Associate Professor of History Roxanne Easley spent her youth in West Virginia and Alaska, which may account for the funny way she talks. She teaches the history of Eastern and Western Europe, with a research specialty in nineteenth-century Russia. Non-academic loves include good British mysteries, flea market shopping, and the peculiar worldview of her four-year-old daughter, Alice.

Education

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Ph.D., Russian History, August 1997

• Dissertation: "'The Friends of Our Enemies': The Institution of Mirovoi Posrednik in the Russian Emancipation of 1861." Director: Alan Kimball.
• Major field: Modern Russian History
• Minor fields: Early Modern European History, Modern European History, Comparative Labor Systems
• Other Research Projects: Native policy in the Russian-American Company.

Graduate Certificate in Russian and East European Studies, 1993.

M.A., Russian History, 1991. Thesis: "Neither Bureaucrat Nor Citizen: The Mirovoi Posrednik in the Time of the Russian Emancipation, 1861-1864."

Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1994-1995. International Research and Exchanges Board Advanced Research Fellow. Affiliated with the Nineteenth-Century Russian History Department.

University of California, Davis, California
B. A., summa cum laude, History, August 1986. Senior Thesis: "The Strikes of 1970 in Poland."

Honors and Fellowships

• CWU College of Arts and Humanities Summer Scholarship/Creativity Grant, 2005
• Center for Excellence in Leadership Most Inspirational Faculty Member Award, 2005.
• CWU College of Arts and Humanities Summer Scholarship/Creativity Grant, 2002
• CWU Faculty Research Appointment, 2002
• CWU Graduate Studies and Research Seed Grant, 2002
• Office of International Studies Programs Short-Term Travel Grant, 2002
• CWU Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 2001

Courses Taught

World History I, II, and III (Prehistory to 1500, 1500-1800, 1815 to present), Medieval Europe, Renaissance/Reformation Europe, Imperial Russian History, Russian Revolutionary History, Soviet History, East European History, Democracy in Russia (cross-listed, Foreign Languages and English, The Russian Far East (cross-listed, Asia Studies), Russian Women's History (cross-listed, Women's Studies), History of the Cold War (Graduate Colloquium and Seminar), Comparative Revolutions (graduate Colloquium and Seminar),Graduate Historiography, Senior Major Seminar, Introduction to History. Also Douglas Honors College, Senior Colloquium; Foreign Languages Department, Slavic Civilizations (cross-listed, English) and Soviet Film (cross-listed, English and Film Studies).

Professional Development:

Russia in Asia: Faculty Development Workshop, University of Alaska, Anchorage, May 2005

Institute on Infusing East Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, July-August 1999

Presentations

"Simple Cyrillic," International Education and World Languages Day, CWU, Ellensburg, Washington, May 2003, 2004, 2005.

"L.N. Tolstoy, Peace Arbitrator: Rural Politicization in Tula, 1861-1862." Second International Conference of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2002.

"Between State and Society: The Institution of Mirovoi Posrednik." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, September 1998.

"'The Friends of Our Enemies': The Institution of Mirovoi Posrednik in the Russian Emancipation of 1861." Northwest Seminar on Russian and Slavic Studies, August 1997.

"Reemerging Russia: Search for Identity." Older Adult Service and Information System (OASIS), Eugene, Oregon, October 1996.

"Institut mirovykh posrednikov vo vremia osvobozhdenii krest'ian," Graduate Seminar on Nineteenth-Century Russian History, Moscow State University, December 1995.

Publications

"Emancipation of 1861," Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (forthcoming 2005).

"L.N. Tolstoy: Peace Arbitrator, 1861-1862." Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. XV (December 2003), 1-18.

"Opening Public Space: The Peace Arbitrator and Rural Politicization, 1861-1864." Slavic Review 61:4 (Winter 2002), 707-731.

"The Friends of Our Enemies': The Institution of Mirovoi Posrednik in the Russian Emancipation of 1861." Kiosk, University of Oregon: Spring 1998.