The Early Slavic Studies Association
Officers

Annunciation Cathedral, Moscow

Annunciation Cathedral, Moscow (1484-89)


ESSA President: David Miller

David Miller is professor emeritus of history at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

David Miller
History Department
Roosevelt University
Chicago, Illinois 60605
dbmjjm@rcn.com
Tel.: 773-528-4151


ESSA Vice-President: George Majeska

George Majeska is now retired from the University of Maryland, College Park

George Majeska
4005 Tennyson Road
University Park, MD 20742
gm5@umail.umd.edu
Tel: 301.779.2587


Secretary/Treasurer: Isolde Thyrêt

Isolde 

Thyrêt

Isolde Thyrêt, assistant professor in history at Kent State University, specializes in Muscovite history. Her research areas are medieval Russian Orthodox religion, and women in pre-Petrine Russia. She has published two articles on these subjects: "'Blessed is the Tsaritsa's Womb': The Myth of Miraculous Birth and Royal Motherhood in Muscovite Russia", Russian Review , vol. 53, no. 4, October 1994, 479-96, and "MuscoviteMiracle Stories as Sources for Gender-specific Religious Experience" in Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann, eds., Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997), 115-131. She is presently working on a book entitled Between God and the Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovy.

Isolde Thyrêt
History Department
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242
ithyret@kent.edu
Tel.: 330-672-2882
Fax: 330-672-2943


ESSA Newsletter Editor: Christian Raffensperger

Christian Raffensperger
Visiting Assistant Professor
History Department, Hollenbeck 311
Wittenberg University
P.O. Box 720,
Springfield, OH 45501.
phone: 937) 327-7843
email: craffensperger@wittenberg.edu

 


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