December 1993 Ph.D. Russian History, University of California, Los Angeles.

Doctoral Committee and Exam Fields:

Russian and Soviet History with Hans Rogger (Chair), Russian Literature with Irina Paperno (U.C. Berkeley), Social and Economic History of Europe with Eugen Weber, Cultural and Intellectual History of Europe with Robert Wohl.

Dissertation: "Dmitrii Pisarev and the Nihilistic Imagination: Social and Psychological Origins of Russian Radical Culture (1860-1868)"

June 1986 M.A. in European History, University of California, Los Angeles. Courses in Soviet, Russian and European History. Two years of Russian.

Summer 1985 Certificate in Russian Language, Norwich University Russian School, Northfield Vt. One year of Russian.

June 1984 A.B. Harvard University, concentration in European history. 16 semester courses in Russian, Western and Eastern European History. (Professors included: Pipes, Ford, Keenan, Sysyn, Pritsak, Jelavich, Wilkinson, and Visiting Prof. Marc Raeff). Four years of Russian.

Employment

Fall 1994-Present Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Courses include: Russian history, Art and Politics in the Russian Revolution, European Intellectual History, Myth and History in the Western Imagination, Europe of the Revolutions (1789-1917)

Fall 1992 Lecturer, University of California, Irvine

Russian Program. Russian Intellectual History

Summer 1990 Consultant. NEH National Center for History in the Schools.

June 1988-Jan 1989 Temporary Foreign Service Officer, USIA sponsored cultural exchange in the USSR. Worked in Magnitogorsk, Leningrad, and Minsk.

1986-1988 Teaching Assistant, UCLA.