Staff

Kevin Kain, Lecturer (Humanistic Studies)

Education: BA, History, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (1990); MA, History, Appalachian State University (1995); Ph.D., History, Western Michigan University (2004)

Emphases: Modern Europe, Russian Cultural and Religious History, and the History of Images

Office: Studio Arts 263

Phone: (920) 465-2180

E-mail: kaink@uwgb.edu

Kevin M. Kain, a native of Wilmington, NC, is a Lecturer in the Humanistic Studies at UWGB.
Broadly trained in European history, and influenced by substantial time spent studying in Europe, Kain takes cultural approaches to teaching and research which are interdisciplinary. Kain decided to become a historian as high school exchange student in Germany when he became fascinated with the medieval past and the study of foreign language. As an undergraduate history major at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and as a MA history student at Appalachian State University his interests in European history expanded to include the long nineteenth century. He combined these interests in his MA thesis “Nineteenth-Century German Historians Views on the Capture of Richard I of England.” After a year of teaching courses in Western Civilization at UNC-Wilmington, Kain returned to graduate school seeking a doctoral degree from Western Michigan University. At the doctoral level he continued his studies of European cultural and intellectual history, rekindled an interest in gender history which was first sparked as an undergrad, and added a specialization in Russian history. His dissertation project “Patriarch Nikon’s Image in Russian History and Culture” was supported by Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship and other grants and involved nearly a year intensive research conducted in more than thirty Russian archives, museums, galleries and national libraries. Before coming to UWGB, Kain taught courses in history and interdisciplinary studies at Texas A&M University, Texarkana. In addition to teaching surveys courses in Humanistic Studies, including Foundations of Western Culture and Introduction to the Humanities, Kain has taught upper level history courses on the “Women in Modern Europe,” “Modern European Images of the Past” and “Central Asia and the Caucasus: Russian Frontiers Past and Present” and “Renaissance and Reformation.”

Select Publications:

With Ekaterina Levintova, From Peasant to Patriarch: Account of the Birth, Upbringing, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)

“A Comparative, Semiological and Iconographical Analysis of the Tales about Patriarch Nikon Inspired by the ‘Life of Kornilii’” in I. V. Pozdeeva, ed., Mir Staroobriadchestva vol. 6 (Iaroslavl, 2005), 141-168

“S. D. Miloradovich’s ‘Patriarch Nikon on Trial’ (1886-1917)” in G. M. Zelenskaia ed. Nikonovskie chteniia vol. 2 (Moscow, 2005), 132-139

“Obraz Patriarkha Nikona v rossiiskoi kulture: khudozhestvennye istochniki i elektronnyetekhnologii” [“Patriarch Nikon's Image in Russian Culture: Artistic Sources and Electronic Technologies,”] in L. I. Borodkin and V. N. Vladimirov, eds., Krug Idei vol. 8 (Moscow, 2003), 61-114

“Izobrazhenie patriarkha Nikona v iskusstve XVII-XIX vekov” [“Patriarch Nikon’s Image in Art in the XVII-XIX Centuries,"] in G. M. Zelenskaia, ed., Nikonovskie chteniia vol. 1 (Moscow, 2002), 82-87

“Visual Images of Patriarch Nikon: A Digital Gallery” in The Moscow Lomonosov State University Electronic Resources Library (September 2006) http://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/NIKON/index_e.html

“Account of Birth, Life, and Upbringing of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia: An Annotated Translation” in Theofanis G. Stavrou ed., Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 2010 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010)

“Reading between the (Confessional) Lines: The Intersection of Old Believer Book and Russian Print Cultures” in Miranda Remnik, ed., The Space of the Book in Russia's Social Imagination (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011)

“Reading the Early Soviets: Alexander S. Gumberg and the Collection, Translation, Exchange, and Preservation of Russian Print Matter (1917-1930)” Slavic and East European Information Resources vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring 2011)

Select Research Grants/Awards

Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (Washington DC) Short-term Research Grant (Summer 2009)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute “Sources of Russian and Soviet Visual Culture, 1860-1935: Study, Teaching and Education” The New York Public Library (June 21-July 12, 2008)

US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2001-2002)

US Department of State (Title VIII) Research Associateship, University of Illinois Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe (2006, 2005, 2001)