Peter B. Brown

Ph.D., History, University of Chicago, 1978
Professor of History, Rhode Island College
President, Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
401-456-8167
pbrown@ric.edu

Research Interests
Early Modern Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish social, administrative, political, and military history to 1700; Northern Rus', Russia, 800-1500; Comparative medieval and early modern European history; Language, culture, ethnic studies; Soviet and East European economic history.

Current Projects
"Muscovite, Ukrainian, and Polish Social, Administrative, and Military History, 1450-1725"

Selected Publications
“Salaries and Economic Survival: The Service Land Chancellery Clerks of Seventeenth-Century Russia.” Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas 51 (2003): 32-67.

“Bureaucratic Administration in Seventeenth-Century Russia,” Modernization of Muscovy (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), 57-78.

"How Should We Model Uralic and Slavic Contacts in the Lands of Medieval and Early Modern Rus', 800-1700 A.D.? A Comparison to Celtic, Germanic, and Roman-Latin Contact's." In Congressus Nonus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum 7.-13.8.2000 (Ninth International Finno-Ugric Congress) (Tartu, Estonia: University of Tartu, Estonian Finno-Ugrian Committee, 2001), 267-77.

"Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich: Military Command Style and Legacy to Russian Military History," in The Military and Society in Russia 1450-1917 (Leiden: Brill, 2002), pp. 119-45.

Studies and Essays on the Soviet and Eastern European Economies by Arcadius Kahan. Edited by Peter B. Brown. 2 vols. Newtonville, Mass: Oriental Research Partners. Vol. 1 (published works), 1991. Vol. 2 (unpublished works), 1994.