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Cherie Woodworth, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor
PhD, Yale University 2002 (History)
MA, Harvard University (Russian and East European studies)


CNS 314
cwoodworth@mail.fairfield.edu

 Cherie Woodworth

Fields of interest:

  • medieval and early modern state formation
  • medieval and early modern religion
  • saints, icons
  • chronicle narratives and philology
  • Slavic linguistics (Czech, Polish, OCS, Russian)
  • cultural and social anthropology
  • research technology for the Humanities

Courses taught:

  • HI 30 The West and the Word, 1400-1930
  • HI 272 Russia 700-1700: History and Myth (Spring 2007)

Courses previously taught:

  • Medieval History (at Wesleyan)
  • Russia, 700-1865 (at Wesleyan)
  • Modern Russian History 1800-1990 (at Yale)
  • Modern Russian Cultural History (at Yale)
  • Anthropology in History (at Yale)
  • History and Politics: Herodotus to Aquinas (at Yale)

Publications:

  • "Succession Politics and the Golden Belt: Moscow, 1425," manuscript being revised for publication in Russian Review.
  • "The Text is About what it Says It's About. Chronicles and the Curse of 'Thick Description' in 15th century Russia," paper requested for a volume of articles. (This paper is derived from my roundtable presentation at the annual national conference of AAASS, Nov. 5, 2005.)
  • "Convenience, Connivance, and Clan. Why the Grand Princely Succession of 1425 in Moscow was Not about Primogeniture," in preparation.
  • "Naming and Clan Consciousness among 15th and 16th century Princes" (presented Nov. 4, 2005 at AAASS), requested for publication in the journal Imenoslov (Moscow).
  • The Tsar's Descent from Caesar: Clans, Myths, and the Formation of the Russian State, 1400-1550 (book manuscript in preparation).
  • Review of "Britannia and Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars," Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 11, 2006.
  • Review of Religion and the Early Modern State, forthcoming in The Catholic Historical Review.
  • Review of Adventures of a Church Historian, Sunstone, May 2000.

Selected presentations:

  • American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), "Sources and Methodologies for Russian Chronicles: Oral and Literate Transmission," annual meeting, Nov. 2006, Washington DC.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Research technology for medieval Slavic texts, annual meeting, Nov. 2006, Washington DC.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), "Naming and Clan Consciousness," annual meeting, Nov. 2005, Salt Lake City.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Roundtable presentation, "Paradigms Lost: Sources in 16th century Russia," annual meeting, Nov. 2005, Salt Lake City.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), "The Tsar's Descent from Caesar and the Lithuanian Legend," annual meeting, Dec. 2004, Boston.
  • Harvard Early Slavists Seminar, "Icon and Text: The Puzzling Vitae and Representations of Saints Peter and Fevronia," Feb. 2005.

Upcoming research:

  • "Icon and Text: Sixteenth Century Russian Saints from the Great Reading Menaion" (grant proposal submitted to National Endowment for the Humanities)