David W. McFadden, Ph.D

Fields of Interest:

• U.S.-Russian Relations
• U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776 to present
• 20^th Century U.S., Political and Social
• Modern Russia
• Peace Movements in U.S. and World History

Courses Currently Taught:

HI 30: Europe and the World in Transition, 1300 to 1918
HI 30: Russia and the West, 1300 to 1918
HI 239: Twentieth Century U.S.
HI 241/VPA 241: Examining the 60s: History, Art, Legacy
HI 250: The U.S Enters the World: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776 to 1900
HI 251: The American Century? U.S. Foreign Relations since 1900
HI 274/IL 260: The West and the World: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
HI 275: Russia's Road to Revolution, 1689 to 1917
HI 276: St. Petersburg in Russian History
HI 284: Twentieth Century Russia
HI 356: History of the Cold War Seminar
HI 384: Soviet Politics and Society, 1917 to 1991
HI 385: Comparative Russian Revolutions
HR 301: Honors Seminar: Progress and Its Critics
AS 402: American Historiography (M.A. Program in American Studies)
AS 442: Peace Movements in American History

Research:

My scholarly research has focused on nineteenth and twentieth century Russian-American Relations. I am currently working on a study of American and British Quakers in Revolutionary Russia, 1916 to 1931.

I have also devoted a great deal of energy to scholarly and student exchange programs between the United States and Russia, and am the Director of the Fairfield at Herzen American Studies Resource Center, St. Petersburg Russia.

Publications:

Alternative Paths: Soviets and Americans, 1917-1920 (Oxford University Press, 1993). For a list of articles, reviews, and other scholarly activity, see full curriculum vitae

For more information on the Russian and East European Studies program's activities, see Russian and East European Studies Program