Charles E. Timberlake

Dr. Charles Timberlake passed away Friday, March 21, 2008. The memorial service for our colleague will be held Tuesday, May 13, at 4:00 pm, at the Missouri United Methodist Church, 201 South 9th Street. Professor Timberlake's obituary can be read here.

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Washington
area: Modern Russian history
office:
phone: 573-882-2068
email: timberlakec@missouri.edu

B.A. Berea College, 1957
California State Teaching Credential, 1958
M.A. 1962 Claremont Graduate School
Ph.D. 1968, University of Washington.

Professor Emeritus Timberlake's teaching and research areas are in the history of Russia/Soviet Union during the late l9th and the 20th centuries.

He is the author of a history of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents since 1917 (Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1995); is co-author of Services and Quality of Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet Union: Data from 1991 and 1993 Surveys. Lanham, Md., New York, Oxford, UK: University Press of America, 1997; is the compiling editor and contributor for Essays on Russian Liberalism (University of Missouri Press, 1972) and Religious and Secular Forces in Late Tsarist Russia (University of Washington, 1992); compiler and annotator of Detente: A Documentary Record (Praeger, 1978) and author of more than 40 book chapters and journal articles on socio-economic transformation in the provinces of European Russia.

He spent the 1995-96 academic year doing research in Russia (on grants from the University of Missouri Research Board, International Research and Exchanges Board, and Fulbright Hays) on the socio-economic transformation of Novotorzhok County, Tver Province, 1861 to 1936.

Professor Timberlake has taught and lectured extensively abroad, including one year at the University of Manchester in England, four occasions at Joensuu University, Finland, at other universities in Finland, and at universities and the academies of science in Russia, Georgia, and the People's Republic of China (where he was named Honorary Professor of History in Lanzhou University in 1991).

In 1996 Professor Timberlake received the MU Byler Distinguished Professor Award; in 2000 he received the University of Missouri Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Award; in 2002, he received the MU Provost's Award for Leadership in International Education.

In 2002, he received Berea College's Distinguished Alumnus Award.

He served for four years as Chairman of the Department of History.

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