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ABSTRACT
The memoir narrates how Paul Crego came to study the Russian and Georgian languages. With a background in Soviet Studies, Crego went on to earn degrees in Divinity and Theology at Harvard and the Andover-Newton Theological School before becoming a librarian. Crego’s library career, which centered on Georgian and Armenian acquisitions and cataloging, spanned more than 25 years at Harvard and the Library of Congress.
Publications
Review of Freiheit und Populismus: Verwundete Identitäten in Ostmitteleuropa. Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe by András Máté-Tóth. Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe 40, no. 7 (September 2020). https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol40/iss7/9/
Review of Saint-making in Early Modern Russia: Religious Tradition and Innovation in the Cult of Nil Stolobenskii by Isolde Thyrȇt. Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe 40, no. 6 (August 2020). https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2204&context=ree
Review of Politik und Gesellschaft im Kaukasus. Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe 40, no. 4 (May 2000). https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol40/iss4/5/
Review of “A Short History of the Georgian Church” [Sakʻartʻvelos eklesiis mokle istoria]. Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe 39, no. 6 (November 2019). https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol39/iss6/6
Review of The Victory of the Cross: Salvation in Eastern Orthodoxy by James R. Payton, Jr. Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe 39, no. 6 (November 2019).
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol39/iss6/8
“Monks and Monasticism in Georgia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” in Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics, ed. Ines A. Murzaku (New York: Routledge, 2015): 351–371.
“The ‘Ordination’ of St. Nino of Georgia,” in Women in the Eastern Christian Tradition: Past Roles and Future Paradigms, ed. Stamenka E. Antonova. New Expanded and Revised Edition. (New York: Theotokos Press, 2013): 71–85.
Review of, Embracing the Divine: Passion & Politics in the Christian Middle East by Akram Fouad Khater. MELA Notes No. 86 (2013): 111–114.
“The Georgian Orthodox Church in the Post-Soviet Period,” Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Lucian N. Leustean (New York: Routledge, 2014). 140–160.
“An Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Literature Obtained in Abkhazia 6-11 June 2008,” MELA Notes No. 85 (2012): 66-75.
“Living on the Edge,” Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe 27, no. 4 (November 2007) https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol27/iss4/1
“The Oldest Version of Mok’c’evay K’art’lisay” [with Stephen H. Rapp, Jr.] Le Museon 119, no. 1-2 (2006): 169-225.
“Annotated Survey of Georgian Religious Periodical Literature Available 29 May 2004-13 June 2004 in Tbilisi and Mcʾxeta,” MELA Notes No. 78 (2005): 29-39. CregoG.DVI (umich.edu)
Review of Be Thou There: The Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt edited by Gawdat Gabra. MELA Notes No. 78 (2006): 89-91.
Review of Coptic Monasteries edited by Gawdat Gabra. MELA Notes, No. 78 (2006): 91-92.
Entries for “Armenian Apostolic Church,” “Avars,” “Balkars,” “Caucasus,” “Dagestan,” “Dargins,” “Georgia and the Georgians,” “Georgian Orthodox Church,” “Lezgins,” “Pestel, Pavel Ivanovich,” in Encyclopedia of Russian History. (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).
Review of Azerbaijan: ethnicity and the struggle for power in Iran by Touraj Atabaki. MELA Notes No. 75/76 (Fall 2002-Spring 2003): 105-106.
Translations of two articles on religious matters from the Georgian press for the August 2000 Newsletter (No. 59) of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
“St. Nino and the Role of Women in the Evangelization of the Georgians,” St. Nina Quarterly 3, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 3.
“Georgian Library Collection,” C΄nobis p΄urc΄lebi, [Organ of the Georgian Association of the USA] 8 (Spring 1997): 8.
“Theodoret of Kyros and the Relationship of Body and Soul Before Birth,” The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 41, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 19-37.
“Methodist Missionaries and Mother Russia,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 33, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 27-35. Also published in Religion in Eastern Europe 16, no. 2 (April 1996): 26-35.
“Nationalism and Religion in Georgia,” Religion in Eastern Europe 14, no. 3 (June 1994). https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol14/iss3/1 Also published in German translation: “Religiöser Nationalismus in Georgien nach 1989,” Glaube in der 2. Welt. 24, no. 3 (March 1996): 26-29.
The Crego Family of Baldwinsville, New York: Being the Descendants of Stephen Crego (1784-1857) and his wife Betsey. (Baldwinsville, N.Y.: 1987).
Sermons preached
[1980-]
Tbilisi, Georgia:Peace Cathedral of the Evangelical Baptist of Georgia Cathedral Church.
Tbilisi, Georgia:Mission Church of St. Nino (Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe)
Papers, Lectures, Addresses
American Academy of Religion:
1999:“Religion in the Republic of Georgia, 1989-1999”
1993: “Religion and Nationalism in Georgia”
American Oriental Society
1986: “The Georgian Orthodox Church and Safavid Persia”
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
Nov. 2019: “Round Table on Domestic Violence in Republic of Georgia”
Dec. 2018: “St. Nino in 21st Century Georgian Literature”
Nov. 2017: “The Canon ‘Against the Sodomites’ from the Ruis-Urbnisi Council of ca. 1103 of the Orthodox Church in Georgia.
Nov. 2016: “The Story of St. Nino as retold in Sak ‘art’ velos eklesiis kalendari [The Calendar of the Church of Georgia]”.
Nov. 2015: “The Most Other: the LGBT Community of the Republic of Georgia”.
Nov. 2012: Panel: Collecting Caucasus and Central Asian Publications in the Post-Soviet Space: Challenges, Opportunities, Trends: “Georgia”
Association for the Study of Nationalities:
2007:“Converting Abkhazia: Issue of Religious and Ethnic Identity”
Boston Patristics Society
1997: “Armenian Translation of Timothy Aelurus’ Refutation”
1996:“Georgian Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary Attributed to Maximus Confessor”
1994:“Nino and the Evangelization of the Georgians”
1992:“Theodoret of Cyrus on Free Will”
Boston University School of Theology:
1999:“Eastern Churches” for Th.D. seminar in Liturgics
Byzantine Studies Conference
2013: “The Syrian Fathers: Ethnicities and Christologies”
Central Eurasia Studies Society:
2009: “Language Policy and the Local Constitutions of 1978: Georgian and Abkhazian Cases”
2008: “Confidence Building as Part of the Peace Process between Georgians and Abkhazians”
2007:“Converting the Georgians: Issues of Religious and Ethnic Identity in the Works of
Metropolitan Anania Japaridze of the Georgian Orthodox Church”
2006:“Living on the Edge: Religious, Ethnic, and National Identities in the Republic of Georgia.”
Christ Church (Episcopal), Georgetown, Washington, DC
Adult Forum Lecture Series
2016-2017: “Why Be a Christian?”
Oct. 2, 2016: “Theoria and Praxis: Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom”
Dec. 11, 2016: “Living by Scriptures in the Church Fathers”
2015-2016: “On Heresy”
Oct. 18, 2015: “Orthodoxy and Heresy”
Nov. 1, 2015: “Arius”
Dec. 13, 2015: “Other Gospels”
Dec. 20, 2015: “Nestorians and Monophysites”
Jan. 10, 2016: “Crusades and the Filioque”
2014-2015: Worship and Doctrine
Nov. 6, 2014: “Nicene Creed”
Jan. 11, 2015: “Council of Chalcedon”
2013-2014: Saints
Sep. 22, 2013: “St. Nino”
Dec. 22, 2013: “St. Nicholas”
Jan. 11, 2014: “Cyril and Theodoret”
2012-2013: Saints
Sep. 23, 2012: “Saints as Living Icons”
Oct. 28. 2012: “The Apostle Paul and the Third Heaven”
Jan. 6, 2013: “Margery Kempe”
Jan. 20, 2013: “Hadewijch
2011-2012: Christendom
Feb. 19, 2012: “Captive Nations, Captive Churches: Religion in the Soviet Union”
Apr. 15, 2012: “Orthodox-Anglican Relations”
Christians Associated with Relationships with East Europe
Nov. 20, 2009: “Baptists in the Republic of Georgia”
2006:“Living on the Edge: The Republic of Georgia and Post-Soviet National Identity”
1994:“Methodist Missionaries in Mother Russia”
Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation, Washington, DC
Oct. 23, 2011: “The Georgian Orthodox Church since Independence”
Feb. 24, 2008: “Conflict in the South Caucasus”
Conference in Honor of the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician Elene Metreveli, National Manuscript Centre: Tbilisi, Georgia
Dec. 2007: “The Creed of St. Nino”
Conference on Cultures in the Caucasus
1991: “National Identity and the Georgian Orthodox Church in the 1990s”
1989:“The Georgian Orthodox Church in the 20th Century”
1987:“Historiography of the Nino Story”
1985: “Nationalism and the Georgian Orthodox Church”
1983: “Nino and the Role of Women in the Evangelization of the Georgians”
Creating the Georgian Nation (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
May 2008: “Language Policy in Abkhazia during the Soviet Period”
Episcopal Divinity School: Anglican, Global and Ecumenical Studies Program
1998: “Armenian Christians”
First International Symposium on Georgian Manuscripts, National Manuscript Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia
Oct. 2009: “The Ordination of St. Nino”
Foreign Service Institute (Caucasus Area Studies Seminar):
2004:“The Rose Revolution after One Year”
2004:“What’s Old about the New Regime?”
2000, 2001: “The Republic of Georgia: Old History for a New Political Culture”
Friends of the Library, Baldwinsville, NY
Nov. 17, 2011: Overview of the Library of Congress
George Washington University
2004:Lectured on Abkhazia for graduate school course on the history of the S. Caucasus.
George H. Williams 80th Birthday Celebration [Harvard Divinity School]
1994:“History and Freedom in the Thought of Georges Florovsky”
Georgia at the Crossroads (Conference), Baylor University
Apr. 2015: LGBTQ Community in Georgia
International Conference on Historical Resources, Tbilisi, Georgia:
Sep. 2002: “Researching Abkhazia”
Landscapes of the Saints (Princeton University)
25 Mar. 2008: “The Apostles and St. Nino”
Library of Congress – Africa Middle East Division
June 2016: “Orthodox Church in the Republic of Georgia” https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7438
Library of Congress – Kluge Fellow Lecture
Sep. 2008: “Abkhazia and the Abkhazians: a New Cold War?” (https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-4452#:~:text=Abkhazia%20and%20the%20New%20Cold%20War%20Summary%20Before,the%20late%20Soviet%20period%20through%20the%201992-1993%20war.)
Library Speaker (U.S. State Department) – Yerevan, Armenia
May 2004: Taught class of Armenian librarians in aspects of online cataloging in a multi-alphabet Unicode context, concentrating on name and series authorities.
Massachusetts Commission for Christian Unity
2000: “Kosovo and Golgotha”
Middle East Librarians Association:
Nov. 2002: “Alphabet Politics in Post-Soviet Space”
Middle East Studies Association:
Nov. 2001: “The Abkhazian Orthodox Church: An Imagined Community?”
Mission School, NCNY Annual Conference, United Methodist Church
1992:“Christians in the Middle East”
1989:“Islam”
1987:“Religion in the Soviet Union”
National Parliamentary Library of the Republic of Georgia
Several lectures on technical matters
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
July 21, 2004, “Religious Freedom in the Caucasus,” Briefing of the CSC in Europe Congressional Committee. With two others I spoke about religious freedom in the S. Caucasus Republics. I spoke of the Republic of Georgia and took questions
Shota Rustaveli Literature Institute (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Nov. 2016: “The Georgian Collection at the Library of Congress”
Sophia Institute (New York, NY)
Dec. 5, 2008: “St. Nino – Deacon?”
Dec. 2013: “The Education Ministry of the Women’s Monastery of St. Nino at Samtavro, Mcxeta, Georgia”
Rustavi2 (Tbilisi, Georgia television station)
2008-2019: Many interviews for news program “Courier”
Tao-Klarjeti III (Georgian Manuscript Centre)
Oct. 2014: “The Use of ‘after the Ascension’ in calculating time in Mokcevay Kartlisay”
Tbilisi State University (TSU Student Self Governance/თსუ სტუდენტური თვითმმართველობა)
Oct. 2, 2017 (with Isaiah J. Poole): “Race Relations in the United States”
Nov. 8, 2016: “History of Voting Rights in the United States”
UN Dept. of Public Info./NGO Conference:
2002: “Reconciliation in Abkhazia”
Voice of America Interviews
2018: 100th Anniversary of Georgian Independence; current events
2017: Current events, Republic of Georgia
Nov. 23 2011: Georgian material at the Library of Congress [w/ Rusudan Tsereteli]
2004: Interviewed as part of a program on the Georgian-Abkhazian issues on the 11th anniversary of the fall of Sukhumi
Weston School of Theology:
1996: “History of Methodist Worship”
Works in Progress (Tbilisi, Georgia, American Councils)
May 11, 2011: “Strategic Patience – A Way Forward?”
July 10, 2013: “Events of 17 May 2013: International Day Against Homophobia and the Violent Priest-Led Counterdemonstration”
Oct. 15, 2014: “The Life of the Life of St. Nino”
May 18, 2016: “Pioneers of Georgian Studies in the United States”
Apr. 24, 2019: “Representations of St. Nino in 21st Century Georgian Literature”
Yale University: Institute of Sacred Music:
Mar. 4, 2016: “St. Nino in Drama: Hagiography in the Context of Religious Revival”
Delivered lectures in 1984-1985 in several churches in the Central New York area on religion in the Soviet Union and the changing political situation. During this time appeared twice on a religious affairs program on WKTV-Utica.
Disclosure Statement
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