Alexander Semyonov

Member of the executive committee of the joint international doctoral program “Global History of Empires” between the University of Turin and the Higher School of Economics, 2018 - to the present

Member of the Academic council of the Doctoral School of History of HSE, 2018 - to the present

Appointed as Honorary Research Fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies of the Ludwig Maximilian University and the University of Regensburg, 2016 - to the present

2019-2022, coordinator together with Prof. Dominic Lieven of the workshop series "Russia in the World of the Imperial Era (1650-1917)" of the Frederick Paulsen Programme for support of young Russian historians

2017-2020 -- co-director of the international research project "Post-imperial diversities: Majority-minority relations in the transition from empires to nation-states" in the ERA.Net RUS Plus framework and in consortium with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (University of Göttingen, Germany) and University of Eastern Finland

2019 - to the present, visiting professor at the Department of History, Central-European University (Vienna, Austria)

2019 - visiting professor at the Department of History, University of Turin (Turin, Italy)

2016 - to the present, Visiting Research Fellow and Honorary Research Associate, the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, the University of Regensburg 

2016-2017 - Project “Living together. Questions of diversity and unity in contemporary Russia: historical legacy, modern state, and society” (supported by the Foundation for Support of Liberal Arts)

2014-2016 - Co-director, international project “Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism” 

2015-2016 - Project “History of the End of the Cold War, the Diaries of Teymuraz Stepanov-Mamaladze” (supported by the Yeltsin Center Foundation)

2009-2014 Member of the Editorial Board of the international project "Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: A Centennial Reappraisal," Co-editor of the volume "Empire and Nationalism at War"

2010, Mellon Foundation European Scholar Fellow and Associate Visiting Professor, University of Chicago (USA)

2009, Associate Visiting Professor, History Department, University of Michigan (USA)

2008-2009, Methodology and curriculum expert (based in Smolny Institute) for the Russian Ministry of Education's project "The Program for the Advancement of Religious (Muslim) Education"

2006-2008, Research fellow of the collaborative project "Languages of Self-Description and Representation in the Russian Empire" Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2006-2007, Methodology and curriculum expert (based in Smolny Institute) for the Russian Ministry of Education's project "Innovative Educational Ecology in a Classical University"

2007, Research fellow at the Center forEuropean Studies, Rutgers University (USA)

2004-2005, Academic director of the “Building Democracy in Multi-Ethnic Societies” Project of the US Department of State’s Freedom Support Educational Partnerships Program, Rutgers University (US), Kazan State University (Russia), on a rotating basis.

2001-2003, Bibliography expert, History of the Russian Empire in Comparative PerspectiveProject (The Central European University, the Open Society Institute)

1999-2000, Visiting Scholar at the W. Averell Harriman Institute, Columbia University (USA)

Co-founder and member of the editorial board of the international quarterly Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space  

• Online-conference “Trade and Empire: Productivity, Economic Exchange, and Differences in Eurasia,” July, 22-30, 2020, discussant, “Commerce and Visions of Diverse Social and Political Space” and “Routes, Spaces, and Commerce”
• 51th Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasien Studies (ASEEES), San Francisco, November, 23-26, 2019, paper “Russian Exceptionalism: National or Imperial?”
• Conference “Situating the ‘Global’ in Contemporary Humanities,” St. Petersburg, October, 17-19, 2019, chair of the round table, “Global History of Empires” and “Citizenship and Empire”
• Conference “Versailles and Rights: A Centenary Appraisal,” Helsinki, June, 3-4, 2019, co-chair (organized in frames of the research project ERA.Net RUS Plus “Post-imperial diversities: Majority-minority relations in the transition from empires to nation-states” together with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
• Conference “Parliaments and Political Transformations in Europe and Asia: Diversity and Representation in the 20th and 21st Century,” Heidelberg, February, 12-13, 2019, paper “Imperial Parliament for a Hybrid Empire: Representative Experiments in Early Twentieth Century Russia”
• 50th Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasien Studies (ASEEES), Boston, December, 6-9, 2018, paper “A Whig Interpretation of History for Empire: From Imperial Sovereignty to ShamConstitutionalism of the State Duma Politics
• 132nd American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, 7–10 января, 2018. Theme: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Global Perspective. Chair of the Panels: "Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire" & "Globalizing Russia’s Imperial Turn: Perspectives from Kritika and Ab Imperio"
• 49th Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasien Studies (ASEEES), Chicago, November, 9-12, 2017, discussant, “Constructing Social, Political, and National Identities in Late Tsarist Russia,” chair of the round table, “Book Discussion Roundtable: ‘A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia’” by Ab Imperio
• International Workshop "Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism". October 26th–28th, 2017, University of Turin. Paper "Dilemmas of Liberalism in the Russian Imperial Context"
• Workshop: “Imperial Revolution of 1917: Post-Imperial Imaginaries and Revolutionary Politics in the Context of Diversity,” Ab Imperio, Center for Historical Research, HSE St. Petersburg, Foundation for Support of Liberal Arts, 09-10.06.2017
• Joint seminar of the Center for Historical Research and the Copenhagen University “Contested Global history”, St. Petersburg, June 7, 2017
• 48th Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Washington, November, 16-20, 2016, chair of the round table, “New Turns in the Imperial Turn: Empire and the Russian Past,” discussant, “Western Borderlands in the Mental Maps of the Imperial Elite: Lithuania, Ukraine, Bessarabia”
• Far Eastern Federal University, August 21-28, 2016. Teaching at the summer school "The Problem and Politics of Diversity: The Russian Empire and Soviet Union in Comparative Perspective"
• Conference "Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History" (Heidelberg University, Germany), paper “Diversity Management and the Russian Empire: Autonomy and Decentralization in the Global Imperial Crisis, 1905–1924” (with Ivan Sablin), June 19–21, 2016
• The 130th American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA January 7–10, 2016, paper theme: “Critics of Democracy in the Russian Empire: Residual Political Culture or Alternative Political Imagination for Pluralistic Space”
• Conference in the Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, “XX- the beginning of XXI century: research paradigm», December 1-2, 2015, Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), plenary speech: “Modern approaches to study the history of Empire as a regime of diversity management”
• International Conference “47th Annual ASEEES Convention”, Philadelphia, the United States, November 19-22, 2015, chairman on the round table “Race, Nation, and State on the Imperial Periphery: Siberian and Far Eastern Imperial Situations”
• Conference «Poletaev readings», Moscow, October, 9, 2015, paper theme «Historians «social» и historians «political»: describing the experience of the modernizing empires»
• International Congress “IX ICCEES World Congress”, Mukuhari, Japan, August, 3-8, 2015, Presentation: “Buddhism, Socialism, and Nationalism in Post-Imperial North Asia, 1905–1924” and “The Concept of Minority and Its Making in the Russian Empire of the Duma Period”
• Conference “XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development”, Moscow, April 7-10, 2015, Session Moderator: “New methodological approach in history”-1, “New methodological approach in history”-2
• Conference «Local Impacts of Changing International Borders», Berlin, December 2-4, 2014, Presentation «The End of Empires: The Russian Empire».
• Conference “Nordic Exploratory Workshop I”, Jyväskylä, October 17-19, 2014. Presentation: “Imperial Subjecthood, the Redefinition of Political Belonging, and Constitutional Reform in the Romanov Empire in the Early 20th Century”.
• Conference «Deutsche und Russen im Dialog - Kompetenz, Erfahrung, Kontinuität», Berlin, September 26-29, 2014, Discussant at the Workshop „Bildungschancen in der Russischen Föderation“.http://www.go-east-generationen.de/0-aktuelles/forum2014.html
• International Conference “Patriotic Cultures During the World War I” European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, June 11-13, 2014, Discussant at the panel: “The Patriotism of Occupied Nations” 
• Association for the study of nationalities (ASN), 19th Annual World Convention, Columbia University, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York City, April 24-26, paper: "Imperial Revolution and Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Empire in Early Twentieth Century". 
• International Conference "US-Russia Dual Degree Partnership Network" Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, SUNY Global Center, New York City, January 30- February 1, 2014, Moderators' panel: "Recommendations for Governments, Unviversity Administrators, Faculty, and Students." 
• Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), 45^th Convention, Boston, USA, November 21-24, 2013, panel “Imperial and Anti-Imperial Revolutions and the Russia’s City of the Early Twentieth Century”, paper: “Russianness-Non-Russianness, Center-Periphery, and Federalism and Anti-Federalism: Contexts of the Russian Imperial Revolution”
• International Symposium "Imperial Legacies of the Russian Empire and the USSR: Nations, Territories, and Ideologies" Asia-Pacific Research Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 7-8, 2013, paper: "Imperial Legacy and the Imperial Revolution in the Russian Empire of the Early Twentieth Century"
• International Research Workshop "Tales of Two Empires: Ottoman and Russian Imperial Studies Compared" Amherst College, USA, November 1-2, 2013, paper: "Empire as a Context Setting Category"
• International Research Workshop "When Postcolonial Meets Postimperial: Sovereignty, Politics of Difference, and Composite Society in Comparative Perspective," National Research University-Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, May 27-28, 2013, Chair of the Organizing Committee, Paper: "Invisible Empire? Languages of Rationalization of Imperial Diversity"
• International Conference “In Search of Empire: the 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov” Columbia University, New York (USA), February 14^th-16^th 2013, paper: “‘Conservative’ and ‘Revolutionary’ Monarchy: Reflections on the Institutions of the Russian Monarchy in the Age of Mass Politics"
• International conference “Empire and Nationalism in World War I”, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences,  June 8-9, 2012. Chair of the organizing commitee, participant, paper title: “Imperial Revolutions of the Early Twentieth Century”  
• International Conference “Making Sense of Exceptionalism and Diversity in Composite Polities and Societies: Past and Present,” Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire-Ab Imperio, Kazan, Russia Казань, May 17-21, 2012,  paper: “Exceptionalism as a Normative Concept”
• IX Sino-Soviet Summer Archive Workshop, Stanford University, Hoover Institution of War Peace and Revolution, US, July 17-31 2011, paper: "Imperial Sovereignty and Political Representation"

2000: Member of the Editorial Board, Ab Imperio (Ab imperio).

2019-2022, coordinator together with Prof. Dominic Lieven of the workshop series "Russia in the World of the Imperial Era (1650-1917)" of the Frederick Paulsen Programme for support of young Russian historians

2018-2020, co-director together with Prof. Matthias Koenig and Prof. Jeremy Smith of the Era.net Plus Rus Research Consortium (HSE, Geottingen University, University of Eastern Finland) “Post-Imperial Diversities -- Majority-minority Relations in the Transition from Empires to Nations-States”

2016-2018, co-director of the research project “Living together. Questions of diversity and unity in contemporary Russia: historical legacy, modern state, and society” supported by the Kudrin Foundation

2014-2016, co-director (with Ronald Suny) of the HSE University International Research Project “Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism” 

2008-09, Methodology and curriculum expert (based in Smolny Institute) for the Russian Ministry of Education's project "The Program for the Advancement of Religious (Muslim) Education"

2006-2008, Research fellow of the collaborative project "Languages of Self-Description and Representation in the Russian Empire" Volkswagenstiftung grant, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2006-07, Methodology and curriculum expert (based in Smolny Institute) for the Russian Ministry of Education's project "Innovative Educational Ecology in a Classical University"

2004-2005, Academic director of the “Building Democracy in Multi-Ethnic Societies” Project of the US Department of State’s Freedom Support Educational Partnerships Program, Rutgers University (US), Kazan State University (Russia), on a rotating basis.

2019 - to the present, visiting professor at the Department of History, Central-European University (Vienna, Austria)

2019 - to the present, visiting professor at the Department of History, University of Turin (Turin, Italy)

2016 - to the present, Visiting Research Fellow and Honorary Research Associate, the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, the University of Regensburg 

2016, March, visiting professor at the Department of History and Ethnology, Jyvaskyla University, Finland

2014-2016, Associate Director for Research, National Research University-Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg

2011 – 2012, Bard College Academic Representative, Smolny Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Bard College (USA)

2010-2012, Recurrent visiting professor of history at the International MA in Russian and Eurasian Studies, European University in St. Petersburg 

2010, Associate Visiting Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of History, University of Chicago 

2009, Associate Visiting Professor, History Department, University of Michigan 

2007, Research fellow at the Center for European Studies, Rutgers University

2006-2018, Associate Professor of History and Political Science, Smolny Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Bard College (USA)

2006-2008, Research fellow of the collaborative project "Languages of Self-Description and Representation in the Russian Empire" Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2004–2006, Associate Dean for International Students, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Bard College (USA)

2003-2006, Assistant Professor in History and Political Science, Smolny Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Bard College (USA)

1999-2000, Visiting Scholar at the W. Averell Harriman Institute, Columbia University 

• Guest at the program “The War That Changed the World”, BBC, theme: “St. Petersburg: Revolution”
• Talk show of the Radio Echo of St. Petersburg: The Crimea, Ukraine, and Russia, A View from History
• Talk show of the Radio Echo of Moscow: Wither Nationalism in Russia?