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Mikhail Sergeev

Mikhail Sergeev
Faculty

Adjunct Professor

Mikhail Sergeev is a PhD scholar and an award-winning instructor with extensive teaching and research experience in religion, philosophy, and cultural / comparative studies of religious and philosophical movements throughout history. His areas of expertise include religion and the arts, Baha’i philosophy, and Russian thought. Sergeev is an adjunct professor at UArts.

Biography

Mikhail Sergeev is a religion, philosophy, and modern art historian. He earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Temple University in 1997, and has extensive cross-cultural and multilingual experience, with proficiency in Spanish, French, and Russian. Sergeev has published and presented work in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Greece, Slovakia, Ukraine, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Russia.

He has served as an editor of the book series Contemporary Russian Philosophy by Brill Publishers in the Netherlands (2016–2019) and as chair of the Department of Religion, Philosophy, and Theology at the Wilmette Institute (2017–2021). Sergeev has published more than 200 scholarly, literary, and journalistic articles all over the world. He is the author and contributing editor of 15 books, including his latest, The Crucifixion in Painting: From the Middle Ages to Post-Modernism (M-Graphics, 2023).

Experience

  • Adjunct professor, University of the Arts, Critical Studies

  • Faculty in residence, Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, California

  • Affiliated professor, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, Minnesota

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Visit Mikhail Sergeev’s YouTube channel, Misha Impossible. 

Awards & Accolades

  • Silver medal, Illumination Book Awards, The Crucifixion in Painting: From the Middle Ages to Post-Modernism, 2024 

  • Laureate, first-degree diploma, Scholarly Articles on Philosophical Sciences category, 46th International Research Competition of the All-Russian Society of Research and Development, for the article “Model of Religious Cycles: Theory and Application,” September 2021

  • First-place diploma, Scholarly Work category, HOMER, for the article “Dionisiiskie motivy v sovremennom teatre” (“Dionysian Motives in Contemporary Theater”), 2020

  • Diamond Duke prize, Social, Culturological, and Charitable Projects category, De Richelieu contest, for the book The Moskovskyi teatr Arlekin: Creation, History, Performances (Moscow Arlekin Theater: Conception, History, Performances), compiled and edited by Mikhail Sergeev with the participation of Oleg Cherkas (M-Graphics, 2020), Odessa, Ukraine; Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, 2020

  • Grand Prix, Best Work in Philosophy, Journalism / Scholarship category, Nodar Dzhin Literary Prize, International Festival “Visit to Mises,” Greece, 2017

  • President’s Distinguished Teaching Award, University of the Arts, 2010

 

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