Elizabeth Kristofovich Zelensky
2000 Whiteoaks Dr.
Alexandria, VA 22306
(703)660-2304
Education
Ph.D, Georgetown University, 1993 - History
Dissertation: “’Sophia the Wisdom of God’ as a Rhetorical Device during the Regency of Sof’ia
Alekseevna:1682-1689”
BS, Georgetown University, 1974 : Russian Language and Linguistics
Languages: Russian(fluent), French, Spanish, Italian(reading); Arabic (beginner)
Teaching, Research and Administrative Experience
Georgetown University, Liberal Studies Program, Visiting Assistant Professor
2011
Course: Russian History and Culture through Literature and Film
Georgetown
University,
School
of
Foreign
Service-Qatar,
Visiting
Ass’t.Professor
2006-2012
Courses: European Civilization I(410-1750)
European Civilization II(1750-1991)
Freshman Seminar: Europe in Crisis(1914-1945)
Russian History II(1850-2000)
Crime and Punishment in Imperial Russia
Diaspora and Modernity: Russian, Armenian and German-Jewish
Admissions Committee
Library Acquisitions
Culture and Politics Steering Committee
American University, History Department, Visiting Assistant Professor
Courses: Renaissance to Revolution (1300-1814)
Historians and the Living Past
Twentieth-century Europe: Diaspora as a Historical Problem
2005-2006
Georgetown University, History Dept. Visiting Assistant Professor
1997-2005
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Courses:
Liberal Arts Seminar : Century of Revolution(1789-1934)
European Civilization I and II
Russian History I and II
Crime and Punishment in Imperial Russia;
SFS Sophomore Seminar:: The Russian Revolution
History of Childhood in the West: 1500—Present
Women and Power: Female Rulers and the Rise of the Modern State
(16-18th centuries)
Student Advisor
1997-2000
U.S. State Department, National Foreign Service Training Center,
Ukrainian Area Studies Chair; Outside Speaker
Coordinator; Student Advisor
Courses: Intro to Ukraine.
1998-2001
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations
Historical Researcher and Linguist dealing with World War II War Crimes
1998- 2001
George Mason University, New Century College, Adjunct
Courses:
Childhood: Social Construct, Literary Genre, and Celluloid Image
Individual and Modernization in Russia and US
Stranger in a Strange Land: The Culture of Immigration
1995-1998
Goucher College, Department of History, Lecturer
Courses:
Russia I and II
Europe, 1914-1945
Europe, 1945-present
European Social History from 1750- present
Western Civilization from 1789
Medieval England and France
Individual and Modernization in Imperial Russia - Honors Course
Acting Chair, Historical Preservation
1990-1993
Student Advisor
1990-1993
Publications and Scholarship
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“Nature as Living Icon: The Ecological Ethos of Eastern Orthodoxy”, Religions/Adyan ,November, 2012(forthcoming)
“Давно еще в Павловском парке: Скаутизм и сохранение русской самоидентичности у детей
русской эмиграции: 1920 -1991/Long Ago in Pavlovsk Park: Scouting and the Preservation of Russian
Cultural Identity Among the Children of the Diaspora: 1920-1991”. “Vsia istoriia napolnena detstvom”:
nasledie Ph. Aries I novye podkhody k istorii detstvaeds.V.G.Bezrogov, M.V. Tendrekova, Izd.
Rossiskogo Gosudarstvennogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta, 2012. Vol.III(forthcoming)
“Medvedev’s Sozertsanie kratkoe or Eloquence as the Soul of Civitas”, Kievskaia Akademiia, No. 4,
2008 :76-97.
“New Maidens’ Convent: Matrix of Empire” Proceedings from the Fifth
Conference 2006:198-210.
International Hilander
Windows to Heaven: Introducing Icons to Protestants and Catholics, (Lela Gilbert co-author) Brazos
Books, 2005
Translated M.I. Degtiareva, “Joseph de Maistre in Russian and Western Historiography”, Kritika, Vol. 5,
No.2 ( 2004 )(pp.349-366)
“The Search for Kostroma”, Paradox , No.2, (Summer, 2003): 33-35
“”THE RUSSIAN ARK” Film Review, Paradox, No.1, (Spring 2003): 23
"Popular Children's Culture in Post-Perestroika Russia: Songs of Innocence and Experience Revisited " in
Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex and Society since Gorbachev, ed. Adele Barker. Duke
University Press, 1999. pp. 138-160.
" Calendar Reform and Group Identity: The Ruthenian (Ukrainian and Belarus) Case", Cosmos - The
Yearbook of the Traditional Cosmology Society. 10 (June, 1994): 53-70
"'Sophia the Wisdom of God': The Function of Religious Imagery during the Regency of Sofia
Alekseevna of Muscovy" in Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg. Edinburgh University
Press, 1992, 150-169
Translated Five Days Which Transformed Russia. Sergei Mstislavskii, First Military Commander of the
Revolution
Intro. William G. Rosenberg. Indiana University Press, 1989
Papers and Conferences
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“The Rhetoric of the Personal in the Delo Shakhlovitii”, Association for Slavic, East European and
Eurasian Studies, Washington, D.C. November, 2011
Southern Slavic Conference
History
April, 2011 Comemtator Panel: New Directions in Medieval Russian
“Давно еще в Павловском парке: Скаутизм и сохранение русской самоидентичности у детей
русской эмиграции: 1920 -1991/Long Ago in Pavlovsk Park: Scouting and the Preservation of Russian
Cultural Identity Among the Children of the Diaspora: 1920-1991”.International Conference on the
History of Childhood: Philippe Aries Legacy. Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow,
October, 2009.
“Eloquence as the Soul of Civitas: Medvedev and the Rhetoric of Caussin” Ethics and Education in Early
Modern Ukraine International Conference, Kiev, September, 2007
“Religion in Contemporary Russia” Panel Chair, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies Annual Conference, Washington DC, 2006
“ Moscow’s New Maiden’s Convent : Matrix of Empire - Serbian Roots” Fifth International Hilander
Conference, Raska, Serbia, September, 2002
"Wisdom's House: Panegyrics at the Court of the Early Romanovs", British Studies ConferenceMidwestern Division; October, 2000
" New Maidens Convent: Matrix of Empire", The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. June
1999
"Some Observations on the Dialectic between Marian and Logic Imagery in Russian Texts of the 16-17th
Centuries", Sophia: A Bridge between Two Europes Conference, Rome. March, 1996
"Female Piety and Feminine Archetypes in Russian Culture," Commentator, American Association for
the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C. October, 1995
"Sof'ia Alekseevna and the Monarchic Image," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii. November, 1993
"Ruthenian Ethnic Identity and the Gregorian Calendar Reform" Traditional Cosmology Society
Conference on Calendars, Northern Studies Center, Stromness, Scotland. June, 1993
"Sil'vestr Medvedev's "Sozertsanie kratkoe" as a Sophic Text" American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies. Phoenix, Arizona. November, 1992
" Monarchic Imagery in Muscovy during the Regency of Sof'ia Alekseevna" Conference on Woman and
Sovereignty, St. Andrew's University, Scotland, September 1990.
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Academic Honors and Grants
SFS-Qatar Faculty Research Grant, 2006,2009
“Inclusive Learning Strategies Workshop”:
Center for New Design in Learning and
Scholarship(CANDLES), Summer Seminar Grant, Georgetown University, 2003
National Endowment for the Humanities – ACTR/ACCELS Collaborative Research Grant , Kiev and
Lutsk, Ukraine , 2001:
“Russophone Children in Independent Ukraine: Ethnicity as a Component of Childhood”
IREX Short-Term Travel Grant, Moscow, 1994;1995;1996
Pontificio Istituto Orientales/Centro Aletti, Rome, 1994
IREX and Fulbright-Hayes Research Grant- Helsinki and Rome , 1987-1988
University Fellow, Georgetown University - 1985-1990
References
Dean James Reardon-Anderson, School
reardonj@georgetown.edu (202) 687-8546
of
Foreign
Service,
Georgetown
University
Professor James Collins, Department of History, Georgetown University collinja@georgetown.edu
(202) 687-5904
Professor Julie Christensen, Chair, Modern Languages Department, George Mason University,
jchriste@gmu.edu (703) 993-1228
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