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Paul WerthDepartment of HistoryUniversity 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 |
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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.
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History 466: EuropeanDiplomatic History Since 1815 |