John Garrard has been a Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Arizona since 1984. Previously, he taught at Dartmouth College, Indiana University, and the University of Virginia, where Garrard was a Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies. Garrard’s expertise lies in Church-state relations in Russia; religious symbolism in Russian literature and culture; World War II on the Eastern Front; and the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Soviet territory. Together with Carol Garrard, John Garrard has co-authored Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia, Bones of Berdichev, The Life and Fate of Vassily Grossman and Inside the Soviet Writers’ Union.
John Garrard has been a Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Arizona since 1984. Previously, he taught at Dartmouth College, Indiana University, and the University of Virginia, where Garrard was a Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies. Garrard’s expertise lies in Church-state relations in Russia; religious symbolism in Russian literature and culture; World War II on the Eastern Front; and the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Soviet territory. Together with Carol Garrard, John Garrard has co-authored Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia, Bones of Berdichev, The Life and Fate of Vassily Grossman and Inside the Soviet Writers’ Union.
