MC PROFESSOR HEADED TO RUSSIA; HAS BOOK SELECTED FOR
PUBLICATION
Release Date: December 21, 2001
William Urban, the Lee
L. Morgan Professor of History and International Studies at Monmouth College, has been
accepted into the interdisciplinary Global Partners Project faculty development seminar in
Krasnodar, Russia, in June 2002.
Shortly after learning
of his acceptance, Urban was also informed that his book “Tannenburg and After: Lithuania,
Poland and the Teutonic Order in Search of Immortality,” was selected by the U.S. Commission
on Military History for inclusion in the annial Bibliographie Internationale d’Histoire
Militaire, which is published in Switzerland. About 30 American books are so selected each
year. Inclusion in the annual publication ensures that a book will be brought to the attention
of an international group of historians, librarians and younger scholars.
The seminar Urban will
attend is titled “Narratives and Boundaries: Transitions in Southern Russia and Its Environs.”
Held at Kuban State University in Krasnodar, it is designed to engage faculty – both
non-specialists and specialists in Russian studies – with a variety of curricular and
scholarly interests who wish to develop or strengthen a curricular or research project related
to Russia, focusing on the southern region and its newly independent neighbors.
Each participant will
research and report upon a specific topic while in Russia. Urban, who attended a seminar on
the Russian borderlands in 1988, will investigate the topic “Oil: Lubricant of Freedom or
Tar-Pit of Backwardness?,” focusing on how the rich oil deposits in Russia’s borderlands will
be pipelined to the west and the effect that will have on nations that are on the route and
those that aren’t. Participants in the seminar will also share a common core of readings, meet
daily to discuss them, attend presentations by local experts and visit local sites.
The two-week seminar is
funded by the Mellon Foundation. Faculty from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, the
Great Lakes Association and the Associated Colleges of the South are eligible to participate.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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