Lawrence Langer to edit Russian History

Lawrence Langer, Associate Professor of History Emeritus, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Russian History, the leading academic journal in its field.

Prof. Langer has been a member of the History Department since 1970, retiring in 2003 but continuing to teach undergraduate courses. An expert on medieval Russia, he has edited a Historical Dictionary devoted to that era and is currently completing a study of Russia in the Mongol period from the thirteen to the fifteen centuries. Langer has served UConn in various administrative capacities, including as Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies and as Director of the Undergraduate Program in the History Department. He is currently an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Russian History, a quarterly published by Brill in the Netherlands (http://brill.nl/ruhi), covers the entire span of that country's past. Prof. Langer served as guest editor of the quarterly for a six-part series in honor of Richard Hellie of the University of Chicago, who guided Russian History for the last twenty years. Langer now succeeds him in that editorial post.