Nathaniel Knight, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of History

Profile

I have been at Seton Hall teaching Russian history, Western Civilization and Historical Research since 1998. Before that I received my Ph.D. from Columbia University and lived in Russia for several years. In addition to my teaching duties, I am currently chair of the History Department. In my research on nineteenth century Russia I have written, among other things, about scientific societies, folklore collectors, ethnographic exhibitions and expeditions, Orientalism, and Russian conceptions of nationhood. My most recent article, "Nikolai Kharuzin and the Quest for a Universal Human Science" was published in the Winter 2008 issue of the journal Kritika.

Education

• Ph.D., Columbia University, 1995
• M.A., Columbia University, 1989
• B.A., Oberlin College, 1984

Publications and Academic Distinctions

• 2008 – Seton Hall University, Faculty Innovation Grant
• 2006- “Was the Intelligentsia Part of the Nation? Visions of Society in Post-Emancipation Russia.” Kritika: Explorations in Eurasian History, 7/4
  2005 – Seton Hall University Research Council Summer Research Stipend
• 2004 – Social Science Research Council, Teaching Fellowship
• 2001 – Seton Hall University Research Council, Faculty Stipend
• 1999 – National Council for East European and Eurasian Research, Research Grant
• 1999- “Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost’ and Modernity in Imperial Russia.” in Russian Modernity, eds. David Hoffmann and Yanni Kotsonis (New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 1999)
  "Science, Empire and Nationality: Ethnography in the Russian Geographical Society, 1845-1855." in Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire, eds. Jane Burbank and David Ransel (Indiana University Press, 1998)
• 1998 – International Research Exchange Board, Short-term Travel Grant
• 1998 – Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Post-doctoral fellowship
• 1997 – Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Study, Research fellowship

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