Faculty of History

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Faculty of History Higher School of
Economics St. Petersburg
(established in 2012 )
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Faculty of History Higher School of Economics
St. Petersburg

• Bachelor of Arts in History degree program
• Ph. D.
• Center for Historical Research (research
  division of the Faculty of History)

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Our BA in History program today

• 59 first- and second-year students
• coming from 40 regions of Russia (including the
  Southern and Ural Federal Districts)
• Admission requirements Russian Unified State
  Exam with a total score of at least 304 (a total
  of four subjects)

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BA in History today

• Courses offered by exceptionally qualified
  faculty members, some of whom are recruited on
  the international market
• Student research supervised by established
  scholars who teach at the faculty
• Archeological, museum, and archival internships
• Annual international summer/winter schools in
  English
• Student exchange with HSE Moscow
• Vibrant student life

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Our Faculty Members

• Evgeny Anisimov, Dr.Sc. in History, tenured
  professor, academic advisor of the Faculty of
  History
• Winner of the Alexander Nevsky Prize in History
  and Literature
• Winner of the Antsiferov Prize for a Contribution
  to Contemporary Research on St. Petersburg
• Alexandra Bekasova, Cand.Sc. in History,
  Associate Professor of the Faculty of History,
  Senior Research Fellow of the Center for
  Historical Research
• Member of ESEH, SHOT and T2M
• Research Interests history of mobility and
  transportation, environmental history, history of
  technology, history of science and education in
  the 18th 19th centuries.
• Tatiana Borisova, Cand.Sc. in history, Associate
  Professor of the Faculty of History, Doctoral
  Student at the Faculty of Law, Leiden University,
  NL, Senior Research Fellow of the Center for
  Historical Research
• Research Interests history of political thought
  and law.

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Our faculty members

• Victor Kaplun, Cand.Sc. in Philosophy, Associate
  Professor of the Faculty of Sociology
• Research Interests modern social and political
  theory, historical sociology, history of Russian
  and European Enlightenment.
• Yulia Lajus, Cand.Sc. in History, Associate
  Professor of the Faculty of History,
  Vice-President of the European Society of
  Environmental History, Senior Research Fellow at
  the Center for Historical Research

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Our faculty members
Dmitry Panchenko, Cand.Sc. in History, Associate
Professor of the Faculty of History, Research
Internship at Harvard University, fellowship at
the Center of Hellenic Studies (Washington DC,
USA), Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship
at the University of Konstanz (Germany), research
fellowship at the Collegium of Fundamental
Research, the University of Helsinki. Co-editor
of Hyperboreus Studia Classica, Research
Interests Ancient history. Ivan Sablin, PhD
Candidate at Heidelberg University (Germany),
Senior Lecturer, editor of the portal
Net.abimperio.net the Network of Empire and
Nationalism Studies Research Interests
historical Geography and History of Siberia and
Asia. Adrian Selin, Dr. Sc. in History,
Professor, Director of the Center for Historical
Research, co-supervisor of the Swedish Novgorod
project. Research Interests Historical
Prosopography, Early Modern History of Central
and North-Eastern Europe.
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Our faculty members

• Alexander Semyonov, Ph. D, Professor, Dean of the
  Faculty of History, member of the Editorial Board
  of international scholarly journal Ab Imperio.
  Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism
  in the Post-Soviet Space, Visiting Professor of
  University of Chicago and University of Michigan
  (USA)
• Research Interests intellectual history, history
  of the Russian Empire in the 19th-20th centuries,
  comparative history of empires, colonialism and
  nationalism.
• Vladimir Uspensky, Senior Lecturer, Vice Dean for
  Education, Junior Research Fellow of the Center
  for Historical Research
• Research Interests social history of the Middle
  Ages, quantitative analysis in historical
  research.

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Courses taught in English

• Julia Lajus. Introduction to Environmental
  History
• Marina Loskutova. Introduction to History of
  Science
• Ivan Sablin. Russia in Eurasian and World
  Politics
• Vladimir Uspenskiy. Russian Political
  Institutions in Historical Perspective
• http//spb.hse.ru/en/history/courses_en

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Getting practical experience Student
Internships Archeological Fieldwork Opportunities

Our undergraduate students enjoy a wide range of
opportunities to have some practical experience
in archeology, archival research and museology by
working on respective internship programs. Our
archeological internships take place in Staraya
Ladoga and at the Left Bank archeological
excavation project supervised by the Institute of
Archaeology of the Ukrainian National Academy of
Sciences led by UNAS corresponding member
Aleksandr Motsi . Archeological excavations in
Staraya Ladoga are carried out on the grounds of
the Staraya Ladoga Historical and Architectural
Museum. The excavations are supervised by the
Institute for the History of Material Culture,
the Russian Academy of Sciences, and take place
from mid-June to mid-August. Each year the
project attracts students from St. Petersburg,
Nizhniy Novgorod, as well as experienced
researchers from Russia and Scandinavian
countries. The head of Staraya Ladoga
Archeological Internship Program at our faculty
is Professor Adrian Selin.
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Archeological Internship 2013
in Staraya Ladoga

• Participants speak
• The Group from our Faculty had an excellent
  opportunity to take part in the research that
  explored objects of daily life of local
  inhabitants we learned new archeological skills

• If youd like to summarize the discoveries made
  by our team, weve found about 10 pendants,
  pieces of jewelry and clothes that belonged to
  ancient Slavs, many bones and pieces of
  ceramics, we even found a part of an iron tool of
  the Bronze Age. Presumably, it was used for
  polishing.
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International Summer Schools

• Saint Petersburg the Capital of the Russian
  Empire in cooperation with University of Basel,
  June 3-11, 2012
• III Annual Summer School of the European Society
  of Environmental History History of Change and
  Natural Resource Management Society, Nature,
  Technologies and State August 28-31, 2012
• Russia between Past and Present Russian
  Politics, History and Culture in Comparative
  Perspective, in cooperation with the University
  of Pittsburgh,
• July 2-11, 2013

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International Summer School Russia between Past
and Present Russian Politics, History and
Culture in Comparative Perspective, in
cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh,
July 2-11, 2013

• Summer School Participants speak
• I think today it is important for young
  Americans to know Russian history
• Within just a few days spent at the summer
  school we got plenty of different impressions
  that concern the ways the Americans perceive the
  Russians, the American culture, the interest that
  the Americans express towards our country

• Summer School has become an excellent experience
  of cooperation between Russian and US students in
  the research sphere. It was interesting to
  discuss with young Americans the ways in which
  older generations in both countries perceive
  each other, their understanding of world
  politics and their actions towards each other.
  All of us, we hope that it is not our last
  meeting.

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Center for Historical Research

• Director of the Center
• Professor Adrian Selin
• Research Scope
• Modern history
• Nationalism and empires in comparative
  perspective
• Boarders, contact zones and mobility
• The center hosts international academic
  conferences, accepts foreign students as interns
  and scholar in the positions of affiliated
  research fellows, and offers many opportunities
  for those students who study at the History
  Department to get engaged in its research
  projects as research assistants.

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Borders of History Research Seminar
(Scientific Advisor Professor Alexander Semyonov)

• The focus of the seminar
• - The writing of history in historical
  perspective, the functions of historical
  narratives in contemporary society, the role of
  historian as a public intellectual.
• - Cross-disciplinary dialogue in humanities and
  social sciences, the current state of
  inter-disciplinary research (environmental
  history, empire, nationalism and colonialism
  studies, historical anthropology, historical
  sociology, intellectual history and social
  theory)
• The current state of history as a profession in
  Russia, problems and perspectives of its
  international cooperation
• Interns of the Center for Historical Research
  participate in the workshop

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Borders of History Research Seminar

• Evgeny Anisimov
• Human feelings in the 1812 War
• Stephen How Aftershocks of Empire Recent Debates
  on Decolonization in the UK
• Roundtable with Irina Prokhorova For Public and
  Professional Use humanities and history in
  contemporary Russia

• Ronald Suny Legacies of Empire in Russian
  History
• Andrew Zorin  Is it possible to reconstruct
  individual emotions and sensibilities of the
  past? A contribution to the study of Russian
  nobility and its culture in the 18th 19th
  centuries
• Benjamin Natans Amnesty International and the
  Dissident Movement in the Soviet Union  

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International Research Interns
Andrei Cusco,  Al. I . Cuza University of
Iasi, Research Fellow Research project "Visions
and Perceptions of Romania in the Russian
Imperial Discourse and Public Sphere in the Late
19th and Early 20th Century Kimberly Powers,
a postgraduate student from the University of
Michigan  Research project "Mullahs by
Appointment, Legitimate Marriages, and Birth
Record Books in the Russian Empire Brandon
Schechter, University of California,
Berkeley, Graduate Student  Research project
The Peoples Instructions Indigenizing the
Great Patriotic War Among Non-Russians
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• Our faculty is actively engaged in international
  research
• International Research Seminar Historical
  Biography in the Context of Regional and Imperial
  Borders of Northern Europe,
• October, 24-26, 2013 ?.
• International Seminar The Dialogue between
  Post-Imperial and Postcolonial Studies
  sovereignty, the politics of diversity and
  composite societies in comparative perspective,
  May 27-28, 2013
• International Workshop Borders, transnational
  communication and mobility in the Baltic region
  of Europe. Past and Present, November, 21-22
  2012

• International Workshop Circulation of Knowledge
  in the Divided World Attraction, Confrontation,
  Cooperation of Expert Communities in the Cold
  War, September, 5, 2012.
• International Workshop History of Exploration
  and Management of Natural Resources Society,
  Nature, Technology and State, August 30-31 2012
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International Project on Russian Environmental
History
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust (UK). The
project unites scholars from 6 universities in
the UK, the US and Russia. Conferences and
retreats 2013 Solovetsky Islands 2014
Chernobyl 2015 Lake Baikal
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Student Life
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Student trip to Novgorod Velikii
On this trip, students had an excellent
opportunity to learn alternative narratives of
Russian history. They explored medieval material
and written culture, art and architecture. They
studied cross-cultural transfers and exchanges
in the Baltic region. Our professors offered
master-classes in reading medieval architectural
monuments through the prism of sacral texts of
the Russian Orthodox Church. Participants
Professor Anisimov, Professor Semyonov, Associate
Professor Tatiana Borisova, Professor
Troianovskii (the head of the Novgorod
Archaeological Expedition). The visit was
organized by the students of the Faculty of
History.
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Student Life

• KVN Club of the Funny and Inventive, humor
  show and competition
• Film Club

• HSE Championship in Intellectual Games and Open
  Championship of Russian Universities  

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