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CURRICULUM VITAE

Nathaniel Knight
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Seton Hall University
South Orange, New Jersey 07079

(973)275-2178
knightna@shu.edu

Research Project: The Ethnographic Tradition: Science and Human Diversity in Russian Culture
(Monograph, 2001)

Fields of Specialization:	Teaching Interests:
Imperial Russia Soviet Union Early Modern Russia Modern Europe	Intellectual and Cultural History Political History, Social History Comparative Nationality History of Science Historiography and Historical Methods

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Twentieth Century Russia--Modernization through the Soviet Empire
Seton Hall University, Spring 1999
University of New Hampshire, Spring 1997, Spring 1996.

Imperial Russia
Seton Hall University, Fall 1998.

The Transformation of Russia, 1894-1932
University of New Hampshire, Spring 1997.

Western Civilization
Seton Hall University, Fall 1998, Spring 1999
University of New Hampshire, Spring 1997, Fall 1996, Summer 1996, Spring 1996

Introduction to Historical Thinking
University of New Hampshire, Fall, ‘96

The Soviet Union, 1945-1991
University of New Hampshire, Fall, ‘96

EDUCATION:

Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History:
    Ph.D., February 1995; M.Phil., May 1990; M. A., October 1989.

    Masters' thesis: "The Local Committees of 1902: Gentry Attitudes toward the
         Crisis in Russian Agriculture."

    Dissertation: "Constructing the Science of Nationality: Ethnography in Mid-Nineteenth
         Century Russia."

    Dissertation Advisor: Richard S. Wortman

    Major Fields: Imperial Russia, Early Modern Russia, Soviet Union;

    Minor Field: Modern Europe.

Oberlin College: B. A. 1984, History major.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Columbia University, The Harriman Institute.
    Post-Doctoral Fellow, Spring Semester, 1998, Spring Semester 1995.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
    Kennan Institute Research Scholar, July - December 1997

University of New Hampshire, Department of History
    Lecturer in History, January 1996 - May 1997

American Council of Teachers of Russian.
    Research Scholar, May 1995 - January 1996

Century Books, New York, NY.
    Researcher and Editorial Consultant, 1992-94.

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Division, Bakhmeteff Archive.
Archival Assistant, 1988-91.

Columbia University, Department of History,
    Research Assistant for Prof. Richard Wortman, 1988-89.

Columbia University, Department of History.
    Teaching Assistant, Spring 1987-Spring 1988

Columbia University, Department of History,
    Research Assistant for Prof. Leopold Haimson, 1986-1988.

PUBLICATIONS:

2000

1999

1998

1993

"On Russian Orientalism: A Reply to Adeeb Khalid," Forthcoming in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History v. 1, no. 4 (Fall 2000)

Review of Mark Bassin, Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865. Russian Review, v. 59, no. 3. (July 2000)

"V. V. Grigor’ev in Orenburg, 1851-1862: Russian Orientalism in Service of Empire?"
Slavic Review, v. 59, no. 1, (Spring 2000) 74-100

"Salvage Biography and the Search for a Usable Past: Russian Ethnographers Confront the Legacy of Terror," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, v. 1, no. 2 (Spring 2000)

"Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost’ and Modernity in Imperial Russia."
in Russian Modernity, eds. David Hoffmann and Yanni Kotsonis, MacMillan, 1999.

"Science, Empire and Nationality: Ethnography in the Russian Geographical Society, 1845-1855."
in Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire, eds. Jane Burbank and David Ransel,
Indiana University Press, 1998.

"Mikhail Lomonosov," A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. v. 2, p. 571. D. R. Wolff, ed.. Garland, 1998.

"Nestor," A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. v. 2, p. 655 . D. R. Wolff, ed.. Garland, 1998.

"Russian Historiography (to 1917)," in A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. v. 2, pp. 794-798. . D. R. Wolff, ed.. Garland, 1998.

"The Benckendorff Papers: Generations of Service to the Tsars." Columbia Library Columns, Spring 1993.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

2000

1999

1998

1997

1995

1994

1991

"Curricular Development in Russian and East European Studies using Informational Technology." Annual Conference of the American Association for History and Computing. Waco, Texas. April 2000.

"Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: the Concept of Narod in Imperial Russia," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual Conference, November 1999, St. Louis.

Discussant, "Russia’s First Museum: The Kunstkamera in Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual Conference, November 1999, St. Louis.

"Grigor'ev in Orenburg: A Study of Orientalism and Empire." Maryland Russian History Workshop. University of Maryland, December 1999.

"Grigor’ev in Orenburg: A Case Study in Orientalism and Empire." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Annual Conference, Seattle, November 1997.

"Do We Need the Concept of the Intelligentsia? Intellectual life in the 1840s reexamined." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Annual Conference, Washington, October 1995.

"Constructing the Science of Nationality: Ethnography in the Russian Geographical Society, 1845-1861." Conference paper, American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 1995.

"Science, Empire and Nationality: The Case of the Russian Geographical Society, 1845-1855." Social Science Research Council Workshop, "Visions, Institutions and Experiences of Imperial Russia," September, 1994.

Three Visions of Early Russian Ethnography: Nadezhdin, Kavelin, Baer. Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Bryn Mawr College, April 1991.

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:

"Grigor’ev in Orenburg: Russian Orientalism in the Service of Empire?" Columbia University Faculty Seminar in Slavic Studies, May 1, 1998.

"A Scholar in the Service of Empire: V. V. Grigor’ev and the Problem of Russian Orientalism." Guest Lecture. Yale University, Center for Russian Studies. April 14, 1998.

‘Russia under Nicholas I." Guest Lecture in History. C. W. Post College of Long Island University, February 6, 1998.

"The Ethnographic Tradition: Nationality, Science and the State in Imperial Russia. Presented at Colorado College, January 20, 1998; Ohio State University. February 9, 1998.

"Visions of Modern Russia," "From Peasant to Proletarian." University of Maryland, Guest lectures in Russian history, September 1997.

"Sistema obrazovaniia v Soedinennykh Shtatakh," [The Educational System in the United States] Presentation at Volga-Viatka Regional Teacher's Conference. Sponsored by Open Society Institute. Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Russia, August 1996.

"Etnografiia v pervoe desiatiletie Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva." Presentation at Congress marking 150th anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society, St. Petersburg, August 23, 1995.

"Etnografiia i kontseptsiia o nauke." [Ethnography and the Concept of Science] Presentation at conference "Regionalism, Local Interests and Science." St. Petersburg, June 1995.

"Semeistvo Benkendorf," [The Benckendorff Family] Istoricheskii al'manakh, Broadcast throughout Russia on St. Petersburg Television, October 3, 1993.

"The Slavophile and Westernizer Debates." University of Arizona, Department of History. Guest Lecture in Russian Intellectual History. Spring 1991.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
Research Scholar, July-December 1997

International Research Exchange Board:
Short Term Research Grant: Summer 1996

American Council of Teachers of Russian:
Research Scholar: 1995-96.

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies:
Short-term Research Grant: 1995-96

The Harriman Institute, Columbia University
    Post-Doctoral Fellowships, Spring 1998, Spring 1995.
    Pepsico Foreign Research Grant, Summer 1993.
    Junior Fellow, 1989-1990, 1990-1991, 1992-1993, 1993-1994.

Social Science Research Council:
Selected Participant, "Visions, Institutions and Experiences of Imperial Russia," September 1994.

International Research and Exchanges Board:
Long Term Research Grant, 1991-92.

Fulbright-Hayes Training Grants:
Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 1991-92.

Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Presidential Fellow, 1987-1989

Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference:
Best Graduate Student Paper, April 1991.

RESEARCH ABROAD AND LANGUAGE TRAINING:

May 1995 - Jan. 1996. St. Petersburg, Moscow. Research in Archive of the Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian Literature, Russian National Library Manuscript Division, Russian State Library, Russian State Historical Archive, Russian Geographical Society.

January-July 1993, April-August 1994, St. Petersburg. Research in Russian National Library, Russian Geographical Society Archive, Library of the Academy of Sciences.

Sept. 1991 - August 1992, St. Petersburg, Moscow. Research in Lenin Library, Central State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow University Archive, Central State Historical Archive, Academy of Science Archive, Russian National Library Manuscript Division, Russian Geographical Society Archive. Institute for Russian Literature and Art, Museum of Ethnology and Anthropology, Central State Naval Archive, Library of the Academy of Sciences.

Summer 1984, Council of International Educational Exchange: Summer Russian Language Program, Leningrad.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
American Historical Association.
Soyuz--The Research Network for Post-Communist Cultural Studies

LANGUAGES: Russian (near-native), French (reading), German (reading).

REFERENCES:

Richard Wortman, Professor of History, Columbia University.
Leopold Haimson, Professor of History, Columbia University.
Mark Von Hagen, Professor of History, Columbia University.
Jeffry Diefendorf, Professor of History, University of New Hampshire.
Alfred Rieber, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania.