Michael Long

Research/Teaching Interests

• Dissidence in former Soviet bloc
• Restoration of cultural monuments in Georgia
• Impact of tourism on indigenous cultures in Georgia

Education

Ph.D., Indiana University

M.A., Indiana University

B.A., Baylor University

Courses Taught at Baylor

• Beginning and Intermediate Russian
• Advanced Russian Conversation and Composition
• Russian Phonetics
• Russian Reading Development
• Survey of Russian Literature to 1917
• Survey of 20th-century Russian Literature
• Russian Short Story

Selected Publications

• “Overcoming One’s Own Fear: Exile Publishing, Samizdat, and the Illegal Transport of Literature to Czechoslovakia, 1971-1989.” In Freedom Conscience in (Post)Soviet Space: Legacies of Michael Bourdeaux and the Keston Archive. Julie deGraffenried, Michael Long, and Xenia Dennen (Eds.). Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press/Cornell University Press, 2025, 81-202.                                                                                                                                                                                              
• “The Juxtaposition of Cultural Identity and Tourism Development among the Svan of Upper Svaneti, Georgia.” In Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe: Perspectives on the Construction of a Region. Andrey Makarychev and Thomas Kreussmann (Eds.). With Sara Alexander. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2019, 255-280.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
• “Collaboration, Confrontation, and Controversy: the Politics of Monument Restoration in Georgia and the Case of Bagrati Cathedral.” Nationalities Papers, Vol. 45, no. 4, July 2017, 669-686.                                                                                      
• Long, Michael. Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
• Long, Michael. “Documents of Destruction: Protocols of the Iaroslavl’ City Soviet Concerning the Fate of Church Poperty, 1928-1937,” European Studies Journal, Vols. 28 & 29, Spring, 2002, 1-20.