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

Dr Chris Campbell is a historian of Russian and Soviet history, working at the intersection of religion, nationalism, human rights, and international affairs. He earned his doctorate in Russian, Central and East European Studies from the University of Glasgow, where he has taught classes on the Russian political system and Soviet history, and is a council member of the Keston Institute. His first monograph explores US policy towards religious and national minority groups within the borderlands of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War. His current research interests include the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Soviet foreign policy, the international thought of the Russian church, religious human rights activism, and the philosophical and religious underpinnings of Russian foreign policy.  He is currently working on a project examining the ways Nicolas Berdyaev’s thought shaped Western conceptions of Russia, and émigré Russian religious philosophy and the Cold War more broadly.