Jane Burbank

Collegiate Professor Emerita of History & Russian & Slavic Studies

Education

Harvard University, PhD 1981

Areas of Research/Interest

Russian history; legal culture; empire; peasants.

Books

  • Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference, Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper
    Princeton University Press, 2010
    Translations: French, Spanish, German, Turkish, Russian; Winner of 2011 World History Association Book Prize.
    Empires
  • Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930, eds. Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, Anatolyi Remnev
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007
    Russian Empire
  • Russian Peasants Go to Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004
    Russian Peasants

Articles

"Russia's Legal Trajectories," with Tatiana Borisova, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 19, 3 (Summer 2018): 469-508.

"Empires after 1919: old, new transformed,"with Frederick Cooper, International Affairs 95, 1 (January 2019): 81-100.

"Empire and Transformation: The Politics of Difference," pp. 1-33 in Tomohiko Uyama, ed., Comparing Modern Empires: Imperial Rule and Decolonization in the Changing World Order (Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, 2018).

"Supervising the Supervisors: Bureaucracy, Personality and Rule of Law in Kazan Province at the Start of the 20th Century," Acta Slavica Iaponica 38 (2017): 1-21.

"Eurasian Sovereignty: The Case of Kazan," Problems of Post-Communism, 62:1 (2015): 1-25.