Sergey Glebov, Assistant Professor of History in Smith College and Amherst College arrives at the faculty of history, HSE-St Petersburg.

In autumn 2014 professor Sergey Glebov arrives at the faculty of history. He will be making his research and participating in working seminars of the International Research Project under the guidance of leading international scholar Ronald Suny “Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism”.

 Professor Glebov also will be teaching an English course for bachelor students in history “Colonization and decolonization,” will hold a series of master-classes for graduate students and will take part in the research seminar “Borders of history” and other faculty activities.

Sergey Glebov teaches Russian and Eurasian history at Smith College and Amherst College, Massachusetts , USA. He is a member of history departments in Smith and Amherst College and the Russian and Eurasian Studies program in Smith College. Professor Glebov also coordinates the Five College Certificate in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.

Publications of Professor Glebov include a documentary history of the Eurasianism (Evraziistvo mezhdu imperiei i modernom: Istoria v dokumentakh (Eurasianism Between Empire and Modernity: A History in Documents), (Editor and author of comments and introduction). Moscow: Novoe izdatel’stvo, 2009). His interests include intellectual history of Eurasianism and its role in the origin of Structuralism, the history of the Russian Empire in Siberia, the Far East, and North America, in particular in the interactions of native peoples and imperial structures, and in the history of missionary activities and scholarly exploration. Sergey Glebov is a guest expert in Columbia university summer institutions for professors in Russian emigration history. He is a co-director of the US National Endowment for the Humanities seminar on comparative history of Russian and Ottoman Empire. He is also a founding co-editor of “Ab Imperio. Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space”.