Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Science
Participatory Autocracy: Siberian Patriots and the Imperial Politics of Progress, 1860-1920
David Rainbow is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. He received a B.A. with highest honors in history and philosophy from Fresno Pacific University and an M.A. with distinction in modern European intellectual history from Drew University. His dissertation examines the history of separatist and regionalist movements in Siberia from the 1860s to 1920 and how the Russian imperial government responded to them as a way of understanding changes in state power during the decades before the Bolshevik Revolution. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Remarque Institute Doctoral Fellowship, the IREX and Woodrow Wilson International Center Regional Policy Symposium award, and two U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships.