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Shane O'Rourke
Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Biography

BA (East Anglia), DPhil (Oxon)

 

Dr Shane O’Rourke is a Senior Lecturer.

Shane O’Rourke began his career as a historian of Imperial and Soviet Russia, looking at the history of the Cossacks in particular. He has produced two books on the Cossacks and numerous articles, covering the Cossacks from Muscovite times into the post-Soviet period.

Over the past four years he has began to develop an interest in the history of Brazil and is now engaged on a major research project comparing the emancipation of the serfs in Russia in 1861 and the slaves in Brazil in 1888. Brazil is also figuring increasingly in his teaching and Shane now offers courses on Brazilian as well as Russian history.

Contact details

Dr Shane P. O'Rourke
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Vanbrugh College V/N/219
Department of History
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

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