Associate Professor (1996)

Modern Russia and Russian Empire

Office Hours: Wed., 10:30-12:00 or by appt.

Office: 222 Randall Hall

Phone: (434) 924-6984

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: geracivirginia.edu

Education

Publications, Awards, and Activities

Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia, Cornell University Press, 2001.

Coeditor and contributor, Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia, Cornell University Press, 2001.

"Ethnic Minorities, Anthropology, and Russian National Identity on Trial: The Multan Case, 1892-96," Russian Review, (October 2000).

"Russian Orientalism at an Impasse: Tsarist Education Policy and the 1910 Conference on Islam," in Daniel Brower and Edward Lazzerini, eds., Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917. Indiana University Press, 1997.

"The Il'minskii System and the Controversy over Non-Russian Teachers and Priests in the Middle Volga," in Catherine Evtuhov, Boris Gasparov, Alexander Ospovat and Mark Von Hagen, eds., Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian Empire. Moscow: OGI, 1997.

SSRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1996.

Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1995-96.

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Research Scholar, 1994-95.

SSRC Dissertation Fellowship, 1992-3.

IREX Long-Term Research Exchange, Russia, 1991-92.

Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1987-89, 1993-94.

Current Research

I am presently engaged in two research projects, one on nationality, ethnicity, and capitalist enterprise in the Russian Empire (1700-1917), the other on pan-Slavism in Russian society in the 19th century, particularly in connection with the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.