Current Position:

 Associate Professor of History

Description:

Prof. Greene teaches courses in Russian, Soviet, and East European history.  His research focuses on the religious, cultural, and political history of the Russian Empire and Soviet state.  He has recently completed his first monograph, Bodies Like Bright Stars, a study of Russian Orthodox devotion to saints and relics in the late 19th-early 20th centuries.

With Ona Renner-Fahey and Clint Walker, Prof. Greene is co-director of the Russian Studies Program at the University of Montana.  Students interested in a Russian Studies minor should meet with Prof. Greene.

Office Hours:

Fall 2012: MWF 9-10am and by appt.

Spring 2013: W, 10am-12pm and by appt.

Field Of Study:

Cultural and Social History of Russia and the Soviet Union; Religious History

Courses:

HSTR 102H: Western Civilization II
HSTR 104H: Western Civilization II (Honors section)
HSTR 200: Intro to Historical Methods
HSTR 357: Imperial Russia
HSTR 358: History of the Soviet Union
HSTR 363: Eastern Europe,br /> HSTR 400: Microhistory
HSTR 457: The World of Anna Karenina
HSTR 458: The Russian Revolution
HSTR 501: Readings in Modern European History (grad course)
HSTR 544: Readings in Modern Russian History (grad course)

Education:

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2004 (History)
M.A., University of Michigan, 1998 (History) 
B.A., University of Rochester, 1997 (History and Russian Studies)

Teaching Experience:

2011-present: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Montana

2006-2011: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Montana

2005-2006: Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, University of Michigan

2004-2005: Post-doctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of History, University of Michigan

Affiliations:

Faculty affiliate and member of the executive board of the Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center

Selected Publications:

* co-editor and translator, with Eugene M. Avrutin, of The Story of a Life: Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire (Northern Illinois University Press, 2012).

* Bodies like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2009).

* co-editor, with Valerie A. Kivelson, of Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003).

 * “Making Saints: Canonization and Community in Late Imperial Russia,” The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, no. 1801 (University of Pittsburgh, 2006).

Other Publications:

"Bodies in Motion: Steam-Powered Pilgrimages in Late Imperial Russia,” Russian History 39 (2012): 247-68

Reviews in Slavic Review, Russian Review, Revolutionary Russia, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Canadian Journal of History, Journal of Church and State, Journal of World History, and Social History