Teaching Professor of Humanities and History, Kevin Kain publishes research article

Kain’s most recent publication appears as “The Transfer of St. Metropolitan Filipp’s Relics Reconsidered” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 25 (2025): 179-212.

The essay reconsiders the transfer of St. Filipp’s relics to Moscow in 1652, recognizing it as an act of historical replication founded on annual religious commemorations and intended to contextualize Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich’s inheritance of the Orthodox Byzantine legacy.