Nicholas S. Racheotes

Ph.D., Boston College, 1975; M.A., Boston College, 1972; B.A., Brandeis University, 1969
Professor of History and Department Chair, Framingham State College
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
508.626.4816
nracheo@frc.mass.edu
history@frc.mass.edu

Research Interests
Russian History; the Balkans; the thought of Metropolitan Filaret Drozdov; the treatment of the disabled in Russia since the nineteenth century.

Current Projects
An intellectual biography of Filaret Drozdov.

Selected Publications
"The Blind and Partially Sighted in the Soviet Union: Out of the Shadows into the Plight," in Nicholas S. Racheotes and Hugh Guilderson, eds., Life Lines: Perspectives on Russian and European Culture, Society, and Politics, [A Festschrift for Professor Raymond T. McNally] New York, 2001.

"Values in Collision: The Byzantine Tradition, Scholasticism, and the Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia," Canadian-American Slavic Studies, V.34, No. 3 (Fall, 2000), 311-335.

Raymond McNally and Nicholas Racheotes, "End-of-Century or Fin-de-Siecle? It's About Time", The New England Journal of History, V.56, No. 1 (Fall, 1999), 1-21.

"Boston's Knight Errant: Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876)", The New England Journal of History, V.55, No.2 (Winter, 1998-99), 22-36.