World History II: The Rise of the East, 200-1500

Donald Ostrowski is a lecturer at the Harvard Extension School, where he has taught for over 40 years specializing in world history and historical methodology. He is also a research associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, as well as a research associate of the Harvard University Research Institute. His publications include Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589 (1998); Who Wrote That? Authorship Controversies from Moses to Sholokhov (2020); Russia in the Early Modern World: The Continuity of Change (2022); and (co-authored with Christian Raffensperger) The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family, and Kingdom (2023). His edition of The Povest' vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis (2003) received the Early Slavic Studies Association Award for Distinguished Scholarship. He lives in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he serves on the Fitchburg Historical Commission.