Rank:



Professor, 1983-present


Address:



History Department (M/C 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Office Phone: (312) 996-3141
Direct Phone: (312) 996-2234
Fax: (312) 996-6377
Email: cracraft@uic.edu

Education:


• B.A. (History and Philosophy), Georgetown University, 1961
• M.A. (History/Russian History), Georgetown University, 1963
• Ph.D. (History/Russian History), Oxford University, 1968

• Visiting Lecturer in History, Mount Holyoke College, 1968-1969
• Assistant/Associate Professor of History, UIC, 1969-1982
• Visiting Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University, 1972
• Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (Davis Center for Russian Studies), 1979-1984, 1987-1989, 1997-1998
• Faculty Fellow, Humanities Institute, UIC, 1996-1997
• University of Illinois University Scholar (senior), 1998-2001

• Faculty Grants Committee, Mount Holyoke College, research grant, 1969
• American Philosophical Society, research grants, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1997
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), research and travel fellowships (to USSR), 1972, 1979, 1981
• American Council of Learned Societies, research grants, 1973, 1987
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), senior research fellowships, 1979-1980, 1987-1988
• Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, fellowship, 1985
• Bibliographical Society of America, research grant, 1987
• Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, grant (publication subvention), 1987
• MacArthur Foundation, research fellowship, 1988-1989
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC), grants, 1995 (conference support), 1996 (publication subvention)
• J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, fellowship, 1999-2000
• UIC Campus Research Board, research grants, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1989, 1996
• UIC Humanities Institute, research/travel/publication grants, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
• UIC Chancellor's Office, Research Assistant, 1999-2000

• Books:
  
  
  • The Church Reform of Peter the Great (Stanford University Press, 1972). xii, 336 pp.
  • For God and Peter the Great: The Works of Thomas Consett, 1723-1729 (East European Monographs/Columbia University Press, 1981). 49, 267 pp. Editor, with Introduction, etc.
  • The Soviet Union Today: An Interpretive Guide (University of Chicago Press, 1983). ix, 348 pp. Editor, joint author. Reprinted 1984, 1985. 2nd edition, 1987, xiii, 382 pp. Reprinted 1988, 1989
  • The Petrine Revolution in Russian Architecture (University of Chicago Press, 1988). xxx, 372 pp., 241 figs. and plates
  • Peter the Great Transforms Russia (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991). xiv, 305 pp. Editor, joint author. Reprinted 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997
  • Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994). xvi, 661 pp. Editor, joint author. Reprinted 1995, 1997
  • The Petrine Revolution in Russian Imagery (University of Chicago Press, 1997). xxiv, 375 pp., 128 figs. and plates
  • Architectures of Russian Identity, 1500-Present (Cornell University Press, 2003). Editor & joint author, vii, 253 pp., 78 figs.
  • The Revolution of Peter the Great (Harvard University Press, 2003). ix, 192 pp., 37 figs.
  • The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture (Belknap/Harvard Univresity Press, 2004), 576 pp., 53 figs.
    
    
• Other Publications:
  
  
  • 12 chapters in books; 20 journal articles; 17 encyclopedia contributions; 85 journal book reviews, including (most recent):
    
    
  • "Implicit Morality." History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History, Theme Issue 43: Historians and Ethics (December 2004), 31-42
    "St. Petersburg: The Russian Cosmopolis." C. H. Whittaker, ed., Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), 24-49, 17 illustrations
  • "Reclaiming Peter the Great." S. H. Baron and C. A. Frierson, eds., Adventures in Russian Historical Research (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003), 103-114
  • "A Berlin for Historians." History and Theory 41 no. 3 (October 2002), 277-300

Outside Lectures/Papers (numerous, including):

• "The Russian Empire as Cultural Construct." Paper, invited conference on comparative history of world empires, "Imperial Identity: Construction and Extension of Cultural Community in the Modern World," University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, November 4-7, 2004
• "Monuments of Russian Visual Culture." Panel commentator, 36th annual convention, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, December 4-7, 2004
• "St. Petersburg and the Petrine Revolution." Opening conference lecture, Beinecke Library/Yale University, October 2003
• "The Petersburg of Peter the Great." Keynote address, annual Clifford Symposium, Middlebury College, September 2003
• "The Other St. Petersburg." Inaugural Lecture, symposium on "The Two St. Petersburgs," St. Petersburg, Florida (Eckerd College, University of Florida, Florida Humanities Council), March 2003
• "Capitals by Design: Architecture, the Arts and Spectacle in St. Petersburg and Washington, D.C." Keynote symposium address, Georgetown University/Hillwood Museum/Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., March 2003
• "St. Petersburg in Russian Historical Consciousness." Inaugural lecture, annual Havighurst Colloquium, Miami University, Ohio, January 2003
• "Language, Culture, Modernity: the Provocative Case of Peter the Great," paper, Princeton University (History Department, Russian and Medieval Studies Programs), December 1999
• "Art and Empire: Russia's Great Museums," lecture, Wellington Society, Dallas and Houston, TX, June 1999
• "Peter the Great: Emperor Triumphant?" Lecture, Weekend Seminar, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., February 1999
• "Church and Revolution in Russia." Annual Cunningham Memorial Lecture, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, November 1996
• "Russia and the West." Annual Olin Lecture, Harvard University, December 1995
  

Related Professional Activities:

• Special Editor, Senior Editor, Acting Editor, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1981-1984: a monthly magazine on international affairs published in association with the University of Chicago

• Regular commentator (weekly plus) on international affairs, U.S.-Soviet relations, nuclear arms race, and Russian developments on Chicago-area radio (WBEZ, etc.) and television (WTTW, etc.), 1980-1991

• Consultant/speaker for art/architectural exhibits, e.g. "From Poussin to Matisse: The Russian Taste for French Painting," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990; "Domenico Trezzini e la costruzione di San Pietroburgo," Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, 1994-95; "Kremlin Gold," the Field Museum, Chicago (fall 2000); "Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825," New York Public Library, 2003-2004

• Frequent speaker to Chicago area public affairs, community, educational, and church groups on international affairs, U.S.-Soviet relations, arms race, 1980-1991

• Regularly serve as an evaluator of grant and fellowship proposals to the Soros Fdn. (Prague), the Wilson Center, NEH, the Getty Fdn., MacArthurs Fdn., etc.; as outside referee in tenure and promotion cases at other universities; as reader of book-manuscript and article submissions to university presses and scholarly journals; as external reviewer of academic programs at other universities and colleges (History Department, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, April 2002; Russian Studies program, St. Olaf's College, Minnesota, October 2002)

Teaching Awards:

• Shirley Bill Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching (History Department, UIC), 1988, 1996, 2003
• Silver Circle Award for Teaching Excellence (LAS College, UIC), 1993; finalist, 1985, 1997