Research Interests: Public History
Central & Eastern Europe
Battlefield Studies
Expansion of European Frontiers
Early Modern and Modern Europe
Courses
Global Studies (HIS 201)
Practicing History (HIS 250)
Russia to 1917 (HIS 353)
Russia after 1917 (HIS 354)
Revolutionary Europe (HIS 358)
Nineteenth Century Europe (HIS 359)
Public History (HIS 399)
Service Activities
University Representative, Kentucky Institute of International Studies
Faculty Assistant Dean of International Studies
University Representative, Kentucky Academy of Central and East European Studies
College Curriculum Committee
Organizations
Associate Member of the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Selected Publications & Research
2004. Along Europe’s Eastern Frontier: an Urban History of Early Modern Kamianets-Podilsky, East European Monographs, No. 641, Columbia University Press, ISBN: 0-88033-539-4.
2004. “Challenging a National Myth: Revolutionary Armies from the Battles of Zboriv”, Fields of Conflict III: Recent Perspectives on Battlefield Archaeology, National Park Service Publication.
2004. Book review of Patricia E. Rubertone’s, Grave Undertakings, 2001, Smithsonian Institution Press, for the Journal of the Society of Historical Archaeology, 38 (2), 2004, 157-159.
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program, 2002/2003, “Public History at Zboriv: Study and Preservation of a Seventeenth Century Cossack Battlefield in Western Ukraine”.