Robert C.  Williams

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 Professor Emeritus of History

B.A. Wesleyan; 

A.M., Ph.D. Harvard  

Retired

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Professor Williams will retire in 2003.

Professor Williams is a modern Russian historian and former Dean of Faculty who also teaches in the Humanities Program.  Among his books are Culture in Exile: Russian Emigrés in Germany, 1881-1941 (Cornell University Press, 1972); Artists in Revolution: Portraits of the Russian Avant-garde, 1905-1925 (Indiana University Press, 1977); Russian Art and American Money, 1900-1940 (Harvard University Press, 1980); The Other Bolsheviks: Lenin and His Critics, 1904-1914 (Indiana University Press, 1986), and Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy (Harvard University Press, 1987); Russia Imagined:  Art, Culture, and National Identity, 1840-1995 (Peter Lang, 1997); and Ruling Russian Eurasia; Khans, Clans, and Tsars (Krieger Publishers, 2000). He is currently working on a book on Horace Greeley and American Freedom, 1830-1870.  Professor Williams will direct the Ken Kelley Program for the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 academic years.

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