Cynthia Whittaker Explained

Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (May 15, 1941 – October 11, 2023) was an American academic and author. As a historian, she specialized in the history of Eastern Europe, especially the Russian Empire and of the Soviet Union. She built her career while teaching courses in the subject at Baruch College.

Biography

Early life

Cynthia Hyla Whittaker was born on May 15, 1941.^[1] She received an undergraduate degree from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York in 1962. She received advanced degrees in Russian history and literature from Indiana University at Bloomington.

Career

Whittaker taught courses in Eastern European history at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Baruch College since 1984, and for a time served as Chair of the History Department there. Whittaker was a Fulbright Scholar and received research grants from—among others—the Harriman and Kennan Institutes, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation.

From 1999 to 2000 she was a visiting fellow at the Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University in Japan. From October 2003 to May 2004 she co-curated a museum exhibit entitled Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 at the New York Public Library.

Death

Cynthia Whittaker died in New York City on October 11, 2023, at the age of 82.^{[2] [1]}

Bibliography

Books

• Book: Origins of Modern Russian Education: An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov . 1984 . Northern Illinois University Press . https://archive.today/20130704023241/http://www.getcited.org/pub/102363983 . dead . July 4, 2013 . 978-0875801001 .
  • Translated into Russian as Graf Sergej Semenovič Uvarov i ego vremja. Sankt-Peterburg: Gumanitarnoe Agentstvo "Akademičeskij Proėkt", 1999.^[3]
  • Reviewed in American Historical Review,^[4] Canadian Slavonic Papers,^[5] Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas,^[6] Slavic Review,^[7] Russian Review^[8] and History of Education Quarterly. ^[9]
• Book: Russian Monarchy: Eighteenth-Century Rulers and Writers in Political Dialogue . 2003 . Northern Illinois University Press . 9780875803081 .
  • Reviewed in Slavic and East European journal,^[10] Russian Review,^[11] American historical review,^[12] Canadian-American Slavic studies,^[13] Slavic review^[14] and Groniek. ^[15]
• Book: Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 . 2003 . Harvard University Press . 9780674012783 .
  • Reviewed in: Slavic and East European journal,^[16] Solanus, ^[17] European History Quarterly ^[18] and Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. ^[19]
• Book: Visualizing Russia: Fedor Solntsev and Crafting a National Past (Russian History and Culture) . 2010 . Brill Academic Publishers, Inc. . 9789004183438 .

Journal articles

• 2500262. The Reforming Tsar: The Redefinition of Autocratic Duty in Eighteenth- Century Russia . Slavic Review . 51 . 1 . 77–98. Spring 1992 . 10.2307/2500262. Whittaker . Cynthia H. . 155419888 .
• Government and Elite in 19th Century Russia. History of Education Quarterly . 20 . 2 . 233–40. Summer 1980 . 10.2307/367917. 367917. Whittaker. Cynthia H.. Riasanovsky. Nicholas V.. 147521928 .
• From Promise to Purge: The First Years of St. Petersburg University . Paedagogica Historica . 18 . 1 . 148–167 . 1978 . 10.1080/0030923780180107. Whittaker. Cynthia H..
• The Ideology of Sergei Uvarov: An Interpretive Essay. Russian Review . 37 . 2 . 158–176 . April 1978 . 10.2307/128466. 128466. Whittaker. Cynthia H..
• The Impact of the Oriental Renaissance in Russia: The Case of Sergej Uvarov. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas . 26 . 4 . 503–524. 1978 . 41045828. Whittaker. Cynthia H..
• The Women's Movement during the Reign of Alexander II: A Case Study in Russian Liberalism . Journal of Modern History . 48 . 2 . 35–69. June 1976 . 10.1086/241523. 1877817. Whittaker. Cynthia H.. 143149626 .

Whittaker was working on an intellectual biography of Catherine the Great.^[20]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cynthia Hyla Whittaker . Legacy . 22 October 2023.
2. Web site: Provost’s Newsletter: News and Updates from the Division of Academic Affairs for October 18, 2023 . . 21 October 2023.
3. http://www.worldcat.org/title/graf-sergej-semenovic-uvarov-i-ego-vremja/oclc/237357263&referer=brief_results, Graf Sergej Semenovič Uvarov i ego vremja
4. American Historical Review, v90 n5 (Dec., 1985): 1240
5. Canadian Slavonic Papers v28 n2 (June 1986): 207;
6. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, v38 n2 (1990): 306
7. Slavic Review, v45 n2 (Summer, 1986): 324
8. Russian Review v45 n1 (Jan., 1986): 75
9. History of Education Quarterly, v27 n1 (Spring, 1987): 105
10. Slavic and East European journal. 48, no. 3, (2004): 525;
11. Russian Review, v63 n4 (Oct., 2004): 698-699
12. American historical review. 109, no. 4, (2004): 1339;
13. Canadian-American Slavic studies. 39, no. 2, (2005): 285
14. Slavic review, 63, no. 2, (2004): 402
15. Groniek. no. 165, (2004): 628.
16. 'Slavic and East European journal. 51, no. 4, (2007): 827
17. Solanus- 18, (2004): 122;
18. European History Quarterly 35, no. 4, (2005): 614,
19. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, v52 n4 (2004): 617
20. http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/cwhittaker.htm Baruch College faculty page