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Jonathan Daly's Curriculm Vitae

ADDRESS

Department of History, 601 S. Morgan Street

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637

 

daly@uic.edu  312-996-3141 (w); 312-996-6377 (fax).

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1992.

A.M., History, Harvard University, 1987.

M.A., Russian Area Studies Program, Georgetown University, 1986.

B.A., Philosophy, Université de Montréal, 1983. All instruction in French. 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2005-          University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor of History

1999-2005 University of Illinois at Chicago, Associate Professor of History

1992-1999 University of Illinois at Chicago, Assistant Professor of History

1988-92      Harvard University, Tutor in History

 

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Late Imperial Russian and early Soviet society, government, law, politics, and institutions; 19th and 20th century Russian political, cultural, and social history; comparative European institutional and legal history; world history; the rise of the West; biography of Richard Pipes; collective biography of founders of Russian historical study in America.

 

AWARDS

Nominated for the 2011 and 2012 Honors College Fellow of the Year Award.

University-wide teaching award, Teaching Recognition Program, Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UIC, competition of 2007-2008.

Shirley Bill Award, Department of History, UIC, 2008 (best history professor as selected by

History Department faculty and undergraduate and graduate students).

 

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

Hammer, Sickle, and Soil: The Soviet Drive to Collectivize Agriculture (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2017).

Historians Debate the Rise of the West (London and New York: Routledge, 2015).

The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western Civilization (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). Chinese ed. April 2019.

The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906-1917 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004).

Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866-1905 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998).

 

EDITED VOLUMES

Pillars of the Profession: The Correspondence of Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff (Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boston: Brill, 2019).

The Russian Revolution and its Global Impact: A Short History with Documents (Cambridge, MA, and Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2017) [with Leonid Trofimov].

Russia in War and Revolution, 1914–1922: A Documentary History (Indianapolis and Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing Company, 2009) [with Leonid Trofimov].

 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Introduction.” In Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva: The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife, ed. Vladimir G. Marinich (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017), xxiii–xxvi [with Z. I. Peregudova].

Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, 11th ed., by Marvin Perry et al. (co-author of chapters 32 and 33 (January 2015).

Introduction, in K. I. Globachev, “Pravda o russkoi revoliutsii,” Vospominaniia byvshego nachal’nika Petrogradskogo okhrannogo otdeleniia, ed. Z. I. Peregudova. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2009. [“’The Truth about the Russian Revolution’ by K. I. Globachev, the Last Director of the Petrograd Security Bureau”; with Z. I. Peregudova].

 “K. I. Globachev—poslednii nachal’nik Petrogradskogo okhrannogo otdeleniia,” in Startsevskie chteniia—2006: sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei k 75-letiiu professora Vitaliia Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei (St. Petersburg: Izd-vo RGPU im. A. I. Gertsena, 2007), 119–29. [“K.I. Globachev the Last Director of the Petrograd Security Bureau”; with Z. I. Peregudova].

“Police and Revolutionaries,” in The Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 2 (1689–1917), ed. Dominic Lieven (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 637–54.

“Russian Punishments in the European Mirror,” in Russia in the European Context, 1789-1914: A Member of the Family, ed. Susan McCaffray and Michael Melancon (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 161-88. 

“Krasnyi terror v Sovetskom gosudarstve (v otsenkakh rossiiskikh i zarubezhnykh issledovatelei)” [“Red Terror in the Soviet State: Assessments by Russian and Foreign Scholars”], in Rossiia v XX v.: Istoriia i istoriografiia: Mezhdunarodnyi al’manakh, vol. 2, ed. V. D. Kamynin and Vladimir N. Brovkin et al. (Ekaterinburg: Ural’skii gosudarstvennyi universitet, 2004), 20-43.

“The Security Police in Late Imperial Russia,” in Russia Under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894–1917, ed. Anna Geifman (London: Blackwell, 1999), 217–40. 

 “Evoliutsiia politseiskikh metodov bor’by s revoliutstionnym ekstremizmom v Rossii, 1890-e-1917 gg.,” in V. P. Sal’nikov, ed., Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del: Stranitsy istorii, 1802-2002 gg. (St. Petersburg: Universitet, 2002), 169-90. [Russian translation of preceding article]

“Storming the Last Citadel: The Bolshevik Assault on the Church, 1922,” in The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: Revolution and Civil Wars, ed. Vladimir N. Brovkin (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997), 235–68. 

“Shturm poslednei kreposti: Bolshevistskaia ataka na tsarkov v 1922 godu,” Uchenye zapiski Rossiiskogo Pravoslavnogo Universiteta ap. Ioanna Bogoslova, no. 6 (2000): 73-92. [Revised Russian translation of preceding article]

 

ARTICLES

“The Unknown Richard Pipes: On the Craft and Philosophy of History,” Ab Imperio, no. 1 (2019): 237–65.

“A Scholar with a Sense of Mission: Academic, Cold Warrior, Public Intellectual,” Cahiers du monde russe 59, no. 4 (October-December 2018): 553–66.

“The Pleiade: Five Scholars Who Founded Russian Historical Studies in America,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 18, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 785–826.

“An Impossible Dream Becomes Reality: A.I. Spiridovich and the Personal Security of Nicholas II,” The Historian76 (Spring 2014): 50–70. [Reprinted in Sovereign, no. 1 (2015): 103–18.]

“Bolshevik Power and Ideas of the Common Good,” in Modern Age 54 (Winter-Fall 2012): 77-88.

“Machine Guns, Hysteria, and the February Revolution in Russia,” Russian History 36, no. 1 (2009): 1-15.

“Government, Press, and Subversion in Russia, 1906-1917,” The Journal of the Historical Society 9 (March 2009): 23-65.

“Political Crime in Late Imperial Russia,” Journal of Modern History 74 (March 2002): 62-100.

“Pravitel’stvo, pressa i antigosudarstvennaia deiatel’nost’ v Rossii, 1906-1917 gg.” Voprosy istorii, no. 10 (2001): 25-45. [“Repression and Freedom of the Press in Late Imperial Russia”]

“Criminal Punishments and Europeanization in Late Imperial Russia,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 47 (2000): 341-62.

“Polozhenie ob okhrane 14 avgusta 1881 goda i repressivnaia politika imperatorskoi Rossii,” Klio, no. 1(7) (1999): 103-17 [Revised Russian translation of preceding article]

“Polozhenie ob okhrane 14 avgusta 1881 goda i repressivnaia politika imperatorskoi Rossii,” in Politicheskii sysk v Rossii: Istoriia i sovremennost', ed. V. S. Izmozik et al. (St. Petersburg: Izd. Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta ekonomiki i finansov, 1997), 71-75. [Summary version of preceding article]

“On the Significance of Emergency Legislation in Late Imperial Russia,” Slavic Review 54 (Fall 1995): 602-29. 

 

REVIEW ESSAYS

“Perlustration in Imperial Russia,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 17, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 466–74.

“Security Services in Imperial and Soviet Russia,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (Fall 2003): 955–73.

 

POPULAR FORA

Condensed interview about Richard Pipes. First 12.5 minutes of the Poverkh bar’erov radio show, Radio Liberty (July 16, 2018), https://www.svoboda.org/a/29331315.html.

Quoted in Jesse Greenspan, “Why Peter the Great Tortured and Killed His Own Son” (July 06, 2018), History Channel, https://www.history.com/news/peter-the-great-tortured-killed-own-son.

“‘Saved from certain death’ to change the course of history,” Jerusalem Post (May 28, 2018), “Comments and Features,” p. 1.

Interview on Richard Pipes, National Post Radio, the morning national news show with Anthony Furey on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, May 22, 2018, 8:03-8:15 (CST).

Interview about Crime and Punishment in Russia on the New Books Network, April 10, 2018, http://newbooksnetwork.com/jonathan-daly-crime-and-punishment-in-russia-a-comparative-history-from-peter-the-great-to-vladimir-putin-bloomsbury-2018/.

“No, It Wasn’t Inevitable that Putin’s Russia Would Descend into Lawlessness,” History News Network (March 18, 2018), <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168356>.

“While We Weren’t Looking Russia Once Again Became the World’s Biggest Exporter of Wheat,” History News Network (October 28, 2017), <http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167160>.

 

MINOR PUBLICATIONS

Turgenev, Ivan, “Senilia, or Poems in Prose,” translated by Richard Pipes, with an introduction by Jonathan Daly (self pub., 2012; 2019), http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41713534.

Response to Benjamin Nathans, Kritika 19, no. 3 (Summer 2018): 684.

“In Memoriam: Scott Baldwin Smith,” NewsNet: News of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (October 2017): 31.

 

BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN PROGRESS

“The Russian Police in War and Revolution, 1914–1921,” in European Police Forces and Law Enforcement in the First World War, ed. Jonas Campion, Laurent López, and Guillaume Payen (in production with Palgrave Macmillan, EDP December 2019). French version also intended.

“Frontier Agriculture,” in The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History, ed. Jeannie Whayne (New York: Oxford University Press), EDC June 2019.

“Penal and Administrative Exile in Late Imperial Russia” (article MS submitted to Russian Review).

“‘Saved from Certain Death’ to Change the Course of History: An Intellectual Biography of Richard Pipes” (EDC: 2020).

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

“Beletskii, Stepan Petrovich”; “Benckendorff, Aleksandr Khistoforovich, Count”; “Burtsev, Vladimir L’vovich”;  “Capital punishment in russia and the Soviet Union,” “Department of Police”; “Drentel’n, Aleksandr Romanovich”; in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History, ed. Bruce Adams (Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 2003-2004), vols. 4, 5, 8.

“Zubatov, Sergei,” in Encyclopedia of Russian History, ed. James R. Millar (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).

 

PUBLICATION OF DOCUMENTS

“Documents from the Archive of Richard Pipes,” Ab Imperio, no. 1 (2019): 266–96.

S. N. Globacheva, “Preliudiia proiskhodiashshikh v mire sobytii,” Voprosy istorii, nos. 11-12 (2002). [“Prelude to Recent World Events” (a memoir), with Z. I. Peregudova]

K. I. Globachev, “Pravda o russkoi revoliutsii: Vospominaniia byvshego nachal’nika Petrogradskogo okhannogo otdeleniia,” Voprosy istorii, nos. 7-10 (2002). [“The Truth about the Russian Revolution: Memoirs of the Former Chief of the Petrograd Security Police,” with Z. I. Peregudova]

“A. I. Spiridovich. Okhrana i antisemitizm v dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii,” Voprosy istorii, no. 8 (2003): 3-36. [“The Security Police and Antisemitism in Prerevolutionary Russia.”]

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Riccardo Nicolosi and Anne Hartmann, eds., Born to Be Criminal: The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2018), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50, no. 2 (Autumn 2019): 281–83.

Ilya Gerasimov, Plebeian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906–1916 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2018), in Slavic Review 78, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 269–70.

Christopher Ely, Underground Petersburg: Radical Populism, Urban Space, and the Tactics of Subversion in Reform-Era Russia (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016), in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 45 (2018): 307–401.

George Gilbert, The Radical Right in Late Imperial Russia: Dreams of a True Fatherland? (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016), in The Slavonic and East European Review 94, no. 4 (October 2016): 750–52.

Lynne Ann Hartnett, The Defiant Life of Vera Figner: Surviving the Russian Revolution (Bloomington, IN: Indiana, 2014), in the Journal of Modern History 88, no. 1 (March 2016): 244–45.

Stephan Rindlisbacher, Leben für die Sache: Vera Figner, Vera Zasulič und das radikale Milieu im späten Zarenreich, Forschungen zur Osteuropäischen Geschichte, Bd. 80 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), in Slavic Review 74, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 397–98.

Mark Lawrence Schrad, Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), in American Historical Review (February 2105): 359.

Eric Lohr, Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2012), in The Journal of Modern History (September 2014): 735-37.

Semion Lyandres, The Fall of Tsarism: Untold Stories of the February 1917 Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), in History: Reviews of New Books 42, no. 3 (2014): 93–94.

Joshua Rubenstein, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life (New Haven and London: Yale University press, 2011), in The Historian 74 (Winter, 2012): 890-91.

Matthew Rendle, Defenders of the Motherland: The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), in The Journal of Modern History 83 (September 2011): 715-17.

John Quigley, Soviet Legal Innovation and the Law of the Western World (Cambridge University Press, 2007), in Slavonic and East European Review 89 (2011): 1-2.

Marc Junge, Die Gesellschaft ehemaliger politischer Zwangsarbeiter und Verbannter in der Sowjetunion: Grundung, Entwicklung und Liquidierung (1921–1935) (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2009), in Slavic Review, vol. 69, no. 3 (Fall 2010): 770-71. 

Claudia Verhoeven, The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009), in American Historical Review (February 2010): 320-21.

Felix Schnell Ordnungshüter auf Abwegen? Herrschaft und illegitime polizeiliche Gewalt in Moskau, 1905-1914(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006), in Slavic Review 67 (Summer 2008): 487-88.

Heinz-Dietrich Löwe, ed., Volksaufstände in Rußland: Von der Zeit der Wirren bis zur “Grünen Revolution” gegen die Sowjetherrschaft, Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte, 65 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006), in Russian Review 66 (January 2007):159-60.

Harvey, Robert. A Short History of Communism (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004), in The Historian, vol. 68 (Fall 2006): 659-60.

Jörg Baberowski, Der Rote Terror: Die Geschichte des Stalinismus (München, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2003), in Revolutionary Russia, vol. 18 (June 2005): 107-10.

Jörg Baberowski, Der Feind ist überall: Stalinismus im Kaukasus (München, DeutscheVerlags-Anstalt, 2003), in Revolutionary Russia, vol. 18 (December 2005): 251-54.

Abraham Ascher,  P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001), in Revolutionary Russia 17 (June 2004): 150–52.

Mark D. Steinberg, ed., Voices of Revolution, 1917, trans. Marian Schwartz (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001), in Social History 292 (May 2004), 238-39.

Alexandra Korros. A Reluctant Parliament: Stolypin, Nationalism, and the Politics of the Russian Imperial State Council, 1906-1911 (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002), in Slavic Review 63 (2004): 407-8.

Abby Schrader, Languages of the Lash: Corporal Punishment and Identity in Imperial Russia (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002), in American Historical Review (October 2003): 1250-51.

Iain Lauchlin, Russian Hide-and-Seek: The Tsarist Secret Police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914 (Helsinki: SKS, 2002), in English Historical Review 118 (June 2003): 826-28.

Peter Gatrell, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War I (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999), in The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 14 (March 2001): 185-87.

Stephen P. Frank, Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999), in The Historian 63 (2000): 186-88.

Peter Waldron, Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998), in The Historian 62 (Winter 2000): 463-64.

Viktor Petrovich Danilov et al, eds., Tragediia sovetskoi derevni: Kollektivizatsiia i raskulachivanie: Dokumenty i materialy v 5 tomakh, 1927-1939, vol. 1 (Moscow: Rosspen, 1999), in Social History 25 (October 2000): 382-83. [With Sergei Maksudov]

Susan K. Morrissey, Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism (New York and Oxford 1998), in Social History 25 (May 2000): 262.

David Alan Rich, The Tsar's Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia(Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1998), in American Historical Review (April 2000): 645-46.

Bruce F. Adams, The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917 (DeKalb 1996), in Russian History 26 (Winter 1999):431-33.

Jörg Baberowski, Autokratie und Justiz. Zum Verhältnis von Rechsstaatlichkeit und Rückständigkeit im ausgehenden Zarenreich, 1864-1914 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1996), in Slavic Review 56 (Summer 1997): 358-60.

Marc Raeff, Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia (Boulder Colo.: Westview 

Press, 1994), in The Journal of Modern History 68 (September 1996): 740-42.

Hsi-Huey Liang, The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), in The Journal of Modern History 67 (June 1995): 386–88.

Martin Gilbert, Atlas of Russian History, 2nd ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), in Slavic Review 54 (Spring 1995): 173–74. [With Sergei Maksudov

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, From Serf to Russian Soldier (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990), in Slavic Review 53 (Spring 1994): 242–43.

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

UIC Faculty Scholarship Support Program grant, January 2019

UIC Faculty Scholarship Support Program grant, January 2018

UIC Faculty Scholarship Support Program grant, January 2017

UIC LAS Dean's Award for Faculty Research in the Humanities, April 2016

UIC Faculty Scholarship Support Program grant, January 2016.

UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative Faculty Mentor, April 2015

UIC Faculty Scholarship Support Program grant, January 2015

UIC Faculty Scholarship Support Program grant, January 2014.

UIC Faculty Scholarship Support Program grant, March 2013.

UIC Faculty Scholarship Support Program grant, January 2012.

UIC Faculty Scholarship Support Program grant, January 2011.

Office of Social Science Research Seed Grant, November 2006.

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2005-2006 Curriculum and Instructional Grants.

Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002-2003.

Research Fellowship, Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research-Arts, Architecture, and the Humanities (OVCR-AAH), University of Illinois at Chicago, November 2001.

Short-Term Travel Grant, International Research Exchanges Board (IREX) May 2001.

Research Fellowship, OVCR-AAH, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 1999.

Short-Term Travel Grant, IREX, December 1998.

Grants-in-Aid program, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago,

                   fall 1998.

Grants-in-Aid program, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, spring 1998.

       Research Fellowship, Campus Research Board (CRB), UIC, 1996.

Short-Term Research Fellowship, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center, November 1995.

       Research Grant, H. F. Guggenheim (in lieu of salary), 1995-1996.

       Short-Term Collaborative Grant, IREX, November 1994.

Short-Term Travel Grant, IREX, May-June, 1994.

       Research Fellowship, CRB, UIC, May to August 1993.

Long-Term Research Fellowship, IREX, September 1990 to June 1991.

Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, for research and language training in Russian Studies, 1988-89.

 

HONORS

       Honorary Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, 1989-1990 and 1991-1992.

       

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

       “Hijacking the Idea of the Common Good,” address at the conference “From Res Publica

                   to the Republic of Letters: The Common Good in Transition and Translation,

                   University of Notre Dame, October 10-11, 2008

“Gosudarstvennye prestupleniia v Rossii kontsa 19–nachala 20 vv.,” International Conference on “The History of Law and the State” in Samara, Russia, 14-15 May 2001.

“The Continuing Crisis in Russia: An Historian's Perspective,” address at the annual initiation banquet of Eastern Illinois University's Phi Alpha Theta chapter, April 14, 1994.

       

SELECTED LECTURES & CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Security on the Cheap: Exile in the Russian Empire,” Security and Empire. Mechanics of Securitization in Imperial Spaces, 16-18 March 2016, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany.

“An Impossible Dream Becomes Reality: A.I. Spiridovich and the Personal Security of Nicholas II,” at In Search of Empire: the 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov Bakhmeteff Archive, Columbia University, February 15, 2013.

       “Bolshevik Power and Ideas of the Common Good,” American Association for

the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Annual National Meeting, Boston, November 13, 2009.

       “Party and State Institutions in the First Year of Bolshevik Rule,” AAASS, Annual National

                   Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 18, 2006.

       “Rasstreliat’! Capital punishment and Executions in Bolshevik Russia, 1917-1922,”

                   AAASS, Annual National Meeting, Salt Lake City, November 6, 2005.

       “Terror and Civil War in Russia, 1917-1921,” AAASS, Annual National Meeting, Boston,

                   December 6, 2004.

“Western Civilization in Global Perspective,” The Historical Society Biannual National Meeting, Boothbay Harbor, ME, June 4, 2004.

       “Red Terror and the Origins of the Soviet State,” Institute for the Humanities, University of

                   Illinois at Chicago, April 10, 2003.

“Repression and Freedom of the Press in Late Imperial Russia,” AAASS, Annual National Meeting, Denver, November 9, 2000.

“Problems of Legal Modernization in Late Imperial Russia,” AAASS, Annual National Meeting, St. Louis, November 18, 1999.

“Political Crime in Late Imperial Russia,” Midwest Russian History Workshop, Toronto, Canada, 10 April 1999.

“Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866-1905,” invited paper for the Chicago Consortium for Slavic and East European Studies, April 25, 1998.

“Criminal Punishment and Modernization in Late Imperial Russia,” Midwest Russian History Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, October 11, 1997.

“Defining Sedition in Late Imperial Russia: The Penal Code of 1845,” AAASS, Annual National Meeting, Boston, November 16, 1996.

“Polozhenie ob okhrane 14 avgusta 1881 g. i repressivnaia politika imperatorskoi Rossii,” International Conference on “Political Police in Russia: Past and Present” in St. Petersburg, May 13, 1996.

“The Security Law of 14 August 1881 in Late Imperial Russia,” invited paper, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, May 20, 1996, and the Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, May 21, 1996.

 

PUBLIC LECTURES

       “World War I: Detonator of Catastrophes,” Elmhurst Public Library, November 10, 2009.

 

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPATION 

“The Law in Russia: A Variation on a European Theme or Sui Generis?” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES; formerly AAASS), Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 7, 2018.

“Michael Karpovich’s Brilliant Cohort: Haimson, Malia, Pipes, Raeff, Riasanovsky,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES; formerly AAASS), Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 17, 2016.

“Crime and Punishment in Russia since the Nineteenth Century,” ASEEES, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 22, 2015.

“Preparing Documentary Readers for Soviet History Courses,” ASEEES, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles,  November 19, 2010.

       “How to Compare Stalinism and Nazism,” AAASS, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia,

                   November 21, 2008.

       “Does Lenin in 1902 explain Bolshevism in 1918 (And Thus the Rest of Soviet

                    History)?” AAASS, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 16, 2007.

 

SCHOLARLY WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

Hoover Institution Workshop on Totalitarian States, July 20–31, 2105

 

COURSES TAUGHT

LAS 100: Freshman Seminar in Liberal Arts and Sciences

HIST 101: Western Civilization since 1648

HIST/INST 105: Global Transformations and the Rise of the West Since 1000

HIST/INST 114: Topics in World History: Global Encounters

HIST 137: Russia in War and Revolution, 1904–1924

HIST 237: Russian History since 1812

HIST 237: Russian History since 1700

HIST 410: Crime and Punishment in Russia and Europe

HIST 410: The Rise of the West in Global Perspective

HIST/CEES 435: Russian and Soviet Criminal Justice

HIST/CEES 435: Collectivization: Triumph Over the Russian Peasantry, 1928-1940

HIST/CEES 435: Soviet Culture and Society after Stalin

HIST 435: The Russian Revolution

HIST 435: Soviet Russia under Stalin

HIST 435: Representation and Reality: Propaganda in Soviet Russia

HIST 435: Stalinism

HIST 435: Russia under Lenin and Stalin

HIST 435: Russia under the Last Tsar

HIST 435: Vladimir Lenin and Revolutionary Marxism in Russia

HIST 435: Russia from Emancipation to Revolution

HIST 500: Colloquium on European History for Teachers (graduate)

HIST 532: Colloquium on Soviet History (graduate)            

 

ADMINISTRATION

Director of Undergraduate Studies, August 2014–July 2015

Associate Chair, History Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, August 1998 to August 2000

 

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Department of History, UIC

Organizer of brownbag presentation, Fall 2019

Member, Executive Committee, 2018–

Member, administrative secretary search committee, 2018

Member, Teaching Advisory Committee, 2012-19

Member, Undergraduate Awards Committee, 2011-2017, 2019

Chair, Teaching Advisory Committee, 2013-15

Member, Undergraduate Advisory Committee, 2005-2013

Member, Thaden Chair Search Committee, 2012-2013

Faculty Advisor to the History Club (2000-2002, 2010-2012)

History Department Commencement Marshall, 2006, 2008

Member, Polish History Search Committee, 2005-2006

History Department Commencement Marshall, 2006, 2008

Member, Polish History Search Committee, 2005-2006

Member, Graduate Concentration Review Committee, 2004-2005

Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee, 1999-2000

Member, Modern British History Search Committee, 1999-2000

REACH coordinator for all computer systems, 1998-2000

Coordinator of web-site development, 1998-2000

Manager, History Department listserv (Historyfac), 1998-2000

Member, World History Search Committee, 1996-1997

 

University of Illinois at Chicago

Member, UIC Senate, 2011-2014

Chair, Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UIC, 2012-13

Member, Drumright Scholarship Evaluation Committee, 2012

Member, Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship Evaluation Committee, 2012

Chair, Drumright Scholarship Evaluation Committee, 2011

Member Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UIC, 2009-2012

Faculty advisor to the UIC College Republicans, 2002-2012

Faculty advisor to the UIC Freedom Alliance, 2002-2008

Member, International Studies Committee, 2000-2008

Member, International Studies Review Committee, 1999-2000

Fellow of the Honors College, 1998-2012

Chair, Task Force on Reforming the LAS Freshman Seminar, 1998-1999

 

       Historical profession

       Written interview on Russian security police with BBC History-Italia, January 4, 2013

       Regional Coordinator, the Historical Society, 2001-2002.

 

       Journal editorial board

       Klio (St. Petersburg, Russia), 2004 to present.

 

       Manuscript reviews

Articles: Journal of Modern History, 2018, 2019; Revolutionary Russia, 2015; Law and History Review, 2014, 2017; The Journal of the Historical Association, 2014; Slavonic and East European Review, 2012; ActaSlavica Iaponica, 2009; Russian Review, 2005, 2013; Slavic Review, 2005, 2008. 

Books: Northern Illinois University Press, 2015; Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, 2014, 2015; University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, 2016; McGill/Queens University Press 2008; Northwestern University Press, 2007; Yale University Press, 2002; Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998

 

Book endorsement

Stalin's Soviet Justice: ‘Show’ Trials, War Crimes Trials, and Nuremberg (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

 

Book-prize evaluations

Council of Graduate Schools History Award (2009)

 

Tenure and promotion reviews

Queens University, Canada, Professor case, 2019

West Virginia University, Full Professor Case, 2017

Villanova University, Associate Professor case, 2016

The American University of Beirut, Full Professor case, 2015

Columbia University, Full Professor case, 2015

Queens University, Canada, Associate Professor case, 2013

State University of New York, Staten Island, fifth-year review, 2008

State University of New York, Staten Island, third-year review, 2005

Auburn University, full-professor case, 2002

College of Wooster, tenure case, 1999

 

Dissertation defense committee

Ulianovsk State Pedagogical University, Spring 2018

 

       Review panels

Reviewer for the European Research Council Consolidator Grant, 2013

Reviewer for the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship and Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), November 2008

Screener for the Individual Dissertation Research Funding for the SSRC, December 2004-

           January 2006

Selection Committee for Individual Advanced Research Opportunities for the

           International Research Exchanges Board (IREX), 1998-2001.

 

Session chair and commentator

AAASS Annual National Meetings, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2014, 2015.

       The Historical Society Biannual Meeting, 2002.

 

TRAINING AND SKILLS

Computer training fellowship

Faculty Summer Institute, UIUC, May 22-25, 2006

 

Language training fellowships

Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) language study fellowship, Goethe-Institut, Frankfurt-am-Main, Federal Republic of Germany, August 2015.

Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) language study fellowship, Universität Trier, Federal Republic of Germany, August 1989.

Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst, Language Study Fellowship, Goethe-Institut, Prien-am-Chiemsee, Federal Republic of Germany, June to August, 1988.

Russian Language Study Fellowship, Indiana University, Summer Language Institute,

                   1984.

 

Language proficiency

French: near native speaking, reading, and writing 

Russian: fluent reading and speaking, good writing

German: good reading and fair speaking

Spanish: good reading and fair speaking

Polish: fair reading

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