Princeton University

Ekaterina Pravilova is an assistant professor in the History Department specializing in 19^th century Imperial Russia. A native of St. Petersburg, Professor Pravilova received a Ph.D. from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997. She was a research scholar at the Academy from 1995 to 2004. An assistant professor at the North-Western Academy of Public Administration from 1996 to 2002, she then served as an assistant professor at the European University at St. Petersburg from 2002 to 2006. She joined the faculty at Princeton as an assistant professor in the fall of 2006. 

Prof. Pravilova’s first book, Zakonnost’ I prvava lichnosti: administrativnaia justitsija v Rossii, vtoraia polovina, 19 veka – Oktiabr’ 1917 (Legality and Individual Rights: Administrative Justice in Russia, second half of the 19th century – October 1917), (Obrazovanie-Kul’tura, St. Petersburg, 2000) focused on the administration of justice in Imperial Russia and explored the legal relationship between the Russian state and its subjects. In her second book,Finansy Imperii: dengi i vlast v politike Rossii na natsionalnykh orkainakh (Finances of Empire: Money and Power in Russia’s National Borderlands), (Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2006), she shifted her attention to the economic history of Imperial Russia, and Poland, Finland, Turkestan and Transcaucasia. She received a Gerda Henkel Shtiftung award for her research project, as well as grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and in 2003 she participated in the Fulbright-Kennan Institute Visiting Scholar Program through the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington DC. She received a Russian Academy of Sciences Award for her monograph Legality and Individual Rights: Administrative Justice in Russia.

Professor Pravilova will in sabbatical in St. Petersburg from 2007 to 2008 where she will be researching the history of property rights in late Imperial Russia.

Finansy Imperii: Dengi I vlast’ v politike Rossii na nationalnykh okrainakh ("Finances of Empire: Money and Power in Russian Imperial and National Politics), (Moscow, Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2006).

Zakonnost' i Prava Lichnosti: Administrativnaia Iustitsia v Rossii (" Legality and Individual Rights: Administrative Justice in Imperial Russia"), (St.Petersburg, "Obrazovanie-Kultura", 2000).

"From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in the Monetary Politics of the Russian Empire," in Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, Anatolyi Remnev, eds., Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 (Bloomington, Indiana UP, 2007).

"Reka Imperii. Amu-Daria v gepoliticheskikh i irrigatsionnykh proetjakh vtoroi poloviny 19 veka," ("A River of Empire, Amu-Daria in Russian geopolitical and irrigational projects, second half of the 19th century"), in Aziatskaia Rossia, Boris Ananich, ed., (Omsk, Omsk State University, 2006).

"Imperia ili gegemonia?" Sovremennye kontseptsii ekonomicheskogo liderstva I istoricheskaia nauka," ("Empire or hegemony? Modern conceptions of economic leadership and the historical science") in Vlast’. Obschestvo I reformy v Rossii, 16 – nachalo 20 veka (Power, society and reforms in Russia, 16 – early 20 centuries), Boris Ananich, ed., St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 2004.

"Imperskij factor v ekonomicheskom razvitii Rossii, 1700-1914," ("Imperial factor in economic development of Russia, 1700-1914), in Rossiiskaia imperiia v sravnitel’noi perspektive, Novoe izdatel’stvo, Moscow, 2004.

"Budzhetno-finansovaia politika Rosssii v Zakavkazie 1801-1905" ("Russian budgetary and financial policy in Transcaucasia 1801-1905, in Angliiskaia naberezhnaia, 4, St. Petersburg, 2004.