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==Background==

==Background==

Dunning is a fifth generation [[California]]n, born in Scotia in Humboldt County. His father, Harold L. Dunning (1919-1998) was an electrician; his mother, Helen L. Mills (born 1926), a retired librarian living in Bryan, Texas.  Dunning attended elementary school in Fortuna, California, and Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa. In 1971, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received both his [[Master of Arts]] and [[Ph.D.]] with distinction in 1972 and 1976, respectively, from [[Boston College]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], with the major field in Russian history. He was from 1975 to 1976 a lecturer at Boston College and from 1977 to 1979 an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. In 1979, he joined the TAMU faculty.<ref name=csld>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/dunning/cv.pdf|title=Chester S.L. Dunning|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 16, 2010; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

Dunning is a fifth generation [[California]]n, born in Scotia in Humboldt County. His father, Harold L. Dunning (1919–1998) was an electrician; his mother, Helen L. Mills (born 1926), a retired librarian living in Bryan, Texas.  Dunning attended elementary school in Fortuna, California, and Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa. In 1971, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received both his [[Master of Arts]] and [[Ph.D.]] with distinction in 1972 and 1976, respectively, from [[Boston College]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], with the major field in Russian history. He was from 1975 to 1976 a lecturer at Boston College and from 1977 to 1979 an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. In 1979, he joined the TAMU faculty.<ref name=csld>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/dunning/cv.pdf|title=Chester S.L. Dunning|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 16, 2010; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

==Academic career==

==Academic career==

Dunning has published refereed articles in ''Slavic Review,'' ''The Russian Review,'' ''The Slavonic and East European Review,'' ''Comparative Studies in Society and History,'' ''The Pushkin Review,'' ''The Sixteenth Century Journal,''  ''Russian History,'' ''Slavic and East European Journal,'' ''Stanford Slavic Studies,'' ''Canadian-American Slavic Studies,'' and ''Albion.''  He holds six distinguished teaching awards from Texas A&M. In 2012, Dunning received an endowed professorship, the Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair in Distinguished Teaching in Liberal Arts. His research reflects his interest in early modern Russia, Anglo-Russian relations, comparative history, and the impact of [[censorship]] on Russian literature. He has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Davis Center for Russian Studies at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/dunning.htm|title=Chester S.L. Dunning|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 16, 201; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

Dunning has published refereed articles in ''Slavic Review,'' ''The Russian Review,'' ''The Slavonic and East European Review,'' ''Comparative Studies in Society and History,'' ''The Pushkin Review,'' ''The Sixteenth Century Journal,''  ''Russian History,'' ''Slavic and East European Journal,'' ''Stanford Slavic Studies,'' ''Canadian-American Slavic Studies,'' and ''Albion.''  He holds six distinguished teaching awards from Texas A&M. In 2012, Dunning received an endowed professorship, the Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair in Distinguished Teaching in Liberal Arts. His research reflects his interest in early modern Russia, Anglo-Russian relations, comparative history, and the impact of [[censorship]] on Russian literature. He has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Davis Center for Russian Studies at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/dunning.htm|title=Chester S.L. Dunning|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 16, 201; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

 

==Personal life==

==Personal life==

==References==

==References==

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