Mikhail Dolbilov, February 13
The Russian History Seminar will hold its next meeting of the 2014-2015 academic year on Friday, February 13, 5:00pm-6:15pm in ICC 662 on the Georgetown University campus. Mikhail Dolbilov (University of Maryland) will present his paper, “Loyalty and Emotion in Nineteenth-Century Russian Imperial Politics."
Mikhail Dolbilov received his kandidat istoricheskikh nauk degree from Voronezh State University, Russia, in 1996. He taught Russian history at Voronezh State University from 1997-2005 and at the European University in St. Petersburg from 2006-2009. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park. From April 2014 to present he is also a Research Fellow of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropa Studien) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. He has held fellowships at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University; the Slavic–Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan; and the Davis Center for the Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.
Dolbilov’s main interests include political loyalty in imperial Russia; the tsarist bureaucracy’s mentality and statecraft; interconnections between state reforms and symbolic representations of the Russian autocracy; and ethnic and confessional politics on the empire’s western borderlands in the age of rising nationalism.
Dolbilov has authored the Russian-language monograph Russian Country, Foreign Faith: The Imperial Ethno-confessional Policies in Lithuania and Belarus under Alexander II (Русский край, чужая вера: Этноконфессиональная политикаимперии в Литве и Белоруссии при Александре II.) Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2010.; along with Aleksei Miller, published the Russian-language volume The Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006.; along with Darius Staliūnas, the Russian-language volume A Reverse Union: An Episode from the Relations between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy in the Russian Empire, 1840-1873 (Vilnius: Institute of Lithuanian History Press, 2010).
His current project focuses on the ways political loyalty was maintained, negotiated, expressed and experienced in imperial Russia, from the perspectives of cultural history, the history of religion, and the history of emotions.