 Roy
R. Robson, PhD
Professor of History
Director (Interim), Honors Program
PhD, Boston College
Phone: 215-596-8525
Email: r.robson@usp.edu
Roy R. Robson is a Professor of History and Founding (Interim)
Director of the Honors Program at USP. A faculty member since 1997,
Dr. Robson specializes in Russian History, European History, and
Intellectual Heritage. He is author of two books and many articles.
In addition, he co-edits Symposion: A Journal of Russian Thought.
He has lectured across the USA and in Russia, the USSR, Lithuania,
Great Britain, Poland, and Finland. Recently, he has begun to study
the noted Russian iconographer Pimen Sofronov.
Representative Publications
Monographs
Solovki: The Story of Russia Told Through its Most Remarkable
Islands. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Old Believers in Modern Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois
University Press, 1995.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Tradition and Transfiguration in Old Belief Iconography,”
Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, forthcoming 2008.
“Old Believers in Riga, 1945-55” in Chester Dunning
and Russell Martin, eds., Rude and Barbarous Kingdom Revisited:
Essays in Honor of Robert O. Crummey. Bloomington: Slavica,
forthcoming 2008.
“The Old Believer Press: 1905-14” in Russia’s
Dissenting Old Believers, ed. Georg Michels and Robert Nichols.
Minneapolis/St. Paul: Minnesota Mediterranean and East European
Monographs, forthcoming 2007.
“Old Believer Education and Identity in Early Twentieth-Century
Latvia” in Russell Martin and Jennifer Spock, eds., Culture
and Identity in Eastern Christian History: Papers of the First Biennial
Conference of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian
History and Culture. Columbus: The Ohio State University, forthcoming
2007.
“Keeping the Ancient Piety: Old Believers and Contemporary
Society” in Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger, eds.,
Picturing Russia: Essays on Visual Evidence. New Haven:
Yale University Press, forthcoming 2007.
“Solovki Transformed: Pilgrim Narratives, Modernization,
and Monastic Life at the Fin de Siècle,” in Sacred
Stories, ed. Heather J. Coleman and Mark D. Steinberg. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2007.
“Pilgrimage at Solovki in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”
Les Cahiers Slaves, 7 (2004): 281-302.
“Between Scholarship and Piety—I. N. Zavoloko and the
Promise of the Old Belief” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook
18/19 (2002-2003): 95-103.
“Pilgrim Culture at Solovki,” in Life Lines: Perspectives
on Russian and European Culture, Society, and Politics, ed.
Nicholas Racheotes. New York: East European Monographs of the Columbia
University Press, 2001.
“A Legend on the Appearance of Tobacco” in The
Human Tradition in Modern Russia, ed. William B. Husband. Wilmington,
DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000.
“Staroobriadtsy Spasovtsy: puty narodnogo bogosloviia i formy
samosokhraneniia traditsionykh obshchestv v Rossii xx veka”
[Old Believer Spasovtsy: paths of popular theology and forms of
self-preservation of traditional society in twentieth century Russia]
Revue des etudes slaves, LXIX (1-2) 1997: 101-117. Co-Authors:
E.A. Ageeva and E.B. Smilianskaia.
“Recovering Priesthood and the émigré Experience
among Contemporary American Bespopovtsy Old Believers” in
Skupiska staroobrzedowców w Europie, Azji i Ameryce,
ich miejsce i tradycje we wspólczesnym swiecie [Old
Believers in Europe, Asia, and America: Their place and tradition
in contemporary society] ed. Iryda Grek-Pabisowa. Warsaw: Polska
Akademia Nauk, Slawistyczny Osrodek Wydawniczy, 1994.
“Liturgy and Community Among Old Believers: 1905-17”
Slavic Review 52, no. 4 (1993): 713-724.
“An Architecture of Change: Old Believer Liturgical Spaces,
1905-17” in Seeking God: The Recovery of Religious Identity
in Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine: Essays on Confessionality and Religious
Culture ed. Stephen K. Batalden. DeKalb: Northern Illinois
University Press, 1993.
“Kul’tura pomorskikh staroobriadtsev v Pensilvanii”
[The Culture of Pomortsy Old Believers in Pennsylvania], trans.
I. B. Kotliarevskaia, in Traditsionnaia dukhovnaia i material’naia
kultura russkikh staroobriadcheskikh poselenii v stranakh Evropy,
Azii, i Amerikii [Traditional spiritual and material culture
of Old Believer settlements in Europe, Asia, and America], ed. N.
N. Pokrovskii, R. Morris. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1992.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Russia” in Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity,
ed. Daniel Patte. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Six short biographies (Avvakum, Boris/Gleb, Nikon, Alexander Men’,
Nil Sorskii, Sergius of Radonezh) in Cambridge Dictionary of
Christianity, ed. Daniel Patte. New York: Cambridge University
Press, forthcoming.
“Edinoverie” in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia
of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History. Ed. Bruce Adams,
Edward J. Lazzerini, and George N. Rhyne. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic
International Press, forthcoming.
“V.G. Druzhinin” in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia
of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History. Ed. Bruce Adams,
Edward J. Lazzerini, and George N. Rhyne. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic
International Press, forthcoming.
“Old Believers” in the Encyclopedia of Russian
History. ed. James R. Millar, et al. New York: Macmillan Reference
USA, 2003.
“Old Believer Committee” in the Encyclopedia of
Russian History. ed. James R. Millar, et al. New York: Macmillan
Reference USA, 2003.
“Religion” in The Encyclopedia of Prisoners of
War and Internment, ed. Jonathan Vance. New York: ABC-Clio,
2000.
Exhibition Catalogs
Pimen Sofronov” in MacDougall’s Russian Art.
London: MacDougall Arts Ltd., 2007.
Old Believers in Erie, PA: Tradition, Assimilation, Adaptation.
Erie, PA: Erie County Historical Society, 1998.
Book Reviews
(Number of Reviews in Parenthesis)
- Canadian Slavic Papers (1)
- Foklorica (1)
- Harvard Ukrainian Studies (3)
- The Historian (1)
- Journal of the History of Sexuality (1)
- Journal of Religious History (1)
- Moscow Times (1)
- Russian History / Histoire Russe (2)
- Russian Review (2)
- Slavic and East European Review (1)
- Slavic Review (3)
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