Holquist, Peter (Isaac) 1964-
Holquist, Peter (Isaac) 1964-
PERSONAL: Born October 8, 1964, in New Haven, CT; son of James Michael (a professor) and Lydia (a speech pathologist; maiden name, Landis) Holquist; married Diana Kaplan (a freelance writer), July 18, 1993; children: Hana, Isaiah. Education: Indiana University, B.A. (with high distinction), 1986; Columbia University, M.Phil. (with excellence), 1990, Ph.D. (with distinction), 1995.
ADDRESSES: Office—Department of History, 450 McGraw Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. E-mail—pih2@cornell.edu.
CAREER: Yale University, New Haven, CT, visiting lecturer in history, 1995; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, assistant professor, 1996-2002, associate professor of history, 2002-.
MEMBER: American Historical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow in Russia, International Research and Exchanges Board, 1992-93; fellow of Kennan Institute-Woodrow Wilson Center, 1995-96, and Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 1999-2000; Eurasia grant, Social Science Research Council, 2000-01; grant from National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, 2002-04; Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists.
WRITINGS:
Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2002.
(Editor, with Michael David-Fox and Marshall Poe) The Resistance Debate in Russian and Soviet History, Slavica Publishers (Bloomington, IN), 2003.
Contributor to books, including Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices, edited by David Hoffmann and Yanni Kotsonis, Macmillan (New York, NY), 2000; A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, edited by Terry Martin and Ronald Suny, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001; Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities, edited by Igal Halfin, Frank Cass (London, England), 2002; The Structure of Russian History: Essays and Documents, edited by Ronald Suny, Oxford University Press, 2003; and Modernity and Population Management, edited by Amir Weiner, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 2003. Contributor to periodicals in the United States and abroad, including Journal of Modern History and Russian Review. Cofounder and coeditor, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 1999-; corresponding editor, Cahiers du monde russe, 1999-.
WORK IN PROGRESS: Sculpting the Masses: The Modern Social State in Russia, 1914-1941, with David Hoffmann, for Cornell University Press; "By Right of War": War, Occupation, and International Law in Russia, 1870-1917, a monograph.