Randall A. Poole (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1996) is Professor of Intellectual History at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. He is chair of the Department of Global Humanities and director of the History Program and the Health Humanities Program. He also teaches in the Honors Program and in the Dignitas First-Year Program. His research areas include Russian and European intellectual history, the history of ideas, and the history of philosophical and religious thought. He is the translator and editor of Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (2003) and co-editor of five other volumes: A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830–1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (2010, 2013), Religious Freedom in Modern Russia (2018), The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought (2020), Evgenii Trubetskoi: Icon and Philosophy (2021), and Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia (2022). He is also the author of many articles and book chapters on Russian intellectual history, philosophy, and religion.
Dr. Poole is co-director of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. He is also a fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a fellow of the International Center for the Study of Russian Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University. In 2012 he was Visiting Professor of Russian Intellectual History at the University of Toronto. He has held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New York University, Stanford University, Columbia University, and elsewhere. His CV and recent publications are available at https://rprt.northwestern.edu/people/directors/randall-a-poole.html.
