Fields of Study: Russia and East Central Europe

In the Russia/East Europe field, Professor Kaminski covers East Central Europe, the region between the Baltic Sea and the Balkans, and gives specialized seminars in the history of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine. Professor Goldfrank handles Medieval and Early Modern Russia and occasional courses in Russian International Relations. Professor Evtuhov's specialty is Imperial Russia (18^th and 19^th centuries). Professor Stites teaches the Soviet period and beyond. All offer graduate and undergraduate courses in their specialties. In addition, distinguished graduate students, the Davis Fellows, offer small undergraduate colloquia in various fields. Graduate course, all taught by the full-time tenured professors mentioned above, consist of colloquia (reading, written reports, interpretation, discussion); and research seminars based on primary sources in the relevant languages. Georgetown University's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies provides a library, lectures and luncheon discussions, and numerous contacts with internationally known scholars in several disciplines: literature, culture, economics, and politics of the broad post-Communist world. The language departments offer courses in Russian, Polish, and Turkish.

In addition to Georgetown University's own rich faculty and library resources, its location in Washington, D.C. offers students the opportunity to conduct research in the Library of Congress, the National Archives (brief summary of State Department documents concerning Europe), and the Holocaust Museum Library and Holocaust Museum archival collections, all of which house sources. The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Wilson Center regularly holds symposia and lectures by distinguished scholars and policy figures on matters pertaining to the area.

Faculty:

EVTUHOV, Catherine (PhD, California, Berkeley 1991; assoc. prof.)
Imperial Russia, ideas, culture, religion, local history

GOLDFRANK, David M. (PhD, Washington 1970; prof.)
Medieval and early modern Russia, Russian intellectual and foreign policy, eastern Europe

KAMINSKI, Andrzej (PhD, Jagellonian, Poland, 1966; prof.)
Early Modern East Central Europe, Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

STITES, Richard (PhD, Harvard 1968; prof.)
Modern Russia, cultural and social

For more information regarding graduate studies in Russian and Eastern European History at Georgetown, please contact Professor Richard Stites (faculty area representative to the Graduate Studies Committee). In addition, we encourage you to contact current graduate students for their perspectives on the program; they will also be glad to answer any questions you may have. The following students, listed with their chosen fields and specializations, have agreed to serve as contacts.

John Corcoran
Minor: Middle East or Modern Europe

Rita S. Guenther
Research: 19^th Century Russian History

Cathy McKenna
Research: Reformation/Counter Reformation Poland
Minor: Early modern Europe