Faculty and Staff
William Benton Whisenhunt
Professor, History
Tel.: (630) 942-3144
Fax: (630) 942-3711
Room: M 151A
e-mail: whisen@cod.edu
Areas of Research Interest:
• Russian Intellectual, Cultural and Political History
• Russian-American Relations
• Nationalism
• Revolution
Recent Courses Taught:
• History 1110 - Western Civilization to 1600
• History 1120 - Western Civilization since 1600
• History 2225 - History and Culture of Russia
• History 2235 - 20th Century World History
• History 1130 - U.S. History to 1865
• History 1140 - U.S. History since 1865
• History of Terrorism
• Native American History
Current Projects:
• Co-Founded and Co-Chaired, Russia Committee
• Russian-American Relations in the 1850's
• American Spies in early Soviet Russia
• Field Studies: Russia 2012
Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
• Editor, Marguerite Harrison, Marooned in Moscow: The Story of An American Women Imprisoned in Russia (Russian Life Books, 2011)
• Co-author, From the Romanovs to Putin and Beyond: A Concise History of Modern Russia (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011)
• Co-editor, Russian and Soviet History: From the Time of Troubles to the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)
• Co-author, A Russian Paints America: The Travels of Pavel P. Svinin, 1811-1813 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008)
• Learning Is the Greatest Adventure: A History of College of DuPage, 1966-2006. (College of DuPage Press, forthcoming)
• In Search of Legality: Mikhail M. Speranskii and the Codification of Russian Law (East European Monographs) New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Education:
Ph.D. History, University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A. History, University of Nebraska at Omaha
B.A. History and Russian, Cornell College
Awards and Recognitions:
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007
• J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar, Ryazan State University , Ryazan, Russia 2006
• Commitment to Excellence Service Award, 1999
• Nominated for Outstanding Faculty Award, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10