Oleg Morozov

Lecturer at School of History and Research Fellow at Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in Humanities (IGITI) at National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. In 2012, graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) as translator/interpreter in Russian, English, and German. In 2014, attained master’s in history. In 2015, finished doctoral program at HSE, and in 2016 defended dissertation on comparative history of German and Russian universities in early 20th century. Participated in conferences, colloquia, and workshops at universities of London, Berlin, Tübingen, Freiburg, Düsseldorf, Warsaw, and Taipei as well as in Moscow Carnegie Center and German Historical Institute in Moscow. In summer 2014, visiting researcher at  Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. Publications in scholarly periodicals, e.g., History of Education and Children’s Literature, Kasvatus & Aika, Rossijskaja istorija, Dialog so vremenem, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, Istorija i istoricheskaja pamjat  as well as in Russian non-scholarly outlets, e.g., Ezhednevnyj zhurnal, Nezavisimaja gazeta, Postnauka, Open Russia, and Portal-Credo.ru.

• Best Teacher of HSE (2017, 2018)
• Fellowship of HSE Young Faculty Support Program (2016-2018)
• HSE grant at the Academic Projects Contest. Topic: "Research Seminars at HSE Lyceum" (2016)
• Research fellowship of German Historical Institute in Moscow (2014)
• Summer fellowship of Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (2014)
• HSE doctoral fellowship (2012-2015)

• Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (2017)
• University College London (2016)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2014)
• Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (2014)
• Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (2013)
• Humboldt University of Berlin (2013)
• Philipp University of Marburg (2010)
• Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (2009)

• The Ages of Learning: The Cultural Construction of Old Age, Youth, and Generations at Russian Universities between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | Center for University Studies | IGITI | HSE (2017)
• History and Practice of Scholarly Reviewing in the Academic Culture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | HSE (2016-2017)
• Experts and Expert Institutions: History of Academic (Self)Evaluation at Russian Universities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | Center for University Studies | IGITI | HSE (2016)
• The Criteria of Scientificity and Effectiveness in the Humanities: the History of Professional Conventions in Russia and the Soviet Union | Center for University Studies | IGITI | HSE (2015)
• Academic Attestation and Degree Awards at European Universities in the Modern Era | Center for University Studies | IGITI | HSE (2014)
• The Construction of Tradition: the Problem of Continuity and Caesurae in the History of Russian Universities | Center for University Studies | IGITI | HSE (2013)
• Religious Life in Russia Today: a Systematic Description |  Keston Institute (2011–2013)

• history of ideas
• history of universities
• memory studies
• history of churches and religions
• historical epistemology and narrativity 
• comparative history of Germany and Russia
• historical game studies

Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Morozov, Oleg. "Kriterii ocenivanija nauchnyh tekstov v recenzijah vtoroj poloviny XIX veka: Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshhenija." Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 2 (2018): 1-10 | "The Criteria for Evaluating Scholarly Texts in Reviews from the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Journal of the Ministry of National Education"

• Morozov, Oleg. "Vilgelm fon Gumboldt i Berlinskij universitet: Novyj vzgljad na proishozhdenie gumboldtovskogo mifa." Dialog so vremenem  60 (2017): 128-141 | "Wilhelm von Humboldt and Berlin University: a New Look at the Origin of the Humboldt Myth"

• Morozov, Oleg. "Vivat Academia–Pereat Diabolus: 150-letie Imperatorskogo Moskovskogo universiteta nakanune Pervoj russkoj revoljucii." Novoe proshloe  2 (2016): 107–120 | "Vivat Academia–Pereat Diabolus: Sesquicentennial of Imperial Moscow University before the First Russian Revolution"

• Morozov, Oleg. "Nesostojavshijsja prazdnik: 100-letnij jubilej Imperatorskogo Kazanskogo universiteta." Rossijskaya istoriya  2 (2016): 192–203 | "A Cancelled Festival: the Centennial Jubilee of Imperial Kazan University"

• Morozov, Oleg. "Uchenaja korporacija i politicheskaja vlast: podgotovka i prazdnovanie jubileja Tjubingenskogo universiteta v 1877 godu." Istoricheskaya i socialno-obrazovatelnaya mysl  7/3 (2015): 45–50 | "Academic Corporation and Political Power: Arranging and Celebrating the Jubilee of Tübingen University in 1877"

• Morozov, Oleg. "Vliyanie iubileev na razvitie istoriopisaniya germanskih universitetov v Novoe i Novejshee vremya." Klio  97 (2015), 58–66 | "The Impact of Jubilees in German University History Writing in the Modern and Contemporary Periods"

• Morozov, Oleg. "The Historical Past of Tübingen University within the 1927 Jubilee Context." History of Education and Children's Literature  9 (2014): 301–320

Articles in Edited Collections

• Bazhenov, Oleg & Morozov, Oleg. "Universitet 1990-h gg. v intervju sovremennyh istorikov." In Istoriya i istoricheskaya pamat, edited by A. Gladyshev & T. Bulygina, 218–229. Saratov, Stavropol: Severo-Kavkazskij federalnyj universitet, 2015 | "The University of the 1990s in the Interviews of Modern Historians"

• Morozov, Oleg. "Legendy i mify rossijskoj istorii: istoricheskaja politika rukovodstva Russkoj pravoslavnoj cerkvi v nachale XXI v." In Montazh i demontazh sekularnogo mira, edited by S. Filatov & S. Malashenko, 255–322. Moscow: Rosspen, 2014 | "The Legends and Myths of Russian History: the Russian Orthodox Church's Approach to History at the Start of the Twenty-First Century"

• Morozov, Oleg. "Sovremennaja RPC v zerkale religioznoj filosofii L. N. Tolstogo: cerkov, vlast i vera v Rossii." In Fenomen tvorcheskoj lichnosti v kulture, edited by A. Vashenko, vol. 2, 56–69. Moscow: Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies of Moscow State University, 2011 | "The Russian Orthodox Church in the Mirror of Leo Tolstoy's Religious Philosophy: Church, Faith, and Political Power in Contemporary Russia"

Book Reviews

• Morozov, Oleg. Review of National, Nordic or European? Nineteenth-Century University Jubilees and Nordic Cooperation, edited by Pieter Dhondt, and University Jubilees and University History Writing: a Challenging Relationship, edited by by Pieter Dhondt. Kasvatus ja Aika  3 (2015). doi: http://www.kasvatus-ja-aika.fi/site/?lan=1&page_id=726

• Morozov, Oleg. Review of Andreas Aurifaber (1515–1559) i ego Istorija jantarja, by I. A. Polyakova. Vestnik Baltijskogo federalnogo universiteta imeni I. Kanta  6 (2015): 156–158 | "Review of Andreas Aurifaber (1515–1559) and His History of Amber"

• Morozov, Oleg. Review of Istoricheskaja pamjat i obrazy proshlogo v rossijskoj kulture XIX–nachala XX v., by O. B. Leontieva. Dialog so vremenem  46 (2014): 374–383 | Review of Historical Memory and the Images of the Past in the Russian Culture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 

Other Publications

• Morozov, Oleg. "Pjat knig ob istorii universitetskoj identichnosti v Evrope i Rossii." Postauka (2015). doi: http://postnauka.ru/books/51637 | Five Books on the History of Academic Identity in Europe and Russia

• Morozov, Oleg. "Tserkov vybiraet dlya Rossii istoriiu." Nezavisimaja gazeta (2013). doi: http://www.ng.ru/ng_religii/2013-09-18/6_history.html | "The Church Invents History for Russia"

• Morozov, Oleg. "Tjuremnoe sluzhenie v RPC: grazhdanskaja iniciativa protiv surrogatov." Religiya i Zakon (2012). doi: http://religionip.ru/news/oleg-morozov-tyuremnoe-sluzhenie-v-rpc-grazhdanskaya-iniciativa-protiv-surrogatov | "Prison Service in the Russian Orthodox Church: Civil Initiative against Surrogates"

• Morozov, Oleg. "'Propovedovat leto Gospodne blagoprijatnoe:' missija Cerkvi hristian adventistov sed'mogo dnja v Rossii." Moscow International SDA Church. doi: http://new.mosadvent.ru/publications/smi/1327 | "The Mission of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Russia"

• Morozov, Oleg. "Pravoslavie i subkultury: sovremennye problemy missionerskoj dejatelnosti RPC v neformalnoj srede." Religia i pravo  57 (2010): 18–21 | "Orthodoxy and Subcultures: Modern Problems of the Russian Orthodox Church's Missionary Work in Russian Informal Environment"