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Prof. Nickolas Lupinin, Senior Lecturer in History

Interview by Christina S. Eichelkraut
Exchange Senior Writer

CE: What kind of music do you listen to?

 NL: I listen to actually quite a wide variety of music, but the type of music I listen to the most is World music, there’s a little designation people use called World Music Junkie, that’s what I like to consider myself as. So music of Argentina, of Greece, Turkey, Russia, and so forth are far more interesting to me than listening to standard types of music that you hear.

 CE: Where are you from?

 NL: I am of Russian ethnicity.

 CE: Well, I knew that.

 NL: You did? [laughs]

 Where am I from at what point of my life?

 CE: When you were born.

 NL: Well I was born in the Baltic state of Latvia.

 CE: When did you come to America?

 NL: 1949.

 CE: Where did you go to college?

 NL: Syracuse for my B.A. and New York for my advanced degrees.

 CE: What’s on of your favorite college memories?

 NL: Undergraduate or graduate?

 CE: Either or.

 NL: Either or? In undergraduate my favorite memories generally revolve around, if we relate it just to college life,  is having the best professor in my academic career, so that’s always a pleasant memory.

 CE: What class did he teach?

 NL: Several courses, Medieval History, History of Science were among his primary courses.

 CE: What’s your favorite non-academic college memory?

 NL: Probably meeting the first girl I fell in love with, in college, whose name I will not mention at this point [laughs]. That’s the truth, too.

 CE: So what’s you’re biggest non-school related pet peeve?

 NL: In the world?

 CE: Just, you know, what annoys you?

 NL: Oh god, that’s a long list [laughs]….It’s hard to pick out one, it really is.

 One that I think stands out to some extent for me, what I see as being the level of manners and the level of boorishness are related, I think there’s a constant drop-off. I think people are not as civil as they could be, in relationship to other people. I think there may be a little more capacity for treating humans and humans among us.

CE: How’d you get into history?

NL: Primarily through the influence of the professor that I mentioned. Prior to that point I was a literary composition major.

CE: What’s your favorite movie?

NL: I don’t have a favorite movie.

CE: What kind of movies do you like?

NL: I generally tend to favor, again referring to modern movies, I like French, Italian, and Spanish films, so I actually do not watch too many American films.

CE: What’s a quirky fact that students wouldn’t know about you?

NL: I’m a tennis freak….I play with Donelan, and other people in the league.

CE: How’d you get into tennis?

NL: It’s a great sport, it’s one-on-one, you don’t need a team, you can play in all kinds of weather, or indoors, it’s very convenient. It’s a great sport, you get a phenomenal work out.

CE: When did you get into tennis?

 NL: Not that far back. There were parts in my past life when I played it, and there were whole stretches when I did not play, particularly when I lived in Manhattan, and Jersey. But the last several years I’ve been back into it full string.