Research at the Faculty

The lecturers of the faculty include many leading historians who are authors of scientific monographs, textbooks and manuals in various fields of historical science. They represent or head major research schools such as the social and political history of Russia in the 18th-20th centuries, the history of Ancient Russia, historical anthropology, medieval studies, history of ideas, the theory of historical knowledge, visual studies, source studies, special historical disciplines, and many others.

The faculty organizes regular research seminars, where Russian and foreign historians present their reports. The faculty also organizes international scientific conferences, workshops and colloquia.

One of the most important parts of the faculty curriculum are research seminars where students, right from their first year, will get involved in independent research activities under the supervision of leading professors. The themes of these research seminars are closely connected with research projects being developed at the faculty, including international ones.

The faculty includes several research departments such as the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Laboratory of Social History and the Centre for Source Studies.

The research departments of the faculty carry out research projects, publish articles, monographs and historical sources.

The HSE Faculty of History also prepares working papers in the series ‘Historical Research’ for publication.

The research work of the faculty is implemented in collaboration with the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities as well as other HSE faculties and centres, RAS institutions, state archives and other scientific and educational institutions.

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The faculty staff are members of editorial boards of leading historical journals and anthologies, international and national historic associations and commissions, as well as many different scientific, expert and dissertation councils.  

Journals and Periodicals:

• Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe (O. Budnitskii)
• Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (O. Budnitskii)
• Schede medievali (O. Voskoboinikov)
• Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana (I. Danilevsky)
• Centaurus. Studia classica et mediaevalia» (V. Ukolova)

Book Series:

• Historia Rossica (A. Kamensky)

Associations and Commissions:

• Council of the International Association for the Humanities
• International Commission for the History of Universities
• Commission Internationale pour l´Histoire des Villes
• Study Group on Eighteenth Century Russia  
• Joint Russian-Ukrainian Commission of Historians under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Research and Expert Councils
• Academic Council of the International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies 
• Academic Council of the Centre for Medieval Studies and Mediterranean Civilizations (University of Palermo)