Ph.D., History. Indiana University (2003)
M.A., Russian and Soviet Area Studies. Harvard University (1990)
B.A., Russian Language and Literature. Brigham Young University (1987) Books:
Co-edited with Tõnu Tannberg, Venestamine baltimaade provintsides, 1860-1914. [Russification in the Baltic Provinces, 1860-1917]. Acta et Commentationes Archivi Historici Estoniae 15 (22). (Tartu: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv, forthcoming).
Co-written with Constance E. Richards, St. Petersburg (Bloom’s Literary Places) (Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005).
Articles (selected):
“Those Who Wore the Cap of the Bureaucrat: Multiethnicity and Estonian Tsarist State Officials in Estland Province, 1881-1914,” in Eugene Huskey and Donald Rowney, eds., Everyday Life of the State: Russian Officialdom, 1881-2007 (forthcoming).
“Patterns of Civil Society in the Modernizing Multiethnic City: A German Town in the Russian Empire Becomes Estonian,” Ab Imperio 2 (2006): 135-161.
“Was the Russian Aristocracy the Vanguard of the Tsarist Regime?”, “Were Social Class Divisions in Late Imperial Russia Insurmountable?”, and “Were Sergei Witte’s Policies Favoring Industrialization and Development on the Whole Positive Developments for Russia?” in Paul du Quenoy, ed., History in Dispute, Volume 21: Revolutionary Russia, 1890-1930 (Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2005), pp. 6-7, 177-180, and 209-211.
“Administrative Reform and Social Policy in the Baltic Cities of the Russian Empire: Riga and Reval, 1870-1914,” Jahrbuch für europäische Verwaltungsgeschichte 16 (2004), pp. 111-150.
“An Ambiguous Monument: Peter the Great’s Return to Tallinn in 1910,” in Rut Biuttner [Ruth Büttner] et al., eds., Problemy natsional’noi identifikatsii, kul’turnye i politicheskie sviazi Rossii so stranami Baltiiskogo regiona v XVIII-XX vekakh (Samara: Izdatel’stvo Parus, 2001), pp. 205-219.
Book reviews in Russian Review; Kritka: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History; Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung and other professional journals. Courses Taught HS 351 Russia and the Soviet Union
HS 345 Europe in the Nineteenth Century
HS 382 /GLS 200 Trends in Global History
GLS 100 Introduction to Global Studies
HS 101 Foundations of the Western World
HS 102 The Western World in Modern Times
HS 108 History of Science Languages
Fluency in Russian, Czech, German, Estonian, Finnish
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