Curriculum Vitae Paul T. Christensen 27 Verndale Road Political Science Department Newton Highlands, MA 08904 530 McGuinn Hall (617)-969-8456 140 Commonwealth Ave. christpj@bc.edu Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3807 (617)-552-4176 Current Position Associate Professor of the Practice, Political Science Department Boston College Previous Positions Visiting Professor, Politics Department Princeton University 1999-2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Syracuse University, 1993-1999 Education Princeton University, MA, Politics, Spring 1987 Ph.D., Politics, November 1993 Academic Exchange Scholar, 1990-1991, State Academy of Management, State Committee for Higher Education of the USSR Middlebury College Russian School, Summer 1989 University of Washington, Seattle, BA Political Science and Russian Regional Studies, Spring 1985
Publications Books and book chapters: Editor, English language edition, The Unknown Primakov, (Moscow: ZAO Publishing house Rossiyskaya gazeta, AIRO-XXI, 2016). Russia as Semiperiphery: Political Economy, the State and Society in the Contemporary World System, in Neil Robinson, ed., The Political Economy of Russia (Plymouth: Roman & Littlefield, 2013) Russia: A History of the Twentieth Century, (Moscow: Media Press, AIRO-XXI, 2009), editor and translator of English edition Russia s Workers in Transition: Labor, Management, and the State Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, October 1999, Northern Illinois University Press Verraten in Gorki. Die Tragodie der auslandischen Arbeiter in den sowjetischen Autowerken in Gorki. Victor G. Reuther, mit einer Einleitung und Anmerkungen von Paul T. Christensen, Bonn,Verlag J. H. W. Dietz Nachf., 2002 Articles: Labor Under Putin: The State of the Russian Working Class, New Labor Forum, Online edition December 8, 2016. The noncommunist Left, social constituencies, and political Strategies in Russia, Demokratizatsiya, 7 (1), Winter 1999: 135-146. Socialism After Communism?: The Socioeconomic Foundations of Left Politics in post-soviet Russia, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 31 (4), 1998: 345-357. Why Russia Lacks a Labor Movement, Transitions: Changes in Post-Communist Societies, 4 (7), December 1997: 44-51.
Property Free-For-All: Regionalism, Democratization, and the Politics of Economic Control in the Kuzbas, 1989-93, in Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East, Stephen Kotkin and David Wolff, eds. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995). Chechnya and the Fate of Russian Democracy, PARC News, Newsletter of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Syracuse University, April 1995. Perestroika and the Problem of Socialist Renewal, Social Text 27 9 (2), 1990: 123-146. U nas podobnaia situatiia byla sorok let nazad, Ekonomika i Profsoiuza: obshchestvennopoliticheskii i nauchno-teoreticheskii zhurnal federatsii nezavisimykh profsoiuzov Rossii, 1 (5), May 1991: 73-77. Book Reviews Molly O Neal, Democracy, Civic Culture and Small Business in Russia s Regions: Social processes in comparative historical perspective, in Slavic Review, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Winter 2016), pp. 1064-1065. Claudio Morrison, A Russian Factory Enters The Market Economy, in Slavic Review, Volume 68, Number 3, Fall 2009. M. Steven Fish, Democracy Derailed in Russia, in Comparative Political Studies, Volume 40, Number 6, June 2007 Mandel, David. Labour after Communism: Auto Workers and Their Unions in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, in Slavic Review, Volume 64, Number 4, Winter 2005 Simon Clarke, The Formation of a Labor Market in Russia, in Slavic Review, Volume 60, Number 1, Spring 2001 Papers, Addresses, Professional Conferences Moral Economy Strikes Back: Polanyi s Countermovements in the Age of Neoliberalism, Panelist, 28 th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, Moral Economies, Economic Moralities, University of California Berkeley, 24-26 June, 2016.
The USSR in World War II: Some Riddles and Possible Insights from Leningrad And Kyiv, Panel Discussant, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, National Conference, Philadelphia, November 19-22, 2015 Ukraine Crisis: Origins of Conflict and Prospects for Peace, Public Lecture for Newton Dialogues on Peace and War, September 27, 2015 The Politics and Culture of Contention and Quiescence: Considerations on State/Society Relations in Russia after Protest and Reprisal, Panelist, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, National Conference, New Orleans, November 15-18, 2012 Unmaking and Remaking post-soviet/post-socialist Authority, Panel Discussant, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, National Conference, Washington, DC, November 17-20, 2011. Geometries of Power: Russian Central State Relations with Political and Civil Society, Panel Chair, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies National Conference, Los Angeles, November 18-21, 2010 Russia s New Political Economy: Domestic Politics and Policy, Panel Chair, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Conference, November 12-15, 2009 Russia s New Political Economy: Interactions between Domestic and Global Economy, Panel Discussant, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, November 12-15, 2009 Globalization, Free Trade, and the US Presidential Election, League of Women Voters, Acton, MA, January 7, 2004 The Return of Muscovy: Semi-Peripheral Globalization, The State And Civil Society in Contemporary Russia, International Studies Association International Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, June 26-28, 2003 Societal Foundations For Self-Governance, Liechtenstein Institute For Self-Determination Conference on the Future of the Russian State, Triesenberg, Liechtenstein, March 14-17, 2002 After Communism, What s Left?, The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, D.C., February 28, 2000 Out in the (Left) Field: Researching Radical Politics in post-soviet Russia, Center for Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University, February 29, 2000
Center-Left Formations in Russia, Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boca Raton, Florida, September 24, 1998. Socioeconomic Structures, Political Culture, and the Future of Left Politics in Russia, Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Temple University, March 21, 1998. Trade-Union Consciousness: Rebuilding Labor Organizations in Post-Soviet Russia, Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle, Washington, November 22, 1997. Amerikantsi smotriat na Rossiiu: Vtoraia administratsiia Klintona i vzglady spetsialistov, [Americans Look at Russia: the Second Clinton Administration and the Views of Specialists], delivered to the International Commission to the Russian Federal Duma of the Social- Democratic party of the Russian Federation, Russian Federal Duma, Moscow, December 16, 1996. Does Yeltsin Matter? Russian Elections and Democratic Illusions, Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges, May 1996. Yeltsin and the Contradictions of Russian Democracy, Riverdale Ethical Culture Society, September 1995. Russia After the Soviet Union: Democratization or Authoritarianism? Riverdale Ethical Culture Society, September 1994. Regionalism and Democratization: Politics in the Kuzbas, 1985-1993, Conference on Siberia, the Russian Far East, and the Northeast Asian Region, Princeton University, December 1993. Honors and Awards Appleby-Mosher Award, Syracuse University, 1996 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Writing Grant, 1992-93 ACTR Soviet Academic Exchange Scholar, 1990-91 MacArthur Foundation Research Travel Grant, 1989 Council on Regional Studies Research Grant, 1989 Princeton University Fellowship, 1985-1989
Phi Beta Kappa Seafirst Bank Merit Scholar Award, 1981-1985 Burlington Northern Inc. Scholarship, 1981-1985 Teaching Experience Undergraduate Courses: Comparative Social Movements Comparative Revolutions Post-Communist Transitions Globalization Russia, Eurasia, and the World Marxist Theory New World (Dis)Orders After the Cold War Global Community Introduction to International Relations Introduction to Comparative Politics Political Argument and Reasoning Radical Political Economy Post-Soviet Politics Graduate Courses: Issues in Post-Soviet Politics Post-Communist States and Comparative Politics Theory Marxist Theory Democratic Transitions Social Movements in Comparative Perspective
Administrative Service Syracuse University: Committee on Graduate Programs and Curriculum Graduate Committee Graduate Admissions Committee Academic Advisor, First Year Students Academic Advisor, Departmental Majors Director, Russian Studies Program Administrative Service Boston College: Fulbright Program Advisor, April 2011-present Advanced Study Grant Program, Review Committee, 2011-present Academic Integrity Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2012-present Senior Awards Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2012-present International Studies Program Board, 2005-present Admitted Students Program Speaker, 2010-present International Studies Program, Admissions Committee, 2008-2010 Committee on Curriculum Development, International Studies Program Academic Advisor, First and Second year students in the College of Arts and Sciences Academic Advisor, Political Science Department Majors Fulbright Program Advising Committee Professional Associations and Activities National Selection Committee, United States Fulbright Student Program, for Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Russia, 2012 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies American Political Science Association Council on European Studies Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University International Studies Association PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Russian Security)
Center for Strategic and International Studies Program on Self-Governance in the Regions of the Former Soviet Union, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Princeton University External Referee, World Politics External Referee, Radical History Review External Referee, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers External Referee, Rowman-Littlefield Publishers Academic Consultant, Beford/St. Martin s Press Languages English, native Russian, full working knowledge