• A
  • A
  • A
  • ABC
  • ABC
  • ABC
  • А
  • А
  • А
  • А
  • А
Regular version of the site

About the Center for Historical Research

Center for Historical Research was founded in 2012.

The Center's goal is to systematically develop methodology and approaches for global, comparative, and transnational history in various fields of historical research. Key research topics for the Center are: opportunities and potentialities of historical research across the boundaries of national history and beyond the research agenda of national historiographic canon; the history of diversity and the politics of difference; the porous boundaries between the discipline of history and adjacent fields of social sciences and potentialities of the cross-disciplinary research agenda-setting; the imagined boundary between the past and the present and the relevance of historical knowledge for contemporary and future-oriented public and expert debate in modern societies.

Fields of research:

  • The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
  • Comparative history of empire, colonialism, and nationalism
  • Environmental and technological history
  • Socal Anthropology
  • Social and cultural history of borders and borderlands
  • Intellectual history and history of science
  • History and anthropology of religion
  • History of Parliamentarism and Constitutionalism in Russian and Eurasian History
  • Historical Geography, digital humanities, and GIS

Since its foundation in 2012, the Center for Historical Research has been an organizational platform for a wide range of fundamental research projects on Russian and world history, supported by leading international organizations and specialists.

The Center conducts a number of research projects, including projects with partner universitities.

Since 2012, the Center hosts a regular research seminar.

Since 2014, the Center for Historical Research has been participating in the HSE Postdoctoral Fellowship program and in the program for Russian postdocs (you can find out about postdoctoral fellowships accepted under the program here)

The Center conducts a number of conferences, seminars and research summer schools for students and postgraduates of the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg together with the Department of History, Russian and partners universitites (Tyumen State University, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University). The Center participates in the implementation of the joint postgraduate program of the Department of History and the University of Turin “Global History of Empires”.

In 2016, the Center for Historical Research opened a new division – the Laboratory of Environmental and Technological History, which aims to conduct research in the rapidly developing areas of historical knowledge – environmental and technological history.

Archive

Annual results of the Center for Historical Research and Department of History

Interviews (archive)

Video archive


 

Have you spotted a typo?
Highlight it, click Ctrl+Enter and send us a message. Thank you for your help!
To be used only for spelling or punctuation mistakes.