Volodymyr Artiukh is a research fellow at New Europe College in Bucharest and as of March 2021 will be a postdoctoral researcher with the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. He obtained his PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University with a thesis on the Belarusian workers’ agency in the context of bureaucratic labor control. He has also written on the circulation of populist idioms in the dominant and opposition ideologies in Belarus in 2017–20.
Daniel Beer is Reader in Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London and the author, most recently, of The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Knopf, 2017). His current research project examines how the confrontation between the Populists and the autocracy shaped the political culture of the Russian Empire in the reigns of Alexander II and Alexander III.
Nelly Bekus is Associated Lecturer at University of Exeter, UK. She has previously held research posts at Harvard University, the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, and the University of Warsaw. Her published monographs include Struggle Over Identity: The Official and the Alternative Belarusianness (2010), Orthodoxy Versus Post-Communism? Belarus, Serbia, Ukraine and the Russkiy Mir (co-authored, 2016), and a special issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies “Heritage, Socialism and Internationalism after 1945. The Second World and Beyond” (co-edited, 2020). Her works published in the Theory and Society, British Journal of Sociology, Europe-Asia Studies, and Nationalities Papers.
Mischa Gabowitsch is a historian and sociologist. He is an associate member of the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Potsdam and senior researcher at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. His book publications include Protest in Putin's Russia (2017) and several edited volumes about the commemoration of wars and mass murder, including, in English, Replicating Atonement: Foreign Models in the Commemoration of Atrocities (2017). His most recent book, as editor, is Pamiatnik i prazdnik: Etnografiia Dnia Pobedy (2020).
Elena Gapova is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University. She was also the Founder of Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University (Minsk). Among other publications, she is the author of The Classes of Nations: Feminist Critique of Nationbuilding (NLO, 2016).
Ronan Hervouet is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bordeaux (France) and a member of the Centre Emile Durkheim. He has published two books on Belarus, entitled Datchas blues: Existences ordinaires et dictature en Biélorussie (2009) and Le goût des tyrans: Une ethnographie politique du quotidien en Biélorussie (2020). The latter will be published in English in March 2021 as: A Taste for Oppression: A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus (Berghahn Books).
Simon Lewis is Associate Professor in East and Central European Cultural History at the University of Bremen. His research interests include memory studies, postcolonialism, and comparative literature, with a focus on the written and visual cultures of Belarus, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. He has published articles on diverse aspects of the cultural history of eastern Europe, and is a co-author of Remembering Katyn (2012). His monograph Belarus—Alternative Visions: Nation, Memory and Cosmopolitanism is published by Routledge (2019).
Natallia Paulovich is a faculty member at the Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw. Her doctoral dissertation was focused on the socio-cultural changes in Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union and their connection to the transformation of the position of women in society under the new neo(liberal) regime. Her current research interest is concentrated on Soviet gender history and anthropological approaches to new forms of spirituality in Poland.
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool UP, 2019) and co-translator and co-editor with Andrew Kahn of Catherine the Great's Selected Letters (Oxford, 2018).
Andreas Schönle is Professor of Russian and Head of the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol, as well as Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of four monographs and three edited volumes. His more recent monographs include Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia (2011) and On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825: The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite (2018), co-authored with Andrei Zorin.
