Irina Papkova
Assistant Professor
Building:
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower Room:
301 Phone number:
+36 1 327-3000/2157 Qualifications:
PhD, Georgetown University Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:
Irina Papkova completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Georgetown University in 2006. Prior to coming to CEU, she taught at Georgetown, George Washington University, and the Russian State Pedagogical University of A. I. Gerzen. Her research and teaching interests include religion and politics (particularly the intersection of international relations and religion); nationalism and empires; Russian politics; humanitarian intervention; and the political implications of historical memory. She has been the recipient of several research fellowships, among them the Title VIII-Supported Research Scholarship at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Junior Robert Bosch Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. She has written extensively on the relationship between church and state in the Russian Federation; her monograph on the subject is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press in the fall of 2010.
Recent grants and awards:
* Junior Fellow, Robert Bosch Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (March - August 2008).
* Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2007.
Research projects:
* "Our Neighbors' Histories," a website exploring the teaching of history on the primary school level in post-communist societies.
* Curriculum Research Center (CRC) session on Challenges to the Study of Religion in Multiconfessional Societies, in collaboration with the Religious Studies Program, School of History and Interdisciplinary Historical Studies at CEU.
Supervision areas:
* Religion and international relations
* Russian and East European Politics (including but not limited to Russian foreign policy)
* Ethnic and national conflict; nationalism.
Courses taught:
Irina Papkova is on sabbatical leave in the 2012 Winter Semester.
* Religion and Politics: Transnational Aspects (Fall semester)
* From Empire to Nation-state: The Nation in Europe since 1789 (Fall semester)
* Russian Foreign Policy (Winter semester)
Publications:
Russian Orthodoxy and Post-Soviet Federal Politics (Unpublished book manuscript).
"Russian Federation" in eds. Roof, Wade Clark and Mark Juergensmeyer Encyclopedia of Global Religion and Society (Forthcoming; under contract to Sage Publications).
"The Freezing of Historical Memory: The Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church and the Council of 1917" in ed. Mark Steinberg and Catherine Wanner, Reclaiming the Sacred: Morality, Community, and Religion after Communism (Under contract to Woodrow Wilson Center Press).
"Wallace L. Daniel, The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia; Zoe Knox, Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia after Communism; Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mitrokhin, Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov´: Sovremennoe sostoianie i aktual´nye problemy [The Russian Orthodox Church: Contemporary Condition and Current Problems]," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 9, 2 (2008): 481-492.
"Orthodox Religiosity among Elite University Students in Russia and its Relationship to their Political Views" Religion in Eastern Europe, May 2008.
"The Russian Orthodox Church and Political Party Platforms," Journal of Church and State (Winter 2007), 117-134.
"Pravoslavie i Politicheskaia Orientatsiia Rossiskoi Molodezhy" with Aleksei Sitnikov, Otechestvennye Zapiski (2006, No. 3), 253-264.
"Clarence Thomas" in ed. Otis H. Stephens, Jr., John M. Scheb II, Kara E. Stooksbury, Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006).
"The Resurgence of Russian Orthodoxy and Its Implications for Russian Democracy" in ed. Christopher Marsh, Burden or Blessing? Russian Orthodoxy and the Construction of Civil Society and Democracy (Boston: Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, 2004), 37-44.
"Perspectives on the Role of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches in the Wars of the Yugoslav Succession" Michigan Journal of Political Science Issue 34 (Winter 2003), 11-30.
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"The Freezing of Historical Memory? : The Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church and the Council of 1917." In Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies, edited by M. D. Steinberg and C. Wanner, 55-84. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008.
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"Thomas, Clarence." In Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties, edited by O. H. Stephens, J. M. Scheb and K. E. Stooksbury. Vol. 3. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006.
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"The resurgence of Russian Orthodoxy and its implications for Russian democracy." In Burden or blessing? : Russian Orthodoxy and the construction of civil society and democracy, edited by C. Marsh, 37-44. Boston: Boston University, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, 2004.
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"International Relations in the Post 9/11 World : Reconceptualizing the West's "Other"." In The annual meeting of the International Studies Association 2004, edited by International Studies Association, 1-24., 2004.
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"Contentious Conversation : Framing the 'Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture' in Russia." Religion, State & Society 37, no. 3 (2009): 291-309.
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"Orthodox Religiosity among Elite University Students in Russia and its Relationship to their Political Views." Religion in Eastern Europe 28, no. 2 (2008): 1-17.
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"The Russian Orthodox Church and Political Party Platforms." Journal of Church & State 49, no. 1 (2007): 117-134.
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"Pravoslavie i Politicheskaia Orientatsiia Rossiskoi Molodezhy." Otechestvennye Zapiski, no. 3 (2006): 253-264.
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"Perspectives on the Role of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches in the Wars of the Yugoslav Succession." Michigan Journal of Political Science 34, no. 1 (2002): 11-30.
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