Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on March 26, 2026 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a Russian History Workshop with John Randolph. Moderated by Catherine Evtuhov.
John Randolph is a historian who specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of the Russian Empire. He is the author of “The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism” and is currently completing a book on the Russian Empire’s postal system, tentatively titled “When I Served the Post as a Coachman: Empire and Enlightenment in Russia.” He has methodological interests in biography, intellectual history, the history of domesticity, spatial approaches to history, the history of communications, and archival theory. As a part of a larger research project, “The Classroom and the Future of the Historical Record,” John has been working on a digital documentary publishing initiative called SourceLab. John is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he is also the Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC), a federally-funded National Resource Center.
Image Credit: Lithograph, 1866. Print Division, Russian National Library.
Interested participants should contact Erin Forrest (ef2847@columbia.edu) for a copy of the paper, to be distributed no earlier than two weeks before the workshop.
Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
