Stephen Batalden

Affiliate Emeritus,

Melikian Center

Other ASU affiliations

Emeritus College

Melikian Center Durham Hall TEMPE, AZ 85287-4201
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Long Bio

After completing the Ph.D. degree at the University of Minnesota,
Batalden taught for one year at Grambling State University (Louisiana)
before coming to Arizona State University where he is currently
professor of history and director of the ASU Melikian Center for
Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. His most recent volume,
Russian Bible Wars: Modern Scriptural Translation and Cultural
Authority (Cambridge U. Press, 2013), won the Association for
Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies 2014 Reginald Zelnick Award
for outstanding book in the field of history.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

An historian of Russia and Eastern Europe, Batalden is a specialist
on modern Russian religious and cultural history, with research
interest in Russian ties with the Orthodox East. As director of the
ASU Melikian Center, he directs international development projects in
Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The Melikian Center is also home to the
Critical Languages Institute, one of the nation's leading summer
academies for study of less commonly taught East European and Eurasian languages.

Publications

Stephen K. Batalden. "Russkie bibleiskie voiny: Sovremennyi perevod sviashchennogo pisaniia i vopros dukhovnogo avtoreteta". Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta: Filosofiia, Konfliktologiia, Kul'turologiia, Religiovedenie (2014).
Stephen K. Batalden. "Comment on the Paper of Brian Horowitz: S. M. Dubnov's Inner Contradictions and the Dangers of Writing Politicized History". Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia (2013).
Stephen Batalden. "Fairy von Lilienfeld's Reflections on Her University Education: The Jena Years, 1947-1953". Fairy von Lilienfeld, 1917-2009 (2011).
Stephen Batalden. "Fairy von Lilienfeld’s Reflections on her University Education: The Jena Years, 1947-1953". Fairy von Lilienfel, 1917-2009 (2011).
Stephen Batalden. "The Sacred Word in Abrahamic Religious Traditions". Sacred Word and Image: Five World Religions (2011).
Stephen Batalden. "O Eugenios Voulgaris kai to provlema tes omologiakes tautotetas ton Ellenon ten epokhe tou Diafotismou [Eugenios Voulgari and the Problem of the Greek Confessional Identity in the Era of the Enlightenment]," pp. 31-46. Eugenios Voulgaris: Prakticka Diethnous Epistemonikou Synedriou Kerkyra (2010).
Stephen Batalden. Rossiiskoe Bibleiskoe Obshchestva i Armianskaia Bibliia, 1812-1834 [in Russian]. Vestnik Erevanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [title is in Armenian] (2005).
Stephen Batalden. Musul'manskii i evreiskii voprosy v Rossii epokhi Aleksandra I glazami shotlandskogo bibleista i puteshestvennika [The Muslim and Jewish Question in the Reign of Alexander I as seen through the Eyes of the Scottish Missionary Ebenezer Henderson, in Russia. Voprosy istorii [Historical Questions, in Russian] (2004).
Batalden, Stephen K, Cann, Kathleen, Dean, John. SOWING THE WORD: THE CULTURAL IMPACT OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY, 1804-2004. (2004).
. . Review of: AT THE MARGINS OF ORTHODOXY: MISSION, GOVERNANCE, AND CONFESSIONAL POLITICS IN RUSSIA'S VOLGA-KAMA REGION, 1827-1905 (2004).
. . Review of: THE QUEST FOR RUSSIA'S SOUL: EVANGELICALS AND MORAL EDUCATION IN POST-COMMUNIST RUSSIA (2004).
Batalden, Stephen K (Author) . The BFBS Petersburg Agency and Russian Biblical Translation, 1856-1875. SOWING THE WORD (2004).
Batalden, Stephen K (Author) ,Cann, Kathleen (Author) ,Dean, John (Author) . Introduction: Two Hundred Years of the British and Foreign Bible Society. SOWING THE WORD (2004).
Stephen Batalden. Why they Hate U.S.: European Rift not based in power disparity. Arizona Republic (Sunday Viewpoints Section) (2003).
. . Review of: THE NATIONALITY QUESTION IN THE ESTONIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 1918-1939 (2003).
Stephen Batalden. Sovremenite prevodi na Biblijata (vo Rusija i pravoslavniot Istok) [Modern translations of the Bible in Russia and the Orthodox East, in Macedonian]. Premen (2002).

Research Activity

Batalden,Stephen K*. University Partnership - ASU USAID Kosovo Transformational Leadership. WORLD LEARNING(3/1/2015 - 2/28/2017).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Batalden,Stephen K*, Evans-Romaine,Dorothy Kathleen, Sipka,Danko Dan. Professional Language Skills Enhancement Training: An Arizona State University LTC Partnership. INST OF INTERNATL EDUCATION(10/1/2014 - 9/30/2016).
Melnick,Robert A.*, Batalden,Stephen K, Gratton,Brian. Peer Review Evaluation and Standards for Georgian Think Tanks. EWMI(1/9/2014 - 9/15/2014).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Evans-Romaine,Dorothy Kathleen, Sipka,Danko Dan. Professional Language Skills Enhancement Training: An Arizona State University LTC Partnership Proposal. INST OF INTERNATL EDUCATION(10/1/2013 - 9/30/2014).
Melnick,Robert A.*, Batalden,Stephen K. Peer Review Evaluation and Standards for Georgian Think Tanks. EWMI(12/13/2012 - 3/1/2014).
Agadjanian,Victor*, Batalden,Stephen K, Fonow,Mary Margaret. Advancing Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Armenia. AMER COUNCIL ON EDUCATION(9/1/2012 - 6/30/2015).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Evans-Romaine,Dorothy Kathleen, Lalo,Alexei. Fulbright FLTA Orientations 2012. INST OF INTERNATL EDUCATION(5/25/2012 - 9/24/2012).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Lalo,Alexei, Simpson,Brooks D. 2011 Youth Leadership Program with Azerbaijan. AMER. COUN. FOR INTERNAT'L ED(9/6/2011 - 3/31/2014).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Brokaw,David Paul, Evans-Romaine,Dorothy Kathleen. Kids Voting in Kosovo: Advancing Democracy and Human Rights in Southeastern Europe. DOS - DRL(4/28/2008 - 4/30/2013).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Brokaw,David Paul, Cady,Linell E, Evans-Romaine,Dorothy Kathleen, Gereboff,Joel David. Faith Communities and Civil Society: A Dialogue Linking Bosnian, Kosovar, and American Clergy, Laypeople, and Scholars. DOS(9/14/2007 - 8/31/2009).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Stern-Gottschalk,Ariann N. Summer 2007 Critical Languages Institute: Languages of Eurasia (Armenian). SOCIAL SCIENCE RSRCH COUNCIL(4/6/2007 - 11/1/2007).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Stern-Gottschalk,Ariann N. Summer 2007 Critical Languages Institute: Languages of Eurasia (Tatar). SOCIAL SCIENCE RSRCH COUNCIL(4/6/2007 - 11/1/2007).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Brokaw,David Paul. Transforming Accountancy Education at the University of Pristina. HED-HIGHER ED FOR DEVELOPMENT(2/15/2007 - 12/31/2010).
Batalden,Stephen K*. Evaluating the Impact of US Government Assistance on Job Creation and Workforce Development in Eastern Europe and Eurasia: A Collaborative ASU-Thunder. HED-HIGHER ED FOR DEVELOPMENT(10/27/2006 - 12/31/2007).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Stern-Gottschalk,Ariann N. Summer 2007 Critical Languages Institute: Languages of Eastern Europe (Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, and Macedonian). AMER COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOC(4/24/2006 - 12/31/2007).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Stern-Gottschalk,Ariann N. Summer 2006 Critical Languages Institute: Languages of Eastern Europe [Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian, and Polish]. AMER COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOC(4/1/2006 - 12/31/2006).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Stern-Gottschalk,Ariann N. Summer 2006 Critical Languages Institute: Languages of Eurasia [Armenian, Russian, Tatar, Uzbek]. SOCIAL SCIENCE RSRCH COUNCIL(4/1/2006 - 12/31/2006).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Brokaw,David Paul. Maintaining an Independent Judiciary: A Seminar on Judicial and Justice System Reform for Visiting Kosovar Leaders. WORLD LEARNING(10/1/2005 - 1/31/2006).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Agadjanian,Victor, Artibise,Alan F J, Brokaw,David Paul, Denhardt,Robert Brown, Melnick,Robert A.. Building a New Public Strategies Center: A Public Policy Partnership in Workforce Development Linking ASU and the Moscow State University School of PA. DOS - USAID(9/9/2005 - 3/29/2009).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Brokaw,David Paul, Cady,Linell E, Gereboff,Joel David. Religious Studies in a Global University Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century. DOS(9/13/2004 - 6/30/2008).
Batalden,Stephen K*, Agadjanian,Victor, Withers,Carol Ann. REFASHIONING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PRACTITIONER TRAINING IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN ARIZONA STATE. DOS - ECA(8/25/2003 - 8/31/2006).
Batalden,Stephen K*. WATER AND WASTEWATER DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT: A SEMINAR FOR CROATIAN WATER MANAGERS. WORLD LEARNING(7/1/2003 - 10/31/2003).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTENSIVE TATAR LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION SUMMER 2003. SOCIAL SCIENCE RSRCH COUNCIL(6/9/2003 - 9/30/2003).
Batalden,Stephen K*. ASSOCIATION BUILDING: A SEMINAR FOR MACEDONIAN ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES FOR MARKETING BOARD MEMBERS. WORLD LEARNING(5/1/2003 - 9/30/2003).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTENSIVE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE ASU CRITICAL LANGUAGES INSTITUTE SUMMER 2003. AMER COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOC(1/1/2003 - 12/31/2003).
Batalden,Stephen K*. MANAGEMENT TRAINING FOR KEK DIVISIONAL MANAGERS. SWEDPOWER(12/15/2002 - 2/15/2003).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTENSIVE ARMENIAN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION SUMMER 2002 AND 2003. SOCIAL SCIENCE RSRCH COUNCIL(6/3/2002 - 8/1/2003).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTENSIVE SERBIAN/CROATIAN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION SUMMER 2002. AMER COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOC(4/30/2002 - 12/31/2002).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTENSIVE MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION SUMMER 2002. AMER COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOC(4/30/2002 - 12/31/2002).
Batalden,Stephen K*. MARKETING, ADVERTISING AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT: A SEMINAR FOR MACEDONIAN MARKETING AND ADVERTISING MANAGERS. WORLD LEARNING(4/9/2002 - 8/30/2002).
Batalden,Stephen K*. TRAINING BUSINESS MANAGERS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: A PROPOSAL FOR UNIVERSITY LINKAGE BETWEEN ARIZONA STATE UNIV. DOS(8/26/2001 - 8/31/2004).
Batalden,Stephen K*. JUDICIAL TRAINING INSTITUTE MANAGEMENT: A SEMINAR FOR BULGARIAN MAGISTRATE TRAINING CENTER STAFF. WORLD LEARNING(7/1/2001 - 12/1/2001).
Batalden,Stephen K*. TATAR INTENSIVE SUMMER LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION. SOCIAL SCIENCE RSRCH COUNCIL(5/16/2001 - 8/1/2002).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTENSIVE SERBIAN-CROATIAN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION SUMMER 2001. AMER COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOC(4/30/2001 - 12/31/2001).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTENSIVE MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION SUMMER 2001. AMER COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOC(4/30/2001 - 12/31/2001).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY TATAR LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION - SUMMER 2000. SOCIAL SCIENCE RSRCH COUNCIL(5/15/2000 - 8/15/2000).
Batalden,Stephen K*. CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR COMPANY EXECUTIVES FROM BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA. WORLD LEARNING(5/15/2000 - 10/30/2000).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTENSIVE MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION - SUMMER 2000. AMER COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOC(5/1/2000 - 1/31/2001).
Batalden,Stephen K*. LOCAL TAX ISSUES: A TRAINING SEMINAR FOR PARTICIPANTS FROM BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. WORLD LEARNING(2/15/2000 - 6/30/2000).
Batalden,Stephen K*. STRUCTURING A MODEL STATE BAR ASSOCIATION TRAINING PROGRAM. WORLD LEARNING(11/1/1999 - 11/12/1999).
Batalden,Stephen K*. INTESIVE TATAR INSTRUCTION. SOCIAL SCIENCE RSRCH COUNCIL(5/25/1999 - 8/15/1999).
Batalden,Stephen K*. ALBANIAN CONSTRUCTION EXECUTIVES TRAINING PROGRAM. WORLD LEARNING(5/15/1999 - 6/5/1999).
Batalden,Stephen K*. HOSTING OF MACEDONIAN BANKRUPTCY DELEGATION AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY. INTERNAT'L INSOLVENCY INSTITUT(11/1/1998 - 1/15/1999).
Batalden,Stephen K*. MACEDONIAN TRANSLATION SERVICES. AZ BAR ASSN(8/1/1998 - 1/15/1999).
Batalden,Stephen K*. ELEMENTARY &INTERMEDIATE INTENSIVE TATAR INSTRUCTION. SOCIAL SCIENCE RSRCH COUNCIL(6/1/1998 - 10/31/1998).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA - REAP GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS: CONSTANTINE ANDREYEV. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(8/30/1996 - 5/15/1998).
Batalden,Stephen K*. RUSSIAN & EURASIAN AWARDS PROGRAM RENEWALS, 1996/1997. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(8/1/1996 - 6/30/1997).
Batalden,Stephen K*. RUSSIAN & EURASIAN AWARDS PROGRAM RENEWALS, 1996/1997. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(8/1/1996 - 6/30/1997).
Batalden,Stephen K*. REAP GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD: TATYANA GORYAINOVA - RENEWAL. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(8/1/1996 - 6/30/1997).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS: REAP. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(6/27/1996 - 5/15/1998).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA BEEP GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS: EVGUENI EVTIMOV NAYDENOV. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(8/14/1995 - 5/15/1996).
Batalden,Stephen K*. REAP GRADUATE STUDENT CONTINUATION-DMITRY LUNYEGOV. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(8/1/1995 - 8/1/1996).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA REAP GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD PROGRAM-TATYANA GORYAINOVA. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(6/15/1995 - 6/14/1996).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA REAP GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD PROGRAM-SERGEY BOROVOY. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(6/15/1995 - 6/14/1996).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA REAP GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD PROGRAM-DMITRY KORENKOV. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(6/15/1995 - 6/14/1996).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA GRADUATE STUDENT RENEWAL AWARDS. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(8/15/1994 - 5/15/1995).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(7/5/1994 - 5/15/1995).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA RUSSIAN/EAST EUROPEAN STUDENT AWARD PROGRAM. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(6/28/1994 - 7/15/1995).
Batalden,Stephen K*. NAFSA GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS. NAFSA: ASSOC INTRNTL EDUCATORS(7/1/1993 - 4/15/1995).
Batalden,Stephen K*. ASU-UKIM UNDERGRADUATE EXCHANGE. MISC FEDERAL(9/1/1991 - 9/30/1992).
Batalden,Stephen K*. TRAINING INSERVICE TEACHERS. AZ BOARD OF REGENTS(3/13/1989 - 9/30/1989).

Presentations

Stephen K. Batalden. "Empire and Nation in the Politics of the Russian Bible". "Chosen Peoples, Promised Lands" (Jul 2014).
Stephen Batalden. "Observations on Theofanis Stavrou's Forty Years in Slavic Studies". Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Nov 2013).
Mark von Hagen, Zenon Kohut, Stephen Batalden, Frank Sysyn, and Oksana Kis. "Empire, Fatherland, and Nation in Ukrainian History: A Conference Marking the Twentieth Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence". An international conference sponsored by the ASU Melikian Center, ASU, December 2-3, 2011 (Dec 2011).
Stephen Batalden. "Alternative Imperial Visions for Ukraine: Constructing Athens on the Borysthenes". At the international conference noted above, "Empire, Fatherland, and Nation in Ukrainian History" (Dec 2011).
Batalden, Stephen. Revolutionaries and Evangelicals in Concert: Alexander Herzen, Vasilii Kel'siev, and the British and Foreign Bible Society. Cambridge University Russian-Speaking Society (Feb 2004).
Batalden, Stephen. Anti-Semitism and External Treatments of the Jewish Question in Nineteenth-Century Russia. National Convention, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (Nov 2003).

Service

History Department Chair Search Committee, Faculty Member (2005 - Present)
Critical Languages Institute, Director (2005 - Present)
ASU Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Director (2006 - 2016)
ASU Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Director (2006 - 2015)
International Research and Exchanges Board, ASU Institutional Rep. (2006 - 2015)
Lorraine W. Frank Office of Nat'l Scholarship Advisement Faculty Com. for E. Euro./Eurasia, Member (2014 - 2014)
National Advisory Board, University of Illinois Slavic Summer Laboratory, Member (2014 - 2014)
SHPRS Personnel Committee, Member (2014 - 2014)
Nat'l Advisory Board, University of Illinois Summer Slavic Laboratory, Member (2012 - 2014)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Council of Member Institutions, Member, Executive Committee (2006 - 2014)
Lorraine W. Frank Office of Nat'l Scholarship Advisement Faculty Com. for E. Euro./Eurasia, Member (2012 - 2014)
ASU Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Director (2013 - 2013)
SHPRS Personnel Committee, Member (2013 - 2013)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Council of Member Institutions, Member, Executive Committee (2009 - 2013)
ASU Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Director (2006 - 2013)
International Research and Exchanges Board, ASU Institutional Representative (2006 - 2013)
History PAC, Member (2011 - 2013)
ASU Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Director (2012 - 2012)
Lorraine W. Frank Office of Nat'l Scholarship Advisement Faculty Com. for E. Euro./Eurasia, Member (2012 - 2012)
Nat'l Advisory Board, University of Illinois Summer Slavic Laboratory, Member (2012 - 2012)
Ex. Com., Council of Member Institutions, Assoc. for Slavic, East Euro., & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Member (2009 - 2012)
ASU Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Director (2006 - 2012)
International Research and Exchanges Board, Institutional Representative (2006 - 2012)
History Promotion Cases, External Reviewer (2012 - 2012)
ASU Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Director (2011 - 2011)
Nat'l Advisory Board, University of Illinois Summer Slavic Laboratory, Member (2011 - 2011)
Office of Nat'l Scholarship Advisement Faculty Com. for E. Euro./Eurasia(Fulbright/Boren applicants), Member (2011 - 2011)
Office of Nat'l Scholarship Advisement Faculty Com. for E. Euro./Eurasia(Fulbright/Boren applicants), Member (2011 - 2011)
University of Illinois Title VIII Summer Research Laboratory, External Reviewer (2011 - 2011)
ASU National Scholarship and Fellowships Committee, Faculty Member (2005 - 2005)
Russian and East European Studies Center, Director (2005 - 2005)
International Research and Exchanges Board, Institutional Representative (1987 - 2005)
ASU National Scholarships and Fellowships Committee, ASU Faculty Member (1996 - 2004)
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Institutional Representative (1990 - 2004)
ASU Department of Languages and Literatures Russian Ass't Prof. Search Committee, External Faculty Member of the Search Committee (2002 - 2003)
History Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, Chair (2002 - 2002)
Academic Administration Advisory Committee (AAAC), Faculty Representative (1999 - 2002)
CLAS Dean's Citizen-Scholar Awards Committee, Faculty Member (1999 - 2002)
Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau, U.S. Department of State, National Selection Panel (2002 - 2002)