Nicholas Breyfogle

Member Type: eHistory Contributor
Location: Columbus, Ohio

About Nicholas Breyfogle:

Professor Nicholas B. Breyfogle received his Ph.D. (1998) and M.A. (1994) in Russian and European History from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B. A. (1990) from Brown University in History and French Civilization.

Professor Breyfogle is a specialist in Imperial Russian history, c. 1700 to 1917, especially Russian imperialism and the non-Russian nationalities of the Tsarist empire. His research interests include Russian colonialism, environmental history, inter-ethnic contact, peasant studies, religious belief and policy, and the history and culture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Siberia.

Professor Breyfogle's first book, Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus (Cornell University Press, 2005) won the Ohio Academy of History Book Award for 2006. He is completing a co-edited volume on the history of Russian colonization in Eurasia from Muscovite through Soviet times (forthcoming from Routledge, 2007), and has begun work on his second monograph project, tentatively entitled "Baikal: the Great Lake and its People." He has published articles on Russian religious history, tsarist colonialism, peasant pacifism, and the civilian experience of war in the nineteenth century. Professor Breyfogle is on sabbatical for the 2006-07 academic year.