David Schimmelpenninck, PhD

Professor and Chair

Profile | Curriculum Vitae | Course Outlines

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye teaches courses in Russian and Inner Asian history. His research interests focus on Imperial Russian intellectual, cultural and diplomatic topics. His first book, Toward the Rising Sun: Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001), examines the interplay East Asian foreign policy and ideas in St. Petersburg at the turn of the twentieth century. Schimmelpenninck's other publications include a volume co-edited with Bruce Menning, Reforming the Tsar's Army (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003), another co-edited volume with John Steinberg and others, The Russo-Japanese War: World War Zero (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005), as well as articles about Russian Orientology, Asian Russia, tsarist diplomacy, Sino-Russian relations, Russian military intelligence, and other topics. He is currently writing a book about Russian perceptions of Asia under contract with Yale University Press.

Research Interests

18th- & 19th-Century Russian Diplomatic, Intellectual, Cultural & Military History

Course Outlines

Course Outlines to appear here