Education
Ph.D., Russian History, May 1995
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Minor Fields: East Asian History and Mongolian Studies
M.A., Russian History, May 1988
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
B.A., College Scholars Honors Program (History and Russian Language), March 1986
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Chinese-Language Program, Summer 1984 and 1985
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Russian-Language Program, Summer 1983
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Dissertation Title
"Buriat Language Policy, 19thc-1928: A Case Study in Tsarist and Soviet Nationality Practices" Indiana University, November 28, 1994 (Director: Dr. Alexander Rabinowitch)
Teaching Experience
Department of History, Baldwin-Wallace College
Associate Professor of History (Russian, East Asian and World), 2006-present
Assistant Professor of History (Russian, East Asian and World), 2000-2006
Department of History, Hanover College
Visiting Assistant Professor of History (East Asian and World), 1999-2000
School of Continuing Studies, Indiana University
Instructor, "Modern East Asian Civilization" Summer 1999
McNair Scholars Undergraduate Research Program, Indiana University
Faculty Mentor (Russian History) Summer 1998
Foster International Residential Education Program, Indiana University
Instructor, "Siberia: Russia's Wild East" Spring 1998
Department of History, Indiana University
Course Assistant, Russian History II Spring 1991
Course Assistant, Jewish History and Civilization II Fall 1990
Associate Instructor, U.S. History 1987-1988
Other University Employment
Indiana University Main Library
Monographic Processing Services, Slavic Acquisitions, 1994-1999
Department of Preservation and Conservation, 1989-1991, 1992-1994
College Service
Baldwin-Wallace College
Library Council, Spring 2001-Spring 2004
Personnel Committee, Spring 2002-present
Russian-language Consultant, Department of Theatre, Fall 2003
Graduation Appeals Committee, Spring 2003, Spring 2005
Bibliographer, Department of History, Spring 2001-present
Guest lecturer:
Geology: GEO 111H The Dynamic Earth, Spring 2004; Topic: Bronze-Age China
Religion: REL 111 Religions of Japan and China, Fall 2003; Topic: The Yijing (I-Ching)
Political Science: POL 311/ IS 463 America in the World, Spring 2002; Topic: The Early Years of the Cold War: Western & Soviet Perspectives
Political Science: POL 263: Terrorism: Roots and Responses, Spring 2002; Topic: The Origins of Russian Terrorism
Geology: GEO 111H The Dynamic Earth, Spring 2002; Topic: Bronze-Age China
Comprehensive examination proctor and grader, Department of History, 2001-present
Freshman assessment examination proctor and grader, Department of History, 2001-present
Hanover College
Phi Beta Kappa Task Force, 1999-2000
Awards and Honors
Gigax Faculty Grant, Summer 2003
Gund Student Research Grant, Summer 2002 ("Buryat Nationality Policy, 19th-Early 20th c."; student researcher: Mr. Evan Wilhelm)
International Research and Exchanges Board, Long-Term Research Exchange, Ulan-Ude, 1991-92
Daniel Armstrong Graduate Essay Award, 1988
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS):
1988-89 (Mongolian)
Summer 1988 (Georgian)
1986-87 and Summer 1987 (Russian)
Phi Beta Kappa, 1984
Publications
Monograph
Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Cultural and Nationality Poilcy: The Buryats and their Language (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
"Iazykovaia politika v Buriatii v 20-e gody" [Language Policy in Buriatia in the 1920s] pp. 43-51 in Istoricheskoe, kul'turnoe i prirodnoe nasledie: sostoianie, problemy, transliatsiia [Historical, Cultural and Natural Heritage: Status, Problems, and Transmission] vyp. 2. ed. L.V. Kuras. Ulan-Ude: Buriatskii nauchnyi tsentr, Sibirskoe otdelenie Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk; Vostochno-Sibirskaia gosudarstvennaia Akademiia kul'tury i iskusstv, 1997
"Buddhist Monastic Education in Prerevolutionary Buriatia" East/West Education (formerly Slavic and European Education Review) vol. 17, no. 1-2 (1996): 1-23
(with Yeshen-Khorlo Dugarova-Montgomery) "The Buryat Alphabet of Agvan Dorzhiev" in Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan ed. Stephen Kotkin and Bruce Elleman. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999
Contributions to Reference Works
(With E. B. Batarova) "Dandaron, Bidiia" accepted for inclusion in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History ed. Edward J. Lazzerini. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press (forthcoming).
“The Buriats” submitted to Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History ed. Edward J. Lazzerini. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, forthcoming 2003.
“Bazar Baradin” in The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History. Vol. 3: Avicenna-Bashkin, Matvei Semenovich. ed. Edward J. Lazzerini. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 2000.
“Buriats,” "Chuchki," "Evenki," "Evens," "Koriaks," "Nanai," "Nivikhs," and "Tuvans" in the Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Vol 4: Europe. Ed. Allison McNeill. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.
Book Reviews
Balzan Zhimbiev, History of the Urbanisation of a Siberian City: Ulan Ude in Central Eurasian Studies Review, vol. 2 (2003) no. 2
Donald Ostrowski, Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, vol. 37 (2003).
Victor L. Mote, Siberia: Worlds Apart in Canadian-American Slavic Studies vol. 34 (2000).
Dennis A. and Alice L. Bartels, When the North was Red: Aboriginal Education in Soviet Siberia in East/West Education (formerly Slavic and European Education Review) vol. 18 no. 1 (1998): 93-97.
Istoriia Buriatii v voprosakh i otvetakh [The History of Buriatia in Questions and Answers], ed. T. M. Mikhailov et al. in Mongolian Studies vol. 20 (1997): 157-159.
Jasper Becker, The Lost Country: Mongolia Revealed in Mongolian Studies vol. 20 (1997): 144-149.
John Snelling, Buddhism in Russia: The Story of Agvan Dorzhiev, Lhasa's Ambassador to the Tsar in Mongolian Studies vol. 18 (1995): 143-147
James Forsyth, A History of the Peoples of Siberia in Mongolian Studies vol. 17 (1994): 132-135
Review essay on Fred W. Bergholz, The Partition of the Steppes in Mongolian Studies vol. 17 (1994): 105-118
Conference Papers Presented
"The Buriat National Committee and Buriat Language Issues between the February and October Revolutions" presented at the Sixth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University, March 27, 1999
"The 1926 Conference on the National Culture and the Question of the Buriat Alphabet" presented at the Fourth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University, February 8, 1997
"Buriat Buddhist Education under the Tsarist Regime" presented at the 27th National Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., October 26-29, 1995
"Buriat-Language Policy under Tsars and Soviets" presented at the Workshop on Greater Mongolia in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University, February 2-4, 1995
Future Research
The Buryat intelligentsia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Stalinism in Buryatia; Russian and Soviet nationality policy in Buryatia; the Buryats and the Great Purges; history of the Buryat people
Languages Studied
Russian, Buryat, Classical Mongolian, Modern (Khalkha) Mongolian, French, German, Classical Chinese, Modern Chinese, Georgian
Membership in Professional Associations
American Historical Association
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR
The Mongolia Society
Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society in History
World History Association
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