Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Professor Emeritus of History
Email: [email protected]
Office: Dealy Hall 617
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BA in History, C.C.N.Y.
MA in History, U. of Chicago
PhD in History, U. of California, Berkeley
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Editor of Nietzsche in Russia (Princeton University Press, 1986), Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture (Cornell University Press, 1997), and co-author of A Revolution of Spirit: Crisis of Value in Russia, 1890-1924 (2nd edition, Fordham University Press, 1990), she has also published books and articles on religion and revolution in Russia, the Russian religious renaissance, the occult in Russia, and Russian women, including "The Nature and Function of Sophia in Sergei Bulgakov's Pre-Revolutionary Thought," in Russian Religious Thought (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) and East Europe Reads Nietzsche with Alice Freifeld and Peter Bergmann in which she is co-editor and co-author of the introduction and chapter "Nietzsche, Nationality, Nationalism." Her current research interests focus on comparative intellectual history and Russian religious philosophy. Her latest book is New Myth, New World : From Nietzsche to Stalinism (Penn State U. Press, 2002). She also serves on several editorial boards and has appeared in on-camera interviews for a show on Ivan the Terrible for A&E's Biography Series.
Dr Rosenthal’s current project is a comparative study of cultural trends in prerevolutionary Russia (1890-1917) and in the United States since the 1960s. The study points out the amazing parallels in countries that were otherwise so different.
Her undergraduate and graduate courses focus on Tsarist and twentieth-century Russia , European intellectual history, and religion and revolution. She is also planning new courses on women in Russian history, food in history, and occultism in European history.
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Undergraduate Courses:
HSRU 3601 - European Thought I
HSRU 3602 - European Thought II
HSRU 3604 - Enlightenment Visions Enlightenment
HSRU 3605 - The Counter Enlightenment
HSRU 3611 - Imperial Russia
HSRU 3612 - Twentieth Century Russia
HSRU 3614 - Revolutionary and Soviet Russia
HSRU 4600 - SEM: The Crisis in European Thought 1890-1930
HSRU 4605 - SEMINAR: Russia: Politics-Religion
HSRU 4606 – SEM: History of Food
Graduate Courses:
HSGA 5450 - Women in Modern Europe
HSGA 5452 - Early Modern Russia: 1462-1800
HSGA 5455 - Religion and Revolution
HSGA 5460 - Russian Thought: 1890-1990
HSGA 6461 - European Thought
HSGA 6453 - The Bolshevik Revolution