Andrey Ivanov
Andrey Ivanov is a seventh year graduate student, specializing in early modern Russian and East European history. His dissertation -- advised by Paul Bushkovitch, Laura Engelstein and Carlos Eire -- explores the intellectual impact of European Reformation and Enlightenment ideas in eighteenth century Russian religious reforms between the reigns of Peter the Great (1672-1725), Catherine the Great (1729-1796), and Alexander I (1777-1825). The dissertation studies a group of reform-minded bishops within the Orthodox Church who adopted Protestant theology and Enlightenment philosophy to transform Russian society, religion, homiletics, military propaganda, education and social discipline. By the end of the eighteenth century, their reforms produced a new version of enlightened Orthodoxy that saw itself as a part of the European Christendom both doctrinally and culturally
Andrey's oral fields, taken with Paul Bushkovitch, Laura Engelstein and Jonathan Spence encompassed the entirety of Russian history (from Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin), the early modern period of Eastern and Central European history as well as modern history of East Asia. He had served as a Teaching Fellow for the History of Japan to 1868, History of China 1600-2005, France since 1871, Reformation Europe 1450-1650, Eastern Europe Since 1914 and the Cold War. He has also been an independent instructor for the summer session Cold War class.
Andrey comes to New Haven from Ukraine, via Fresno, CA and Davis, CA where he took his undergraduate classes, majoring in political science and history. In addition to studying at Yale's history department, he also received a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School in 2003 where he specialized in late antiquity's church history and the Greek and Latin patristics.
