Brian Davies

Spring 2008
Office: HSS 4.04.24 Hours: TBD Phone: (210) 458-5702 Fax: (210) 458-4796 E-Mail: brian.davies@utsa.edu Vita: Web Site: http://colfa.utsa.edu/HIST/users/bdavies/

Brian Davies, Associate Professor of History, received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. Dr. Davies specializes in Russian History. He has additional research interests in early modern European, Ottoman, and Central Asian history and is especially interested in the comparative study of state building in the early modern era, subaltern social history, and the development of the capitalist world-system. He has published two monographs, State Power and Community in Early Modern Russia (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004), and Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700 (Routledge, 2007), and recently contributed two chapters to The Cambridge History of Russia. Volume One: From Early Rus' to 1689 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Dr. Davies has developed several graduate level courses addressing transnational issues, among them HIS 5013: Readings in Modern European History; HIS 5063: Readings in Early Modern European History; HIS 6483 Topics in Comparative History: Empire; and HIS 6813/ 6903 Proseminar/Seminar Sequence: The Making of the Modern Capitalist World-System. Davies is also available for Independent Study on topics in the political and social history of Russia and Eastern Europe, early modern Western Europe, Dar al-Islam, Central Asia, military history, comparative studies.