NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

Bryn Geffert is the dean of libraries and a professor of history at the University of Vermont. He previously served as library director at St. Olaf College, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Amherst College. Bryn received his B.A. from St. Olaf College in history and in Russian, with breaks for study in Scotland and the Soviet Union, plus stints as a lifeguard and Red Cross swimming instructor. He received an M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois, and an M.A. in Russian history and a Ph.D. in modern European history from the University of Minnesota. Bryn’s research focuses on Russian religious and intellectual history. Books include Catholics without Rome: Old Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and the Reunion Negotiations of the 1870s (Notre Dame University Press, 2022); Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans: Diplomacy, Theology, and the Politics of Interwar Ecumenism (Notre Dame University Press, 2010); and Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Essential Texts (Yale University Press, 2016). Bryn has written about library matters for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Scholarly Kitchen, and College and Research Libraries. He has raced in three Birkebeiners, run twenty-two marathons (including six Boston Marathons), and completed a few triathlons. He served for many years as a high-school basketball official.