Curriculum Vitae for Michael C. Paul, Ph.D.

Michael C. Paul, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

degrees

Ph.D. in History with Award of Academic Merit, University of Miami, 2003

M.A. in Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, 1996

M.A. in Political Science, University of Kansas, 1996

B.A. in Political Science with Departmental Honors, University of Kansas, 1993

EXPERIENCE

2005 – 2006 Visiting Assistant Professor

The Department of History

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee, North Carolina

2005 Visiting Assistant Professor

The Department of History

Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

2003 – 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor

The Department of History

University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award, The J. William Fulbright Scholar Program and the Fulbright Exchange Program in Russia, 2006-2007

Theodore Parker Fund Grant, Department of History, University of Miami, Spring 2003

Summer Research Grant, Department of History University of Miami, 1999, 2000, 2002

Provost’s Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Miami, Fall 2001

Max and Peggy Kriloff Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami, Fall 2001

Graduate Activity Fee Allocation Committee (GAFAC), University of Miami, Research Grant, Summer 2000; Fall 2001

Research grant, Medieval Slavic Studies Institute, Hilandar Research Library, The Ohio State University, 1999

Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarship, 1995 and 1996 (to study in Russia)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Nation in History: A Theoretical Overview (London and New York: Pearson-Longman, forthcoming 2007) with Laura Cruz.

‘A Man Chosen by God’: The Archiepiscopal Office in Novgorod the Great Up to the Muscovite Conquest (Leiden and Boston: Brill, under contract).

Juried Articles

Secular Power and the Archbishops of Novgorod before the Muscovite Conquest, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 8, No.2 (Spring 2007): 231-270.

The Iaroslavichi and the Novgorodian Veche 1230-1270: A Case Study on Princely Relations with the Veche, Russian History/ Histoire Russe 31, No. 1-2 (Spring-Summer, 2004): 39-59.

Episcopal Election in Novgorod, Russia 1156-1478, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 72, No. 2 (June 2003): 251-275.

The Military Revolution in Russia 1550-1682, The Journal of Military History 68, No. 1 (January 2004): 9-45.

Book Chapters

Archbishop Vasilii Kalika of Novgorod and the Defense of Orthodoxy, in Alan V. Murray, ed., The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier (forthcoming 2008).

Encyclopedia Entries

St. Olga, Great Lives from History: the Middle Ages and Pre-Renaissance, Leslie Ellen Jones, ed., (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004).

Veche, The Encyclopedia of Russian History, James R. Millar, ed., (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003).

Church Statutes of Vladimir and Iaroslav; Church-State Relations in Kievan Rus’; and Church-State Relations in Muscovite Russia, Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (SMERSH), Bruce F. Adams, ed., (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 2005).

Stoglav, or Council of One Hundred Chapters, Great Events from History: 1454-1600 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005).

Book Reviews

“Review of Nicholas V. Riasanovsky and Mark D. Steinberg, History of Russia 7^th ed. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005),” H-Net Reviews (forthcoming).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Introductory Surveys

World History I – Fall 2004, Spring 2005

World History II – Summer 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006

Western Civilization I – Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005

Western Civilization II – Fall 2004, Spring 2005

Upper Level Surveys

The Mongol Empire – Spring 2006

Modern Russia – Fall 2005

Medieval Europe – Summer 2004

The High and Late Middle Ages: Europe, 1095-1500 – Spring 2004

The Early Middle Ages: Europe, 450 – 1095 – Fall 2003

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Participated in the Summer Institute on Teaching and Learning, The Coulter Faculty Center, Western Carolina University, May 15-18, 2006

Designed poster for the Summer Institute on Teaching and Learning, The Coulter Faculty Center, Western Carolina Univesity, April 2006

Designed logo for WebCat Course Management System (WebCT at Western Carolina University), The Coulter Faculty Center, Western Carolina University, April 2006

Co-coordinator, First Annual Social History in the Mountains Conference: Bridging the Divide in Historical Methods, Department of History, Western Carolina University, March 18, 2006

Co-sponsor, Resume Workshop for History Majors, Western Carolina University, January 17 and 18, 2006

Co-sponsor, National Banned Book Week events, Western Carolina University, September 26-30, 2005

Early Slavic Studies Association Web Manager, 2003 - 2004

Associate, The Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 2000, 2002

President, Delta Alpha Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, The International History Honor Society and the University of Miami History Club, 2000 to 2002

Member of the Coordinating Committee for the Phi Alpha Theta Florida Regional Conference, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, April 5-6, 2002

Associate, Medieval Slavic Studies Institute, Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies/ Hilandar Research Library, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1999

Participated in the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE):

Semester Russian Language Program, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, 1996

Summer Russian Language Program, St. Petersburg State Gornii Insititut, Russia, 1995

Participated in the University of Kansas Department of Political Science Washington, D. C. Internship Program, Spring 1992

Interned with the office of Senator Thomas A. Daschle, (D-SD)

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Why did the Veche Republics Need Princes?” paper presented at the Eighth Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop, University of Chicago, April 29, 2005

“Continuity and Change in the Office of Novgorodian Archbishop after 1478,” paper presented at the Ninth Annual Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, February 25, 2005

“The Archbishops of Novgorod and the Defense of Orthodoxy,” paper presented at the panel Religious Issues Between Catholics and Orthodox, at the Eleventh International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 14, 2004

“Reconsidering Russia’s Vecha,” paper presented at the Eighth UCLA Annual Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, February 27, 2004

“The Bishops and Archbishops of Novgorod as Church Patrons,” paper for Roundtable, Ecclesiastical Politics, Patronage, and Culture in Novgorod, Thirty-fourth National Conventions of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

(AAASS), Pittsburgh, PA, November 23, 2002

“The Theory and Practice of Ecclesiastical Election in Novgorod, 1156-1478,” paper for Roundtable, Ecclesiastical Politics and Culture in Novgorod, Thirty-third National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

(AAASS) Crystal City (Arlington), VA, November 17, 2001

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture, since 2005

Medieval Academy of America, since 2003

American Historical Association, since 2000

Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society, inducted 2000

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, since 1999

Early Slavic Studies Association, since 1999

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Reading and Conversation Skills: Russian

Reading Skills: Old Church Slavic, German, and basic Latin and Greek