Ronald Grigor Suny is currently director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eihs/people and the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, as well as Emeritus Professor of political science

Political science

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 and history

History

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 at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian

Alex Manoogian

Alexander "Alex" Manoogian was an Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who had most of his career in Detroit, Michigan. He and his wife Marie donated their home to the city, which uses the Manoogian Mansion as the mayoral residence...

 Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, after beginning his career as an assistant professor at Oberlin College

Oberlin College

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.

Suny was born in Philadelphia, graduated from Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College

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 in 1962, and earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 in 1968. His fields of study are the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 and post-Soviet Russia

Russia

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; nationalism

Nationalism

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; ethnic conflict; the role of emotions in politics

Politics

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; South Caucasus

South Caucasus

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; and Russian/Soviet historiography.

He is a grandson of the Armenian

Armenians

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 composer Grikor Mirzaian Suni.

Selected publications

• The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1972);
• Armenia in the Twentieth Century (Scholars Press, 1983);
• The Making of the Georgian Nation (Indiana University Press, 1988, 1994);
• Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History (Indiana University Press, 1993);
• The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Stanford University Press, 1993);
• The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Editor

• Transcaucasia, Nationalism and Social Change: Essays in the History of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia (Michigan Slavic Publications, 1983; University of Michigan Press, 1996) and
• The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents (Oxford University Press, 2003);
• The Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 3: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Coeditor

• Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History (Indiana University Press, 1989);
• The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory: Visions and Revisions (D. C. Heath, 1990);
• Making Workers Soviet: Power, Culture, and Identity (Cornell University Press, 1994);
• Becoming National (Oxford University Press, 1996);
• Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation (University of Michigan Press, 1999);
• A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford University Press, 2001).

External links

• Faculty page at University of Chicago
• Faculty page at University of Michigan