Howard White
Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies
1 West North 2.22
Email: h.j.white@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 6246
Professional bodies
BSc and MSc dissertations
Supervises students in the following areas:
- Russian and (former) Soviet politics and history
- Communist and post-communist politics
- Democratisation
Profile
Mr Howard White joined the Department in 1992 from a teaching post at the London School of Economics. He did his first degree at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and postgraduate work at the London School of Economics, Stanford University (as a Fulbright-Hays Scholar) and Moscow State University.
He is Director of Studies for undergraduate programmes in politics and is the Department’s Student Representation Officer. He also chairs the University’s Programmes and Partnerships Approval Committee and is a member of Senate.
He is a past winner of the Mary Tasker Award for Teaching Excellence (1999) and of the Leadership in Learning and Teaching Award (2010).
Outside the University he is Honorary Treasurer of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution and is an Institutional Reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency.
Research Interests
- The Russian Revolution of 1917
- Contemporary Russian Politics
Teaching
Undergraduate
- PL10088: Russian politics & society 1B: Russia before 1917
- PL10103: Introduction to European studies
- PL10104: Europe since 1945
- PL10505: Key concepts in politics
- PL10713: International history 1815-1991
- PL20416: Totalitarian politics
- PL20780: Soviet and post-Soviet Russia
- PL30102: Russian national option R5: Politics in postcommunist Russia
- PL30468: Transitions to democracy
- PL30795: Europe and the Second World War: strategy, politics and society
Publications
He has published a number of articles on Russia in 1917 including contributions to Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution ed. R. Service (1992) and Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution ed. E. Acton et al (1997).
