Curtis Murphy, 9 Dec

The Russian History Seminar will hold its next meeting of the 2016-2017 academic year on Friday, December 9, 5:00pm-6:15pm in ICC 662 on the Georgetown University campus. We will discuss Curtis Murphy's paper: "The Lord's Justice: Blood Libel and Adultery in an Eighteenth-Century Private Town". The talk begins at 5pm in ICC600.

Dr. Curtis G. Murphy is an Assistant Teaching Professor in East European and Russian History, specializing in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Imperial Russian borderlands, interfaith and multinational cohabitation, local self-government in theory and practice, and the evolution of center-periphery relations after the Enlightenment. Dr. Murphy received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Georgetown University, and he has taught courses for the University of Alaska Anchorage and Colby College. His forthcoming book, From Citizens to Subjects: Enlightened Government and the Cities in East Central Europe, discusses the implications for urban citizens of the transition from estate-based self-government to bureaucratic centralism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr. Murphy has also published in Slavic Review and Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry.