russian. Annotated and Foreworded Bibliography of Works on the History of the Russian Empire. Web publication: http//:empires.ru “Marginalia: Richard Wortman’s Book ‘Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy’,” Ab Imperio, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 293-299. In Russian. Teaching and Faculty Experience Administration of Study Abroad Program with Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson), USA Member of curriculum development, admission, library, and faculty appointment committees at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Experience in reforming the general educational curriculum for the Russian undergraduate education, in implementation of the Bologna process (based on the experience of appointment as curriculum and methodology expert for Smolny Institute's run projects) Courses taught “Empire and Nationalism in Russian History and Comparative Perspective,” graduate colloquium 600-level, in English, 2009 “History of Imperial Russia,” 400- level, in English, 2009 "The Origins of Contemporary Russia," 100 level, in Russian, 2009 "Can Russia Be a Nation-State?" 400 level, in Russian, co-taught with Vyacheslav Morozov, 2007-08 “Imperialism, Nationalism, and Federalism in Russia’s Past and Present,” 300 level, in Russian, 2006-2007 “Why Do I Hate You: Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe,” 300 level, in English, 20052006 “Modern Historiography” in English, 2002-2003

“Contending with the Modern: US, Russia, and Soviet Union in the First Half of the 20th Century,” virtual campus course, in English, together with Mark Lytle, Bard College, 2003-04 “The Russian Revolution,” 200 level, in Russian, continuously “Politics, Ideology, and Political Parties in Russia at the Beginning of the 20th Century,” in Russian, 2001-2002 “Russia Under the European Eye, Europe Under the Russian Eye: Russian Symbolic Geography and Identity Discourses, 18-20th centuries,” 200 level, in Russian, continuously “History of the Russian Empire 18th c.- 1917,” 300 level, in Russian, continuously “Empires, Nations, and Nationalism in Social Theory and Modern History,” 200 level, in Russian, up to 2006. Summary: 

Eight years of research experience in the field of Russian, Central and East European, European history, methodology of historical research and historiography, theories of nationalism



Comprehensive teaching experience both in the Russian and North American (Research University and Liberal Arts) traditions (teaching in English and Russian)



Faculty experience of work in various faculty self-government related activities (admission, curriculum development, library acquisition, grant competition, faculty appointment)



Comprehensive experience in running a study abroad program for US students



Organization skills from the level of conference organization to establishment of a university-level research center



Comprehensive management and editorial experience in founding, promoting and operating an independent academic journal, as well as the experience of editorial work on thematic issues and edited volumes.

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