Peter
R. Weisensel
Vita
Address:
Department of History
tel. 612 696-6570, fax 612 696-6498
Education:
-1966-73.
Dissertation Title: "A.S. Norov (1795-1869): Nineteenth Century Russian Traveler, Educator and Bureaucrat"
-1963-64.
-1959-1963.
Teaching:
1. 1991-present, Professor of History, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105.
2. 1987, Fall Term. Adjunct Associate Professor of History,
3. 1981-1991. Associate
Professor of History,
4. 1973-1981. Assistant
Professor of History,
5. 1967-68, 1969-70. Teaching Assistant, Department of History,
Honors,
Grants:
Bush Foundation Travel Grant (
Wallace Foundation Travel and
Research Grant (
Wallace Foundation Travel and
Research Grant (
Wallace
Foundation Travel and Research Grant (
Wallace Foundation Travel and
Research Grant (
Member, Senior Common Room, St.
Edmund Hall,
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Research Grant for research in Kazan', Moscow and St. Petersburg, Fall Term, 1994.
NEH Travel to Collections Grant (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Summer, 1993.
Wallace Foundation Travel and Research Grant (Prague and Helsinki), Summer, 1992.
NEH Summer Research Grant (Helsinki), Summer, 1989.
Bush Foundation (Macalester College) Curriculum Development Grant, 1987.
International Research and Exchanges Board Grant for Participation in the US-USSR Cultural Exchange (Faculty of History, Leningrad State University), 1985-1986.
Bush Foundation Travel and Research Grant (Helsinki), Spring and Summer, 1980.
International Research and Exchanges Board Grant for Participation in the US-USSR Cultural Exchange (Faculty of Oriental Studies, Leningrad State University), 1971-1972.
International Research and Exchanges Board Dissertation Research Grant (Helsinki), 1970-1971.
NDEA Title IV Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, University of Minnesota, 1968-1969.
Senior Honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1963.
Publications:
A. Books:
Prelude to Reform. Avraam Sergeevich Norov and Imperial Russia in Transition. University of Minnesota, Minnesota Mediterranean Studies Monograph Series, #4. Minneapolis, MN, 1996.
(with T.G. Stavrou), Russian Travelers to the Christian East from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1986.
(translator). Khiva. Leningrad: Avrora, 1974.
B. Articles:
“D.L. Markov and Russian Orientalism.” Forthcoming in Festschrift for T.G. Stavrou.
“Russian-Muslim Inter-ethnic Relations in Turkestan in the Last Years of the Empire,” Vth (1996) World Congress of Slavicists Proceedings, forthcoming.
(with A.L. Litvin), "Imperiia i nasilie: podavlenie natsional’nogo samosoznaniia,” [Empire and Force: the Repression of National Consciousness], Ekho vekhov (Kazan'), 1996, No. 1/2, 56-61.
"Soobshcheniia russkikh krest'ian-palomnikov o Palestine kak otobrazhenie zhizni russkoi sel'skoi obshchiny [Russian Peasant Reports of Palestine as a Reflection of Russian Village Life],” Pravoslavnyi palestinskii sbornik, Issue 31 (92) (Moscow, 1992): 37-44.
"Russian Self-Identification and Travelers' Descriptions of the Ottoman Empire in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century,"Central Asian Survey 10 (no. 4, 1991): 65-85.
"Lazarevskii (Lazarian) Institute of Eastern Languages,"
"Avraam Sergeevich Norov,"
"Osip Ivanovich Senkovskii,"
"Russian Steam Navigation and Trade Company,"
Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. Vols. 19 (Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1981), 80-82; 25 (1981), 60-62; 32 (1983), 166-70; 34 (1983), 15-17.
"A.S. Norov and the Pan-Orthodox Cause," Cyrillomethodianum III (1975): 111-38.
Sixteen book reviews (1979-2004) in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, Soviet Union/Union Sovietique, Slavic Review, Nea Hellenika, Balkan Studies, Russian History/Histoire russe, Slavic Review.
Work
under Consideration to Publish:
Asians Under Russian Eyes. Central Asians in Russian Travel Descriptions, Eighteenth Century to 1917. Monograph manuscript under consideration
“Central Asians in Russian Popular Travelogues at the End of the Empire.” Article manuscript under consideration.
Papers, Conference Participation:
“Asians in Russian Popular Travelogues at the End of the Empire.” Paper presented at the national conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, Nov., 2003.
“Russian Travelers’ Descriptions of Asians in Central Asia, 1774-1914.”
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Denver, CO. November 20, 2000.
“Discord in the Discourse. Russian Interministerial Conferences on the Governance of Turkestan at the End of the Empire.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Seattle, WA. Nov. 22, 1997.
“Musul’mane v sostave rossiiskoi imperii (istochnikovedcheskie aspekty).” A paper delivered at Kazan’ University at a conference, “Contemporary Historiography: Theoretical Questions.” May 28, 1996.
“Diverse Views of Empire. The Imperial Ministries and the Administration of Turkestan at the End of the Empire.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. October 26, 1995.
"Russian-Muslim Interethnic Relations in Russian Turkestan in the Last Years of the Empire." Vth World Congress of Slavicists, Warsaw, August, 1995.
"The Imperial Russian Lifestyle in Turkestan." Russian and East European Centre Seminar, St. Antony's College, Oxford. May, 1995.
"Soobshcheniia russkikh administratorov Kazanskoi gubernii o tatarakh, XIX-XX vv." A paper presented at the Faculty of History, Kazan' University, October, 1994.
Paper respondent, "Religion and Nationality in Southeast Europe," Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September, 1992.
"Russian Self-Identification and Travelers' Descriptions of the Ottoman Empire in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century." IVth World Congress of Slavicists, Harrogate, England, July, 1990.
"Class and Outlook among Peasant Pilgrims to Palestine in the Nineteenth Century." Russia and Palestine Conference, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, January, 1990.
"Russian Travelers to the Islamic East in the Nineteenth Century." AAASS National Conference, Boston, November, 1987.
"The Internationalization of Orthodoxy. Russian Orthodox Travelers and Scholar-Monks in the Christian East." AAASS National Conference, New York, November, 1984.
"A.S. Norov as the Minister of Education." AAASS National Conference, Kansas City, MO, November, 1983.
"Lev Tolstoi and His Conservative Critics." AATSEEL National Conference, Chicago, December, 1982.
Paper respondent, "Aspects of Russian Orthodox History in the Twentieth Century." Midwest Slavic Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May, 1979.
"Russia and the Middle East. Thoughts for Future Research." Upper Mid-West Historical Conference, St. Paul, MN October, 1975.
Courses:
Introductory Survey of Modern Europe Since 1789:
Variant A. Progress and Individual Freedom in European History;
Variant B. Europe and the World
State and Society in Tsarist Russia
History of the USSR and Her Successors
Modern Germany
Europe Since 1945
History of Socialism
European Empires
Historiography of Empire
Russian History Through Russian Literature
Recent Senior Seminars: Minorities in European History;
National and Ethnic Identity in European History
Recent Freshman Seminars: Russia and the USSR as an Empire;
European Empires.