Marshall Poe

Marshall Tillbrook Poe is an American historian and the author of many works on early modern Russia (Muscovy).

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American - Historian - Early modern - Russia - Muscovy

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Poe earned his B.A. at Grinnell College in 1984 and Poe his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992'. He then taught at Harvard University until 1998, and again at Harvard from 2000-2002. In 2001 he was appointed Allston Burr Senior Tutor, Lowell House, Harvard University. He was the co-founder and a former editor of the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History." He is currently employed at The Atlantic Monthly in Washington, D.C..

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Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley - 1992 - The Atlantic Monthly - Washington, D.C.

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In his influential essay "Note to Self: Print Monograph Dead; Invent New Publishing Model" http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/poe.html, published in the Journal of Electronic Publishing 2002, Poe questioned the viability of the old academic publishing model and argued for using self-publishing and print on demand. He explained how he did this with one of the two volumes of his prosopographical study of the Russian elite in the early modern period. When facing the issue of sending it to journals for reviewing, he decided to do so in an electronic format as attachment with an e-mail. "Shortly after I sent the book for review", he writes, "a very worried journal editor contacted me. He was upset that I hadn't included a copyright page on the e-book I sent him. Without a copyright page, he explained, any reader could copy my book, send it all over the world, or use it in the classroom – all without my permission. That, I responded, was the point. (I'm not sure he got it.)"

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Journal of Electronic Publishing - Print on demand - Prosopographical

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The two volumes of this work were later (2004) actually published in a paper edition by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

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2004 - Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

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