CURRICULUM VITAE

Theophilus C. Prousis, Professor of History and University Distinguished Professor (2006)

Department of History, University of North Florida
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32224 e-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION
University of Minnesota, Ph.D., 1982, European/Russian History
Tufts University, M.A., 1975, European History
University of Minnesota, B.A., 1973, History

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor of History, University of North Florida (UNF), 1984 to the present, tenured and
promoted to associate in 1989, promoted to full professor in 1996
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa, 1983-1984
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, 1983
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1982-1983
Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, 1975-1980
Instructor, Experimental College, Tufts University, 1975

TEACHING FIELDS
Modern Europe, Modern Russia, Russian Culture and Literature, Balkans, Ottoman Empire,
Eastern Europe, Holocaust, Middle East, Western Civilization (Core)

CURRICULAR INNOVATIONS (New Courses)

A. Upper-Division Surveys
“Imperial Russia” “Russia since 1905” “Eastern Europe” “The Holocaust”
“Russia in Asia” “Russian Thought/Culture” “The Middle East”
B. Undergraduate Seminars
“The Ottoman Balkans” “Hitler and Stalin” “The Holocaust”
“The Golden Age of Russian Culture” “Europe since World War II” “Russia since WWII”
C. Graduate Seminars and Directed Readings
“Comparative Empire: Russia, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire” “The Holocaust”
“The Balkans” “The Russian Empire” “Russia under Lenin and Stalin”
“Middle East Readings” “European History and Historians” “The Holocaust in Ukraine”
D. Honors
“Dissent and Identity in Russian Literature”

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS

Academic Affairs Summer Scholarship Grant, UNF, 2014, 2011, 2008, 1998
Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award, UNF, 2013-2014, 2003-2004
Full-Year Sabbatical, devoted to scholarship, UNF, 2013-2014, 2006-2007, 1991-1992
Research Stipend Award, Academic Affairs, UNF, runner-up for the Terry Presidential

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 Professorship, 2013-2014
Provost Course Release for Scholarship, Academic Affairs, UNF, 2013, 2007
Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award Nominee, UNF, 2012-2013
Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award Nominee, UNF, 2012-2013, selected by the
COAS screening committee as a finalist for the university-wide competition
Mentor of the Year Nominee, UNF, 2012
SMART (Student Mentored Academic Research Team) Grant, Honors and Scholars Program,
UNF, 2011
Course Release for Scholarship, Department of History, UNF, 2006, 2004, 2002, 1999
Distinguished Professor Award, UNF, 2006
Runner-up, Distinguished Professor Award, UNF, 2005
Mini-Grant, Academic Affairs, UNF, 2001
One-Semester Sabbatical Award for Scholarship, UNF, Spring Semester 2000
Mini-Grant, Training and Service Institute (TSI), Seed Research Program, UNF, 1994
Teaching Incentive Program (TIP), UNF, 1994
Curriculum Grant, International Studies Program, UNF, 1994
Mini-Grant, Training and Service Institute (TSI), Seed Research Program, UNF, 1993
Research Scholar, American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), St. Petersburg and
Moscow, 1993
Exchange Scholar, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Leningrad State
University, USSR, 1987-1988
Research Grant, Continuing Education Faculty Fund, UNF, Summer Research Laboratory on
Russia and Eastern Europe, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1986
Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 1981-1982
Exchange Scholar, IREX, Moscow State University, 1980-1981
Language Grant, Modern Greek, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Athens,
Greece, 1977
Tuition Stipend, Greek Ministry of Culture, Summer Language and History Program, Institute of
Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1977

PUBLICATIONS
A. Books
Lord Strangford at the Sublime Porte (1824): The Eastern Crisis, vol. 4 (Istanbul: Isis Press, in
progress, forthcoming 2016)
Lord Strangford at the Sublime Porte (1823): The Eastern Crisis, vol. 3 (Istanbul: Isis Press,
2014)
Lord Strangford at the Sublime Porte (1822): The Eastern Crisis, vol. 2 (Istanbul: Isis Press,
2012)
Lord Strangford at the Sublime Porte (1821): The Eastern Crisis, vol. 1 (Istanbul: Isis Press,
2010)
British Consular Reports from the Ottoman Levant in an Age of Upheaval, 1815-1830 (Istanbul:
Isis Press, 2008). Reprinted in hardback with same title (Piscataway, N. J.: Gorgias
Press, 2010)

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Russian-Ottoman Relations in the Levant: The Dashkov Archive (Minnesota Mediterranean and
East European Monographs, no. 10. Minneapolis: Modern Greek Studies Program,
University of Minnesota, 2002)
Russian Society and the Greek Revolution (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994)
B. Articles and Essays
“Reporting from the City: Vignettes from Constantinople in the Dispatches of Lord Strangford
during the Eastern Crisis of the 1820s,” Chronos (forthcoming 2017).
“A Russian Pilgrim in Ottoman Jerusalem,” in Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth:
Essays in Honor of Professor Theofanis G. Stavrou (forthcoming 2017)
“Connection, Pilgrimage, Community,” Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth: Essays in
Honor of Professor Theofanis G. Stavrou (forthcoming 2017)
“The Ambassador’s Right-Hand Man: Terrick Hamilton at the Porte,” Archivum Ottomanicum
(forthcoming 2015 or 2016)
“Strangford’s Busy Fortnight at the Porte,” Archivum Ottomanicum 31 (2014): 97-115
“Rebellion, Unrest, Calamity: British Reports on Ottoman Syria,” Chronos 29 (2014): 185-210
“‘Dreadful Scenes of Carnage on Both Sides’: The Strangford Files and the Eastern Crisis of
1821-1822,” in Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered, ed.
Lucien Frary and Mara Kozelsky (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), 73-99
“Recent Scholarship on the Greek Revolution and on Russia and the Mediterranean,” Modern
Greek Studies Yearbook 28/29 (2012/2013): 317-34
“Revolt, Reprisal, Russian-Ottoman Tension: A British Perspective on the Opening Round of
the 1821 Eastern Crisis,” Balkanistica 26 (2013): 127-60
“British Embassy Reports on the Greek Uprising in 1821-1822: War of Independence or War of
Religion?”, Archivum Ottomanicum 28 (2011): 171-222
“Eastern Orthodoxy under Siege in the Ottoman Levant: A View from Constantinople in 1821,”
Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 24/25 (2008/2009): 39-72
“Storm Warnings in the Straits: Russian-Ottoman Trade Issues,” Balkanistica 21 (2008): 109-24
“Bedlam in Beirut: A British Perspective in 1826,” Chronos 15 (2007): 89-106
“Risky Business: Russian Trade in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century,”
Mediterranean Historical Review 20, no. 2 (2005): 201-26
“The Holy Places: A Russian Travel Perspective,” St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 49, no. 3
(2005): 271-96
“Landscape of the Levant: A Russian View,” Chronos 10 (2004): 49-67
“Romanticism and Russian Travel Literature: Dashkov’s Tour of Ottoman Palestine,” Canadian
American Slavic Studies 38, no. 4 (2004): 431-42
“Archival Gleanings on Russian Trade and Consulates in the Near East,” Balkanistica 17 (2004):
67-78
“Russian Trade Prospects in Smyrna: An 1812 Consular Report,” Balkanistica 16 (2003): 127-
38
“Russia’s Position toward Ottoman Orthodox Christians: An 1816 Instruction from the Foreign
Ministry,” St.Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 46, no. 4 (2002): 331-46
“Disputes in the Dardanelles: A Report on Russo-Ottoman Relations,” East European Quarterly
36, no. 2 (2002): 155-70

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“A Guide to AVPRI Materials on Russian Consuls and Commerce in the Near East,” Modern
Greek Studies Yearbook 16/17 (2000/2001): 513-36
“RGIA Resources on the Eastern Question: The Dashkov Fond,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte
Osteuropas 45, no. 3 (1997): 466-70
“AVPR (Arkhiv Vneshnei Politiki Rossii) and the Orthodox East,” Modern Greek Studies
Yearbook 12/13 (1996/1997): 473-503
“Excursion on the Euxine,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 12/13 (1996/1997): 601-08
“Trading with the Enemy: Black Sea Commerce in 1809-1810,” in A Window on Russia, Maria
Di Salvo and Lindsey Hughes, eds. (Rome, 1996), 139-44
“V sdelakh s nepriiatelem: chernomorskaia torgovlia v 1809-1810 godakh,” Voprosy istorii, no.
7 (1995): 46-58
“Razmeshchenie grekov v Ukraine i Rossii v kontse XIX v.,” in Ukraina-Gretsiia (Kiev, 1993),
20-23, co-authored with Jaroslav V. Bojko
“Aleksandr Sturdza: A Russian Conservative Response to the Greek Revolution,” East
European Quarterly 26, no. 3 (1992): 309-44
“Smyrna in 1821: A Russian View,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 7 (1992): 145-68
“Dēmētrios S. Inglezēs: Greek Merchant and City Leader of Odessa,” Slavic Review 50, no. 3
(1991): 672-79
“Research in the Soviet Union under Glasnost,” The American Scholar 59, no. 2 (1990): 265-71
“The Destunis Collection in the Manuscript Section of the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public
Library in Leningrad,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 5 (1989): 395-452
“The Greeks of Russia and the Greek Awakening, 1774-1821,” Balkan Studies 28, no. 2 (1987):
259-80
“Oi neoellinikes spoudes sti Rosia (1821-1830),” Nea Estia 121(1987): 546-51
“Russian Philorthodox Relief during the Greek War of Independence,” Modern Greek Studies
Yearbook 1 (1985): 31-62
C. Scholarly Encyclopedia Entries
Supplement to Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (SMERSH) (2005):
“Christians in the Ottoman Empire,” 6 (2005): 68-75
Modern Encyclopedia of Religions in Russia and the Soviet Union (MERRSU) (1988-2004):
“Aksakov, Ivan Sergeevich,” 1 (1988): 84-91
“Athos, Mount,” 3 (1991): 128-38
“Autocephalous Church,” 3 (1991): 141-49
“Byzantine Influence in Russia,” 5 (1993): 20-27
“Destunis Family,” 7 (1997): 19-23
“Diveevo-Saint Serafim Monastery,” 7 (1997): 61-65
“Eastern Question as a Religious Issue,” 7 (1997): 222-28
Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
(2000):
“Capitulations,” pp. 118-19
“Haiduks,” pp. 319-20
“Ilinden Uprising,” pp. 377-78
“Lausanne, Treaty of,” p. 444

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 “Panturanianism,” p. 559
“Pasvanoglu,” p. 562
“Porte,” p. 632
“Sèvres, Treaty of,” p. 727
D. Book Reviews
James Grehan, Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine, in The
Middle East Journal 69, no. 2 (2015): 323-24
Gelina Harlaftis and Carmel Vassallo, eds., New Directions in Mediterranean Maritime History,
in Mediterranean Historical Review 21, no. 2 (2006): 290-94
Ministerstvo Inostrannykh Del Rossiiskoi Federatsii, Moskovskii Gosudarstvennyi Institut
Mezhdunarodnykh Otnoshenii, Rossiiskaia diplomatiia: istoriia i sovremennost’, in
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 51, no. 3 (2003): 438-39
Edward Kasinec and J. Robert Wright, Russo-Greek Papers, 1863-1874, in The Russian Review
62, no. 1 (2003): 164-65
Guive Mirfendereski, A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea: Treaties, Diaries, and Other
Stories, in The Russian Review 61, no. 2 (2002): 312-13
“Review of Vahé Baladouni and Margaret Makepeace, eds., Armenian Merchants of the
Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries: English East India Company Sources,” on
H-RUSSIA, H-Net Reviews (June 2001), URL:
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path= 14485998577208
I. V. Budnik, ed., Arkhiv vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi imperii: Putevoditel', in Modern Greek
Studies Yearbook 14/15 (1998/1999): 465-67
Thomas Sanders, ed., Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History
in a Multinational State, in Russian History/Histoire Russe 26, no. 1 (1999): 81-83
James L. West and Iurii A. Petrov, eds., Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia’s Vanished
Bourgeoisie, in The Historian 62, no. 2 (2000): 464-65
Richard Pipes, The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923,
revised edition, in Ethnos-Nation 7, no. 1 (1999): 111-12
Alexander Martin, Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and
Politics in the Reign of Alexander I, in The Slavic and East European Journal 43, no. 1
(1999): 238-40
“Review of Gregory Freeze, ed., Russia: A History,”on H-RUSSIA, H-Net Reviews (July 1999),
URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26780931291191
“Review of Dmitry Shlapentokh, The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life, 1865-
1905,” on H-RUSSIA, H-Net Reviews (January 1998), URL:
http://www/h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30427887387208
Max Okenfuss, The Rise and Fall of Latin Humanism in Early Modern Russia: Pagan Authors,
Ukrainians, and the Resiliency of Muscovy, in East/West Education. Journal of the Social
and Cultural History of Education in Russia, Other Former Soviet States, and Eastern
Europe 18, no. 2 (1997): 193-95
“Review of Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen, eds., After Empire—Multiethnic Societies and
Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires,”
on HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews (June 1997), URL:

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 http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cqi?path= 27918872525553
“Review of A. L. Macfie, The Eastern Question, 1774-1923,” on HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews
(December 1996), URL:
http://www.hnet.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cqi?path=23534863098154
Hugh Poulton, Who are the Macedonians?, in The Historian 58, no. 4 (1996): 916-17
Daniel Murphy, Tolstoy and Education, in East/West Education. Journal of the Social and
Cultural History of Education in Russia, Other Former Soviet States, and Eastern
Europe 15, no. 2 (1994): 205-07
Nicholas Pappas, Greeks in Russian Military Service in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries,
in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 9 (1993): 515-17
Paul Magosci, Morality and Reality: The Life and Times of Andrei Sheptyts’kyi, in Russian
History/Histoire Russe 18, no. 3 (1991): 449-50
Zenon E. Kohut, Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy. Imperial Absorption of the
Hetmanate, 1760s-1830s, in The Historian 53, no. 2 (1990): 332-33
Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, French Images from the Greek War of Independence, 1821-
1830: Art and Politics under the Restoration, in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 6
(1990): 505-07
Eleni Koukkou, Ioannis A. Kapodistrias. O Anthropos-O Diplomatis (1800-1828), in Modern
Greek Studies Yearbook 4 (1988): 359-61
William McGrew, Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-1881: The Transition in the
Tenure and Exploitation of Land from Ottoman Rule to Independence, in East European
Quarterly 22, no. 2 (1988): 248-50
Dimitris Loules, The Financial and Economic Policies of President Ioannis Capodistrias, 1828-
1831, in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 3 (1987): 363-65
George Theotokas, Leonis, in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 3 (1987): 413-16
David Howarth, The Greek Adventure: Lord Byron and Other Eccentrics in the War of
Independence, in Neo-Hellenika 3 (1978): 156-58

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
“Lord Strangford at the Sublime Porte in 1824,” Association for Slavic, East European, and
Eurasian Studies (ASEEES, formerly AAASS), Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 2015
“Reporting from The City: Images and Vignettes in Strangford’s Dispatches of the Early 1820s,”
ASEEES, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 2014
“Architect of the Greek-Slavic Field,” Roundtable in Honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou’s 50 Years
of Service to Mediterranean, Slavic, and Eastern Orthodox Studies, ASEEES, New
Orleans, La., Nov. 2012
“The Strangford Manuscripts and the Eastern Crisis of the 1820s,” Roundtable on the Eastern
Question in the Borderlands, ASEEES, New Orleans, La., Nov. 2012
“1821-1822 in the Orthodox East: ‘War of Religion’ or War of Independence,” ASEEES,
Washington D.C., Nov. 2011
“Russia and the Eastern Crisis of the 1820s: A British Perspective,” American Association for
the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Boston, Mass., Nov. 2009
“Eastern Orthodoxy under Siege in the Ottoman Levant: A View from Constantinople in 1821,”

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 an invited presentation, the Fourteenth Annual James W. Cunningham Memorial Lecture
on Eastern Orthodox History and Culture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.,
Nov. 2008
“Russian-Ottoman Trade Disputes,” AAASS, Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 2005
“Risky Business: Russian Trade in the Ottoman Empire,” the First International Conference on
Russia and the Mediterranean, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, May 2005
“Russian Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean,” AAASS, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 2003
“Romanticism and Russian Travel Literature: Dashkov's Pilgrimage to Ottoman Palestine, 1820,”
AAASS, Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 2002
“’Desolate Environs’: A Russian Traveler in Jerusalem,” Southeast European Studies
Association, Chapel Hill, N.C., April 2002
“Russia’s Position toward Ottoman Orthodox Christians: An 1816 Instruction from the Foreign
Ministry,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Daytona Beach, Fl., March
2002
“Select Gleanings from AVPRI on Russian Commerce and Consuls in the Near East,” AAASS,
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 1999
“RGIA Resources on the Eastern Question: The Dashkov Fond,” AAASS, Boston, Mass., Nov.
1996
“Dashkov’s Mission to the Levant,” Southern Historical Association Meeting, New Orleans, La.,
Nov. 1995
“AVPR and the Orthodox East,” SCSS, Mobile, Ala., March 1995
“Trading with the Enemy: Black Sea Commerce in 1809-1810,” the Fifth International
Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, Gargnano, Italy, Sept.
1994
“The Greek Revolution in Russian Periodical Literature,” AAASS, Miami, Fl., Nov. 1991
“The Smyrna Diaries of Russian Consul-General Spyridon Destunis, 1818-1821,” AAASS,
Washington D.C., Oct. 1990
“Aleksandr Sturdza: A Russian Conservative Response to the Greek Revolution,” AAASS,
Chicago, Ill., Nov. 1989
“Dēmētrios Inglezēs: Greek Merchant and Patriot of Odessa,” SCSS, Charleston, S.C., Oct. 1988
“The Byzantine Commonwealth after Byzantium: Russia’s Greek Connection before 1821,”
SCSS, Chapel Hill, N.C., Oct. 1987
“Modern Greek Studies in Russia: The First Phase, 1801-1830,” Conference on Eastern Europe,
New College, University of South Florida, Sarasota, Fl., March 1987
“Russia and the Greek Revolt,” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 1985
“Russia and the Greek Awakening, 1770-1821,” Conference on Eastern Europe, New College,
University of South Florida, Sarasota, Fl., March 1985

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

Panel Organizer, “Constantinople, Epicenter of the Eastern Question, 1815-1914,” ASEEES, San
Antonio, Texas, Nov. 2014
Panel Chair, “Cultural Diplomacy in Capital Cities: Russian Missions in Paris, London, and

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 Constantinople,” ASEEES, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 2014
Panel Chair, “Personalities and Politics in 19th-Century Constantinople,” ASEEES, Boston,
Mass., Nov. 2013
Panel Chair, “The Balkan Cockpit: Religion and Foreign Policy in Nineteenth-Century
Southeastern Europe,” AAASS, New Orleans, La., Nov. 2007
Panel Chair, “Russia and Its Southern Frontier, 18th-19th Centuries,” AAASS, Washington D.C.,
Nov. 2006
Panel Chair, “Influence and Osmosis from the 15th to the 17th Century,” the First International
Conference on Russia and the Mediterranean, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, May
2005
Panel Organizer, “Russia and the Orthodox East in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century,”
AAASS, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 2003
Panel Discussant, “Children in Russia,” Florida Conference of Historians, Jacksonville, Fl.,
March 2003
Panel Organizer, “Eastern Orthodoxy and the State,” SCSS, Daytona Beach, Fl., March 2002
Panel Chair, “Opening the Zamok: Gosudarstvennost’ and Obshchestvennost’ in Post-1905
Russia,” AAASS, Denver, Colo., Nov. 2000
Panel Chair and Discussant, “Ethnic Politics and War in Eastern Europe and Russia,” SCSS,
Richmond, Va., March 1999
Panel Discussant, “Russian Christianity and Historical Memory,” American Church History
Association Conference, Tallahassee, Fl., April 1998
Panel Organizer, “Imperial Russia and the Eastern Question,” AAASS, Boston, Mass., Nov.
1996
Panel Organizer, “Archives and Religion,” SCSS, Mobile, Ala., March 1995
Panel Discussant, “Imperial and Early Soviet Perspectives on Nationality and Religion,” SCSS,
Mobile, Ala., March 1995
Panel Organizer, “Orthodoxy, Nationalism, and Revolution in the Greek East,” AAASS, Miami,
Fl., Nov. 1991
Panel Chair, “Bureaucrats, Railroads, Education, and Economic Development in 19th-Century
Russia and Eastern Europe,” SCSS, Savannah, Ga., March 1991
Panel Organizer, “Russia and the Greek East: Contacts and Connections,” AAASS, Washington,
D.C., Oct. 1990
Panel Organizer, “Russia and the Balkans, 1821-1878,” AAASS, Chicago, Ill., Nov. 1989

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reader/Consultant for Yale University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, Cambridge
University Press, and Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield) and for the journals
Mediterranean Historical Review, Balkanistica, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Russian
Review, Slavic Review, The International History Review, The European Studies Journal,
1996-present
External Reviewer of the History Program at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg
(USFSP), May 2014
Member, Nominations Committee, SCSS, 2002-2003

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Member, Executive Board, SCSS, 1998-2000
Field Adviser and Member of Selection Board, Research Scholar Program, American Council of
Teachers of Russian (ACTR), Washington D.C., 1994-1995
Presentation, “Working in the Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg,” ACTR Pre-
Departure Orientation Program, Washington D.C., January 1994
Reader, Undergraduate Paper Prize, SCSS, 1992
Textbook Reviewer, Civilization of the West, Harper and Collins, 1990
Presentations, “Working in Soviet Archives” and “Living in Leningrad,” IREX Summer Pre-
Departure Orientation Program, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1988
Contributor, Historical Abstracts, ABC-CLIO Information Services, 1985-1988, abstracted
articles from Sovetskoe Slavianovedenie, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Modern
Greek Studies Yearbook, Valkanika Symmeikta

DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2014, 2012, 2009, 2005, 2002, 1993
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2013, 2011, 2006-2007, 1999, 1995
Member, Third-Year Pre-Tenure Review Committee, 2013
Member, US History Screening Committee, 2011-2012
Chair, Third-Year Pre-Tenure Review Committee, 2010, 2009, 2006, 2004
Member, Core Committee, 2007-2010, 2001-2006
Chair, Middle East History Search Committee, 2007-2008
Coordinator, History Prize, 2004, 1999, 1995, 1987
Member, Graduate Committee, 2004-2006
Chair, Asian History Search Committee, 2002-2003
Co-Chair, Ancient History Search Committee, 1999
Mentor, Non-Tenured Full-Time Faculty, 1997-present
Graduate Coordinator, History M.A. Program, 1995-1999
Chair, Medieval History Search Committee, 1998-1999
Guest Lecturer, “Working in Russian Archives,” Craft of the Historian Class, 1987-1999
Member, Latin American History Screening Committee, 1997
Member, Ancient History Screening Committee, 1994-1995
Chair, Asian History Search Committee, 1989-1990
Chair, Committee to Reorganize the Core Course, 1985

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Member, Distinguished Professor Selection Committee, 2008-2013
Member, Department of English, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2008
Member, Summer Research Scholarship Committee, 2008-2010
Member, Department of Philosophy, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2014, 2007-2008, 2000
Chair, Distinguished Professor Selection Committee, 2007
Participant, Round-table Discussion, “Research and Scholarship,” New Faculty Orientation, 2006
Member, Advisory Board, Faculty Enhancement Center, 2003-2004
Member, Graduate Council, 2000-2002

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Member, University Sabbatical Committee, 2000-2003, 1995-1997
Member, SACS Educational Programs Committee, 1997-1998
Member, Professional Excellence Performance Committee, 1996
Member, Rhodes-Truman-Marshall Scholarship Committee, 1996-1998
Member, Foreign Culture Committee, 1995-1999, 1990-1991
Chair, University Sabbatical Committee, 1995
Member, Search Committee for Director of Humanities Center, 1995
Member, Committee to Review Major and Minor Requirements in COAS, 1995
Member, COAS Faculty Development Committee, 1993-1994, 1984-1985
Presentation, Promotion and Tenure Workshop, COAS, 1991
Member, University Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1990-1991
Chair, Academic Programs Committee, 1988-1989
Vice-President, COAS Faculty, 1988-1989
Member, Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 1988-1990
Presentation, “Russia and Glasnost’: A Year in Leningrad, Moscow, and Odessa,” Faculty
Colloquium, 1988
Chair, COAS Faculty Development Committee, 1986-1987
Presentation, “Russia and the Greek Awakening,” Faculty Colloquium, 1985

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Presentation, “Teaching the Holocaust,” invited talk, Temple Ahavath Chesed, Jacksonville, Fl.,
July 2015
Expert Interview, Pope John Paul II, First Coast News, Jacksonville, Fl., April 2005
Presentation, “The Morning After: Iraq after the Invasion,” UNF First Friday Forum: “What you
absolutely need to know about the potential war in Iraq,” UNF, March 2003
Presentation, “Euthanasia and the Holocaust,” Northeast Bioethics Forum, Jacksonville, Fl.,
March 2001
Presentation, “How Did Kosovo Become an International Crisis?” Jacksonville Inter-Faith
Council, Assumption Catholic Church, June 1999
Presentation, “‘This is the Balkans, you know,’” Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville,
May 1999
Presentation, “Arab-Israeli Relations after Oslo,” Jewish Community Alliance, Jacksonville, Fl.,
Oct. 1997
Moderator, “An Evening with Elie Wiesel: Building a Moral Society,” UNF Humanities
Council, March 1997
Presentation, “Russian Society and the Greek Revolution,” UNF Humanities Council, Jan. 1995
Presentation, “Change and Continuity in Contemporary Russia,” World History Class, Episcopal
High School, Jacksonville, Fl., Oct. 1993
Translator (Russian), Marine Consulting Company, Jacksonville, Fl., 1992
Presentation, “Peter the Great,” AP European History Class, Stanton College Preparatory School,
Jacksonville, Fl., Nov. 1991
Presentation, “The USSR and the Persian Gulf Crisis,” Panel Discussion on the Persian Gulf War
and its Aftermath, UNF, March 1991

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Presentation, “Gorbachev’s Russia,” The Bolles School, Jacksonville, Fl., March 1990
Translator (Russian), International Language Bank, Jacksonville, Fl., 1987-1990
Translator, Jacksonville-Murmansk Committee, Sister Cities Program, Jacksonville, Fl.,
1987-1989
Presentation, “Living in Leningrad, 1988-1989,” Rotary Club, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl., Jan.
1989
Presentation, “A Year in Russia: Glasnost’ and Historical Research,” History Academic
Alliance, Jacksonville, Fl., Nov. 1988
Presentation, “Russian Historical Landmarks,” Contemporary World Studies, Jacksonville
University, Jacksonville, Fl., July 1987
Presentations, “Russian Historical Landmarks” and “Soviet Society Seventy Years after 1917,”
Humanities Study Group: Passages to the USSR, Florida Community College-Kent
Campus, Jacksonville, Fl., May 1987
Expert Interview, U.S. Policy in the Persian Gulf, WTLV-TV, Jacksonville, Fl., May 1987
Presentation, “Soviet Politics and Society since Stalin,” The Bolles School, Jacksonville, Fl.,
March 1987
Presentation, “Russian Historical Memory in Art and Artifact,” History Academic Alliance,
Jacksonville, Fl., Feb. 1987
Presentation, “U.S. Perceptions and Soviet Reality,” First Coast International Affairs Forum,
Jacksonville, Fl., Feb. 1987
Expert Interview, Current Soviet Affairs, WJKS-TV, Jacksonville, Fl., Feb. 1987
Member, Committee for the Arrival of the Murmansk Delegation, Sister Cities Program,
Jacksonville, Fl., Jan.-Feb. 1987
Judge, History Fair, St. Joseph’s School, Jacksonville, Fl., Feb. 1986
Presentation, “Soviet Politics, Society, and Reform since Stalin,” Florida Community College-
Kent Campus, Jacksonville, Fl., Nov. 1985
Member, Social Studies Competition Panel for PRIDE (Program to Recognize Initiative and
Distinction in Education), Duval County, Jacksonville, Fl., Jan. 1985

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