Robert Johnson (Professor)
- Robert Johnson (Professor)
Robert Johnson is the professor and chair at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. He received his Ph.D. at Cornell. Robert Johnson teaches Imperial Russian and Soviet History. His research concentrates on social and economic questions.
From 1993 through 2001 he served as Principal Investigator of the Stalin Era Research and Archives Project, which received major funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His own focus within that collaborative project was on population of the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s. He has written on labour and labour unrest, peasant family life, and other social and economic issues, as well as quantitative research methods. He is a frequent commentator for Canadian news media on current events in Russia and the former Soviet Union. From 1989 to 2001 he served as Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (University of Toronto).
Published works
*"Peasant and Proletarian: Moscow’s Working Class at the End of the Nineteenth Century" (1979)
*" The Seam Allowance: Industrial Homework in Canada's Garment Industry", co-author (1982)
*"A Half-Century of Silence: The 1937 Census of USSR", editor, "Russian Studies in History", Summer 1992
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Robert Johnson — may refer to:; In the arts: *Robert Johnson (musician) (Robert Leroy Johnson) (1911–1938), blues singer and guitarist *Robert Johnson (actor), voice actor noted for mission messages *Robert Johnson (Scottish composer) (c. 1470 after 1554) *Robert … Wikipedia
Robert J. Bonner — (* 24. Oktober 1868 in Oxford County, Ontario; † 23. Januar 1946 in Chicago) war ein US amerikanischer Klassischer Philologe und Rechtshistoriker kanadischer Herkunft. Leben Robert J. Bonner studierte Rechtswissenschaften an der University of… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Robert Simon Johnson — Robert Johnson= In early 2007 Robert Johnson became the first person in the world to undergo gene therapy treatment on the eye. Born with an inherited retinal dystrophy Robert was operated on by a team at world renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital in … Wikipedia
Johnson, Samuel — known as Dr. Johnson born Sept. 18, 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, Eng. died Dec. 13, 1784, London British man of letters, one of the outstanding figures of 18th century England. The son of a poor bookseller, he briefly attended Oxford… … Universalium
Robert H. Frank — Professor Robert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and a Professor of Economics at Cornell University s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is a monthly contributor to the Economic Scene column in The New… … Wikipedia
Robert Dallek — (born May 16, 1934) is an American historian specializing in American presidents. He is a recently retired Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA, and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize … Wikipedia
Robert Erwin Johnson — (3 February 1923 – 28 January 2008) was a University of Alabama professor of history and considered one of the finest scholars of the nineteenth century U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard . [Obituary in Argonautica: The Newsletter of the Canadian… … Wikipedia
Robert Lewis Dabney — (March 5, 1820 ndash; January 3, 1898) was an American Christian theologian, a Southern Presbyterian pastor, and Confederate Army chaplain. He was also chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson. His biography of Jackson remains in print… … Wikipedia
Robert C. Weaver — Weaver (links) am 18. Januar 1966, dem Tag seiner Am … Deutsch Wikipedia
Robert Killick-Kendrick — [[Image: Professeur Robert Killick Kendrick |220px|center|]] Naissance 20 juin … Wikipédia en Français
