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COURSES TAUGHT:

Imperial Russia

Soviet Union

Early Modern Europe:  14th - 18th Centuries

Modern Europe:  19th and 20th Centuries

 

TEACHING AWARDS AT WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY:

Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Recognition Award (2009)
Excellence in Teaching General Education: History (2009)

 

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:

Sean Pollock joined the department in 2008.  He is Guest Editor of “Ab Imperio Forum: Islam in the Imperial Archives,” and author of “Historians and Their Facts: Discourses of Russian Empire and Islam in Eurasian Archives,” published in Ab Imperio, no. 4 (2008).  Dr. Pollock received his Ph.D in History from Harvard University (2006), where he received several teaching awards, including the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize (2006) for senior thesis advising and the Stephen Botein Prize (2007) for teaching in History and Literature.  He has also taught at Yale University and the University of New Haven.  He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University (2007).  He is currently working on articles on Prince Ivan Bagration (1765-1812), religious toleration in the reign of Catherine II, and recent scholarship on the history of Russian-Caucasian relations.  His book project is tentatively titled Caucasian Borderlands: The Origins of Russia’s Empire in the Caucasus, 1500-1800.

PUBLICATIONS:

“Historians and Their Facts: Discourses of Empire and Islam in Eurasian Archives,” Ab Imperio, no. 4 (2008 [2/2009]).

                       

Review: Patterson Giersch, “Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China’s Yunnan Frontier” (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2006), in Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire, XLII (autumn/autumne, 2008): 351-353.

“The Fortieth National Convention of the AAASS,” Central Asian Studies Review, vol.7/no. 2 (2008): 39-45.   Posted on http://net.abimperio.net/en/node/372 (last accessed January 9, 2009).

“Russia and Islam in the Archives of Eurasia: An International Workshop,” Central Asian Studies Review, vol.7, no. 1 (2008): 20-23.

“Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Transregional and Comparative Approaches,” Central Asian Studies Review, vol.7, no. 1 (2008): 30-33.

“Code of Wakhtang,” Supplement to The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History, vol. 6 (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 2006): 167-168.

“Teaching in History and Literature,” History Department Teaching Fellow Handbook (Cambridge: Department of History and Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 2005), 35-37.

“Terra incognita.  Novye zapadnye raboty o Chechne,” Neprikosnovennyi zapas, no. 1 (21) (2002): 124-29.

Review: Simon Sebag Montefiore, “Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin,” Slovo, vol. 13 (2001): 221-23.

“‘We Slavishly Request’: Invitations to Empire and Russian Political Patronage in the Balkans.”  Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History vol. 1, no. 4 (Fall, 2000): 751-68.

  

Translation from Russian: Ashirbek Muminov and Bakhtiyar Babadzhanov, “Amir Temur and Sayyid Baraka,” Central Asiatic Journal 45, no. 1 (2001): 28-62.

 

Review: N. Iu. Bubnov, “Staroobriadcheskaia kniga v Rossii vo vtoroi polovine XVII v.: Istochniki, tipy i evoliutsiia,” Slavic Review, vol. 55, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 682-84.

 

 

 

Last Updated 9/9/09