Word and Image in Russian History

Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the US examine some of the main themes of Gary Marker's scholarship on Russia - literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political discourse in Imperial Russia.

Valerie Kivelson is Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. in Russian History from Stanford University in 1988. She is the author of Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell, 2013), and Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia, (Cornell, 2006), and editor of Witchcraft Casebook: Magic in Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, 15th-21st Centuries, Russian History/Histoire russe vol. 40, nos. 3-4 (2013) (guest editor) and Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, with Joan Neuberger, (Yale, 2008), and with Robert H. Greene, Orthodox Russia: Studies in Belief and Practice (Penn State, 2003).