Mara Kozelsky

Professor

Department of History

Publications

Oxford University Press, 2019
Honorable Mention Marshall D. Shulman Prize, 2020

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University of Wisconsin Press, 2014

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Northern Illinois University/Cornell Press, 2009

Chicago University Press 2008

Current Research

Logistics: The Military - Civilian Food Supply Networks
Crimean War Translation Project (CWTP)
A collaboration with Russian language specialists, Dr. Nicholas Gossett and Ekaterina Zakharova, the CWTP makes the Russian imperial experience of the Crimean War accessible to Anglophone students and scholars by translating key documents of the Crimean War from Russian into English.
Americans in the Crimean War

“The Crimean War,” Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region. Edited by Ninja Bumann, Kerstin S. Jobst, Stefan Rohdewald, Stefan Troebst. De Gruyter, forthcoming.
“Crimean civilians and the Crimean War,” an article solicited for The Routledge Handbook of the Crimean War. Edited by Candan Badem. Routledge, 2022.
Mara Kozelsky (2020) Structural violence in the confessional state: the creation of a Crimean diocese, 1768–1860, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 62:3-4, 271-295, DOI: 10.1080/00085006.2020.1800561

“Religion and the Crisis in Ukraine,” International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church.” 14:3 (2014): 219-241.
“Sermons of the Crimean War” (Introduction to and translation of) in Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia: A Sourcebook on Lived Religion. Indiana University Press, (August 2014).
“A Borderland Mission: The Russian Orthodox Church in the Black Sea Region,” Russian History 40 (2013): 111-132.
“Bishop in the Borderland: Archbishop Innokentii (Borisov), 1800-1857,” People of Empire: Lives of Culture and Power in Russian Eurasia, 1500-Present, edited Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.
“The Crimean War, 1853-1856,” Kritika 13.4 (2012): 903-917.
“Casualties of Conflict: Crimean Tatars during the Crimean War,” Slavic Review 67.4 (2008): 862-891.
“Ruins into Relics: The Monument to St. Vladimir on the excavations of Chersonesos, 1827-1857,” Russian Review 63.4 (2004): 655–672.