Historical Recruitment

The HSE Faculty of History in St. Petersburg will be joined by two world-class experts. Sergey Glebov, lecturer at Amherst College and Smith College (Massachusetts, USA), and Nathan Markus, researcher at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem Department of Economics, will start teaching at the HSE in September. These appointments are part of the university’s international recruitment programme.

The HSE Faculty of History in St. Petersburg will be joined by two world-class experts. Sergey Glebov, lecturer at Amherst College and Smith College (Massachusetts, USA), and Nathan Markus, researcher at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem Department of Economics, will start teaching at the HSE in September. These appointments are part of the university’s international recruitment programme.

Sergey Glebov teaches the history of Russia and Eurasia and is a member of the Russian and Eurasian Studies programme at Smith College. He is also coordinator of the Russian and Eurasian Studies programme at the Five Colleges Consortium. Dr. Glebov’s research interests include the intellectual history of Eurasianism and its role in the emergence of structuralism, the history of the Russian Empire in Siberia, and a comparative history of colonialism.

Sergey Glebov was an invited expert at the summer institutes for professors at Columbia University and co-director of the seminar on comparative history of Russian and Ottoman Empires at the US National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a founding editor of the journal Ab Imperio. Studies in New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space.

Dr. Glebov will teach an English-language course entitled ‘Colonization and De-colonization’, as well as will conduct some master classes for postgraduate students. In addition to that, Sergey will continue his research work: he is planning to participate in workshops by the international research project headed by Ronald Suny, ‘Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism’, the ‘Boundaries of History’ research seminar, and other faculty events.

Nathan Markus received his BA in Economics and History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2011 he got his PhD in Modern European History at New York University. Dr. Markus’s research interests include financial history, economic history, and modern European history. Dr. Markus is involved in studies on sport and nationalism.

In the new academic year Nathan Markus will read an English-language course on Modern and Postmodern Economic History. He will also supervise students’ research work.