Nadieszda Kizenko
Associate Professor
History
University at Albany
United States of America
Biography
Nadieszda Kizenko's first book, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (Penn, 2000), won the Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies. She has been awarded prestigious grants from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the International Research Exchange Program. Kizenko has worked in archives in Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, and France. Kizenko lectures and publishes widely on religion in the Russian empire. She received her bachelor's and doctorate degrees in Russian history from Harvard and Columbia.
Research Interest
Russia; Ukraine; Orthodox Christianity; Russian Orthodoxy; Eastern Orthodox Christianity; confession; religion in Russian culture
Publications
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Kizenko, Nadieszda. "From the Shadow of Empire: Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855–1870." (2012): 360-362.
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Kizenko, Nadieszda. Sacramental confession in modern Russia and Ukraine. na, 2012.
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Kizenko, Nadieszda. "Feminized patriarchy? Orthodoxy and gender in post-Soviet Russia." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38.3 (2013): 595-621.
