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Nancy Kollmann is the William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University, where she has been a faculty member since 1982. Her research spans early modern Russian history, legal culture, and political communication through visual media.
- Education:
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- M.A., Harvard University
- B.A., Middlebury College
Her work focuses on the mechanisms of social cohesion and stability in early modern autocracies, particularly through ritual, ideology, law, and controlled violence. She has extensively analyzed the intersection of political practice and social values in Russia (14th–18th centuries), including gender roles and the implementation of Catherine II’s judicial reforms.
Kollmann’s recent projects examine visual representations of Russia in early modern European engravings and maps. These studies reveal nuanced portrayals beyond the cliché of 'despotism,' highlighting tensions between artistic tropes and eyewitness accounts. Her scholarship emphasizes comparative frameworks to challenge exceptionalist narratives about Russian history.
She has authored major works on legal culture, including By Honor Bound (1999) and Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia (2012), and co-edited the Festschrift Seeing Muscovy Anew (2017). Her current research explores Catherine II’s judicial reforms in non-Russian provinces and the political use of icons/frescoes in Russia.
