Girish Bhat

Education

Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1994

M.A. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1984

B.A. History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1983 

Teaching

Power in the Modern World

The Foundations of Modern Russia, 882-1894

Russia since 1894

The Soviet Union, 1917-1953

History of Women in Modern Europe

The World Since 1500

Western Civilization since 1715

Twentieth-Century World History

Undergraduate Research Seminar (Europe)

Issues in Russian History (Graduate Research Seminar–Europe)

Russian Law and Society (Graduate Course)

Graduate Research Seminar (Europe)

***Participation in World First Freshman Learning Community, Fall 2002—present

Publications

“Recovering the Historical Rechtsstaat.” Review of Central and East European Law Vol. 32, no. 1 (2007): 65-97.

“The Particulars of Guilt:  Final Questions for the Jury Under the 1864 Judicial Reform.” Slavic Studies 38 (Fall 2004): 251-72.

“Uncertain Traditionalism and Jury Trial Oaths in the Early Reform Era.”  Russian History 25 (Fall 1998): 271-300.

 “The Moralization of Guilt in Late Imperial Russian Trial by Jury:  The Early Reform Era.”  Law and History Review 15.1(Spring 1997): 77-113.

“Late Imperial Russian Trial By Jury as Consensual Justice,” in Reforming Justice in Russia, 1984-1991:  Power, Culture, and the Limits of Legal Order, Peter H. Solomon (ed.), (Armonk, NY:  M. E. Sharpe, 1997): 61-81.

Review of Istoricheskie poniatiia i politicheskie idei v Rossii, XVI-XX veka: Sbornik nauchnykh rabot, Istochnik. Istorik. Istoriia Vol. 5.  Review of Central and East European Law Vol. 34, no. 2 (2009): 193-201.

Review of Western Law, Russian Justice, by Gary Rosenshield, Law and History Review Vol. 25, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 227-228.

Review of Autokratie und Justiz:  Zum Verhältnis von Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Rückständigkeit im ausgehenden Zarenreich 1864-1914, by Jörg Baberowski, The Russian Review Vol 57, no. 3 (October 1998): 639-40.

Review of The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War, by Ilya V. Gaiduk, Journal of Military History, Vol. 61, no. 3 (1997): 414-15.

Review of The Stalin Phenomenon (ed. by Alec Nove); in Russian History Vol. 22, no. 3 (Fall 1995): 321-24

Service

Study Abroad Scholarship Committee (International Programs Office), Fall 2011 **reviewed applications

“Lecture Hall 101”:  for summer Freshman Orientation, 2004-present

International Studies Program Advisory Council

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Committee

All-College Gender Implementation Team

International Studies:  Interim Coordinator, Spring 2004

Honor’s Program:  Coordinator, Fall 1995-Fall 1999

Discussion leader and presenter in seminar on Russian literature for local high school teachers, July 18, 1996; part of Teaching History with Literary Sources program sponsored through Cortland Center for Educational Exchange

Liverpool High School History Presentations:  Fall 1992, Fall 1993, Spring 1994, Fall 1995

Sandwich Seminar in Women’s History Month:  “The Amorous Absolutist:  Catherine the Great and Her Biographers,” March, 1994.

Faculty Justice & College Appeals Committee Member, Fall 2006—present

Scholar’s Day 2001-2003:  Organization of panels for history student HIS 490 paper presentations.

History Club:  Faculty Advisor, Fall 2005

Swimming/Diving Team:  Academic Advisor, Fall 2004—Spring 2006

Learning Community:  Participant in World First Learning Community.  Coordination of extra-curricular events and acquisition of campus grants