2011 September 21
(Robert) Alan Kimball
History Department
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Office telephone: (541) 346-4813
Home telephone: (541) 345-0281
FAX: (541) 346-4895
[ kimball@uoregon.edu ]
BASICS
- 1967: PhD, University of Washington, History (modern Russia, medieval
Russia, Byzantium, French Revolution)
- 1963: MA, University of Washington, Russian Area Studies (modern and medieval Russian
history, Russian literature, Soviet economy, Marxism)
- 1961: BA with Honors, University of Kansas, Political Science-International Relations
(Russian area emphasis: history, philosophy, literature, politics and economics)
- 1938 December 19: Born, Yukon, Canadian County, Oklahoma
APPOINTMENTS
- Current: Associate Professor of History
- 1995-2004 (10 years): Director of the UO Russian and East European
Studies Center (now renamed = REEES). Founding member since 1967; Executive Board (1968-69, 74-78), Chairman
(1973-74)
- 1998-2002 (5 years): Elected first Chair of the Executive Board of the UO
International Programs Council which draws together International Studies, Asian Studies,
European Studies, Latin American Studies and REESC (these the five degree and/or
certificate-granting international programs on campus)
- 1996-1998 (2 years): Elected to UO Senate (earlier Senate service: 1990-92 and 1977-78).
Member, Senate Rules Committee (1977-78)
- 1992-1995 (3 years): Chairman, Russian Department
(elected by the Department)
- 1992 Summer Institute of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) affiliated with the Hermitage Museum, the
Russian Museum, and the Taurida Palace. Studied Russian cultural history in the first post-Soviet year
in Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Pskov, Novgorod, Vladimir, Rostov-Velikii, Yaroslavl, and other sites
- 1988 Fall: First Visiting Honors Professor in the History Department of
The United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. 1998
Fall: Invited to return as member of History Department Review Committee
- 1987 May: Fellow at the Kennan
Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in The Woodrow Wilson Center for International
Scholars, Washington, DC
- 1986-87: Visiting Foreign Research Scholar at the Slavic Research Center of
Hokkaido University, in Sapporo, Japan. Hokkaido houses the Japanese national Slavic
research center which each year invites two scholars from around the world to join their
research faculty
- 1978-84 (6 years): Director, Robert Donald Clark
Honors College and Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UO
- 1981-82: President, Western Regional Honors
Council (WRHC), an affiliate of the National
Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC member, 1978-84)
- 1976-77: Research Specialist, attached to the Department of History, Moscow State University, USSR (1972-73
also)
- 1965-67 (2 years): Instructor of History in the Western
Civilization Program, Stanford University
INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS
- 2002-2004 (2 years): Rippey Foundation Grant to create and offer joint group-satisfying courses
and to offer a “College Connections” colloquium attached to these two courses
- 1994-1999 (5 years): Advisory Committee and participant in design and implementation of
a Ford Foundation Grant to UO to facilitate expansion of foreign-language experience beyond
the traditional language/literature departments [FLAC] and into the social science
curriculum. I helped design and teach six courses in which Russian-language sources were
incorporated into special satellite sections of my standard Russian history courses
- 1995 Summer: Faculty and Program Development Grant for International Education from
the UO Office of International Affairs in support of the first annual Oregon Russian Summer, an
intense Russian-language and culture institute which I helped design and administer, this was
the first and, so far, only such Russian-language institute at UO
- 1993: Stanley B. Greenfield Faculty Grant to build Russian history collection in Knight Library
- 1981-1985 (4 years): Grant Administrator and chairman of the Board of Directors, Pacific
Northwest Writing Consortium (PNWC: Lewis and Clark College, The Evergreen State College, Pacific
Lutheran University, University of Puget Sound, the University of Washington, and the UO
Honors College). Co-authored consortium program which was funded by a major grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Washington, DC
- 1975-1985 (10 years): Co-drafted the REESC Undergraduate Center Program and negotiated for
support from Oregon congressional representatives, navigated it in the bureaus of the US Office
of Education, Department of Health Education and Welfare, and lobbied for Oregon Board
of Higher Education acceptance of “center” status. As a result, REESC became, for more than
a decade, one of two national undergraduate center programs funded by the US Office of Education
CURRENT RESEARCH
I am writing a ca. 700 page MS which bears the working title To Make a Better
Life: The Mobilization of Political Opposition in the Russian Empire, 1859-1863.
It is a computer-assisted study of several dozen social organizations and their members in
the middle of the nineteenth century, a period called the "Era of Great Reforms"
or "First Russian Revolutionary Situation".
In connection with a History Department project to bring World Wide Web opportunities
into our classes [see below]
I am also posting to the internet the datafiles
generated in the process of completing the project described just above
[W]
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2006 Summer: Research in Moscow. I took this opportunity to arrange two interviews with
petroleum industry administrators (in connection with my on-going interest in the problem of Russian and
global energy politics): (1) a Vice President of Chevron’s Russian operations stationed in Moscow, and
(2) a Vice President of BP stationed in Aberdeen, Scotland.
- 2004 Summer: Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences international conference
on "Hierarchy and Power", presented paper on "Political Advice from Urban Activists to
Russian Villagers in Proclamations of the Great Reform Era"
- 2002 Summer: Presented paper on the peasant kabak [tavern] and emergence of a Russian
“civil society” and worked in the Tenishev Archive at the Rossiiskii
etnograficheskii musei [Russian ethnographic museum]
- 1999 Fall: Research in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. Consulted with professors
Larisa Zakharova and Boris Mironov about chapters from the MS described above
- 1998 November 7: I presented report to the Northwest Scholars of Russian and Soviet History
and Culture [NWS] of on one aspect of this project, “The Tsarist State and the
Origins of Revolutionary Opposition in the 1860s”
- 1995 Summer: In the Amsterdam Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale
Geschiedenis as well as in Pushkinskii Dom, the State Historical Archives,
and the Public Library in Petersburg
- 1992 Summer: In the collections specified just above, and made scholarly excursions to
several historical sites across northern Russia with generous support from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, attached to the St.Petersburg Ermitazh
Museum
- 1983-1989 (6 years): Research group devoted to Russian provincial history, specifically
Saratov Province. We organized an international conference of US and Soviet
historians at the University of Illinois Russian and East European Center, July 1985,
co-sponsored by NEH. The group also met in conjunction with the
Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies in Washington, DC,
November, 1985. Our book on Saratov appeared in the fall of 1989
I have been invited to lecture on my research at universities and academies in the USA,
Japan, China, Germany and Russia
RECENT RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (since 1988)
- 2008 Fall: “Pre-Soviet Russian Concepts of Civil Society and Their Legacy”, a twelve-page
chapter in an anthology published by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Hierarchy and Power
in the History of Civilizations (Moscow: Uchitel’ Press), pp. 89-100. The text of the public
presentation on which this chapter is based can be
read in KIMBALL FILES
- 2004 Fall:Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost’ 6:137-146 [Social Sciences and Modernity,
the journal of the social-science divisions of the Russian Academy of Sciences], “Derevenskii
kabak kak vyrazhenie russkoi grazhdanskoi obshchestvennosti, 1855-1905 gg.” [Village tavern as
an expression of Russian civil society, 1855-1905. An English-language version can be read
in KIMBALL FILES]
- 2003 Winter: “Aleksei Pleshcheev”, a 5000-word essay in Dictionary of
Literary Biography, volume 277 [an abbreviated version of this article is
in KIMBALL FILES]
- 2003 Winter: “Who Were the Petrashevtsy?”, a 25-page website article,
selected for linkage on the Japan Council of Russian and East European Studies
website
- 2002 February: KIMBALL FILES website essay “The Tsarist State and the
Origins of Revolutionary Opposition in the 1860s” chosen by content selections
team of ProQuest “History online” (England) to appear on an
internet Study Unit page
about Alexander II of Russia
- 1994: "Intelligentsia." In Peter N. Stearns, ed., Encyclopedia of Social
History. New York: Garland Publishing. Pages 355-6 [an
abbreviated version of this article is in KIMBALL FILES]
- 1992: "Russkoe grazhdanskoe obshchestvo i politicheskii krizis v epokhu Velikikh
Reform, 1859-1863" [Russian Civil Society and the Political Crisis in the Epoch of
Great Reforms, 1859-1863]. In Larisa Zakharova, et al., eds., Velikie reformy v
Rossii 1856-1874. Moscow: Moscow State University Press. Pages 260-282
[an abbreviated version of this article is in KIMBALL FILES]
- 1992: "Alexander Herzen and the Native Lineage of the Russian Revolution." In Religious
and Secular Forces in Late Tsarist Russia. Edited by Charles E. Timberlake.
Seattle WA: The University of Washington Press. Pages 105-27 and 321-7 [based on
series of lectures delivered at the University of Kansas and presented in
KIMBALL FILES]
- 1991 Summer: "Weber and Russia." Telos 88 (Summer 1991):187-95
(with co-author Gary Ulmen, Associate Editor of the journal Telos); based on
the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe devoted to the 1905 Revolution in Russia
- 1990 Fall: "The Russian Peasant Obshchina in the Political Culture of the
Era of Great Reforms: A Contribution to Begriffsgeschichte." Russian
History/Histoire Russe 17:259-79 [an abbreviated version of this
article is in KIMBALL FILES]
- 1990: "Introduction" [on the role of women (Olga and Anna) in the
Christianization of Rus']. In Russia and the Millennium (A.D. 988-1988).
Crestwood NY: Saint Vladimir's Press. Pages 1-11 [an abbreviated version of
this article is in KIMBALL FILES]
- 1989: "Conspiracy and Circumstance in Saratov, 1859-1864." Chapter 3 (pp.
28-48) of Politics and Society in Provincial Russia: Saratov, 1590-1917.
Edited by Rex A. Wade and Scott J. Seregny. Columbus OH: The Ohio State University Press.
In 1991 this chapter was translated by the Saratov Regional History Society. In June,
1991, the society held a conference devoted in part to this publication
- 1989 Summer: "The Marketing of Perestroika." Telos 80: 169-176
- 1988: "Student Interests and Student Politics: Kazan University before the Crisis
of 1862." Acta Slavica Iaponica (Sapporo) 6:1-15. 1989: The Institut
nauchnoi informatsii po obshchestvennym naukam of the Soviet Academy of Sciences published
a Russian-language conspectus of this essay in Referativnyi zhurnal: obshchestvennye
nauki za rubezhom, Series 5: "Istoriia", index 89.05.010
(Moscow:1989):46-49
- 1988: "Literary Fund: from 1859 to the Present Day." Modern Encyclopedia
of Russian and Soviet History [MERSH] 49:236-9
- 1988: "Revolutionary Situation in Russia (1859-1862)." MERSH 31:54-57
- 1988: "Who Were the Petrashevtsy? A Question
Provoked by some Recent Scholarship." Mentalities/mentalités 5, no.
2:1-12. Featured on Slavic-Eurasian Studies Web | Russian history
section (site maintained by the Japan Council of Russian and East European
Studies)
MOST RECENT REVIEWS
- 2012 Winter: Russian Review = Mikhail Dolbilov,
Russkii krai, chuzhaia vera: Etnokonfessional'naia politika imperii v Litve
i Belorussii pri Aleksandre II
- 2010 Fall: H-Net (H-Russia) = Claudia Verhoeven, The Odd Man
Karakazov
- 2007 Winter: Slavic Review = Gesellschaft als lokale Veranstaltung:
Selbstverwaltung, Assoziierung und Geselligkeit in den Städten des ausgehenden Zarenreiches
- 2005 Winter: Slavic Review = I. A. Khristoforov, "Aristokraticheskaia"
oppozitsiia Velikim reformam, konets 1850 -- seredina 1870-kh gg.
- 2004 Summer: Slavic Review = Peter Julicher, Renegades,
Rebels and Rogues under the Tsars (2004)
- 1999 Winter:
H-NET
= Andrei Sinyavsky, The Russian Intelligentsia
(1997)
PEDAGOGICAL PUBLICATIONS
- Current (since 1998 Fall): Composing and maintaining pedagogical website, including A Student's
Annotated Chronology and Systematic Bibliography [SAC]. SAC has been linked
to more than 90 scholarly websites around the world, including the University of Texas library and Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, and
the Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies at Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. I regularly receive
requests to link to this website, as well as simple and gratifying expressions of appreciation for it. For example,
the Educational Testing Service at Princeton NJ requested permission to use
material from SAC, and the
Moscow-based collection of historical photos of that Russian city has linked to several of my historical
and personal (now becoming historical!) photos. A few months later, the Kiev-based website on the history of trams
linked to my digitalized presentation of Ivan Shagin’s WW2 photos. Some earlier examples =
- 2006 Winter: Professor Douglas Wiener at the University Arizona requested and was granted permission to link his
courses to the English-language version of my article on the Russian village kabak [tavern]
- 2005 Fall: University of Southern California Trojan Bookstore requested and was granted permission to publish for
student use there my translation and annotation of Sergei Nechaev’s “Catechism of Revolution”. Many requests to link
to this web page followed
- 2003 Winter: “Who Were the Petrashevtsy?”, a KIMBALL FILES internet article selected for linkage on the Japan Council
of Russian and East European Studies website, earlier published as an 8000-word article in the
journal Mentalities/mentalités 5, no. 2 (1988)
- 2002 February: “The Tsarist State and the Origins of Revolutionary Opposition in the 1860s”, a KIMBALL FILES internet
article selected for linkage on the ProQuest “History online” (England)
- 1997 Fall: Composed 260-page Oregon Russian and East European Studies Center website (with
the technical assistance of Paul Schroder)
- 1997 February 3:The Oregonian. "Russia and the U.S.: Yeltsin’s
ineffectiveness, NATO expansion plans bode ill for democracy" [an editorial column
invited by the Oregon World Affairs Council and the editorial staff of The Oregonian],
based on speech prepared for the Oregon "Great
Decisions" program. Until recently NATO posted this article on its website
- 1984: "The United States and the Soviet Union: Toward a Mutual Pacific
Frontier." Oregon and the Pacific Rim (Portland, OR):5-6
- 1984 Fall: "Writing with Computers: Preface to a Plan to Teach a Course Called
'Writing History with a Computer'." PNWC Papers: Pacific Northwest Writing
Consortium Newsletter 4,2:6-10
- 1983 Fall: "The Place of Honors in Publicly Financed Higher Education." Forum
For Honors [Publication of the National Collegiate Honors Council] 14,1:17-37
- 1982 March-April: "Integration of Writing with History: One Episode and Some
Generalizations." PNWC Papers: Pacific Northwest Writing Consortium Newsletter
2,2:3-5
- 1979: "Russia and the Unnamed Revolution" and "Scientism: Attitudes
toward Science through History", two thirty-minute discussions contracted and
video-taped by the Eugene Public Library, and circulated there
- 1979 Spring: "Living and Working in Russia." Old Oregon
58,3:9-13
- 1974: "The First World War and the Russian Revolution." Pacifica
Cassette on History (B. B. 1743)
RECENT RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
- 2006 Summer: Moscow, Russia, at the fourth international conference on
"Hierarchy and Power" sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Presented paper on pre-Soviet
Russian activists and theorists of "Civil Society" and their legacy. On the basis of
this presentation, I was asked to become “outside member” of a Russian PhD candidate’s thesis
committee (devoted to problems of contemporary “civil society” in Russia). And I have
recently (2006 Fall) accepted the Russian Academy of Sciences invitation to submit for
publication an article-length manuscript based on my presentation
- 2004 Summer: Moscow, Russia, at the third international conference on
"Hierarchy and Power" sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Presented
an aggregate analysis of the political advice which Russian urban activists offered villagers
in about 100 proclamations composed in the middle of the 19th century.
- 2002 Summer: St.Petersburg, Russia, at the second international conference on
"Hierarchy and Power" sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Presented
a paper on peasants in Russian civil society
- 1999 December 11: Seminar of the Zentrum für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas at the
Free University of Berlin, "Geselligkeit, Öffentlichkeit und Zivilgesellschaft:
Westeurope und Rußland/SU im Vergleich (19./20. Jh.)", an invited presentation on
"The Village Kabak [tavern] in the History of Russian Civil Society"
- 1998 September: Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies, organized panel on "Russian Civil Society in Its Infancy" and
wrote critiques of the three papers presented to the panel
- 1998 April 11: Fourth Annual Regional Conference of the University of Washington
Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies [REECAS], chaired session titled
"Economic Transitions in Russia" and presented paper, "Russia and Natural
Gas in a New Era of International Commerce"
RECENT PUBLIC AND OTHER PEDAGOGICAL PRESENTATIONS
TEACHING
Current repertoire of courses:
- WEBSITE COURSE PAGES. I have
redesigning all lecture courses in order to introduce use of journals for library
research. For this purpose, in 2000, I composed a website, A
Student's Annotated Chronology and Systematic Bibliography [SAC],
combining detailed chronology of main events, with growing linkages among the entries and
linkages with global websites. SAC emphasizes primary source readings available on reserve
or the open stacks of Knight Library, or (increasingly) on the internet.
- HIST 245 Russia, America and the World (a unique
freshman/sophomore-level, group-satisfying course in world history focusing on North
America and Eurasia)
- HIST 303 Modern Europe
- HIST 345 Early Russian history
- HIST 346 Imperial Russian history
- HIST 399 Russia Now (Post-Soviet Political and Institutional Changes)
- HIST 407/507 Seminar on various aspects
of Russian political culture
- HIST 445/545
History of Russian Political Culture
- 1993-1998: Foreign Language Across the
Curriculum [FLAC]. Co-designed and participated in grant-funded project o
incorporate foreign language (Russian) in the university curriculum, beyond
language departments and as supplement to their curriculum.
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