Help Me to Carry On My Academic Work This Summer

Summer is the only time when I do not teach at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary and, therefore, I can research and write. On June 10 I am leaving for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne to work with the archives of Paul B. Anderson who spent his 48-year career working with the YMCA’s International Committee. He lived in Russia during the

the overthrow of the Tsar and subsequent attempts to establish a democratic government.

Paul Anderson also exchanged correspondence with the ROCOR’s leading figures of the

1920’s.

 

 

Then I would like to prepare a class on Russian Church history which will be offered through the St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology.

 

Later this June I begin teaching a class on ROCOR History and Identity offered through

the Pastoral School of Chicago and Mid-America Diocese of the Russian Church Abroad.

 

Also, I need to prepare materials from last year’s Belgrade Conference on the history of the ROCOR for publication in a thematic volume in English.

 

Additionally, I need to prepare a questionnaire, which the Fund for Assistance to

the Russian Church Abroad will send to the ROCOR’s parishes.

 

I also would like to prepare a chapter on the Inter-Council Assembly of the Russian Church for a handbook on Conciliarity/Sobornost, edited by Dr. Irina Paert who is Senior Researcher at the School of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia.

 

I may also write a paper for a canon law congress in Belgrade this September.

 

Finally, of course, I shall be setting up my classes for the next teaching year.

 

I am collecting extra funds to cover my time and to care for my family's needs.