His Universities: To the Anniversary of Professor Alexander I. Kubyshkin

Introduction. The article is about Professor A.I. Kubyshkin, who had devoted more than 25 years of his career to the Volgograd State University (VolSU). He taught at the Department of History, headed the Center for American Studies “Americana,” and from 1995 to 2008 headed the Department of Area Studies and International Relations at VolSU. Professor A.I. Kubyshkin is one of the founders of the series 4 “History. Area Studies. International Relations” of the Science Journal of Volgograd State University, and he is a member of the Editorial Board. Professor A.I. Kubyshkin is the author of 160 publications, 7 monographs, and 15 collective ones, and he has published in Russia, the USA, Great Britain, Canada, and France. Materials. The main materials for the article are memoir articles by Professor A.I. Kubyshkin and his colleagues about the development of American studies and research of the North American states in Russia and, in particular, at Volgograd State University, and publications by A.I. Kubyshkin about the U.S. higher education system and universities. Analysis. The article briefly describes the main stages of the teaching and research career of Alexander Ivanovich. Since 1978 and up to the present, Professor Kubyshkin has conducted his main educational and scholar activities at three Russian universities: Ivanovo State University, Volgograd State University, and St. Petersburg State University. At VolSU from 1982 to 2008, A.I. Kubyshkin headed the department and contributed to the development of the study of North American states. From 2008 to 2025, Alexander Ivanovich, working at St. Petersburg State University, has defined the field of his research interests, in addition to the history of Russian-American relations, as university studies and the particular study of universities in the USA and Canada as resource models of international educational space and modern innovations, which resulted in the monograph “Town and Gown. American University in the Structure of Civil Society.”