William Benton Whisenhunt
William Benton Whisenhunt
Professor, History
Tel.: (630) 942-3144
Berg Instructional Center (BIC), Room 2626E
whisen@cod.edu
Areas of Research Interest:
- Russian Intellectual, Cultural and Political History
- Russian-American Relations
- Nationalism
- Revolution
Recent Courses Taught:
- History 1110 - Western Civilization to 1600
- History 1120 - Western Civilization since 1600
- History 1130 - U.S. History to 1865
- History 1140 - U.S. History since 1865
- History 2225 - History and Culture of Russia
- History 2235 - 20th Century World History
- History 2237 - History of Terrorism
- History 2267 - Native American History
Current Projects:
- Russian-American Relations in the 1850's
- Field Studies: Siberia 2014
Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
- Harrison, Marguerite, Marooned in Moscow, The Story of An American Woman Imprisoned in Soviet Russia, edited and introduced by William Benton Whisenhunt (Russian Life Books, 2011)
- Co-editor, Russian and Soviet History: From the Time of Troubles to the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)
- Co-author, A Russian Paints America: The Travels of Pavel P. Svinin, 1811-1813 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008)
- "American Relief Administration," Encyclopedia of Russian History, Macmillan, 2004.
- Published "Teaching Russian History Out of the Limelight," NewsNet (The Newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies), v.42 no. 3 (May 2002): 15-17.
- Co-Founded and Co-Chaired, Russia Committee
- In Search of Legality: Mikhail M. Speranskii and the Codification of Russian Law (East European Monographs) New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
- "The Development of Systematic Legal Education in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia,"
Slovo: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Russian, Eurasian, Central and East European
Affairs, 13 (2001): 89-108.
Education:
- Ph.D. History, University of Illinois at Chicago
- M.A. History, University of Nebraska at Omaha
- B.A. History and Russian, Cornell College
Awards and Recognitions:
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007
- J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar, Ryazan State University , Ryazan, Russia 2006
- Commitment to Excellence Service Award, 1999
- Nominated for Outstanding Faculty Award, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11
2012 College of DuPage







