Rate My Professor Dmitrii Sidorov

Dmitrii Sidorov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at California State University, Long Beach, a position he has held since 2002, with tenure granted in 2006. His academic interests encompass urban geography, cultural geography, political geography, historical geography, the geography of religion, and Russia and the former USSR. Specific research focuses include the geography of Russian Orthodox Church(es) in the 20th century, post-Cold War borderlands and Orthodoxy-inspired geopolitics of the Russia/Europe divide, changing Russian Orthodox landscapes in post-Soviet Moscow, geopolitics of Third Rome and Eternal Russia, critical popular geopolitics and visual images in constructing regions, corporatization of urban space and emergence of civil society in post-Soviet Moscow, corporate rescaling of the city and urban lightscapes in Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow, national monumentalization and politics of scale in Moscow, and Russian Orthodoxy as re(li)gion. He teaches courses such as World Regional Geography and The Urban Scene, offered in both traditional and online formats.

Sidorov's scholarly contributions include the book Orthodoxy and Difference: Essays on the Geography of Russian Orthodox Church(es) in the 20th Century (Pickwick Publications, 2001). Key peer-reviewed articles feature National Monumentalization and the Politics of Scale: The Resurrections of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow (Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2000), Post-Imperial Third Romes: Resurrections of a Russian Orthodox Geopolitical Metaphor (Geopolitics, 2006), Visualizing the Former Cold War Other: Images of Eastern Europe in World Regional Geography Textbooks in the United States (Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 2009), Corporatisation of Urban Space and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Moscow (Alfa Spectra, 2008), and Changing Russian Orthodox Landscape in Post-Soviet Moscow (in The Changing World Religion Map, Springer, 2015). He has authored book reviews for journals including Slavic Review, Journal of Historical Geography, and Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Awards and grants include the 2014-2015 US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program with Siberian Federal University, 2014 Georg-Eckert-Institute Otto-Bennmann-Grant, and California State University Long Beach Scholarly Intersections grant and Sabbatical Leave award. Sidorov has presented guest lectures at Moscow State University and Oxford University on topics such as changing urban geography and Moscow as a globalizing city, contributing to discourse in political and cultural geography on religion, space, and post-Soviet transformations.