Faculty and Staff

Education:

• Ph.D., New York University
• M. A., State University of New York (Albany) and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
• B. A., University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Dr. Petkov was educated in medieval and early modern western and southeastern European and Mediterranean history, history of Byzantinum and the Ottoman Empire in Bulgaria, Hungary and the U. S. He has been awarded several grants for long-and shorter-term research in Germany, France, Belgium and England. His research interests are in areas such as the holy and building of national narratives in pre-modern Mediterranean and southeastern Europe, the cultural history of arrogance, inter-cultural interaction and paleosociology of religion.

Areas of Interest:

• Medieval and early modern Europe
• Premodern Mediterranean
• Islamic Middle East to 1500
• Study tours to Italy

UWRF Awards:

• Excellence in Advising - 2016
• Excellence in Teaching - 2011
• Excellence in Research, Creative and Scholarly Activity - 2009

Publications:

• Giovanni Pietro Contarini, From Cyprus to Lepanto: History of the Events, which Occurred from the Beginning of the War Brought Against the Venetians by Selim the Ottoman, etc. Edited and translated by Kiril Petkov, Italica Press: New York and Bristo, UK, 2019.
• The Maltese Dialogue: Giuseppe Cambiano, History, Institutions, and Politics of the Maltese Knights (1554/1556). Translated by Kiril Petkov, London and New York: Routledge, 2019.
• The Anxieties of a Citizen Class: The Miracles of the True Cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480 (Medieval Mediterranean), Kiril Petkov, Brill Academic Publishers, Jan. 2014.
• Coriolano Cippico: The Deeds of Commander Pitero Mocenigo, Kiril Petkov, ed. and trans., New York: Italica Press, 2104.
• Philippe de Mézières and His Age: Piety and Politics in the Fourteenth Century, Kiril Petkov and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, eds., Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, Nov. 2011.
• Church and State: Studies in Medieval Bulgaria and Byzantium, Kiril Petkov and Vassil Gjuzelev, eds., Sofia: American Research Center in Sofia, Nov. 2011.
• The Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh to Fourteenth Century: The Records of a Bygone Culture, Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008.
• The Kiss of Peace: Ritual, Self, and Society in the High and Late Medieval West (Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions Medieval and Early Modern Peoples), Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.
• Infidels, Turks, and Women: The South Slavs in the German Mind, Ca. 1400-1600, Peter Lang Publishing, 1997.

Edited Works:

• Church and State: Studies in Medieval Bulgaria and Byzantium, Kiril Petkov and Vassil Gjuzelev, eds., Sofia: American Research Center in Sofia, 2011.
• Philippe de Mézières and His Age: Piety and Politics in the Fourteenth Century, Kiril Petkov and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, eds., Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011.

Want a taste of Dr Petkov's courses?

Click here for a sample syllabus on HIST 332: The Middle East in the Making of the Muslim World, Seventh-Seventeenth Centuries

Recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Service Award, August 2023. This award recognizes the many contributions that our faculty make to their academic profession, department, college, university, and beyond.

Education:

• Ph.D., History, University of California, Davis
• M.A., History, University of California, Davis
• B.A., History, Washington University in St. Louis

Areas of Interest:

• U.S. Colonial history
• Latin American history

Recent Publications:

• "Cattle Colonialism," University of North Carolina Press, October 2015. Also available on amazon.com.

Podcast Interviews:

• "Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i," John Ryan Fischer, NewBooksNetwork.com, Nov. 13, 2017.
• Episode 067: "An Environmental History of Early California & Hawaii," John Ryan Fischer, BenFranklinsWorld.com, February 2016.

Education:

• Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.A., with Distinguished Honors, American Studies, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

Areas of Specialization:

• African American History
• 20th Century United States History
• Sports History
• History of American Journalism

Recent Publications:

• Peer-reviewed - "A Bitter Partnership: The Black Press' Contentious Relationship with the Negro Leagues in the Struggle to Integrate Major League Baseball," The International Journal of the History of Sport, (July 11, 2016): 1-19.
• Book Review - Review of Robert Michael Goldman. One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball, H-Law, H-Net Reviews, June, 2011 <http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32153>

Education:

• Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis
• M.A., Washington University, St. Louis
• B.A., Indiana University

Areas of Interest:

• Modern British history
• British empire history
• Colonial Africa
• European women's history

Publications:

• American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton, Princeton University Press, Oct. 3, 2023, from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and most booksellers.

Education:

• Ph.D. Fordham University, 2013
• B.A. Luther College, 2001

Areas of Specialization:

• Kierkegaard
• Kant
• Contemporary ethical theory

Publications:

• “Love, Marriage, and Delusion in Either/Or”, in "Kierkegaard's Either/Or: A Critical Guide," Ryan S. Kemp and Walter Wietzke, eds., Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2023. Available at Cambridge University Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and most booksellers.
• “Irony and the Conversion Experience in The Kierkegaardian Mind," ed. Patrick Stokes, Eleanor Helms, & Adam Buben, Routledge, 2019.
• “Review Essay: Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays in Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue,” in Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, and Resources, Vol. 19, ed. Jon Stewart, Routledge, 2016, pp. 125-130.
• “Narrativity and Normativity,” in Narrative, Identity, and the Kierkegaardian Self. Eds. John Lippitt and Patrick Stokes, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015, pp. 95-112.
• “The Single Individual and the Normative Question,” The European Legacy 18, no. 7 (December 2013): pp. 896-911.
• “Practical Reason and the Imagination,” Res Philosophica 90, no.4 (October 2013): pp. 525-544.
• “Exploring Academic Vocations in the Humanities” [invited] Luther College, November 14, 2017.
• “Irony and the Conversion Experience” [invited] Luther College, November 14, 2017.
• “Kierkegaard and the Possibility of Personal Transformation” Meeting of the Søren Kierkegaard Society at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, April 12, 2017.
• “Technology and Humanity” [panel] The Amazon: Wilderness, Technology & Society, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, November 7, 2016.
• “Love and Conversion in Kierkegaard’s Early Pseudonymous Works,” The Redemption of Feeling: The Religious Existentialists, Queens College, December 4, 2015.
• “Religious Conversion in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or” [invited] Wheaton College, November 20, 2015.
• “Kierkegaard, the Self, and Authenticity” [panel] Confucius and Modern Christian Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, October 22, 2014.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Maryland
• M.A., Beijing University, China
• B.A., Shandong Teachers' University

Areas of Interest:

• East Asian civilizations
• World history
• Modern China
• Study tours to China