John Staples
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- Associate Professor, Graduate Studies Coordinator
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1999
- E315 Thompson
Office Phone: 716/673-3875
E-mail: john.staples@fredonia.edu
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Specializes in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union
Teaches the following courses:
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- HIST 116 Western Civilization II
- HIST 201 Doing History
- HIST 310 World Environmental History
- HIST 313 Medieval Russia, 860-1700
- HIST 314 Imperial Russia
- HIST 316 Twentieth Century Russia
Research focuses on the roles that ethno-cultural communities on the peripheral regions of Russia and the Soviet Union played in determining their own paths of development, and the strategies they cultivated to defend their cultures and communities from the state. A particular interest is the history of Russian and Soviet Mennonites. |
