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Dr. Christopher Ward

Faculty Member


Office: Arts & Sciences 110L
Humanities
College of Arts & Sciences
cward@clayton.edu

Biography

Education

Ph D, Russian & Asian History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002

MA, Russian & Japanese History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1996

BA, History and Political Science, Guilford College, 1994

Awards and Honors

Gene Hatfield Scholar of the Year Award, Clayton State University, Award, 2018

Intellectual Contributions

Christopher Ward, Revolutionary Russia, 1917 (Third Edition), Waveland Press – April 21 2025

Christopher J. Ward, Brezhnev's Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism, University of Pittsburgh Press – December 2010

Christopher Ward, Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present (9th edition), Routledge – July 19 2021

Christopher Ward, Northern Waters South: The Sibaral Project, Ajanta: An International Multidisciplinary Quarterly Research Journal – March 2019

Christopher Ward, Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus’ to the Present, Westview Press/Routledge – July 18 2017

Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Christopher Ward, David Gilbert, Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology, State, 10800, Funded –  January 17 2017 to December 31 2017

Christopher Ward, Title VI Course Development Stipend, United States Department of Education, Federal, 3000, Funded –  May 2022 to December 2022

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

College, College of Arts & Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee, Committee Member –  August 2023 to May 2025

Department, Department of Humanities Promotion and Tenure Committee, Committee Member –  August 2009 to Present

University, University Promotion and Tenure Committee, Committee Member –  August 2025 to May 2028

Service to the Profession

Member, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), International –  August 1996 to Present

Editor, Journal Editor, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review March 2 2010 to Present

Member, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Regional –  August 1994 to Present