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Paul Bushkovitch Curriculum Vitae Department of History Home Address Paul Bushkovitch Curriculum Vitae Department of History Home address: Yale University 117 Glen Parkway New Haven, CT USA 06520 Hamden, CT 06517 (203) 432-1366 (203) 288-8784, Fax: (203) 287-1040 Email: [email protected] Born: May 22, 1948 (St. Louis, Missouri) Education: B.A. 1970 Harvard University -magna cum laude Ph.D. 1975 Columbia University 1973-1974 Moscow State University (see below) Academic Positions: 1975 Instructor, Columbia University 1975-1980 Assistant Professor, Yale University 1980-1992 Associate Professor, Yale University Fall, 1981 Visiting Associate Professor, Columbia University 1992- Professor of History, Yale University Awards and Honors: Lewis Prize 1994, American Philosophical Society, for England and the North (jointly with Maija Jansson). Festschrift: Religion and Identity in Russia and the Soviet Union, ed. Nikolaos Chrissidis, Cathy Potter, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, and Jennifer Spock, Bloomington, Indiana, Slavic, 2011. Editorial Boards: Cahiers du monde russe, Paris, 2000-present. Patrick Gordon Diary Project, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2009-present. Copublisher and Advisor, “Russia and the Russian Court from the Viewpoint of European Diplomats,” German Historical Institute, Moscow, 2011- present. 2 Letters and Papers of Peter the Great, Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents, Moscow, 2012. Dissertation: "The Merchant Class of Moscow 1580-1650," Columbia University, 1975. Research in Progress 1. Succession to the Throne and the Problem of Absolutism in Russia 1598-1722 (book). 2. The Image of the Monarch in Russia, 900-1740 (book). Publications: Books: A Concise History of Russia, Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011. Peter the Great: the Struggle for Power 1671-1725, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. Italian translation: Lucio Angelini, trans., Pietro il Grande: La lotta per il potere (1671-1725), Salerno Editrice, 2003. Russian translation: N.L. Luzhetskaia, trans., Петр Великий: борьба за власть (1671-1725), St. Petersburg, Dmitrii Bulanin, 2008. Peter the Great (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2001. Religion and Society in Russia: the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York, Oxford University Press, 1992). The Merchants of Moscow 1580-1650 (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980). Edited Works: Maija Jansson, N. M. Rogozhin, and Paul Bushkovitch, editors and translator, England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 210, Philadelphia, 1994). Ivo Banac and Paul Bushkovitch, eds., The Nobility in Russia and East Europe, Yale Russian and East European Publications (collected articles with a joint preface by the editors), New Haven, 1983. Book Chapters: 3 1. “Russia,” in Kimberly Kagan, ed., The Imperial Moment, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2010, 109-140. 2. “Peter the Great and the Northern War,” In D.C. B. Lieven, ed., Cambridge History of Russia.vol. 2, Cambridge, 2006, 489-503. 3. “The Moscow Kremlin and its History,” in Olga Dmitrieva and Natalya Abramova, eds, Britannia and Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars, New Haven, 2006, 218-227. 3. "The Romanov Transformation 1613-1725," in Frederick Kagan et al. The Military History of Tsarist Russia, New York, Palgrave, 2001, 31-46. Articles: 1. “Poltava’s Consquences: Local Autonomy in the Russian Empire in the Reign of Peter the Great,” in Serhii Plokhy ed., Poltava 1709: The Battle and the Myth (Harvard Ukrainian Studies 31, no. 1-4, 2009-2010) 135-158. 2. “Political Ideology in the Reign of Peter I: Feofan Prokopovich, Succession to the Throne and the West,” in: ГИИМ: Доклады по истории 18 и 19 вв. – DHI Moskau: Vorträge zum 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: URL: http://www.perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/vortraege- moskau/bushkovitch_ideology Dokument zuletzt verändert am: Apr 11, 2012 10:44 AM Zugriff vom: Apr 11, 2012. 3. “Orthodoxy and Islam in Russia 988-1725,” in Ludwig Steindorff, ed., Religion und Integration im Moskauer Russland: Konzepte und Praktiken, Potentiale und Grenzen, Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 76, Wiesbaden, 2010, 117-144. 4. “Patrick Gordon and Russian Court Politics,” Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 3 (Spring, 2010), no. 2, 1-18. 5. “Fatherland in Russian Culture 15-17th Centuries”, Journal of Ukrainian Studies 33-34 (2008- 2009), Frank Sysyn Festschrift edd. Olga Andriewsky, Zenon E. Kohut, Serhii Plokhy, and Larry Wolff, 93-103. 6. “The Vasiliologion of Nikolai Spafarii Milescu,” Russian History 36 (2009) No. 1, Festschrift for Richard Hellie Part 4, edd. Lawrence N. Langer, Peter Brown, 1-15. 7. “The Roman Empire in the Era of Peter the Great,” in Chester S. L. Dunning, Russell E. Martin, and Daniel Rowland, eds., Rude and Barbarous Kingdom Revisited: Essays in Russian History and Culture in Honor of Robert O. Crummey, Bloomington, Indiana, 2008, 155-172. 8. ”Шведские источники о России 1624-1626 гг.”, Архив русской истории, вып. 8, 2007, 359-381. 9. “Ему служат мошенники и предатели,” Родина 11 (2007), 49-57. 10. “The Clergy at the Russian Court 1689-1796,” in Michael Schaich, ed., Monarchy and Religion: the Transformation of Royal Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Oxford, 2007, 105-128. 11. "A Kyivan Trebnik among Moscow Musketeers", Harvard Ukrainian Studies vol. 28, no. 1- 4, 2006, 397-404. 4 12. “Popular Religion in the Time of Peter the Great,” in John-Paul Himka and Andriy Z1arnyuk, eds.,Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine, Toronto, 2006, 146-164. 13. “Россия и Украинское гетманство в 1653-1725 годах,” Belorussiia i Ukraina: Istoriia i kul’tura. Ezhegodnik 2004, Moscow, 2005, 67-92. 14. “Russian Boyars and the Ukrainian Hetmanate,” Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 29 (1/2), Summer-Winter 2004, 47-63. 15. “The Far East in the Eyes of the Russian Intelligentsia,” in John W. Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, Shinji Yokote, The Russo- Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Leiden-Boston, 2005, 349-364. 16. “Princes Cherkasskii or Circassian Murzas; the Kabardians in the Russian Boyar Elite 1560- 1700,” Cahiers du monde russe 45 (janvier juin 2004) pts 1-2, 9-30. 17. “Peter and the Seventeenth Century,” in Jarmo Kotilaine and Marshall Poe, eds., Modernizing Muscovy: Reform and Social Change in Seventeenth-century Russia, London and New York, 2004, 461-476. 18. "The Politics of Command in the Army of Peter the Great," in Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, ed., Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution, Cambridge-Washington, DC, 2004, 253- 272. 19. “The Selection and Deposition of the Metropolitan and Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Russia 1448-1619,” in Marek Derwich and M. V. Dmitriev, eds., Être catholique – être orthodoxe – être protestant: confessions et identities culturelles en Europe médiévale et moderne, Opera ad historiam monasticam spectantia II, 2, Wrocław, 2003, 123-150. 20. “Православная церковь и русское национальное самосознание ХV1-ХV11 вв. [The Orthodox Church and Russian National Consciousness in the 16-17th Centuries],” Ab Imperio 3 (2003), 101-118. 21. "The Court of Tsar Michael in Swedish Sources," Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 58 (2001), 235-242. 22. "Cultural Change among the Russian Boyars 1650-1680 New Sources and Old Problems," Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 56 (2000), 91-112. 23. “Мне отмщение: новый взгляд на дело царевича Алексея [Vengeance is mine: A new view of the case of tsarevich Aleksei],” Rodina 9 (1999), 43-47. 24. "Power and the Historian: the Case of Tsarevich Aleksei 1716-1718 and N. G. Ustrialov 1845-1859." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 141, no. 2 (June 1997), 177- 212. 25. "Aristocratic Faction and the Opposition to Peter the Great: the 1690's." Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 50 (Berlin, 1995), 80-120. 26. "The Life of Saint Filipp: Tsar and Metropolitan in the Late Sixteenth Century," in Michael S. Flier and Daniel Rowland, eds., Medieval Russian Culture, vol. 2, California Slavic Studies XIX, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1994, 29-46. 27. "Максим Грек – поэт-гипербореец [Maksim the Greek as Hyperborean poet]," Trudy otdela drevnerusskoi literatury 47 (St. Petersburg, 1993), 215-228. [Edition of two previously unknown Greek originals of two poetic tracts by Maximos the Greek]. 28. "Orthodoxy and Old Rus' in the Thought of S. P. Shevyrev," in Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 46 (Berlin 1992), 203-220. 5 29. "The Ukraine in Russian Culture 1790-1860: The Evidence of the Journals," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 39 (1991), H. 3, 339-363. 30. "The Epiphany Ceremony of the Russian Court in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Russian Review 49, no. 1 (January, 1990), 1-17. 31. "V.O. Kliuchevskii as Historian of Religion and the Church," Canadian-American Slavic Studies 20, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1986), 357-366. 32. "Юрай Крижанич и русское старообрядчество [Juraj Križanić and Russian Old Belief]," in Znanstveni skup u povodu 300. obljetnice smrti Jurja Krizanića (1683-1983): Zbornik radova pt. 2, Zagreb, 1986, 243-254. 33. "The Formation of National Consciousness in Early Modern Russia," in Concepts of Nationhood in Early Modern Eastern Europe, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 10, no. 3/4, December, 1986, 355-376. 34. "The Limits of Hesychasm: Some Notes on Monastic Spirituality in Russia 1350-1500", Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 38 (Berlin, 1986), 97-109.
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