Glennys Young

Glennys Young is a professor of History and the incoming Chair of the History Department at the University of Washington. She also is a professor of Russian studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She is also affiliated with University of Washington's Comparative History of Ideas Department. Starting in 2016, she has been the Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History. Her research focuses include Russia, the Soviet Union, religion in the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign policy, and Russian foreign relations.

Career

After graduating from Nazareth Area High School in Nazareth, Pennsylvania in 1977, she attended Lafayette College. She would go on to transfer and ultimately earn her Bachelor of Arts in History from University of Pennsylvania in 1981, graduating Summa Cum Laude. In 1989, she earned her PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1989, she began her academic career as a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Stanford, California. From 1990 to 1992, she would work as a lecturer at Stanford University before being hired as a professor at the University of Washington, where she received a dual appointment at the Department of History and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Selected publications

• Young, Glennys. To Russia with 'Spain': Spanish Exiles in the USSR and the Longue Durée of Soviet History. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, Indiana University. 2014. Print.
• Young, Glennys. The Communist Experience in the Twentieth Century: A Global History through Sources. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.
• Young, Glennys. Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Print.