Igor Fedyukin, September 11

The Russian History Seminar will hold its next meeting of the 2015-2016 academic year on Friday, September 11, 5:00pm-6:15pm in ICC 662 on the Georgetown University campus. Igor Fedyukin (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) will present his paper, “The Projecteurs: The Enterprise of the Early Modern School in Russia.”

Igor Fedyukin is an Associate Professor of History at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow and, in 2015/2016, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. His research focuses on the history and politics of education, and his forthcoming monograph explores the role of administrative entrepreneurs, or “projectors,” in building new organizational forms in Russian schooling under Peter I and his immediate successors. Fedyukin received his Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and worked as a reporter and editor at some of the leading Russian newspapers, including Vedomosti and Kommersant. He was a director for policy studies at the New Economic School in Moscow from 2007 to 2012 and a deputy minister of education and science of Russia from 2012 to 2013. Fedyukin has held appointments as a Diderot Fellow and as a Directeur d’Études Associés at the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris and as a visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.

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