Matthew Romaniello, February 28

The Russian History Seminar will hold its next meeting of the 2013-2014 academic year on Friday, February 28 at 5 pm in ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus. We will discuss the following paper by Matthew P. Romaniello of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, “Sprouting New Habits: Tobacco in the Reigns of Anna Ivanovna and Elizaveta Petrovna.”

Matthew P. Romaniello is Associate Professor of History at University of Hawaii at Manoa and associate editor of The Journal of World History. He received his PhD and MA in history from Ohio State University, and a AB from Brown University. He is the author of The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552-1671 (2012), and editor of European Encounters with Islam in Asia (2014) with Matthew Lauzon, Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe (2011) with Charles Lipp, and Tobacco in Russian History and Culture (2009) with Tricia Starks. He is currently completing a monograph on the introduction and adoption of tobacco in imperial Russia, Consuming Tobacco: Russian Habits and Global Trade, 1600-1850, as well as a new edited volume with Tricia Starks, Embodying History: The Sensory in Russia since 1700.