Dr. Vincent E. Hammond is an Associate Professor of History teaching Russian and world history. In addition to specializations in medieval Muscovy, twentieth century Russia, British constitutional history and the Scottish Covenanters, Dr. Hammond has a long-standing interest in curriculum assessment. His undergraduate and graduate work was completed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he earned a BA in Teacher Training – Social Studies (1969), an MA in Russian and Modern European history (1971), and a PhD (1987) in Russian, British, and modern European history. His doctoral thesis on “The History of the Novgorodian Pomestie, 1480-1540” was directed by the late Ben Uroff.
Dr. Hammond is the author of Our World from the Renaissance to the Second World War (2005), Russia from the Rise of Moscow to the Revolution of 1917 (2003), One World (2003) and the recently completed State Service in Sixteenth Century Novgorod: The First Century of the Pomestie System. He is the translator and editor of A.A. Danilov and A.N. Souzdaltsev's Russian History from the February Revolution to the Great Patriotic War (2004), Russian History from the Great Patriotic War to the New Russia (2003) and A.A. Danilov's History of Russia: The Twentieth Century (1996). Other edited and annotated translations include A.F. Kiselev's The Trade Unions and the Soviet State (2001) and A.V. Lubkov's War, Revolution and the Cooperative (2002).
During the last decade Dr. Hammond has made ten trips to the Russian Federation in connection with the exchange between Moscow State Pedagogical University and UCA. Between 1996 and 1999 he read a series of lectures on medieval Russia to the History and Sociology Faculties of MSPU and lectured at the Moscow Institute for Teacher Retraining. Since his sabbatical in 2001 Dr. Hammond has been working with Dr. A.A. Danilov (MSPU History Chair and Dissertation Council Chair) on a CD-ROM electronic text, The History of Russia since the Great Reforms.