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Paul W. Werth
Department
of History
University
of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505
Maryland Parkway
Box
455020
Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-5020
Wright Hall A-324
702-895-3344 (phone)
702-895-1782 (fax)
werthp@unlv.nevada.edu
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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 Associate 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.
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