GARY MARKER
Professor Emeritus/Toll Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1977)
Curriculum Vitae
Email: gary.marker@stonybrook.edu
Interests: Russia, European social history
My research has concentrated on early-modern Russia (seventeenth through early nineteenth
century, or Baroque and Enlightenment), although it has recently broadened to include
early modern Ukraine. It has evolved from an initial focus on print culture, reading,
literacy, and education to one that puts religion (Russian Orthodoxy in particular),
religious discourses, visual texts, and gender at the center of my research. I have
been interested in the self-writings of religious men and women, both clergy and laity
(e.g., Saint Dimitrii of Rostov, Anna Labzina); the cults of particular saints (especially
Saint Catherine of Alexandria), and the interplay of visual and verbal texts within
a given work (akathysts, sermons, collections of miracle tales, and the like). Currently
I am working on a large study of the generation of Ukrainian-trained higher clergy
who entered into service in the Russian church during the late seventeenth and early
eighteenth centuries—i.e., before and during the reign of Peter the Great. This research
explores the simultaneous articulations of nation and empire, the place of ethnic
self-consciousness among Ukrainian clergy serving among co-religionists in an imperial
setting, and the interplay between their statist, religious, and regional sensibilities.
SELECT WORKS
• "The Enlightenment of Anna Labzina: Gender, Faith, and Public Life in Catherinian
and Alexandrian Russia"
• "Love One's Enemies: Ioasaf Krokovskyi's Advice to Peter in 1702"
• "Narrating Mary's Miracles and the Politics of Location in Late 17th-Century East
Slavic Orthodoxy"