Christine Bichsel is a Professor for Human Geography at the University of Fribourg. Her research interests and expertise are in political geography and environmental history.
Ekaterina Filep is a Post doctoral researcher specializing in Russian and Soviet environmental history and Gender Studies. Beginning in Autumn 2022, she will be with the University of Fribourg.
Krista Goff is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Miami. She is the author of Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus and co-editor of Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands.
Clemens Günther is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Osteuropa-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin and the author of The Metahistoriographic Revolution: Problematizing Historical Knowledge in Contemporary Russian Literature (Böhlau, 2021; in German). His current research interests lie in the cultural history of Soviet cybernetics and the ecological poetics of Russian realism.
Agata Ignaciuk is an Assistant Professor at the Department of the History of Science, University of Granada (Spain). Between 2017 and 2019, she was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions COFUND Research Fellow at the University of Warsaw's Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. Her research focuses on gender and the history of sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is currently engaged in the research project “Catholicising Reproduction, Reproducing Catholicism: Activist Practices and Intimate Negotiations in Poland, 1930–Present.”
Natalia Jarska is an Assistant Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History (Polish Academy of Sciences). Her research interests include women's and gender history, the history of sexuality, and labor history under state socialism. Currently, she is preparing a monograph about the sociocultural history of marriage in state-socialist Poland. In 2020–2021, she was a visiting researcher at Complutense University in Madrid.
Jerzy Łazor, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. He writes on twentieth-century economic history, with a focus on financial history. He has recently published the award-winning Brama na Bliski Wschód. Polsko-palestyńskie stosunki gospodarcze w okresie międzywojennym (2016) and an edition of the memoirs of Poland's second president, Stanisław Wojciechowski (2017). He is currently working on a book on the political economy of French capital in interwar Poland.
Julia Obertreis is a Professor of East European History at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her work focuses on water, infrastructure history, and environmental history.
Maya Karin Peterson was an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her monograph Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin (New York, 2019) is one of the first environmental histories of Central Asia. In her second, unfinished book project she sought to illuminate the relationships among food, medicine, and climate by examining the use of kumys (fermented mare's milk) as a health drink and cure for tuberculosis in Russia and beyond.
Timm Schönfelder is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig, Germany. In 2019, he defended his dissertation on Soviet agromeliorative infrastructures in the North Caucasus at the University of Tübingen, where he worked for the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center 923: “Threatened Orders. Societies under Stress.” Currently, he investigates social and cultural implications of hunting practices in eastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Gulmira Sultangalieva is Professor of History at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty and has written extensively on the history of Kazakhstan. Among her most recent publications is “They Do Not Help, Only Demoralize’: Peasant Nachalniks and the Last Imperial Russian Reform on the Kazakh Steppe, 1902–1917,” Central Asian Survey, 39 (2020), co-authored with John B. Seitz.
Ulzhan Tuleshova is Senior Teacher at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty. She defended her dissertation on “The Kazakh Nobility in the Service of the Russian Empire in the 19th Century: Formation and Activity,” which won an international grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research on the topic “Social Policy of the Russian Empire in the Kazakh Steppe in the 19th Century.”
Julia Vaingurt is Associate Professor in the Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published widely on Russian modernism and postmodernism, including Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s (2013), and has co-edited The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia (2018) and Nestandart: Zabytye eksperimenty v sovetskoi kul'ture, 1934-1964 gody (2021). She is currently finishing a book project on the poetics of weakness in the era of stagnation.
Paul W. Werth is Professor of History at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Previously an editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, he is the author, most recently, of 1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2021).
