Current Position:



Professor

Address:

Deptartment of History (M/C 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
913 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7109
Phone: 312-996-3141
Fax: (312) 996-6377
Home Page: http://tigger.uic.edu/~daly/homepage/
Email: daly@uic.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1992
• A.M., History, Harvard University, 1987
• M.A., Russian Area Studies Program, Georgetown University, 1986
• B.A., Universite de Montreal, 1983. All instruction in French (Philosophy)

Research and Teaching Interests:

• World History
• Late Imperial Russian government, law, politics, and institutions
• Early Soviet systems of social and political control
• 19th and 20th century Russian political, cultural, and social history
• Comparative European institutional and legal history

Publications:

Books:

• The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906-1917, Northern Illinois University Press, 2004.
• Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866-1905,Northern Illinois University Press, 1998.

Edited Books:

• “Pravda o russkoi revoliutsii”: Vospominaniia K. I. Globacheva, poslednego nachal’nika Okhrannogo otdeleniia Petrograda (in production with ROSSPEN, Moscow) [“The Truth about the Russian Revolution: Recollections of K. I. Globachev, the Last Security Police Director of Petrograd, with Z. I. Peregudova].
• Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1922: A Documentary History , (Indianapolis and Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing Company, 2009) [with Leonid Trofimov] .

Articles:

• “Government, Press, and Subversion in Russia, 1906-1917,” The Journal of the Historical Society 9 (March 2009): 23-65.
• “Machine guns, Hysteria, and the February Revolution in Russia,” Russian History 36, no. 1 (2009): 1-15.
• “Political Crime in Late Imperial Russia: A Comparative Analysis,” Journal of Modern History 74 (March 2002): 62-100
• “Pravitel’stvo, pressa i antigosudarstvennaia deiatel’nost’ v Rossii, 1906-1917 gg.,” Voprosy istorii, no. 10 (2001)
• "Shturm poslednei kreposti: Bolshevistskoe napadenie na tserkov', 1922," Uchenye zapiski (2000)
• "Criminal Punishments and Europeanization in Russia," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, No. 3 (2000)
• "Polozhenie ob okhrane 14 avgusta 1881 goda i repressivnaia politika imperskoi Rossii," Klio, no. 1 (7) (1999): 103-17
• "On the Significance of Emergency Legislation in Late Imperial Russia," Slavic Review 54 (Fall 1995): 602-629

Chapters in Books:

• “Police and Revolutionaries,” in The Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 2 (1689-1917), ed.  Dominic Lieven (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 637-54.
• “Russian Punishments in the European Mirror,” in Susan McCaffray and Michael Melancon ed., Russia in the European Context, 1789- 1914: A Member of the Family (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
• "Krasnyi terror v Sovetskom gosudarstve (v otsenkakh rossiiskih i zarubezhnykh issledovatelei)" ["Red Terror in the Soviet State: Assessments by Russian and Foreign Scholars"], in V. D. Kamynin and Vladimir N. Brovkin et al. ed., Rossiia v XX v.: Istoriia i istoriografiia, vol. 2 (Ekaterinburg: Ural'skii gosudarstvennyi universitet, 2005).
• "The Security Police in Late Imperial Russia," in Anna Geifman, ed., Russia Under the Last Tsar: Pre-Revolutionary Politics, 1897-1917 (London: Blackwell, 1999)
• "Polozhenie ob okhrane 14 avgusta 1881 g. i represivnaia politika imperatorskoi Rossii." In Politicheskii sysk v Rossii: Istoriia i sovremennost'.(St. Petersburg: Izd. Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta ekomomiki i finansov, 1997)
• "Storming the Last Citadel: The Bolshevik Assault on the Church, 1922," in Vladimir N. Brovkin, ed., The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: Revolution and Civil Wars (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997)

Selected Scholarly Presentations:

• “Bolshevik Power and Ideas of the Common Good,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Annual National Meeting, Boston, November 13, 2009.
• “Party and State Institutions in the First Year of Bolshevik Rule,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Annual National Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 18, 2006.
• “Rasstreliat’! Capital punishment and Executions in Bolshevik Russia, 1917-1922,” AAASS, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, November 6, 2005.
• “Terror and Civil War in Russia, 1917-1921,” AAASS, Annual National Meeting, Boston, December 6, 2004.
• “Western Civilization in Global Perspective,” The Historical Society Biannual National Meeting, Boothbay Harbor, ME, June 4, 2004.

Review Essay:

• "Security Services in Imperial and Soviet Russia," Kritika (Fall 2003): 955-73.

Encyclopedia Articles:

• "Beletskii, Stepan Petrovich"; "Benckendorff, Aleksandr Khistoforovich, Count"; "Burtsev, Vladimir L'vovich"; "Capital Punishment in Russia and the Soviet Union," "Department of Police of the Russian Empire"; "Drentel'n, Aleksandr Romanovich"; in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History, ed. Bruce Adams (Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 2003-2004), vols. 3-4.
• "Zubatov, Sergei," in Encyclopedia of Russian History, ed. James R. Millar (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).

Publication of Documents:

• "A. I. Spiridovich. Okhrana i antisemitizm v dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii," Voprosy istorii, no. 8 (2003): 3-36. ["The Security Police and Antisemitism in Prerevolutionary Russia."]
• S. N. Globacheva, "Preliudiia proiskhodiashshikh v mire sobytii," Voprosy istorii, nos. 11-12 (2002). ["Prelude to Recent World Events" (a memoir), with Z. I. Peregudova]
• K. I. Globachev, "Pravda o russkoi revoliutsii: Vospominaniia byvshego nachal'nika Petrogradskogo okhannogo otdeleniia," Voprosy istorii, nos. 7-10 (2002). ["The Truth about the Russian Revolution: Memoirs of the Former Chief of the Petrograd Security Police," with Z. I. Peregudova]

Writings in Progress:

• "Freedom Defeated: The Bolsheviks and Civil Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1922" (book manuscript in progress; expected completion in 2010).

Awards and Fellowships:

• Shirley Bill Award, Department of History, UIC, 2008 (best history professor as selected by faculty and undergraduate and graduate students)
• University-wide teaching award, Teaching Recognition Program, Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UIC, competition of 2007-2008.
• Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002-2003
• Research Fellowship, Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research-Arts, Architecture, and the Humanities (OVCR-AAH), University of Illinois at Chicago, November 2001
• International Research Exchanges Board (IREX) Short-Term Travel Grant, May 2001
• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research - Arts, Architecture and the Humanities Faculty Research Award, UIC. Research award to support research in Russia, November 1999
• Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Grants-in-Aid program, 1998, 1999
• International Research Exchange Board (IREX) Short-Term Research Fellowship, 1994 and 1998
• University of Illinois at Chicago Campus Research Board Grant for Research and Travel, 1993 and 1996
• H. F. Guggenheim Foundation Reseach Fellowship, 1995-1996
• Short-Term Research Grant, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center, November 1995
• International Research Exchange Board (IREX) Long-Term Research Fellowship, 1990-1991

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