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Alexandra Korros Xavier University |
| List Affiliations: | Reviewer for H-Judaic |
| Reviews: | A Fitting Memorial to a Distinguished Scholarly Career A Fitting Tribute to a Great Scholar |
| Interests: | European History / Studies |
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Bio: ALEXANDRA SHECKET KORROS Professor of History Xavier University Cincinnati, Ohio Education: 1974, Ph.D. Columbia University, New York, N.Y., Russian History 1967, M.A. Columbia University, New York, N.Y., Russian History 1966, A.B. magna cum laude, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., History Employment: Xavier University, Professor of History and Director, University Scholars Program, 2002-present Professor of History, 1998 to present Associate Professor of History, 1992-1998 Assistant Professor of History, 1986-1992 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH Research Associate, Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience, 1984-1986 Miami University of Ohio, Hamilton Campus Assistant Executive Director, Hamilton Campus, 1978-1984 Assistant Professor of History, Oxford Campus, 1980-1984 (adjunct position) Ben Gurion Institute and Archives, Sde Boker, Israel Archivist, 1976-1978 Selected Publications: Books: Alexandra S. Korros and Yelena Mazour Matusevich, eds., Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Related Disciplines. (Leiden: Brill International Publishers, forthcoming in 2010). Alexandra S. Korros, A Reluctant Parliament: Nationalism, P.A. Stolypin and the Politics of the Russian Imperial State Council, 1906-1911. Lanham, MD and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. Alexandra S. Korros, translator and editor, , S.M. Soloviev. A History of Russia, “Ivan the Terrible: Stefan Bathory and The Stroganovs and Yermak.” Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 2002. Articles: Alexandra S. Korros, “Aron Gurevich’s Attitudes towards the Soviet Academic System: A Personal Memoir,” in Alexandra S. Korros and Yelena Mazour Matusevich, eds., Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Related Disciplines. (Leiden: Brill International Publishers, forthcoming in 2010). Alexandra S. Korros, “The Kadet Party and the Elusive Ideal of Internal Democracy,” Kritika, February, 2004. Alexandra S. Korros, “The Legislative Chamber History Overlooked: The State Council of the Russian Empire, 1906-1914,” in Anna S. Geifman, ed., Russia under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion. (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.) Alexandra S. Korros, “Nationalist Politics in the Russian Imperial State Council: Forming a New Majority, 1909-1910” in Mary S. Conroy, ed. The Development of Democracy in Late Imperial Russia. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1998.) Alexandra S. Korros, “Activist Politics in a Conservative Institution: The Formation of Factions in the Russian Imperial State Council, 1906-1907,” Russian Review, January 1993, 52(1):1-19. Conferences and Papers: Invited chair and discussant at conference “Sources First! Religion, Politics and Culture in pre-Modern and Modern Russia: A Workshop in Honor of Paul Bushkovich on his Sixtieth Birthday at Yale University, New Haven, CT April 4-5, 2008. Organizer and Chair, “The Job Search: Tales from the Trenches,” Roundtable, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2007 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2007. Presenter, “New Approaches to the Russian Revolutio,” Round table panel at American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2006 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC., November, 2006. Chair, “Imperial Dilemma: Education, Autocracy and Modernity,” panel at Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, December 4, 2004. Organizer and participant in Roundtable, Publishing Revolutionary Politics: New Sources on Russian Political Parties Before and After 1917,” at Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, December 5, 2004. Chair, “Bishops in Imperial Russia: Politics, Society, and Culture.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 24, 2002. Chair and commentator: “The Rule of Law in Late Imperial Russia.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference, Crystal City, VA., November 18, 2001. Chair, “Interpretations of the Russo-Japanese War,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference, Crystal City, VA., November 16, 2001. Alexandra S. Korros, “Defining Public Space in the State Council: Zemstvo Activists and the Center Group” paper presented at the 2000 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Denver, Colorado. November 10, 2000. Chair, “Conceptions of State and Empire in Imperial Russia.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Denver, Colorado. November 10, 2000. Organizer and participant in Roundtable, “Russian Civil Society and the State at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries: New Looks at an Old Question.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 1999. Member, roundtable, “Integration of Medieval and Early Modern Russian History into Survey Courses.” Midwest Russian History Workshop, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 31, 1998. Alexandra S. Korros, “State Council Representatives from the Western Provinces: A View from the Center.” Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boca Raton, September 27, 1998. Alexandra S. Korros, “Politicheskie programmy gruppa tsentra Gosudarstvennogo Soveta, 1906-1907,” [The Political Programs of the Center Group of the State Council, 1906-1907] Invited paper for presentation at the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Summer, 1996. |
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