Curriculum Vitae of Kees Boterbloem

Professor of History at the University of South Florida, Tampa

BA (Kandidaats, 1982) and MA (Doctoraal, 1985), University of Amsterdam, The

Netherlands

Ph.D. (1994), McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Publications

Books

1. The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism: The Global Reach of the Dutch Arms Trade,

Warfare and Mercenaries in the Seventeenth Century, London, New York: Routledge

Publishers, 2019.

2. Life in Stalin's Russia. Editor and contributor. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

Press, 2019.

3. A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin. Second

Revised Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

4. Revoljoetsija: De betekenis van de Russische Revolutie in historisch perspectief. Amsterdam:

Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

5. De Russische Revolutie. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016.

6. Jan Struys, Rampspoedige reizen door Rusland en Perzië in de zeventiende eeuw. Amsterdam:

Panchaud, 2014 (edited and annotated retranslation of seventeenth-century original).

7. A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin. Lanham, MD:

Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.

8. Moderniser of Russia: Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

MacMillan Publishers, 2013.

9. The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan

Publishers, 2008.

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10. The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University

Press, 2004. Honourable mention for the 2004-5 Raymond Klibansky Prize of the

Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

11. Life and Death under Stalin: The Kalinin Province, 1945-1953. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-

Queen’s University Press, 1999.

Forthcoming Books

-The Empire of Rus'. (Under contract with Reaktion Press, c. 2020).

-The Dutch Republic and Russia, 1560-1725. (Under contract with Amsterdam UP, c. 2020).

Articles (Refereed)

1. (with Galina Aidarova and Rawil Fakhrullin), "Istoriko-arkhitekturnyi analiz panoramnogo

izobrazheniia Kazani Kornelisa de Bryoina (1703 g.)." Vestnik Sankt-Piterburgskogo

Universiteta, 2020.

2. (with J.W. Ganzevoort, O. Bleker, and J.A.M. van der Post), “‘Blindness Out of the Womb,’ a

Historical Account of the First Report of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome

(PRES): Choose your Title Well, or your Findings Will Be Neglected .” BJOG: An

International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2019.

3. "Dutch Mercenaries in the Tsar's Service: The Van Bockhoven Clan." War and Society 2,

2014: 59-79.

4. "Chto delat'?: World War One in Russian Historiography after Communism." Journal of

Slavic Military Studies 3, 2012: 393-408.

5. "Hasek, Svjek, and the Czechoslovak Legion." In Essays on World War One. Eds P. Pastor

and G. Tunstall. New York: Columbia UP, 2012: 131-160.

6. "Russia and Europe: The Koenraad van Klenk Embassy to Moscow (1675-76)." Journal of

Early Modern History 3, 2010: 187-217.

7. "Met een beschaafder Penne… The Making of Drie aanmerkelijke en seer rampspoedige

reysen: A Case of Early-Modern Ghostwriting." Jaarboek voor Nederlandse

Boekgeschiedenis 15, 2008: 34-50.

8 "The Genesis of Jan Struys’s Perillous Voyages and the Business of the Book Trade in the

Dutch Republic." Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America 1, 2008: 5-28.

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9. "Empire Besieged: Postwar Politics (1945-1953)." In Russian and Soviet History: From the

Time of Troubles to the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Eds. W.B. Whisenhunt and S.

Usitalo. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008: 229-40.

10. "Soviet GIs or Decembrists?: The reintegration into postwar Soviet society of Russian

soldiers, POWs, partisans, and civilians who lived under German occupation." War and

Society 1, 2006: 77-87.

11. "The Eternal Ensign." War and Society 1, 2004: 1-18.

12. "The Death of Andrei Zhdanov." Slavonic and East European Review 2-3, 2002: 267-87.

13. "Young Zhdanov (1896-1918)." Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes

2-3, 2001: 271-96.

14. "The Fifth ICCEES World Congress in Warsaw: Some Reflections." The International

Newsletter of Historical Studies on Comintern, Communism and Stalinism 7-8, 1996:

126-32.

15. "Einige Aspekte der stalinistischen "Säuberungen" in der russischen Provinz." Jahrbuch für

Historische Kommunismusforschung. Eds H. Weber, D. Staritz. Berlin: Akademie

Verlag, 1993: 60-81.

Encyclopedia Articles

1. "Ezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich." The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and

Soviet History. Vol. 10. Ed. Bruce Adams. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic Publishers, 2011:

43-51.

2. "Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich." The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian

and Soviet History. Vol. 8. Ed. Bruce Adams. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic Publishers,

2007: 431-7.

3. "Chudov, Mikhail Semenovich." The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and

Soviet History. Vol. 6. Ed. Bruce Adams. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic Publishers, 2005:

77-79.

4. "Cominform." The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History.

Vol. 6. Ed. Bruce Adams. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic Publishers, 2005: 176-79.

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5. "Beriia, Lavrentii Pavlovich." The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and

Soviet History. Vol. 4. Ed. Bruce Adams. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic Publishers, 2003:

129-35.

6. "Boitsov, Ivan Pavlovich." The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet

History. Vol. 4. Ed. Bruce Adams. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic Publishers, 2003: 212-14.

Articles (non-refereed)

1. "Jan Struys (c.1628-c.1694): Fake or Fact?." Impossible Journeys in the Netherlands,

Russia and Persia, Now and Then: A Travelling Exhibition [Exhibition Catalog].

Amsterdam, Isfahan, Samatra and Moscow, 2019, 61-68 [Russian and Farsi translations

of the essay, ibid. 69-85].

2. "Suffering For One’s Art." Canadian Historical Association Bulletin 2, 2001: 8-10.

3. "Jan Struys in Azië." De Boekenwereld 4, 2016: 78-83.

Reviews

1. Review of Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam by Steven Nadler. The Historian 3,

2019: 523-4.

2. Review of Visions of Empire by Krishan Kumar. Russian Review 1, 2018: 152-3.

3. Review of Nationalizing Empires, edited by Stefan Berger and Alexei Miller. Russian Review

3, 2016: 535-6.

4. Review of The Maisky Diaries, edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky. Journal of Military History 3,

2016: 923-5.

5. Review of Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution during

World War II by Istvan Deak. Hungarian Cultural Studies 8, 2015, available at:

http://ahea.pitt.edu DOI: 10.5195/ahea.2015.194.

6. Review of The High Title of a Communist by Edward Cohn. Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue

canadienne des slavistes 1-2, 2015: 146-8.

7. Review of Die "Russische Partei". Die Bewegung der russischen Nationalisten in der UdSSR

1953-1985, by Nikolai Mitrokhin. Ab Imperio 2, 2015: 449-54.

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8. Review of Stalin's Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War, by Serhy Yekelchyk.

Reviews in History, 20 August 2015, available at:

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1816.

9. Review of Publishing Policies and Family Strategies: The Fortunes of a Dutch Publishing

House in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries by Ariane Baggerman. The Historian 4,

2015: 820-2.

10. Review of Stalin's World by Sarah Davies and James Harris. Canadian Slavonic

Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes, 2015: 146-8.

11. Review of Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union by Eric Lohr. Revolutionary

Russia 2, 2014: 157-8.

12. Review of Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition by J.

Arch Getty. American Historical Review 4, 2014: 1390-1.

13. Review of Family, Culture and Society in the Diary of Constantijn Huygens Jr, Secretary to

Stadtholder-King William of Orange by Rudolf Dekker. The Historian 3, 2014: 625-6.

14. Review of Moscow 1937 by Karl Schlögel. The Historian 2, 2014: 424-5.

15. Review of Bertha von Suttner und Russland by Valentin Belentschikow. Slavic Review 1,

2014: 211-12.

16. Review of Iron Lazar: A Political Biography of Lazar Kaganovich by E.A. Rees. Russian

Review 3, 2012: 537-8.

17. Review of Elusive Empire by M.P. Romaniello. Itinerario 1, 2012: 120-1.

18. Review of Severnaia i Vostochnaia Tartariia by Nikolaas Vitsen. Russian Review 1, 2012:

150-1.

19. Review of Kohle für Stalin und Hitler: Arbeiten und Leben im Donbass, 1929 bis 1953 by

Tanja Penter. Slavic Review 4, 2011: 935-6.

20. Review of Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror and the Rule of Law in the Dutch

Revolt by Henk van Nierop. Canadian Journal of History 3, 2010): 609-10.

21. Review of Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service. Slavic Review 4, 2010: 1008-9.

22. Review of Massenmord und Lagerhaft by Rolf Binner, Bernd Bonwetsch and Marc Junge.

Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes 3-4, 2010: 447-8.

23. Review of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport. Journal of Slavic Military

Studies 4, 2010: 694-5.

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24. Review of Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's Iron Fist by J. Arch Getty and Oleg Naumov.

American Historical Review 2, 2009: 511-12.

25. Review of The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn

Netherlands by Tracy Kasaboski and Kristen den Hartog. Canadian Journal of History 2,

2008: 316-18.

26. Review of The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia by William

C. Fuller. Law and History Review 2, 2008: 429-30.

27. Review of Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, vol. 2: Reformer: 1945-1964 ed. by S.N.

Khrushchev. Canadian Journal of History 2, 2007: 335-7.

28. Review of Am Rande der Gesellschaft im Frühstalinismus: Die Verfolgung der Personen

ohne Wahlrecht in den Städten des Moskauer Gebiets 1928-1934 by Hans-Michael

Miedlig. Slavic Review 2, 2007: 353-4.

29. Review of Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World eds Michael

A. Morrison and Melinda Zook. Canadian Journal of History 3, 2005: 592-4.

30. Review of Centre-Local Relations in the Stalinist State, 1928-1941 ed E.A. Rees. American

Historical Review 1, 2004: 289-90.

31. Review of Lavrentii Beriia. 1953. Stenogramma iul'skogo plenuma TsK KPSS i drugie

dokumenty eds V. Naumov and Iu. Sigachev. Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue

canadienne des slavistes 1-2, 2003: 242-4.

32. Review of The Affirmative Action Empire by Terry Martin. American Historical Review

October 2002: 1325.

33. Review of Stalin’s Loyal Executioner: People’s Commissar Nikolai Ezhov (1895-1940) by

Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov. Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des

slavistes 1-2, 2002: 159-61.

34. Review of Sowjetische Industriearbeiterinnen in den vierziger Jahren by Susanne Conze.

Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes 2, 2001: 384-5.

35. Review of The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov. Canadian Journal of History/Annales

canadiennes d’histoire 1, 2000: 162-4.

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36. Review of Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev by Vladislav Zubok

and Constantine Pleshakov. Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes 2,

1999: 222-3.

37. Review of Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934-1941 by Robert W. Thurston. Canadian

Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire 2, 1997: 274-5.

38. Review of Stalin’s Peasants by Sheila Fitzpatrick. The International Newsletter of Historical

Studies on Comintern, Communism and Stalinism 7-8, 1996: 163-4.

39. Review of Obshchestvo i reformy: 1945-1964 by Elena Zubkova. The International

Newsletter of Historical Studies on Comintern, Communism and Stalinism 7-8, 1996:

177-8.

Forthcoming reviews:

1. Review of Crimea in War and Transformation by Mara Kozelsky. The Historian.

2. Review of Deutschland und die Sowjetunion, edited by Carola Tischler et al. The Historian.

Translations

1. Translation from Russian into English of Aleksandr Kulanov, "Roman Kim: The Ninja from

the Lubianka," The Historian 1, 2018: 9-33.

2. Translation from Russian into English of Elena N. Gnatovskaya and Aleksandr Kim, "The

Stakhanov Movement and the Fight against Sabotage on the Soviet Far Eastern Railway

in the 1930s," The Historian 2, 2017: 256-80.

3. Translation from Russian into English of Alexander Kim and Kyuonghyuon Min, "On the

Arms Trade between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Soviet Union in

1949 and 1950." The Historian 3, 2015: 518-36.

4. Translation from Russian into English of Alexander Kim,"On the Preparation and Conduct of

the Repression of Koreans in the 1930s Soviet Union." The Historian 2, 2013: 262-82.

5. Translation from Russian into English of Alexander Kim, "The Repression of Soviet Koreans

During the 1930s." The Historian 2, 2012: 267-85.

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Academic Grants and Honours

Publication grants for Jan Struys, Rampspoedige reizen door Rusland en Perzië in de

zeventiende eeuw. Vereeniging de Prins Hendrik Stichting; Vaderlandsch Fonds ter

aanmoediging van ’s Lands Zeedienst; and Directie der Oostersche Handel en

Reederijen (The Netherlands), 2014.

Award for Meritorious Service as Editor of The Historian. Phi Alpha Theta History Honors

Society, January 2012.

Stipend for editorial work on book manuscript "The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in

the German Enlightenment, 1710-1810," by Dr. Han Vermeulen. Max Planck Institut für

ethnologische Forschung, January-June 2011.

Established Researcher Grant, Division of Sponsored Research. University of South Florida,

2006-7.

International Conference Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences. University of South

Florida, 2006.

Standard Research Grant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada for

project Jan Struys's Calamitous Journeys, April 2004-April 2007; declined for 2005-7.

Research Achievement Prize, Nipissing University, 2003.

Publication Grants for ms. of Partner in Crime: The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov.

Nipissing University, McGill University, and Queen’s University, 2003.

Publication Grant for ms. of Partner in Crime: The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov. Aid to

Scholarly Publications Program of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of

Canada, 2003.

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Nipissing University, 1999-2000.

Internal Research Grants, Nipissing University. Autumn 1998, Spring 1999 and Spring 2000.

Publication Grants for ms. of Life and Death under Stalin. Nipissing University, McGill

University, and Queen’s University. 1999.

Publication Grant for ms. of Life and Death under Stalin. Aid to Scholarly Publications

Program of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. 1998.

Doctoral Fellowship, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. April 1991-

April 1993.

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Bourse, Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche. April 1991-April 1992

(declined).

Max Binz Fellowship. McGill University September 1991-September 1992 (declined).

Teaching

Department of History, University of South Florida

EUH 2030 History of Early Modern Europe (2005 and 2006)

EUH 2031 History of Modern Europe (2011)

EUH 3202/6925 (combined undergraduate/MA course) Europe in the Seventeenth and

Eighteenth Centuries (2008; as undergraduate course [EUH 3202] in 2011; 2013; 2015)

EUH 3501 British History to 1688 (2016)

EUH 3575 History of Imperial Russia (2006; 2007; 2014; 2015; as combined undergraduate/MA

course [HIS 6925] in 2010 and 2013)

EUH 3576 Soviet Union (as undergraduate course in 2007, 2008, 2017; as combined

undergraduate/MA course [HIS 6925] 2010)

HIS 3930 History of European Expansion in the Early Modern Age (2005)

HIS 3930/6925 (combined undergraduate/MA course) History of East Central Europe (2006)

HIS 3938 Second World War (2016)

HIS 4104 Theory and Methods of History (2007; 2008; 2010; 2017)

HIS 4900 Directed Reading (Modern France) (2006)

HIS 4900 Directed Reading (Nineteenth-Century Germany) (2012)

HIS 6908 (MA course) Independent Study (Henri IV of France; 2006)

HIS 6908 (MA course) Independent Study (Soviet Union; 2006 and 2007)

HIS 6908 (MA course) Independent Study (Kievan Rus’; 2007)

HIS 6908 (MA course) Independent Study (Nineteenth-Century Russia; 2007)

HIS 6908 (MA course) Independent Study (Seventeenth-Century Muscovy; 2008)

HIS 6908 (MA course) Independent Study (Women in Louis XIV's France; 2008)

HIS 6908 (MA course) Independent Study (Natural Philosophy in the Atlantic World; 2008)

HIS 6908 (MA Course) Independent Study (Russian Foreign Policy in the Nineteenth Century;

2010)

HIS 6908 (MA Course) Independent Study (Muscovite Russia in the Seventeenth Century; 2010)

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HIS 6908 (MA Course) Independent Study (European Imperialism in Africa; 2011)

HIS 6908 (MA Course) Independent Study (Imperial Russia; 2012, 2014)

HIS 6908 (MA Course) Independent Study (The Caucasus; 2017)

HIS 6908 (PhD Course) Independent Study (Russia and US; 2012)

HIS 6908 (PhD Course) Independent Study (Russian and the European Union; 2012)

HIS 6908 (PhD Course) Independent Study (Soviet and post-Soviet Russia; 2014)

HIS 6908 (PhD Course) Independent Study (Nationalism in Austria-Hungary; 2014)

HIS 6908 (MA Course) Independent Study (Armenia and Georgia; 2017)

HIS 6908 (MA/PhD Course) Independent Study (Early Modern Britain; 2018)

HIS 6908 (MA Course) Independent Study (Modern China; 2019)

HIS 6908 (MA Course) Independent Study (Early Modern Britain and Ireland; 2019)

HIS 4936/6939 (combined undergraduate/MA seminar) Dutch and British Maritime Empires

(2006, 2012)

HIS 4936/6939 (combined undergraduate/MA-PhD seminar) Imperial Russia (2007, 2010, 2014)

HIS 4936/6939 (combined undergraduate/MA seminar) Soviet Union in the Second World War

(2012, 2018)

HIS 4936/6939 (combined undergraduate/MA seminar) Western Europe in the Seventeenth

Century (2008)

HIS 4936/6939 (combined undergraduate/MA seminar) The British Empires (2018)

HIS 6939/7939 Capitalism and Empire (2016)

HIS 7938/POS 6933 Ph.D. Capstone Seminar (Spring 2018; Fall 2018; Fall 2019)

History Department, Nipissing University

(all two-term courses)

HIST 1505EA A History of the Modern World (1996-7, 1997-8, 1998-9, 2000-1, 2002-3, and

2003-4)

HIST 2505EA France since the Renaissance (1994-5, 1995-6, and 1998-9)

HIST 2575EA A History of European Expansion (1996-7)

HIST 2605EA Modern Germany (1994-5 and 1997-8)

HIST 2705EA History of Russia (1995-6, 1999-2000, 2002-3, and 2004-5)

HIST 2755EA A History of East Central Europe (1999-2000 and 2004-5)

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HIST 4015EA Directed Reading (Honours; Various Topics) (1995-2004)

HIST 4655EA Western Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries (1995-6 and 1998-9)

HIST 4685EA Russia and Ukraine in the Twentieth Century (1996-7, 2000-1, and 2003-4)

HIST 4775EA Twentieth Century Crises in Historical Perspective (1994-5, 1997-8, 1999-2000,

and 2002-3)

As Instructor in History Department, McGill University

101-216B, History of Russia to 1801 (1994)

101-316B, The Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 (1994)

As Teaching Assistant in History Department, McGill University

101-226A, Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (1993)

101-216A, History of Russia to 1801 (1989 and 1992)

101-224B, History of Great Britain since 1688 (1990)

101-326A, Soviet Union from Stalin to Gorbachev (1990)

101-236B, History of Russia from 1801 to the Present (1991)

As Instructor in Centre for Continuing Education, McGill University

674-265Y, 674-265X, Russia and The Soviet Union in the 20th Century (1992)

674-274X, Russia under the Romanovs: 1613-1917 (1993)

Academic Conferences

Roundtable participant "How To Publish," Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Convention. Orlando, 8

January 2016.

Chair and Commentator of panel "Mexico and Latin America," Phi Alpha Theta Biennial

Convention. Orlando, 8 January 2016.

Chair and Commentator of panel "Early Modern/Modern Europe," Phi Alpha Theta Biennial

Convention. Orlando, 7 January 2016.

Paper "How To Publish an Article in a Journal Such as The Historian? (Version II)," Phi Alpha

Theta Biennial Convention. Albuquerque, 3 January 2014.

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Paper "Andrei Vinius as Colonial Administrator of Siberia." Annual Conference of the

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. New Orleans, 19 November

2012.

Chair of panel "Russian and Austrian Warfare during the First World War." Annual Conference

of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. New Orleans, 19

November 2012.

Organizer panels "Russian and Austrian Warfare during the First World War" and "Eighteenth-

Century Russia and Asia." Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East

European and Eurasian Studies. New Orleans, November 2012.

Paper "World War One in Russian Historiography after Communism." Western Front

Association Conference. Tampa, March 2012.

Paper "How To Publish an Article in a Journal Such as The Historian?" Phi Alpha Theta

Biennial Convention. Orlando, 6 January 2012.

Chair of panel "Modern Russia." Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Convention. Orlando, 6 January

2012.

Chair of panel "Russia Through the Ages." Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Convention. Orlando, FL, 5

January 2012.

Paper "Early Russian Analyses of the Imperial Army's Performance in the First World War: The

Russian Version of the Dolchstuß Legend." Western Front Association Conference.

Tampa, March 2010.

Paper "How to Publish Your Work." Biannual Conference of Phi Alpha Theta. San Diego, CA, 7

January 2010.

Chair of panel "Financial Geographies of Amsterdam." Conference Imagining Amsterdam.

University of Amsterdam, 21 November 2009.

Paper "The Money-Driven Life: The Amsterdam Oligarch Koenraad van Klenk (1628-1691) at

the Height of his Career (1650s-1680s)." Conference Imagining Amsterdam. University

of Amsterdam, 19 November 2009.

Paper "Andrei Vinius." Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of

Slavic Studies, Boston, MA, 15 November 2009.

Paper "Dutch Travelers in Late Muscovy: The van Klenk Embassy and Coyett's Historisch

Verhael." Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic

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Studies, Boston, MA, 14 November 2009.

Paper "Russia Enters Europe: 1676." Annual Conference of the American Association for the

Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, PA, 22 November 2008.

Chair of panel "Nation, Change and Belonging." Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of

Slavists. Vancouver, BC, 1 June 2008.

Paper "Early Roots of Modernization and Global Capitalism: The Dutch Role in Modernizing

Pre-Petrine Muscovy." Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Slavists.

Vancouver, BC, 1 June 2008.

Paper "Jaroslav Hasek and the Czech Legion." Biannual Meeting of the Florida Chapter of the

Western Front Association. Tampa, Florida, 15 February 2008.

Chair of panel "Exploitation of Fame: The Increasing Visibility of Authors in the Course of the

Nineteenth Century." Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship,

Reading and Publishing. The Hague, July 2006.

Paper "Met een beschaafder Penne…": The Context and Genesis of Jan Struys’s Voyages."

Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publication.

The Hague, July 2006.

Paper "The Idiocy of Rural Life." Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.

Columbia, SC, 25 March 2006.

Paper "Soviet GIs or Decembrists?: The reintegration into postwar Soviet society of Russian

soldiers, POWs, partisans, and civilians who lived under German occupation." Annual

Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Salt Lake

City, UT, 6 November 2005.

Paper "Byt' Remembered: Oral Testimony as a Source for the History of the Postwar Kalinin

Province." Annual Conference of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic

Studies. Boston, MA, December 2004.

Chair of panel "Gambles and ‘Calculated’ Risks", Conference "Representation and Regulation:

17th-Century Economics in the Dutch Republic." Institute of Culture of the University of

Amsterdam. 12 November 2004.

Paper "Early Modern Dutch Identity: Jan Janszoon Struijs and his Three Calamitous Journeys."

Conference "Representation and Regulation: 17th-Century Economics in the Dutch

Republic." Institute of Culture of the University of Amsterdam. 12 November 2004.

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Paper "The Prodigal Son Returns: Andrei Zhdanov's Come-Back in 1945-6." Annual Conference

of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Toronto, November

2003.

Chair of panel "New Explorations in Soviet Postwar Politics II: Periphery." Annual Conference

of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Toronto, November

2003.

Organizer panel "War and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union." Annual Meeting of the

Canadian Association of Slavists. Halifax, May 2003.

Paper "The Eternal Ensign." Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Slavists. Halifax,

May 2003.

Panellist in roundtable panel "Russian History/World History." Annual Conference of American

Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Pittsburgh, PA, 15 November 2002.

Paper "Zhdanov’s Return and the Postwar Campaigns." Annual Meeting of the Canadian

Association of Slavists. Toronto, 26 May 2002.

Organizer panel "Postwar Campaigns." Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Slavists.

Toronto, May 2002.

Panellist in roundtable panel on teaching Russian History and World History courses. Annual

Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Crystal

City, VA, 15 November 2001.

Paper "The Pseudo-Intellectual and the Soviet Intelligentsia." Annual Meeting of the Canadian

Association of Slavists. Québec City, 26 May 2001.

Paper "Sons of the Fathers, Sins of the Fathers: The Image of G.M. Malenkov, L.P. Beria and

N.S. Khrushchev in the Memoirs of their Sons." Annual Conference of Canadian

Historical Association. Ottawa, May 1998.

Workshops

"Researching the Soviet Union in Russia." Research Seminar conducted at Utah Valley State

College, September 2006.

Paper "The Prodigal Son Returns: Andrei Zhdanov's Come-Back in 1945-6." Research Seminar,

History Department, Nipissing University, September 2003.

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Paper "Russian History in World-History Textbooks." Research Seminar, History Department,

Nipissing University, October 2002.

Paper "Forgetting of Things Past? The Zhdanov Papers and the Remembrance of A.A. Zhdanov

in the Soviet Union." Mid-West Russian History Workshop, Indiana University, March

2002.

Canadian National Workshop in Modern Russian History at the Stalin-Era Research and

Archives Project, University of Toronto, April 20-21, 2001.

Guest Lectures

Lecture on Soviet Union in Second World War, USF Osher Lifelong Learner Institute (March

2019).

"Jan Struys (c. 1629-1694) en zijn reizen door Rusland en Azië en zijn internationale bestseller

Drie aanmerkelyke en seer rampspoedige reizen." Werkgroep Egodocumenten Huizinga

Instituut, Onderzoekschool voor Cultuurgeschiedenis, University of Amsterdam, 21

October 2016.

"The Soviet Union." USF Honors College (in IDH 4200 Geographical Perspectives:

Kyrgyzstan), 30 January 2012.

"The Soviet Union." USF Honors College (in IDH 4200 Geographical Perspectives:

Kyrgyzstan), September 2012.

"Oblomov and the Russian Soul: Russia at the Crossroads in the Views of Goncharov and

Mikhalkov." USF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, September 2007.

"From Hot War to Cold War: The Soviet Union 1945-1948." Utah Valley State College,

September 2006.

"Stalin, Zjdanov en de 'Gestrafte Sovjetvolkeren' in het vroege naoorlogse tijdperk: de rol van

het Politburo." Centrum voor Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, Nederlands Instituut voor

Oorlogsdocumentatie, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 11 November 2004.

"Young Zhdanov, the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution." Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa,

February 2003.

"Oral History and the Soviet Past." Brock University, St. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada, October

2002.

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Ph.D. Dissertation

Communists and the Russians: The Kalinin Province under Stalin. McGill University, 1994.

Academic and other service

Current

Consulting Editor, The Historian (2018-)

Member, executive council, History Department USF (Spring 2019; Fall and Spring 2019-2020)

Graduate Director, USF History Department (2017-)

Member USF Financial Aid Appeals Committee (2017-)

Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee of Mr. Michael Swierczynski, USF Department of History

(2018-).

Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee of Mr. Sean Krummerich, USF Department of History

(2014-).

Main Advisor Ph.D. student Ms. Tamala Malerk, USF Department of History (2019-).

Previous

Referee application to full professorship by Dr. Brian Boeck, Department of History, DePaul

University, Chicago, IL (2019).

Reader, Honors Thesis of Mr. Ian McKinney, USF Honors College (2019)

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Ms. Kiri Raber, USF Department of

History (Spring 2019)

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Mr. Kipp Tremlin, USF Department of

History (Spring 2019)

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Mr. Ryan Ferro, USF Department of

History (Spring 2019; major and minor fields)

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Ms. Chelsi Arellano, USF Department

of History (Spring 2019)

Member, MA Thesis Committee of Mr. Ryan Ferro, USF Department of History (2018-19)

Chair, PhD Defense of Ms. Marina Mendes, USF Department of Government (2019)

Member, PhD Committee of Ms. Marina Mendes, USF Department of Government (2012-2019)

Member, MA Thesis Committee of Mr. Nevzat Torun, USF Department of Government (2019)

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Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee of Mr. David Beeler, USF Department of History (2015-

19)

Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee of Mr. Dennis Laffer, MD, USF Department of History

(2013-18)

Lecture on Vladimir Putin, International Forum of Sun City Center, Florida (December 2018)

Member, MA Thesis Committee of Mr. Fatih Aydogan, USF Department of Government (2018)

Chair, Honors Thesis of Mr. Michael Pothoven, USF Honors College (2017-18)

Editor, The Historian (2008-18)

Coordinator of USF Certificate in Russian Studies (2010-17)

Member, undergraduate committee USF History Department (2011-12, and 2016-17)

Member, committee evaluating Dr. June Melby Benowitz's application for promotion to full

professor, USF Sarasota (2016).

Panellist on panel on Russia today at St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs, St. Petersburg

2016.

Reviewer (double-blind) for Amsterdam University Press of book manuscript "Rusland,

Oekraïne en de Krim: Historische achtergronden van een politiek probleem in de

éénentwintigste eeuw" (Fall 2015).

Panel participant (on Russia and Ukraine), International Forum panel discussion on Russia today,

Sun City Center, Florida (November 2015).

Examiner, Russian-language competence exam for the Ph.D. degree of Mr. Sean Krummerich,

USF Department of History (Fall 2015).

Examiner, Dutch-language competence exam for the Ph.D. degree of Mr. David Beeler, USF

Department of History (Fall 2015).

Field Director of comprehensive exam for Ph.D. degree of Mr. Sean Krummerich, USF

Department of History (Fall 2015).

Chair, committee of full professors evaluating Dr. Golfo Alexopolous's application for

promotion to full professor, History Department USF (2015).

Member, committee rewriting guidelines for tenure and promotion, History Department USF

(2015).

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Ms. Janet Schalk, USF Department of

History (Spring 2015).

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Examiner, German-language competence exam for the MA degree of Ms. Janet Schalk, USF

Department of History (Spring 2015).

Member, executive council, History Department USF (2014-15)

Participant in roundtable "Crisis in Ukraine: The Euromaidan and what's next?" University of

South Florida (1 March 2014).

Panel participant (on Germany), International Forum panel discussion on Germany, Sun City

Center, Florida (January 2014).

Reviewer of Title VIII Research Proposal, "A Better World in the Minds of Comrades: The

Soviet Union in UNESCO, 1954-1982," American Councils for International Education

(October-November 2013).

Examiner, German-language competence exam for the MA degree of Ms. Melissa Badcock, USF

Department of History (Spring 2013).

Reviewer for Yale University Press of book manuscript "Stalin, the NKVD, and Repression:

1936-1938, A History of Stalinism" by Vladmir Khaustov and Lennart Samuelson (Fall

2013).

Reviewer for Russian History of revised manuscript "The War Within: Factional Strife and

Politics of Control in the Soviet Party State (1944-1948)" (August 2013).

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Mr. Ron Arbisi (Spring 2013).

Examiner, German-language competence exam for the MA degree of Mr. Ron Arbisi, USF

Department of History (Spring 2013).

Reviewer for Kritika of manuscript "Sovetskie voennoplennye v planakh rukovodstva vo vremia

operatsii 'Barbarossa' na territorii Ukrainy: ideologiia, improvizatsiia, protivorechiia"

(May 2013).

Reviewer for Russian History of manuscript "The War Within: Factional Strife and Politics of

Control in the Soviet Party State (1944-1948)" (January 2013).

Member, library committee USF History Department (2012-13).

Co-Director MA Thesis by Mr. Sean Krummerich (submitted Summer 2012).

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Mr. Derek Vander Velde (Spring

2012).

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Mr. Sean Krummerich (Spring 2012).

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Supervisor Honors Thesis "Oars to Sail," by Mr. David Chang, USF Honors College, (submitted

Spring 2012).

Panel participant (on Belgium), International Forum panel discussion on the Benelux, Sun City

Center, Florida (March 2012).

Member, undergraduate committee USF History Department (2011-12).

Reviewer manuscript "Authors Losing Control: The European transformations of Henry

Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668)" for Book History (October 2011).

Editor book manuscript "The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German

Enlightenment, 1710-1810" by Dr. Han Vermeulen (January-June 2011).

"Russia: Past and Present." Presentation for the USF Russian Club (12 October 2010).

Coordinator undergraduate Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Diploma, USF (2010-).

Supervisor Honors Thesis "Johan Nieuhof: Travelogue and Early Modern Consumer," by Mr.

Ryan Walsh, USF Honors College, 2011.

Reader Master's Thesis "The Jewish Trail of Tears: The Evian Conference of 1938," by Mr.

Dennis Laffer, MD, USF History Department (2011).

Supervisor Honors Thesis "Losing Faith: Radical Religious Thought in the Early English

Enlightenment," by Mr. Michael Curry, USF Honors College, 2010.

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Ms. Aspen Cosson (Spring 2010).

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Mr. Ben Sperduto (Spring 2010).

Panel participant (on Russia), International Forum panel discussion on Russia, Sun City Center,

Florida (March 2010).

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Mr. Dennis Laffer (Fall 2009).

Member, Search Committee for position "US in the World." USF History Department (Fall

2009-Winter 2010).

Member, Graduate Committee USF History Department (2009-2010, 2014-16).

Reader, MA Thesis by Ms. Natalie Ciecieznski (Fall, 2009)

Reader, MA Thesis by Mr. Justin Castells (Fall, 2009)

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Mr. Justin Castells (Fall 2009).

Member of Program Committee annual convention of Canadian Historical Association

(adjudicating panel and paper proposals; Fall 2009-Winter 2010).

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Presentation of the film Korczak by Andrzej Wajda. "Fears of Difference: The Diversity of

Holocaust Experiences." monthly film series at the University of South Florida (13

September 2009).

Reader of revised ms. Vasily's Island; The Pearl of St. Petersburg for McGill-Queen's University

Press (2009).

Panel participant (on Russia and EU), International Forum panel discussion on European Union,

Sun City Center, Florida (6 February 2009).

Referee application to full professorship by Dr. Paul Robinson, Graduate School of Public and

International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada (2008).

Introduction to viewing of film Mongol by Sergei Bodrov before USF Phi Alpha Theta Rho Nu

chapter (2008).

Reader of ms. Vasily's Island; The Pearl of St. Petersburg for McGill-Queen's University Press

(2008).

Member At Large, Executive Board of the Canadian Association of Slavists (2002-3 and 2008-

9).

Chair, USF College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council (2008-10).

Member, Library Committee, USF Department of History (2008-9).

Member, Search Committee for position in Asian History, USF History Department (2008-9).

Member, USF College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council (2007-10).

Member, USF Department of History’s Executive Council (2006-10).

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Mr. John Ruane, Mr. Matthew Whalon,

Ms. Natalie Ciecienzski, Mr. John Bush, and Mr. Jeffery Thompson, USF History

Department (2008).

Field Director of comprehensive exam for MA degree of Ms. Alla Lazareva and Ms. Kim Jago,

USF History Department (2007).

Member, Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor in European History, USF History

Department (2007).

Referee for Internal Awards competition in the Arts and Humanities, Division of Sponsored

Research, USF (2007).

Member of Jury, Canadian Association of Slavists’ undergraduate and graduate student-essay

contest (2007).

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Member, USF Department of History’s Graduate Committee (2006-8).

Member, Search Committee for position in Colonial Latin America, USF Department of History

(2006-7).

Reader, Undergraduate Honors Thesis Young Poland by Olga Robak, Honors

College/Department of Art History, USF (2006).

Reader, MLA Thesis This Is Not a Politburo, but a Madhouse by Russ Taylor, USF (2006).

Referee, Slavic Review (2005).

Member, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Committee, Nipissing University (2005).

Member, Nipissing University's University Research Council (2004-5).

Designate, Committee for Dr. Steven High’s promotion application to rank of Associate

Professor, Nipissing University (2004-5).

Member, Nipissing University's Senate (1994-2005).

Coordinator, History Department committee to develop an MA in History, Nipissing University

(2004).

Member, hiring committee for tenure-track position in Political Science, Nipissing University

(2004).

Member, hiring committees for limited-term positions in Historiography/Totalitarianism and

Military History/Continental Europe, History Department, Nipissing University (2004).

Member, Advisory Board of the Institute for Community Studies and Oral History, Nipissing

University (2003-5).

Senate Representative on Nipissing University's Consolidated Committee (2003-4).

Member of workload-discussion team of Nipissing University Faculty Association (2003-4).

Member, hiring committees for limited-term positions in the Atlantic World and in European

History, History Department, Nipissing University (2003).

Senate Representative for the Faculty of Arts and Science on hiring committees for tenure-track

positions in the Faculty of Education in Language Arts and Literacy and in Curriculum

Methods, Nipissing University (2003).

Member At Large, Executive Board of the Canadian Association of Slavists (2002-3).

Member, hiring committee for limited-term positions in Early Modern Atlantic World and

Modern Continental Europe, History Department, Nipissing University (2002).

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Senate Representative for the Faculty of Arts and Science on hiring committees for tenure-track

positions in the Faculty of Education in Foundations in Education, Language Arts and

Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Curriculum Methods, Curriculum and Instruction,

Computers in Education, Physical and Health Education, Educational Psychology,

Nipissing University (2000-1).

Chair, Senate Cultural Affairs Committee, Nipissing University (2000-1).

Member, hiring committees for limited-term positions in Canadian and in European History,

History Programme, Nipissing University (2000).

External Reader Ph.D. dissertation ‘Egor Radov and the Subversion of Russian Patriarchal

Order’ by Peter Wasylyk, Department of Slavic Studies, McGill University, 2000.

Referee Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes (2000-3).

Coordinator, History Programme, Nipissing University (1999-2001).

Chair, Senate Library Committee, Nipissing University (1998-2000).

Member, Senate Cultural Affairs Committee, Nipissing University (1998-9).

Member, Senate Library Committee, Nipissing University (1996-8).

Member, Senate Research Ethics Committee, Nipissing University (1996-7 and 2002-3).

Member, Senate Research Grants Committee, Nipissing University (1995-6).

Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Graduate History Students, McGill University (1992-3).

Membership of Professional Organizations

Canadian Historical Association

Podcasts

1. On book about Struys: http://newbooksinbiography.com/2011/03/14/kees-boterbloem-the-fiction-and-reality-of-jan-struys-a-seventeenth-century-dutch-globetrotter-palgrave-mcmillan-2008/

2. On book about Vinius: http://www.podcasts.com/new-books-in-russian-and-eurasian-studies/episode/kees-boterbloem-moderniser-of-russia-andrei-vinius-1641-1716

AHA Member Spotlight http://blog.historians.org/2013/04/aha-member-spotlight-kees-boterbloem/

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