Office Hours:
On leave academic year

James West
Professor of Humanities
on leave academic year
Phone: 802.443.5758
Email: west@middlebury.edu
Years at Midd: since 1995
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Areas of Expertise

Russian History, especially Medieval and Early Modern Russian History, Modern European History, and Historiography. Particular interest in Peasant Cultures, European and Russian Cultural History. Current Project: Archival photo album of early Russian industrialists.

Courses Taught

Traditional Russia; Modern Russia; Problems in Modern Historiography; History of Modern Europe; Masterpieces of Russian Cultural History; Communism and Fascism; Topics in European Culture and History; European History Through the Eyes of the Novelist

Books

Ed., Between Tsar and People: Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia