Professional Affiliation

Professor of History, Ball State University

Wilson Center Project

Russia’s Last Reformation: Peasants and Religious Sects in the South of the Russian Empire, 1830-1905

Project Summary

Examines the origins and evolution of the theology and religious practices of radical peasant sects and their contribution to an alternative culture in the Russian and Ukrainian countryside. A revisionist interpretation of these sects as representative of the delayed European Radical Reformation and, simultaneously, as agents of modernization.