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About
Sean Pollock earned his Ph.D in History from Harvard University (2006), where he received several teaching awards, including the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for senior thesis advising and the Stephen Botein Prize for teaching in History and Literature. He has also taught at Yale University and the University of New Haven, and was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University (2007). Since joining the Department of History in 2008, he has received recognition for teaching excellence in General Education and Writing across the Curriculum. He was the 2013 Phi Alpha Theta Outstanding Faculty Member (Department of History) and received of the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for 2015. In addition to teaching in traditional classroom settings, he has designed and successfully taught several asynchronous and synchronous online courses, and has advanced the university's mission to engage in meaningful community service by teaching service‐learning courses. He chaired the University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and the Faculty Senate Taskforce on Distance Education, served as the inaugural Faculty Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (2015-18), and represented the College of Liberal Arts on Faculty Senate (2012-2018).
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Education/Academic qualification
Instructional Design for Digital Learning, Certificate, Wright State University
… → 2017
History, Ph.D., Harvard University
… → 2006
Regional Studies Program: Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, A.M., Harvard University
… → 1996
International Studies: Russia and East Europe, B.A., University of Washington
… → 1994
Research Interests
- Imperial Russia
- Comparative Empires
- Caucasia
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities
- History
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Anglophone Historiography of Russian Empire before the Imperial Turn
Pollock, S., 2025, In: Slavic Review. 84, 4, p. 722-745 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“A True Russian Soldier”: Fabius Larionovich’s Less-Is-More Art of War
Pollock, S., Apr 2024, In: Russian Review. 83, 2, p. 272-276 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How the Field was Colonized: Russian History’s Ukrainian Blind Spot
Smith-Peter, S. & Pollock, S., 2023, In: Russian History. 50, 3-4, p. 145-156 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Periodization as Decolonization
Smith-Peter, S., Pollock, S., Hill, A., Martin, A., Marples, D., Aydin, F. T. & Roberts, G., 2023, In: Russian History. 50, 3-4, p. 157-184 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"The Duty of Perfect Obedience": The Laws of Subjecthood in Tsarist Russia
Pollock, S., 2023, In: Kritika. 24, 4, p. 753-790 38 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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