CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Abbott Gleason Professor History
2. 30 John Street, Providence, RI 02906
3. BA, Harvard College, 1961 MA, ad eundum, Brown University, 1973 Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969
Dissertation topic: "European and Muscovite: A Life of Ivan Kireevsky"
4. Teaching Fellowships, Harvard University, 1964-68 Assistant Professor of History, Brown University, 1968-73 Associate Professor of History, Brown University, 1973-78 Professor of History, Brown University, 1978-- Associate of the Russian Research Center (Davis Center for Advanced Russian Studies), Harvard University, 1968-79, 1982--1998 Secretary (Director), Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, February 1, 1980-June 1, 1982 Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, Brown University, 1993--. Emeritus 2005 President, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1995-96 Director, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 1999-2000 Director Watson Institute, for University Relations and Special Projects, 2000-2003 Senior Fellow, Watson Institute, 2003- Professor of Slavic Language and Literature, 2003--
5. Publications
Historiographical review: B. P. Koz'min, "Iz istorii revoliutsionnoi mysli v Rossii," Kritika, Winter, 1965.
"The Emigration and Apostasy of Lev Tikhomirov," Slavic Review, September, 1967.
European and Muscovite: Ivan Kireevsky and the Origins of Slavophilism, Harvard University Press, 1972.
"Pavel Svin'in," in Marc Pachter, ed., Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1976, pp. 12-21.
"Solzhenitsyn and the Slavophiles," Yale Review, Autumn, 1975.
"Peanut Butter," Country Journal, July 1975, reprinted in The Providence Journal, September 7, 1975.
"Boris Chicherin" "Nikolai Grech" "Ivan Kireevsky" "Russian and Soviet Studies in the United States" Articles in The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History.
Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s, Viking Press, 1980. Paperback edition, University of Chicago Press, 1983. (Portions reprinted in James Miller, ed., The 1800s, Greenhaven Press, 2001.)
"Dean Stambaugh" in Smith Hempstone, ed., An Illustrated History of St. Albans School, Glastonbury Press, 1981.
"'Totalitarianism' in 1984", Russian Review, Vol. 43, No. 2 (1984), pp. 145-160.
"Ivan Aksakov" "Konstantin Aksakov" "Nihilism" "Ivan Kireevsky" "Petr Kireevsky" "Moskvitianin" "Mikhail Pogodin" "Slavophilism" "Westernism" Articles in Victor Terras, ed., The Handbook of Russian Literature, Yale University Press, 1985
Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution, Co-Editor with Peter Kenez and Richard Stites, Indiana University Press, 1985. Paperback edition, 1989.
Shared Destiny: Soviet-American Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan, Co-Editor with Mark Garrison, Beacon Press, 1985. Paperback edition, 1987.
"The Impact of US-Soviet Cultural Differences on the Summit", Providence Journal, October 16, 1985, reprinted in the Baltimore Sun, November 17, 1985.
"Observers and Observed: The Heisenberg Syndrome" (with Michael Oksenberg and Allen Kassof), AAASS Newsletter, Vol. 26, No. 4, September, 1986, pp. 7-8.
"Glasnost' in Russian History", SOVSET NEWS, January 27, 1987.
"Other Visitors, Other Westernizers", Baltimore Sun, December 6, 1987.
"Clash of American and Soviet Values Deeply Rooted in Historical Differences", Atlanta Constitution, January 8, 1988.
"Letter from Armenia: Old Wounds and New Battles", Boston Globe, December 4, 1988.
"The Great Reforms and the Historians since Stalin," Russian History/ Histoire Russe, vol. 17, No. 3 (Fall 1990), pp. 281-96. Reprinted in Larisa Zakharova (Moscow University) John Bushnell (North- western) and Ben Eklof (Indiana), Eds., Velikie reformy v Rossii, 1856-1874, simultaneous editions in Russian (Moscow University Press, 1992, and Indiana University Press, 1994). American edition entitled Russia's Great Reforms 1855-1881, ed. Eklof, Bushnell, Zakharova.
"Reflections on Orwell, Totalitarianism and 1984" in Robert S. Peck, ed., To Govern A Changing Society: Constitutionalism and the Challenge of New Technology, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, pp. 11-19.
"The Terms of Russian Social History" in Edith Clowes, Kas- sow and West, eds., Between Tsar and People: The Search for a Public Consciousness in Late Imperial Russia, Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 15-27.
"Tumult Lies Ahead as the Soviet Union Crumbles", San Francisco Chronicle, April 3, 1991 (title chosen by them).
"Republic of Humbug: The Russian Nativist Critique of the United States,", The American Quarterly, March 1992, pp. 1-23. Summarized ("Research Notes") in The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 29, 1992, p. A10 and in The Wilson Quarterly ("Russian Nightmare"), Summer, 1992, pp. 149-150.
"The Meaning of 1917," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 270, No. 5, November, 1992, pp. 30-34.
"We'll Miss You, Eddie," The Providence Journal, March 10, 1993, p. A9.
"Never Again? Intervene in Bosnia or Cut the Clichés", The Providence Journal, April 17, 1993.
"Pre-Soviet Russia and Democracy", "Alexander Kerensky" in Seymour M. Lipset, Ed., The Encyclopedia of Democracy, Congressional Quarterly Books, Washington D.C., 1995.
"A Peculiar Capitalism Evolves in Russia," The Providence Journal, September 11, 1994.
Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War, New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. A Nota Bene Selection, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
"Forward: Karl Dietrich Bracher" in Karl-Dietrich Bracher, Turning Points in Modern Times: Essays on German and European History, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1995.
"The Rhetoric of Totalitarianism," in Lieberman, Sochor, Powell and Terry, eds., The Soviet Empire Reconsidered, Westview Press, 1995.
"Russia/Soviet Union", The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, Oxford University Press, 1997.
"Totalitarianism and the Cold War: A Personal View," NewsNet. The Newsletter of the AAASS, V. 35, No. 4, Sept., 1995, pp. 1-3.
"The Delegitimation of Government," The Providence Journal, December 26, 1995, George St. Journal and reprinted elsewhere.
"'Russian Totalitarianism'...Again?", German Politics and Society, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 17-30.
"The Ideological Structures of Modern Russian Culture", Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 103-124.
"Russia's View of NATO Expansion," Providence Journal, April 1, 1997 (and reprinted elsewhere)
"Teaching Totalitarianism," Perspectives (American Historical Association) (April, 1997).
"Interpreting the Soviet Union: the First Phase," (presidential address, AAASS), NewsNet, Jan., 1997.
"Franco Venturi's Il populismo russo in the English-speaking world", Il coraggio della ragione. Franco Venturi intelettuale e storico cosmopolita, Einaudi Foundation, Turin, 1998.
"Russian Decembrist Revolt," Jack A. Goldstone, ed.,The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998.
"Refighting the Last War," Providence Journal, April 16, 1998, p. B7
"Andrzej Walicki," Archiwum Historii Filozofii I Mysli Spolecznej, Vol 44, Warsaw, 1999, pp. 5-9.
Nikita Khrushchev: Fresh Perspectives on the Last Communist, edited with William Taubman and Sergei Khrushchev, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000.
"Totalitarianism," in Joel Krieger, ed., The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (second edition), New York, Oxford, 2001.
"The Spiritual Landscape of Mikhail Nesterov," Ecumene, Summer, 2000.
"The Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia: Western Policy and Response," in Robert Pynsent, ed., The Phoney Peace: Power and Culture in Central Europe, 1945-1949, SSES Occasional Paper # 46, pp. 182-193, SSES, University College, London, 2000.
The Art of the Russian North (with Anne Odom, William Brumfield and Alison Hilton, Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C., 2001.
"Bush and U.S.-Russian Relations," Providence Journal, April 7, 2001.
"Where Academics Feared to Tread: Scholarly Advice on the Transition," Problems of Post-Communism, May-June, 2001, pp. 45-48.
"Brown's Growing Global Studies," Providence Journal, March 10, 2002.
"Adam Ulam as Historian," Kennan Institute Occasional Paper #282, June, 2002.
"Ivan Kireevsky", "Aleksei Khomiakov, "Ivan Aksakov", "Konstantin Aksakov", "Slavophilism", "Panslavism", "Totalitarianism", The Encyclopedia of Russian History, Thompson-Gale, 2003.
"U.S. War Against Liberalism," Providence Journal, April 6, 2003.
"In Response to 'Discredited Beliefs,'", Kritika, Vol. 4, No. 2 Spring, 2003), pp. 379-381.
"The Hard Road to Fascism," Boston Review, Summer, 2003.
"Budgeting for Empire," Providence Journal, July 23, 2003
Three artists, Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, 2004; Ilia Chasnik; Sergei Chekhonin; Efim Sheptsov.
“Anticommunismo,” “Hannah Arendt,” “Totalitarismo”, “Compagni di Strada,” in Robert Service and Silvio Pons, Dizionario del Communismo (forthcoming in 2006).
Lectures and Papers
"Some Notes on Intellectuals and 'Western Rationalism,'" presented at the Central Slavic Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, November, 1971.
"1861-62: A Turning Point in Nineteenth-Century Russian Radicalism," Lecture delivered at the Russian and East European Institute, the University of Indiana, Bloomington, April 2, 1975.
"The Anti-Modernism of Solzhenitsyn," presented at the American Historical Association meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, December 30, 1975. Variants delivered at Brown University, Feb., 1976; Wheaton College, March, 1976, Cornell University, April, 1976). Seminar on Solzhenitsyn, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, May, 1976.
"Socialism: Utopian and Non-Utopian," Lawrence University, November 27, 1978.
"In Search of Nechaev," Lawrence University History Colloquium, Appleton, Wisconsin, November 27, 1978.
"Russian and Soviet Studies in the 1970s," presented to the Princeton Conference on the State of the Profession, August 27, 1980.
"The Beginnings of Modern Art in Russia," Hirshhorn Museum, November 18, 1980.
"Going to the People: Russian Radicals in the 1860s and American Radicals in the 1960s," Seminar, The University of Pennsylvania, December 8, 1980; Lake Forest College, February 12, 1982.
"Russian Modernism: An Historical Overview," Symposium, Hirshhorn Museum, December 13, 1980.
"'Narodnost' in Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture," Lecture delivered at the University of Indiana, January 20, 1981.
"'Westernization' and the Arts in Russia," Lecture delivered at the Smithsonian Institution, November 12, 1981.
"Anti-Westernism in the Russian Revolutionary Movement", Lecture delivered at the University of Chicago, February 10, 1982 and at Northwestern University, February 11, 1982.
"Russian Socialism and the Slavophiles", Lecture delivered at Wesleyan University, December 2, 1982.
"Reflections on Orwell, Totalitarianism and 1984", Paper delivered at the Eighth International Symposium, Smithsonian Institution, December 7-8, 1983.
"Kulaks and Communists", Lecture delivered at the University of Southern California, April 29, 1985.
"Art and Ideology at the End of the Old Regime", Renwick Museum, Smithsonian Institution, November 14, 1986; Sackler Museum, Harvard University, April 10, 1987.
"The Terms of Russian Social History", Purdue University Conference on Middle Class and Civic Culture in Late Imperial Russia, September 3-6, 1987.
"The Russian Vision of America, 1860-1914", Lecture delivered at the University of Connecticut, March 30, 1988.
"Russia in the Mind of America/America in the Mind of Russia", Lecture delivered at Duke University, April 6, 1988.
"The American Vision of Russia, 1861-1914", Lecture delivered at the University of Washington, May 23, 1988.
"Notes toward the History of Totalitarianism", Seminar, the Universi- ty of Washington, May 23, 1988.
"Realism in Twentieth-Century Russian and American Art", Lecture delivered at the Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, August 11, 1988.
"The Political Agendas of Totalitarianism", Talk, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington D.C., Feb. 27, 1989.
"Russia in the Mind of America/America in the Mind of Russia", Colloquium, Soviet Studies Program, Georgetown University, February 28, 1989.
Conference, "A Foreign Policy Agenda for the Nineties", Simmons College, March 3-4, 1989. Soviet-American Relations.
Paper and banquet speech, "Soviet and American Historians on 'The Great Reforms'", Conference on THE GREAT REFORMS, The University of Pennsylvania, May 25-28, 1989.
Symposium, James Madison University, September 14, 1989. SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE: PURSUING REVOLUTIONARY IDEALS. "The European Revolution? England, France and Russia, 1640-1953".
"The Soviet Union as a Totalitarian State: the Origins of the Debate, 1935-1940". Lecture delivered at Stanford University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of California, Berkeley, January 18, 22, 23, 1990. Also delivered as a Lamont Lecture at Yale University, April 17, 1990.
"Russia in the Mind of America/America in the Mind of Russia, 1830-1930," Seminar, Stanford University, January 23, 1990.
Conference, "The Communications Revolution: Is It Creating World Understanding or Misunderstanding?", Simmons College, March 1-2, 1990, "U.S.-Soviet Communications".
"The End of the Russian Empire", banquet speech, 1990 Eastern States Chief Academic Officers' Conference, Brown University, June 11, 1990.
"Republic of Humbug: The Russian Nativist Critique of the United States, 1830-1930", paper delivered at the American Studies Association meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 2, 1990.
"The Death of Communism", Lecture delivered at Boston Univer- sity, December 10, 1990.
Symposium: "The State of the Union. The Current Political Si- tuation in the Former Soviet Union." Wheaton College, March 5, 1992.
"Political Confederation Models and the Former Soviet Union," Lecture delivered at Rhode Island College, April 2, 1992.
"Getting Along Without the 'Russian Revolution'?", Talk, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, June 1, 1992.
"The Soviet Union as a Totalitarian State: The Beginning of the Debate, 1923-1940," American Association for the Advance- ment of Slavic Studies, Phoenix, Arizona, November 20, 1992.
"The Truman Doctrine and the Rhetoric of Totalitarianism," Talk at Historians' Seminar, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, January, 1993.
"Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus: Sources of National Conscious- ness and National Culture," Seminar at the Center for Foreign Policy Development, Brown University, October 20, 1993.
Lecture: "Turks and Slavs," conference at Brown University ("The Death of Nations: Ethnocentrism and History") June 26, 1994.
"The End of the Cold War: Russians Call Themselves Totalitarian," Talk, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, September 26, 1994.
"'Russian Totalitarianism' -- Again?," Conference on "Weimar Russia?" University of California at Santa Cruz, May 19, 1995.
"'Russia and the West': A Reconsideration of The Gentry Intellectuals," Olin Critical Issues Seminar, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, December 12, 1995.
"Phases of Russian Cultural History," Symposium, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., November 23, 1996.
"Franco Venturi's Il populismo russo in the English- Speaking World," Conference in honor of Franco Venturi, Einaudi Foundation, Turin, Italy, December 14, 1996.
"Totalitarianism in Theory and Practice," Lecture to the Chicago Consortium on Russian and East European Studies, Northwestern University, January 18, 1997.
"The Wild East: Russian Crime in Historical Perspective," Rhode Island World Affairs Council, Sept. 18, 1997
"Russian Crime: a Historian's Perspective," Dean's Lecture Series, Brown University, October 23, 1997.
"Meanings of 'North' in Russian Culture," Symposium on "Art of the Russian North," Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C. November 2, 1997.
"'North' in Russia's Visual Culture," the Sveikauskas Lecture, Brown University, April 9, 1998.
"The Americans and the British: Policy and Press Coverage of the Czech Coup in 1948," Conference on Central Europe, the University of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, April 14, 1998.
"What's Going On in Russia?" Providence Chapter, Council on Foreign Relations, September 17, 1998.
"The Spiritual Landscape of Mikhail Nesterov," AAASS national convention, Boca Raton, Florida, November, 1998.
"Making Peace with the Cold War," Symposium, Wheaton College, February 18, 1999.
"George Orwell and Historical Objectivity," conference paper at the University of Chicago Conference on Orwell, November, 1999.
"Early Soviet Studies from the Perspective of the Post-Soviet Era," roundtable at "The History of Soviet Studies: A Conversation between the Generations," Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, October 19, 2000.
"Academic Advice," roundtable at the AAASS meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 9, 2000: "If we had it to do all over again. Americans Advising the Transition in Russia."
"The Bush Administration and Russia: What Can We Expect?" Providence Committee on Foreign Relations, March 14, 2001.
"The Pre-Revolutionary Russian State", Paper presented to the study Group on Effective and Defective States, Watson Institute, December 10, 2001.
"Russian Identity, Past and Present," Conference Paper, University of Oklahoma, February 22-23, 2002, also presented to the Brown University History Department on April 30, 2002.
"Russian Identity," Lecture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, April 28, 2003.
"Where Did the Bush Administration Come From?" Lecture at Ulsan University, South Korea, April 29, 2003.
Participant, International Seminar, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies: The Ukrainian Famine 1932-33, November 13, 2003.
“George Orwell and 1984,” WRNI, August 23, 2005. OPEN SOURCE RADIO
Guest lectures, RU105, Fall, 2005.
“Fellow Travelers,” Festschrift conference in honor of Andrzej Walicki, January 21, 2006, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
“Remembering Freedom Summer,” Review Club, Providence, R.I., February 18, 2006.
About 77 book reviews in Kritika, American Historical Review, Slavic Review, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, History Book Club News, Russian Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, Jahrb cher f r Geschichte Osteuropas, Journal of Modern History, Russian History, Nationalities Papers, Societa e storia, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and the Journal of Cold War Studies.
6. Research in Progress
Political and historical iconography in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian art (essays and papers); memoirs;
Blackwell’s Companion to Russian History (edited volume,to appear in 2007)
7. Service and Professional Activities
New Democratic Coalition of Rhode Island, 1969-73. Brown University Committee on Concentration, 1969-70. Brown University Committee on Admission and Financial Aid, 1970-71. Brown University Educational Policy Committee, 1971-73 (Acting Chair, 1972-73). Director of Honors Program, Brown History Department, 1971-73, 1982-84. Fulbright Selection Committee, 1969-1973. Associate Resident Fellow, Brown University, 1969-73. Arnold Fellow Selection Committee, Brown University, 1970, 1985. Committee on Women Faculty, Brown University, 1975-76. Honors Examiner in History, Swarthmore College, 1976. Brown University Faculty Fellow Program, 1977-78, 1978-79. Athletic Advisory Council, Brown University, 1977-79, 1995 --96. Committee to select the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor at Brown, 1978, 1979. Committee to Advise the President on the Selection of an Athletic Director, Brown, 1979. Brown University Monitoring Committee (alternate), 1977-79. National Council for Soviet and East European Research, Board of Trustees,1980-82. Overseers Committee to Visit the Russian Research Center, Harvard University, 1981-1985; 1992-1997. Editorial Adviser, The Wilson Quarterly, 1980-83. "Visitor" to the History program, St. Albans School, Washington, DC, Spring 1982. PTA, Nathaniel Greene Middle School, Providence, 1982-83. Newcombe Fellowship Selection Committee, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1982. Manuscript reviewer for Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, The University of Chicago Press, The University of California Press, Harper & Row, Northwestern University Press, D.C. Heath, Princeton University Press, etc. Periodical ms. reviewer for Slavic Review, Russian Review, American Historical Review, Journal of Comparative History. Associate Director, Council for International Studies, Brown University, 1983--1986. Editorial Board, The Russian Review, 1983--1990. Delegate representing the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies on the American Council of Learned Societies, 1984 --1987. Brown Learning Community, "Russia and the Soviet Union Today", June, 1984. Teacher Institute, Brown University, March, 1986, "Russia and the Soviet Union". Advisory Committee on University Planning, Brown University, 1987- 1988. Associate Director, Brown Institute for International Studies, 1985-1988. Selection Committee, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (twice). ACLS-SSRC Russian Studies Fellowship Committee, 1986, 1987 (Chair, 1987). Brown Learning Community, "Gorbachev's Russia: Cause for Hope or Fear", November 21, 1987. Chair, Program Committee AAASS, 1987 Meeting. Central Congregational Church, "U.S. - Soviet Relations", March 13, 1988. Chair, Search Committee, Cespedes Professorship, Brown University 1987-88. Ad-Hoc Committee on Alumni Continuing Education, Brown University, 1987-88. AAASS Education Committee, 1987-88. Chair, Department of History, Brown University, July 1, 1989 -- June 30, 1992. Brown Learning Community, "The Revolution of Peter the Great", October 11, 1989. Brown Club of New York, "Is Communism Dead?", Talk, October 17, 1989. Editorial Board, Brown World Business Advisory, 1989 --1991. United Nations Association of Cape Cod, Annual Meeting, 1989, 1990: "Update on Eastern Europe". Committee on "The Future of the Soviet Studies Field" (with Nina Garsoian, Joan Grossman, Myron Weiner), Social Science Research Council, 1990-1991. "Russian Values", Seminar at the Center for Foreign policy Development, Brown University, conference on "Investing in Perestroika", June 13-16, 1990. Brown University Summer College, June, 1990, Lecture: "The United States' Stake in Europe". Wriston Lecture, delivered at Brown Clubs in Denver, Stanford, San Francisco, Portland, January 13-19, 1991: "What Has Happened to the Communist World?". "The End of Communism", Lecture delivered to the Republican Women of Providence, March 19, 1991. "Whatever Happened to the Soviet Union?", Lecture delivered to the Brown Club of Fairfield County, November 17, 1991. Committee on Commencement Speakers, Brown University, 1991-92. Speaker, Brown Campaign Kickoff, New York, September 15, 1992. Selection Committee for the Director of the Watson Institute, Brown University, 1992-94. Member, Faculty Executive Committee for the Watson Institute, Brown University, 1991, 1994--1999. Seminar speaker, Board meeting, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, November 9, 1992, "The New World Disorder". Early Identification Program, Brown University, Summer, 1992, 1993. Fellowship Selection Committee, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1993, 1994. Chair, Brown-Tougaloo Committee, 1993 -- 1995. "The Collapse of the Soviet Union," speech to the Pembroke Club of Rhode Island, April 13, 1993. Brown Faculty Committee for the Capital Campaign, 1992 -- 1995. Speaker, "Life Time Learning," Providence, R.I., Nov. 3, 1993, "The Communist Experience in Eastern Europe: What Does It Mean?" Concentration Adviser, International Relations Program, Brown University, 1993 -- 1999. Concentration Adviser, Brown History Department, 1996 -- 1999. Brown University Summer College, June, 1994. Lecture, "Turks and Slavs." Brown University, Campus Minority Affairs Committee, 1994--2002. "The New Russian Capitalism," Lecture delivered to the Brown Club of Fairfield County, October 18, 1994. Brown University, Corporation Committee on Brown University Press, 1993-94. Brown University, Committee to select a Provost (co-chair), 1995. Brown History Dept. Committee to select the Joukowsky Family Professor (chair) 1995. Brown University History Dept. Committee to select the Das Professor, 1996-97. Board, Brown University Women Writers Project, 1995 -- 2005. Committee to Evaluate the Russian and East European Center, the University of California, Berkeley (1996). AAASS Committee to select a new Editor, Slavic Review (1996). Executive Committee, Watson Institute, 1995-1999. Faculty Associate, Watson Institute, 1996-1999. Watson Institute, Appointments, Reappointments and Promotions Committee, 1996 1999. Brown Faculty Committee on Honorary Degrees, 1997 1999 Director, Watson Institute for International Studies, 1999-2000. Director for University Relations and Special Projects, Watson Institute, 2000 -- 2003. Fabergé‚ Arts Foundation, Board of Advisers, 1999 --. Advisory Committee, Sheridan Center for Teaching, Brown University, 2000 --. Faculty Adviser, Brown Journal of World Affairs, 2000 -- Committee on the Promotion of Patricia Herlihy to full professor, 2001 (Chair) Advisory Board CASEs (Centers for Advanced Study in [Russian] Education), 2000-2002. Graduate Committee, Brown University History Department, 2000 --2002. Graduate Council, Brown University, 2001-2003. Committee to Select a Vice President for Research, Brown University, 2002. Committee for the Promotion of Mary Gluck to full professor 2003-2004 (Chair). Committee for the Promotion of Deborah Cohen to Associate Professor with Tenure (2003-2004). AAASS Committee to Select Presidential Candidates, 2003-2004. Board of Advisers, Brown International Relations Program 2003 – 2005 Board of Advisers, Brown Journal of World Affairs, 2000 --
8. Academic Honors
Harvard College Scholarships, 1957-58, 1958-59 Stipendium from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 1960-61 (University of Heidelberg) Teaching and non-teaching fellowships, Harvard University, 1964-68 Brown University Summer Research Grants, 1969, 1971, 1973 Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1971 Howard Foundation Fellow, 1973-74 Research Fellowships, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, 1973-74, 1976-77 Rockefeller Fellowship, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, July-August, 1977 Mellon Fellowship, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, 1985-86 Wriston Grant, Brown University, 1985-86 Summer stipends, Center for Foreign Policy Development, Brown University, 1989, 1990 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Board of Directors, 1990 --1997; Executive Committee, 1994 --1997. Academic Council, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1990 --1994 ; Chair, Oct. 1, 1991 -- October 1, 1994. Appointed Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, Brown University, 1993. President, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1995-96. World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Tampere Finland, 2000, Program Committee.
9. Teaching
1993-94 HI 138A East Slavic World (31 students) HI 291 Reading and Research (2 students) 3 doctoral dissertations in progress
HI 138C Twentieth-Century Russia (61 students) HI 198C (Concept Totalitarianism) (19 students) HI 292 Reading and Research (2 students) 3 doctoral dissertations in progress 3 undergrad. honors theses (2 in IR; 1 in History) Reduction of Teaching load for admin- istration of Tougaloo Program
1994-95 HI 138A East Slavic World (8 students) HI 197A Nativism and Nationalism in Russian Culture (12 students) 3 doctoral dissertations in progress
HI 198B Concept Totalitarianism (20 students) Reduction of Teaching load for administration of Tougaloo program
1995-96 SABBATICAL LEAVE Semester I 3 doctoral dissertations in progress
Semester II HI 138c Soviet Union (approx. 70 students) HI 198B Totalitarianism (19 students)
2 undergraduate honors theses
3 doctoral dissertations in progress
1996-97 Semester I
HI 140 East Slavic World (13 students) HI 197 sect. 26 Nativism and Nationalism (8 students)
3 doctoral dissertation in progress 1 doctoral dissertation completed 3 undergraduate honors theses 1 undergraduate independent study (Polish history) 1 grad. student field preparation
Semester II HI 142 (58 students) HI 198 (10 students) 2 doctoral dissertations in progress 1 doctoral dissertation completed (not the one completed in semester I) 3 undergraduate honors theses continuing 1 undergraduate independent study (New Orleans music and social history) 1 graduate student field preparation continuing
1997-98 Semester I
HI 140 (21 students) HI 197 (1 student) 3 doctoral dissertations in progress 3 undergraduate honors theses 1 graduate student field preparation
Semester II
HI 198B (20 students) HI 198B (8 students); this is a new course ("The Russian Autocracy and Its Critics") which will be given for the first time as a regular lecture course (HI 148) in the spring semester of 1997-98. 3 doctoral dissertations in progress 3 undergraduate honors theses 1 graduate student field preparation
1998-99 Semester I
HI 140 (12 students) HI 198 (21 students) 3 doctoral dissertations in progress 2 undergraduate honors theses 1 graduate student field preparation
1999-2000 Semester I (on leave to administer the Watson Institute) 4 doctoral dissertations in progress 4 graduate student field preparations
1999-2000 Semester II (on leave to administer the Watson Institute) HI 198 22 students 1 doctoral dissertation completed 3 doctoral dissertations in progress 4 graduate student field preparations
2000-2001 Semester I (one quarter time spent as Director for University Relations and Special Projects, Watson Institute for International Studies.) HI 140 (8 students) HI 197, sec. 44 (9 students) 2 graduate student preliminary examinations completed 2 graduate student field preparations 3 doctoral dissertations in progress 1 undergraduate honors thesis in progress
2000-2001 Semester II (one quarter time spent as Director for University Relations and Special projects, Watson Institute for International Studies.)
HI 142 (76 students) 1 graduate student preliminary examination completed 1 graduate student field preparation 3 doctoral dissertations in progress 1 undergraduate honors thesis completed
2001-2002 Semester I (one quarter time spent as Director for University Relations and Special Projects, Watson Institute for International Studies.)
HI 141 (33 students) 1 graduate student dissertation completed 1 graduate student seminar paper 2 graduate student field preparations 1 graduate dissertation in progress 1 undergraduate honors thesis in progress
Semester II (one quarter time spent as Director for University Relations and Special projects, Watson Institute for International Studies.)
HI 142 (78 students) HI 197 #67 (16 students) 3 graduate student field preparations 3 graduate dissertations in progress 1 undergraduate honors thesis completed, with highest honors
2002-2003 Semester I (one quarter time spent as Director for University Relations and Special Projects, Watson Institute for International Studies.)
HI 140 (16 students) HI 197 #44 (5 students) 1 graduate student field preparation completed 1 graduate student field preparation in progress 2 graduate dissertations in progress 1 undergraduate honors thesis in progress
Semester II On sabbatical.
1 graduate student field preparation completed 2 graduate student dissertations in progress 1 international relations undergraduate honors thesis directed
2003-2004 Semester I
HI 141 (71 students) 3 graduate student dissertations in progress 2 students in an Independent Study on Russian Nationalism 2 History undergraduate honors theses in progress
Semester II
Hi 142 (128 students) HI 197 #67 (18 students) 3 graduate dissertations in progress 2 undergraduate honors theses completed 1 graduate student field preparation in progress
2004-2005 Semester I
HI 140 (28 students) RU 105 (17 students) 2 graduate dissertations in progress 2 History undergraduate honors theses in progress
Revised January 3, 2005