Nathaniel Knight
Professor
Department of History
Seton Hall University
United States of America
Biography
Nathaniel Knight have been at Seton Hall teaching Russian and East European history, Western Civilization and Historical Methods since 1998. Before that he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and lived in Russia for several years. In addition to my teaching duties, he is currently chair of the History Department. In his research on nineteenth century Russia he has written, among other things, about scientific societies, folklore collectors, ethnographic exhibitions and expeditions, Orientalism, and Russian conceptions of nationhood.
Research Interest
Russian scholarly biography, particularism in Russian science, Russian conceptions of race and a monograph on the history of Russian ethnography
Publications
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• “Russian Ethnography and the Visual Arts in the 1840s and 1850s†in Visualizing Russia: Fedor Solntsev and Crafting a Russian National Past. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. (Book Chapter)
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• “Vocabularies of Difference: Ethnicity and Race in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia.†Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, v, 13, no. 3 (Summer 2012): pp. 667-683.
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• “The Abolition of Serfdom†in Dostoevsky in Context. O. Maiorova, D. Martinsen, eds. Cambridge University Press, January 2016. (Book Chapter)
