Sean Griffin
Lecturer in Russian and Religion
Sean Griffin is an interdisciplinary scholar of Russia and Ukraine. His research focuses primarily on the history of the Orthodox Church and its role in the making of cultural memory: from the liturgy and chronicles of medieval Kyiv, to the dissident novels and digital propaganda of modern Moscow.
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Department(s)
Religion
Selected Publications
Books
The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
*Winner, W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, 2020, ASEEES
*Winner, Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize, 2021
*Paperback edition, 2020
*Reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Russian Review, Medieval Encounters, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Church History, Slavic Review, Scandia, Kritika, and Orientalia Christiana Periodica.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
'Revolution, Raskol, and Rock 'n' Roll: The 1,020th Anniversary of the Day of the Baptism of Rus'. The Russian Review, v. 80/2. Lawrence, KS: Wiley Periodicals, 2021, pp. 183-208.
'Putin's Medieval Weapons in the War against Ukraine'. Studies in Medievalism, v. 29. Karl Fugelso (ed.). Suffolk, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2020, pp. 13-21.
'Евхаристический подтекст мученичества князей Бориса и Глеба'. Вестник Санкт-Петербургского Университета. История, v. 65 (no. 1). St Petersburg: St Petersburg University Press, 2020, pp. 5-18.
'Аки деньица предъ слн҃цмь: литургические истоки изображения княгини Ольги в Повести временных лет'. Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики, no. 1 (79). Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020, pp. 96-109.
'Византийская литургия и создание Повести временных лет'. Ruthenica, v. 15. Kyiv: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2019, pp. 7-44.
'Rus'. Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Fourth edition. Andrew Louth (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
'V. V. Rozanov'. Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Megan Swift (ed.).
London: Routledge, 2018.'Le baptême d'Ol'ga dans le Récit des temps passés ou le palimpseste liturgique'. Ecrire et reécrire l'histoire russe, d'Ivan Terrible à V.O Kliuchevskii. Pierre Gonneau (ed.). Paris: Institut d'études slaves, 2013, pp. 159-168.
Works In Progress
The Sacred Reign of Vladimir Putin (under contract with Cornell University Press)
Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska: Old World Faith in the New World (documentary film)