Russell Zguta (born October 3, 1949) is a US historian, educator, and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri.
[2] Zguta's research has focused on Middle Age and early Modern Slavic and Russian culture.
His other publications include "Witchcraft Trials in Seventeenth-Century Russia" in The American Historical Review (1977); "The One-Day Votive Church: A Religious Response to the Black Death in Early Russia" in Slavic Review (1981); and the "Monastic Medicine in Kievan Rus' and Early Muscovy" chapter in Medieval Russian Culture (1984).
[2][3] While at the University of Missouri, Zguta chaired multiple departments: History (1989-1991 and 2010-2013), Economics (1991-1995), and Romance Literature (2005-2008).
[2] In 1990, he received the Purple Chalk Award (where the winner is chosen by a student vote) "for exemplary teaching and advising".