Jennifer Wynot, assistant professor of history at Metropolitan State College of Denver, discusses the current status of the Orthodox Church in Russia as well as its relations with other religions and its attempts to have its status protected in Russia by the government at Missouri Southern State University on Monday, Oct. 25.

• Wynot will present "Religion After Communism: The Status of the Russian Orthodox Church in Post-Communist Russia," at 9 a.m., Monday, Oct. 25, in Webster Hall Auditorium. The presentation is free and open to the public.
• Wynot will make the same presentation to Dr. Barry Brown's Introduction to Philosophy class at 11 a.m. in Room 311 of Hearnes Hall. Instructor approval is required to attend. For information on attending, call Dr. Brown at (417) 625-9659.

Jennifer Wynot received her Ph.D. in Russian history from Emory University in Atlanta in 2000. She conducted research in Russia in 1996 and 1998, and traveled back for a short visit in 2002. While in Russia, she was privileged to stay in several monasteries and witness the canonization of several saints. Dr. Wynot has been teaching European, Russian, and Middle Eastern history at Metropolitan State College of Denver since 2001.

She received a Fulbright grant to travel to Egypt in summer 2004 to work on a project on Coptic monasticism. Her book, Keeping the Faith: Russian Orthodox Monasticism in the Soviet Union, 1917-1939, was published in 2004 by Texas A&M University Press, and she is currently working on a second book on a comprehensive history of Russian monasticism.

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