William Benton Whisenhunt
Professor, History

Tel.: (630) 942-3144
Fax.: (630) 942-3711
Room: IC 3013e
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

Current Projects:
• Russian-American Relations in the 1850's
• American Spies in early Soviet Russia
• Field Studies: Russia 2008

Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
• 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, 2008)
•"American Relief Administration," Encyclopedia of Russian History, Macmillan, 2004.
• Published "Teaching Russian History Out of the Limelight," NewsNet (The Newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies), v.42 no. 3 (May 2002): 15-17.
• Co-Founded and Co-Chaired, Russia Committee
• In Search of Legality: Mikhail M. Speranskii and the Codification of Russian Law (East European Monographs) New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
• "The Development of Systematic Legal Education in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia," Slovo: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Russian, Eurasian, Central and East European Affairs, 13 (2001): 89-108.


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

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