James T. Flynn

AB (1954), MA (1955), Boston College
Ph.D. in European History, Clark University, 1964

Professor of History Emeritus, College of the Holy Cross
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
508.793.3449
jflynn@holycross.edu

Research Interests
Schools and churches in Russia, Belarus, Poland, especially 18th and 19th centuries

Current Projects
The Uniate ("Greek Catholic") Church in the Russian Empire

Selected Publications
"Contrasting Similarities: Bishops Troy and Lisovskii in Ireland and Belorussia in the Age of the French Revolution," Catholic Historical Review, LXXXXVII (2001)

"Iraklii Lisovskii, Metropolitan of the Uniate Church (1806-09) and Reform in the Russian Empire," The Slavonic and East European Review

"The Uniate Church in Belorussia: A Case of Nation-Building?" in Religious Compromise, Political Salvation: The Greek Catholic Church and Nation Building in Eastern Europe

"Russia's 'University Question': Origins to Great Reforms 1802-1863," in History of Universities
The University Reform of Tsar Alexander I: 1802-1835. The Catholic Universities of America Press, Washington, DC, 1988.