Paul Werth

Paul W. Werth is professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he has taught since 1997. The holder of a Kennan fellowship prior to his start at UNLV, he has held other fellowships in the US, Japan, Germany, and France. He is the author of numerous articles, as well as three monographs, including, most recently, 1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2021). His research has focused on religion and empire, the fate of religious and ethnic minorities in Russia, and the problem of borders and boundaries in Eurasia across several centuries.