Paul Bushkovitch, October 25
The Russian History Seminar will hold its next meeting of the 2013-2014 academic year on Friday, October 25 at 5 pm in ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus. We will discuss the following paper by Paul Bushkovitch of Yale University: "Change and Culture in Early Modern Russia."
Paul Bushkovitch was appointed the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of History at Yale in 2013. He specializes in Russian history through the 18th century, with an emphasis on state, religion, and empire. Bushkovitch received his B.A. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He joined the Yale faculty in 1975 and served as chair of the Department of History 1992-1996. He is the author of The Merchants of Moscow 1580-1650 (1980), Religion and Society in Russia, the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992), (with Maija Jansson and Nikolai Rogozhin) “England and the North: the Russian Embassy of 1613-1614,” Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 210 (1994), Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725 (2001), and A Concise History of Russia (Cambridge, 2012). He is currently working on two book projects: “Succession to the Throne and the Problem of Absolutism in Russia 1598-1722,” and “The Image of the Monarch in Russia, 900-1740.” In 2011 he was honored by the publication of Religion and Identity in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Festschrift for Paul Bushkovitch, ed. Nikolaos Chrissidis, Cathy Potter, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, and Jennifer Spock.