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Professor of History, Literature, and the Arts
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After growing up in New Hampshire and attending college in Philadelphia, Ron Bobroff spent most of the next 3 decades in graduate school and teaching positions in North Carolina and Georgia. In 2019 he returned to New England (RI), to carry on his teaching and research about Europe at 麻豆影音.
Ph D, Duke University
M Sc, London School of Economics and Political Science
MA, Duke University
BA, University of Pennsylvania
Bobroff, R., En Garde! The Influence of Elite Masculinity on Russia鈥檚 Decision for War in July 1914, Slavica Publishers, 2022.
Bobroff, R. P., The Question of the Turkish Straits during World War I, Slavica Publishers (Indiana University), 2021.
Bobroff, R., Review of David Stevenson, 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, H-Diplo/H-Net, 2019.
Bobroff, R. P., Squabbling over the Spoils: Late Imperial Russia鈥檚 Rivalry with France in the Near East, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.
Bobroff, R., 鈥淭he origins of the First World War: the Russian role鈥, Online forum post, 2014.
Bobroff, R., Devolution in Wartime: Sergei D. Sazonov and the Future of Poland, 1910-1916 , International History Review , 2000.
Bobroff, R. P., tent: Imperial Russia's use of hard-power pressure to bolster diplomacy, 1910-1914, International History Review.
McFadden, R.,Zywiak, W. H.,Bobroff, R.,Niu, G., War and Money in Ngram Viewer, Advances in Historical Studies.
Zywiak, W. H.,Bobroff, R.,Niu, G., Black Swan Years in American English, French, German, Hebrew, and Russian: Years that Reverberate in Ngram Viewer, Advances in Historical Studies.
Bobroff, R., Roads to Glory, Academic Studies Press, 2022.
Bobroff, R., War accepted but unsought: Russia鈥檚 growing militancy and the July Crisis, 1914, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Bobroff, R., Imperial Russia's Use and Abuse of Proxies During the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, Fletcher Security Review, 2014.
Bobroff, R., Roads to Glory: Late Imperial Russia and the Turkish Straits, I. B. Tauris, 2006.
Bobroff, R., Behind the Balkin Wars: Russian Policy toward Bulgaria andthe Turkish Straits, 1912鈥13, The Russian Review, 2000.
Merit Award for Teaching, Service, and Scholarship, 2023
Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Society for French Historical Studies
International Society for First World War Studies
American Historical Association
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Professor of History, Literature, and the Arts