David McDonald
Professor
Department Chair

eMail: dmmcdon1@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-0489
Office: 5134 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 4051 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: Mondays 2:00 - 4:00, Tuesdays 2:00 - 4:00, Fridays 2:00 - 4:00

Education: PhD: Columbia; MA: Toronto; BA: Toronto

Bio Sketch:

My specialization is Russian to 1917.

My Research and Teaching Interests include the History of Imperial Russia (1649-1917); social, intellectual, political and diplomatic.

Selected Publications:

• United Government and Russian Foreign Policy, 1900-1914 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 1992).
• (translated), B. Feygin, The Theory and Practice of Planned Price-Formation in the USSR (Washington D. C.: Delphic Associates, 1983.
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 120 - Europe and the Modern World 1815 to the Present - Syllabus 2009 (pdf)
• History 253 - Russia: An Interdisciplinary Survey
• History 417 - History of Russia
• History 418 - History of Russia - Syllabus 2008 (pdf)
• History 420 - Russian Social and Intellectual History

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 200 - Historical Studies
• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "Women in Imperial Russia"; "Imperial Russia 1649-1917"
• History 680/690 - Honors Thesis Colloquium

Graduate Courses:

• History 825 - Seminar - 19th & 20th Century Europe - Topics: "Europe & the Coming of the Great War"
• History 849 - Seminar - Topics in History of Imperial Russia, 1649-1917 - Topics: "Russia and the World 1815-2005"; "Imperial Russia 1649-1917"