Peter Weisensel specializes in modern Russian history, particularly the imperial period from the 18th century to 1917. He is the author of two monographs on Russia in the 19th century and is working on another about Russian travelers’ descriptions of Central Asia and the formation of a Russian colonial mentality. He also teaches a course on modern German history and is interested in minorities, particularly Muslims, in Russian/Soviet history. Weisensel has been teaching at Macalester since 1973. EDUCATION: B.S., M.S., University of Wisconsin Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Journal Articles
Review of: Between East and West : Polish and Russian nineteenth-century travel to the Orient, Slavic Review (2006)
Review of: The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: Birth of the trauma, Russian History-Histoire Russe (1998)
Imperiia i nasilie: podavlenie natsional’nogo samosoznaniia,” [Empire and Force: the Repression of National Consciousness] (with A. L. Litvin), Ekho Vekhov (1996)
Review of: Moscow's Greek era: Russian-Greek relations and meta-Byzantine influence 1619-1694, by E. Kraft, Slavic Review (1996)
Books
Prelude to the Great Reforms: Avraam Sergeevich Norov and Imperial Russia in Transitio, Minnesota Modern Mediterranean Studies Monograph (1995)
Russian Travelers to the Christian East from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century (with Theofanis G. Stavrou) (1985)
Contributions to Books