Professor is President of International Organization
Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Dr. Russell Martin, Westminster College associate professor of history, is president of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC).
The Association held its second biennial conference Oct. 4 to 6 at the Blackwell Hotel and Conference Center on the campus of Ohio State University. It is the second conference for which Martin was a co-organizer. His term as president will expire in 2010.
The conference attracted 50 ASEC members from France, Spain, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. and hosted 27 papers in nine panels over two days. The keynote lecture was delivered by Dr. Bryan Rennie, Vira I. Heinz Chair and Westminster associate professor of religion.
Sponsors of the conference included Ohio State's Center for Slavic and East European Studies, the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, the Hilander Research Library, the Center for the Study of Religion, and the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literature.
"As president of the organization, I was thrilled both with the turnout and with the quality of the papers delivered by our ASEC colleagues," Martin said.
"ASEC is a small, but up-and-coming, international scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the history, culture, societies, and beliefs of Eastern Christianity-not just Orthodox Christians, but Copts, Armenians, Ethiopian Christians, and Uniates," said Martin. "We are also very keen to explore the links between Christian and non-Christian communities occupying the same space: Jews, Catholics, Muslims, and other belief communities. Ours is, of necessity, an interdisciplinary organization."
Martin, who has been with Westminster since 1996, earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Contact Martin at (724) 946-6254 or e-mail martinre@westminster.edu for additional information.
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