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Copyright 2001
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Valerie A. Kivelson

Professor
Ph.D. Stanford, 1988
 


Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2743 Haven Hall
Phone: 734-763-2049
E-mail: vkivelso@umich.edu
Office Hours: On leave 2009-2010
Field(s) of Study:
Early modern Russia, witchcraft, cultural history, gender, religion, history of cartography, empire
Selected Publications:
Picturing Russia: Essays on Visual Evidence, ed. with Joan Neuberger, (Yale University Press, 2008).

“What was Chernoknizhestvo? Black Books and Foreign Writings in Muscovite Magic,” in Festschrift for Robert O. Crummey, ed. by Chester S. L. Dunning, Russell E. Martin and Daniel Rowland (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2008): 1-15.

‘“Between All Parts of the Universe”: Russian Cosmographies and Imperial Strategies in Siberia and Ukraine in the Age of Peter the Great,’ Imago Mundi 60, pt. 2 (2008): 156-171.

“Claiming Siberia: Colonial Possession and Property Holding in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy,” in Peopling the Periphery: Slavic Settlement in Eurasia from Muscovite to Soviet Times, Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, and Willard Sunderland, eds. (Routledge, 2007), 21-40.

Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Orthodox Russia: Studies in Belief and Practice, co-edited with Robert H. Green (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2003).

"On Words, Sources, and Historical Method: Which Truth about Muscovy?" Kritika n.s., 3 (2002): 487-99.

' "Muscovite Citizenship": Rights without Freedom,' Journal of Modern History 74:3 (2002): 465-89.

"Bitter Slavery and Pious Servitude: Freedom and Its Critics in Muscovite Russia," Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 58 (2001): 109-19.

"Cartography, Autocracy and State Powerlessness: The Uses of Maps in Early Modern Russia," Imago Mundi 51 (1999): 83-105.

"The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place: Landscape and Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Russian Maps," Russian Review 58 (January 1999): 1-25.

Autocracy in the Provinces: Russian Political Culture and the Gentry in the Seventeenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).

"Patrolling the Boundaries: Witchcraft Accusations and Household Strife in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 29 (1995): 302-323.

"Merciful Father, Impersonal State: Russian Autocracy in Comparative Perspective," Modern Asian Studies 31 (1997): 635-663. Reprinted in Victor Lieberman, ed., Beyond Binary Histories: Re-imagining Eurasia to c. 1830 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1999), 191-220.

"Political Sorcery in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy," in Cultural Identity in Muscovy, 1359-1584, ed. by A. M. Kleimola and G. D. Lenhoff (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Its-Garant, in Russian and English editions. English edition distributed by Slavica Publishers, 1997), 267-283.

"Pokrvitel'stvo i rodstvo v Moskovskoi Rusi" ["Patronage and Kinship in Muscovite Russia"]. Rodina (1994).

"The Effects of Partible Inheritance: Gentry Families and the State in Muscovy," Russian Review 53 (1994): 197-212.

"The Devil Stole His Mind: The Tsar and the 1648 Moscow Uprising," American Historical Review 98 (1993): 733-756.

"Through the Prism of Witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy," in Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation, Ed. Barabara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel, and Christine Worobec (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,1991).


 

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