Thomas Charles Owen

Background

Thomas Charles Owen was born on April 23, 1943, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. He is a son of Cyril Maurice Owen, and Eunice (French) Owen, both musicians.

Education

In 1964, Owen graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Later, in 1969, he got a Master of Arts degree from Harvard University, where, in 1973, he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in History.

Career

In 1964-1967, Thomas was on active duty in the United States Naval Reserve (present-day the United States Navy Reserve). After service, he became a lieutenant (junior grade). In 1974, Owen was appointed an assistant professor of History at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, the post he held till 1980, when he was promoted to the post of an associate professor of History. In 1990, Owen was made a professor of History and remained in the position till 2000. From 2000 until his retirement in 2005, Thomas acted as Katheryn, Lewis and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University.

Besides, since 2005, Owen has served as an associate of Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Thomas authored several works, including "Capitalism and Politics in Russia: A Social History of the Moscow Merchants, 1855-1905" (1981), "The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800-1917: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy" (1991), "Russian Corporate Capitalism From Peter the Great to Perestroika" (1995) and "Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age" (2005). Besides, he edited such works, as "Russian Industrialists in an Era of Revolution: The Association of Industry and Trade, 1906-17" (1997) and "Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Autocracy, Reform and Social Change, 1814-1914" (2005). Owen also penned a number of articles.

Achievements

• Thomas Charles Owen is a notable historian and educator, who held the post of Katheryn, Lewis and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University until 2005. He is the author of a number of books, covering Russian social and economic history after 1800, as well as corporations and business organizations throughout the Russian Empire. These works include "Capitalism and Politics in Russia: A Social History of the Moscow Merchants, 1855-1905" (1981), "The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800-1917: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy" (1991), "Russian Corporate Capitalism From Peter the Great to Perestroika" (1995) and "Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age" (2005).

Works

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  • Russian Industrialists in an Era of Revolution: The Association of Industry and Trade, 1906-17

    (Ruth Roosa's long-awaited study focuses on the most impor...)

    1997
  • Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age

    (Fedor Chizhov built the first railroad, owned entirely by...)

    2005
  • Capitalism and Politics in Russia: A Social History of the Moscow Merchants, 1855-1905

    (This monograph, based largely on memoirs, diaries, archiv...)

    1981
  • Russian Corporate Capitalism From Peter the Great to Perestroika

    (From the three perspectives of geography, economic policy...)

    1995
  • Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Autocracy, Reform and Social Change, 1814-1914

    (This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia fr...)

    2005
  • The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800-1917: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy

    (This study analyzes the legal framework, imposed on corpo...)

    1991

Views

Quotations: "I believe, that an understanding of the historically conditioned impediments to rational-legal norms in Russia is essential to any strategy, aimed at overcoming them."

Membership

Thomas is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. It's also worth noting, that, in 1997, Owen was made an honorary visiting fellow at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

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  honorary visiting fellow

  UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies , United Kingdom

  1997

Connections

Thomas married Sue Ann (Matthews) Owen, a poet, on August 29, 1964.

Father:

Cyril Maurice Owen

Mother:

Eunice (French) Owen

Wife:

Sue Ann (Matthews) Owen