Igor Kuzmin will be Visiting Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Augusta State University for the Spring semester 2005. He is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Historical and Political Sciences at the Institute of International Educational Programs, Saint-Petersburg State Technical University where he teaches, in Russian and in English, courses on Political Science, History of Russia, Translation Techniques (English-Russian, Russian-English), Contemporary Russia, Saint-Petersburg of the Romanovs, Government and Politics of the Soviet Union and Modern Russia.

In 1971 he graduated with honors from the Oriental Department of Leningrad University, with a B.A. and M.A. in the history of China, and the following year studied at Nanyang University, Republic of Singapore. In 1974 he received a Ph.D. from the Oriental Department of Leningrad University with a thesis on modern Chinese ideology. In 1995 he was awarded a Soros Foundation Fellowship and earned a second M.A., in Political Science, the Central European University of Budapest, Hungary.

His publications include:

“Confucianism and the Ideological Evolution of the Guomindang: Sun Yatsen, Dai Jitao, Chiang Kaishek” (Leningrad: Leningrad University Press, 1975).

“Government Ideological Documents: Study Recommendations for Students” (Havanna, Cuba: Camaguey University Press, 1982).

“The Soviet Union: Study Recommendations for Students” (Leningrad: Leningrad Polytechnic University Press, 1984).

“History of Russia (IX‑XX centuries): Course Program, Russian and English” (Nestor Publishers,1999).

“Economics: Chinese Translation of Terminology for Foreign Students” (Nestor Publishers).

“Historical Topics in the PRC’s Press and Periodicals in 1977" (Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1978).

“Problems of Modern Chinese Social and Political Thought in Chinese Communist Historiography,” in Historical and Bibliographical Survey of Sources and Literature on Chinese Modern and Recent History, Part 1Y, (Leningrad: Leningrad University Press, 1980).

“History and Maoism in the People’s Republic of China” (Survey of the Chinese Historical Journal “Lishi Yanjiu” (Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1980).

“Dai Jitao: A Survey of Ideological Evolution” (Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1981).

“Sun Yatsen, His Deeds and Doctrines in the Eyes of His Contemporaries,” State and Society in China: 10th Scholarly Conference (Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1979).

“Sun Yatsen on the Problems of Chinese Revolution” (lectures “On the Spiritual Upbringing of Servicemen”), State and Society in China: 11th Scholarly Conference (Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1980).

“Problems of Foreign Students’ Independent Studies Organization,” High Intellectual Technologies of Science and Education, the XX th International Conference (Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University Press, 1998).

“Problems of Russian Statehood in Teaching to Foreign Students,” Proceedings of the International Conference on the Role of Technical Universities in the XXI Century, (Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University Press, 1999).

“Research on Realities of Electoral Campaigning in the Course of Translation, “ High Intellectual Technologies of Science and Education, the XXIInd International Conference (Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University Press, 2000).

“National Sources of Russian Statehood and Problems of Westernization,” Fundamental Researches in Technical Universities, (Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University Press, 2000).

“Translation Learning and Electoral Campaigning in Russia,” in Slavica Quinqueeccle siensia Y11 (Pech, Hungary, 2001.

“The Internet in Students’ Independent Studies on Political Science,” High Intellectual Technologies of Science and Education, the XXIV International Conference (Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University Press, 2002).

“Appraisals of Russian Reforms’ Success in Political Science Teaching to Foreign Students,” International Cooperation in Education, Proceedings of the International Conference, (Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University Press, 2002).