Mikhail Sergeev, Ph.D.
Full Adjunct Professor, The University of the Arts, Division of Liberal Arts Editor of Contemporary Russian Philosophy Special Series, Brill, The Netherlands
Ph.D. scholar with extensive teaching and research experience in religion, philosophy, and cultural / comparative studies of religious and philosophical movements through history. Areas of expertise include philosophy of religion, religion and the arts, and philosophy of culture. Extensive cross-cultural and multilingual experience with proficiency in Spanish, French, and Russian. Published and presented work in the U.S., Canada, Europe (The Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic), and Russia.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor of Religion and Philosophy The University of the Arts, Division of Liberal Arts (1997 to present)
Full Adjunct Professor, as of Fall 2010; Adjunct Associate Professor, Fall 2005 – Summer 2010; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fall 2000 – Summer 2005; Senior Lecturer, 1997 – Summer 2000.
COURSES TAUGHT
In-Class Teaching
In Search of Wisdom / Afterlife / Holy War / Religion, Art and the Apocalypse / World Religions / Asian Religions / Introduction to the Bible / Religion in America / Comparative Religion: Judaism, Christianity, Islam / Modern Russian Thought: Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism / Texts and Contexts: Perspectives on the Humanities (Intro to Western Civilization) / Introduction to 19th-Century Modernism / Introduction to 20th-Century Modernism (The University of the Arts, 1997 – 2017).
Comparative World Religions / Human Potential and the Arts (Neumann University, 2003 – 2015).
World Religions / Asian Religions / Religion and Society (Temple University, 1992 – 1998).
Russian Religious Thought (Albright College, 1998; St. Joseph’s University, 1994 – 1995).
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Introduction to Religion / World Religions (Rowan University, 1993 – 1994).
Independent Studies
Directed Readings: Wisdom Literature in the Bible, (University of the Arts, 1999).
Bahá'í Faith On the Internet: 1994-2007, (University of the Arts, 2007).
Directed Readings in Christianity, (University of the Arts, 2012).
American Christianities, (University of the Arts, 2015).
Online Teaching
Comparative World Religions (Neumann University, 2015)
The Bahá'í Faith and Philosophy, co-taught with Ian Kluge (Wilmette Institute, 2016).
Graduate Seminars
What Does It Mean To Be Human? (Cross-cultural philosophy of human nature) (The University of the Arts, 2017).
YouTube Lectures
“Dr. Mikhail Sergeev and The Crucifixion In 20th Century Painting,” a lecture given at Liberty Church in Philadelphia in 2013; produced and published in 2014 by Steve Evans, www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGpfR_pMofw&list=PLBuleCqY-UkXA7_OSoteSKOHFjTWE mdeN.
Crash Course in World Religions, a series of 14 mini-lectures on the religions of the world, October 2014, www.youtube.com/channel/UCITKM95wJYBo8NJimK36yLg/playlists.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Period Interpretation courses coordinator, (Liberal Arts, University of the Arts, Fall 2016 – present).
Member of the Liberal Arts Course Curriculum Committee, (University of the Arts, 2016 – present).
Division of Liberal Arts's part-time faculty representative on Faculty Council, (University of the Arts, 2013-2016).
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Member of the Liberal Arts Division Promotion and Tenure Committee, (University of the Arts, 2011; 2008 – 2009).
Introduced and developed Philosophy and Religion Minor at the Division of Liberal Arts, and became its coordinator, (University of the Arts, 2009 – present).
Member of the Liberal Arts Course Curriculum Committee, (University of the Arts, 2006-2007, 2009-2010).
Member of the Ad Hoc Committee for College Curriculum Committees (CCCs), (University of the Arts, 2009 – 2010).
Member of an Exploratory Committee to prepare a new and required of all incoming freshmen course Texts and Contexts: Perspectives on the Humanities, (Liberal Arts Division, University of the Arts, 2006).
Society for the Study of Russian Religious Thought, founder and secretary-treasurer, 1995-2002.
PUBLICATIONS
Selected Books
Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá’í Faith, (Brill, 2015).
Smile From Heaven: An Anthology of Religious Humor, compiled with an Introduction by Mikhail Sergeev (Boston, MA: M-Graphics, 2012).
Poeziia russkikh filosofov 20-go veka: Antologiia [Poetry of Russian Philosophers of the 20th Century: An Anthology], eds. M. Sergeev and L. Stolovich (Boston: M-Graphics, 2011).
Apokapitalipsis: Zametki filosofa [Apocapitalypse: Philosopher’s Notes] (Prague: Human Rights Publishers, 2009), http://www.hrpublishers.org/ru/biblioteka/635.html.
Sophiology in Russian Orthodoxy: Solov’ev, Bulgakov, Losskii, Berdiaev (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006).
I sotvoril Bog smekh: Religioznye shutki i anekdoty, sobrannye Mikhailom Sergeevym [And God Created Laughter: Religious Jokes and Anekdotes Collected by Mikhail Sergeev], (Human RightsPublishers, 2005).
The Project of the Enlightenment: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Art, a bilingual collection of articles (Moscow: Russian Philosophical Society, 2004).
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Interviews
“Teoriya religioznykh tsyklov” [Theory of Religious Cycles], Aleksei Nilogov’s interview with Mikhail Sergeev as part of the project “Contemporary Russian Philosophy,”Filosofkie Nauki [Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences], 01 (2017), pp. 120-31.
Igor Mikhalevich-Kaplan, “Proekt ‘Prosveschenie’. Interviu s Mikhailom Sergeevym” [Project “Enlightenment.” Interview with Mikhail Sergeev], Слово/Word, №88, 2015, http://litbook.ru/ article/8554/
“A Priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar…” by Peter Crimmins, Philadelphia City Paper, August 4-10, 2011, #1366, http://citypaper.net/article.php?A-Priest-A-Rabbi-and-a-Minister- Walk-Into-a-Bar-...-14600
Radio interviews on various subjects of culture and religion on WHYY (Greater Philadelphia, 2011-2013); WNWR 1540 AM, New World Radio, “Radio Express,” (Philadelphia, 2008); Radio Liberty, (Prague, 2006).
Articles
More than one hundred scholarly publications, including seventy articles in American and Russian journals and newspapers.
EDITORIAL WORK
Member of the International Editorial Board of the international theoretical journal Credo, St- Petersburg, Russia (since 2017).
Associate editor (2014-15) and editor (since 2016) of Contemporary Russian Philosophy (CRP) Special Series in Rodopi, and later Brill, the Netherlands.
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Filosofskaia mysl’ (Philosophical Thought) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2015).
Member of the International Editorial Board of the journal Vek globalizatsii (Century of Globalization), Moscow, Russia (since 2015).
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Filosofiia i cul'tura (Philosophy and Culture) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2013).
Founding editor of the journal Studies in Baha’i Philosophy, Schlacks Publishers, USA, (2012 – 2015).
Co-editor of Symposion. A Journal of Russian Thought, Schlacks Publishers, USA, (2007 – 2012). 4
Editor-moderator of an Internet discussion list SOPHIA on science and religion of the Metanexus Center for Religion and Science, (2002 – 2003).
Editor, Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Russian Religious Thought, Philadelphia, USA, (1995 – 1999).
CONFERENCES
Chair and/or panelist in fifty-three panels in regional, national and international conferences.
Organizer of thirty-seven panels / roundtables at various scholarly conferences.
Member of the Steering Committee, Baha’i Studies Group, American Academy of Religion, 2016 – present.
Philosophy of Religion Section Chair, American Academy of Religion regional annual conference, 2009-2012.
Religion and the Arts Section Chair, American Academy of Religion regional annual conference, 2001, 2003-2008, 2012-2013.
EDUCATION
PhD in Religious Studies (Temple University - Philadelphia, PA, 1997)
Master of Arts in Religious Studies (Temple University - Philadelphia, PA, 1993)
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (Moscow State University of International Relations, 1982)
CERTIFICATIONS
Online Course Facilitation and Design (Neumann University, Division of Continuing Adult and Professional Studies, 2013)
SCHOLARLY GRANTS
Faculty and Academic Development Grant, (University of the Arts, 2016).
Faculty Development Grant, (University of the Arts, 2014-2015).
Faculty Enrichment Grant, (University of the Arts, 2010-2011).
Conference Travel Grant, (John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, 2010).
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Faculty Development Grant, (University of the Arts, 2007-2008).
Venture Fund Grant, (University of the Arts, 2004-2005).
Period Interpretation Course Development Grant, (Division of Liberal Arts, University of the Arts, 2003).
Dissertation Completion Award, (Department of Religion, Temple University, 1997).
Dissertation Research Grant, (The Spalding Trust, England, 1996).
Dissertation Travel Grant, (Graduate School, Temple University, 1996).
AWARDS
The President’s Distinguished Teaching Award (The University of the Arts, 2010)
LINKS
Website: – http://uarts.digication.com/msergeev
CONTACT
400 Glendale Road, Unit B-10, Havertown, PA 19083, USA [email protected] / [email protected] (610) 449-1353 (h) / (610) 609-9597 (cell)
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