Trinity

Paul Werth

Department of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 455020
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 89154-5020

702-895-3344 (Phone)
702-895-1782 (fax)
werthp@unlv.nevada.edu
 NEP


 HIS 422  |  Past Courses  |  CV  |  my articles   | my film  |  UNLV History  | Travel Form  |  ©  

 

Paul Werth received his B.A. from Knox College (1990) and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1996). He has also studied at the University of Copenhagen (1989) and the University of Wisconsin (1993). He joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1997 and is now an Associate Professor in the History Department. In 2004-2005 he was visting fellow at the Slavic Research Center at the University of Hokkaido, Japan; and in 2007-2008 he was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.   He is currently  Editor of the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 

His research interests include issues of ethnic and religious minorities in the Russian empire, missionary activity in the Volga region, and the problem of religious toleration in the Russian empire.  In conducting research, he has worked in archives and libraries in St. Petersburg, Kazan, Moscow,  Kirov (Viatka), Ufa, Ioshkar-Ola, Samara, Saratov, Vilnius, and Tbilisi. He has published articles in Social History,  Slavic Review, Nationalities Papers, Kritika, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Russian Review,  Ab Imperio, and The Journal of Modern History.  His book, At the Margins of Orthodoxy, was published with Cornell University Press in 2002.  He is currently working on a study concerning discourses and practices of religious tolerance in Russia and their relation to the construction of a modern civil order, from Peter the Great to the outbreak of World War I. He has also begun work on research concerning the significance of the Armenian church and its head, the Catholicos, for imperial Russian domestic and foreign policy. 

Paul Werth is a citizen of the United States and Denmark. His wife, Elizaveta, is a native of St. Petersburg (Leningrad). Their son Daniel was born in 1998.

 








Other Course Offerings




History 348
World War I


 

History 445
Modern Russian Cultural History
(Religion in Russia & the USSR)


History 464
20th-century Europe

History 466:
EuropeanDiplomatic History Since 1815
















COPYRIGHT INFORMATION.  The materials included on this website and the links to other sites all involve what I understand to be within the fair use protection of the copyright laws. If any copyright owner objects to materials or links on this website, please contact me and I will remove the work or link and review the propriety of including it.

















ARTICLES AVAILABLE HERE. A few of my articles are available through this web site, thanks in particular to the publication policy of the Slavic Research Center of the University of Hokkaido, Japan.