Graduate Program
Roland Clark
Curriculum Vitae
Email: rdc17@pitt.edu
Fields:
European history
Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Religion
Twentieth century Eastern Europe
MA or PhD research topic:
I am writing a social history of the Romanian fascist movement known as the Iron Guard, or the Legion of the Archangel Michael. I am particularly interested in the ways that religious belief, cultural style, and interpersonal bonds functioned to create a fascist community in a rapidly changing society.
Teaching experience:
Stand alone courses:
East European Civilization (Spring & Summer 2009)
Teaching Assistant:
Western Civilization 2 (2008)
Soviet Russia (2008)
Introduction to Islamic Civilization (2007)
Western Civilization 1 (2007)
East European Civilization (2006)
Conference Presentations:
‘Conversion Accounts and Religious Frames in Romanian Fascist Biographies’, to be presented at the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Convention, Boston, 2009.
‘Dressing Fascism as Religious Reform: The Legion of the Archangel Michael in Romania,’ to be presented at the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture Conference, Ohio, 2009.
‘Singing Fascist Style: Music in the Romanian Legion of the Archangel Michael,’ to be presented at the Workshop on Power, Resistance and Social Change, University of Pittsburgh, 2009.
‘Work, Workers and Romanian Fascism,’ Working Class Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, 2009.
‘Mothers, Wives and Fighters: Women and Romanian Fascism,’ Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention, New York, 2009.
‘Mothers, Wives and Fighters: Women and Romanian Fascism,’ Romanian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, 2009.
‘Printing a Pogrom: Violence and Print Communities in Interwar Romania,’ European Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, 2008.
‘Printing a Pogrom: Violence and Print Communities in the Case of Captain Keller,’ Violence and the Contexts of Hostilities Conference, Budapest, 2008.
‘Love Thy Neighbor: A Xenophobe’s Guide to International Cooperation,’ Boundaries and Alliances Graduate Student Conference, Pittsburgh, 2007.
‘Religion as an Ethnic Marker: Orthodoxist Attitudes to Race and Religion,’ Hour of Romania Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, 2007.
‘Race and Religion in Interwar Romania,’ Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia/Center for Russian and East European Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, 2007.
‘Intellectuals and Interest Groups: The Paradoxes and Politics of Interwar Romanian Theology,’ Presentation at the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2007.
‘Orthodoxy and the National Soul: Crainic, Stăniloae and the Politics of Theological Rhetoric,’ American Historical Association Conference, Atlanta, 2007.
‘Orthodoxism and Modernization: The Intellectual Agenda of Gândirea during the 1930s,’ Sixth European Association for the Study of Religions Conference, Bucharest, 2006.
‘Violence as Communication: Terrorism and the Economy of Violence in Interwar Poland,’ Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia Conference, Pittsburgh, 2006
‘The Dark Side in Milton and Njegoš,’ Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference, Sydney, 2002.
Publications:
‘Nationalism, Ethno-Theology and Mysticism in Interwar Romania,’ Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, No. 2002, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2009.
‘Printing a Pogrom: Violence and Print Communities in the Case of Captain Keller,’ in Marika Guggisberg and David Weir eds., Understanding Violence: Contexts and Portrayals, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009, 133-147.
‘Repositioning Russia: Romanian Orthodoxism’s Appropriation of the Russian Silver Age,’ Landschaft, 3 (2009): 1-30. http://www.pitt.edu/~lands/
‘Lev Shestov and the Crisis of Modernity,’ Arhaeus, 11-12, (2007-08): 233-248.
REVIEW: ‘Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C., ed. Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007,’ Arhaeus, 11-12, (2007-08): 391-394.
REVIEW: ‘Jürgen Henkel, Îndumnezeire şi etică a iubirii în opera părintelui Dumitru Stăniloae, trans. Ioan I. Ica jr. 2nd edition. Sibiu: Editura Deisis, 2006,’ Arhaeus, 11-12, (2007-08): 403-406.
‘The Dark Side in Milton and Njegoš,’ Sydney Studies in Religion, 6/1 (2004): 102-119.
‘Did Baptism Change the Rus’?’ Phronema, 18, (2003): 91-108.
Fellowships, Awards:
Andrew Mellon Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2009-2010)
Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2008)
Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2007)
Romanian Cultural Institute Research Scholarship (2006)
C. Y. Hsu Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2006)
Arts and Sciences Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2005)
Rachel McKibbin Prize in Religious Studies, University of Sydney (2002)
Ernest Bramstead Prize in History, University of Sydney (2002)
G. S. Caird Scholarship in Religious Studies, University of Sydney (2001)