Edyta M. Bojanowska is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature and intellectual history, focusing on empire, nationalism, race, and the interdisciplinary connections between literature and history. She is the author of Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (Harvard, 2007) and A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (Belknap, 2018). Her interests include postcolonial studies, globalization, travel writing, journalism, and the spatial turn in the humanities and the social sciences.
Joy Gleason Carew is the author of Blacks, Reds and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise (2008). She has been in academe for nearly fifty years, at institutions from community colleges to historically black universities to major research universities. She recently retired from the University of Louisville where she was the resident linguist and Professor of Pan-African Studies.
Elvira Churyumova is an affiliated researcher at the Mongolia and Inner Studies Unit (MIASU) of the University of Cambridge. She received her PhD in Political Sciences from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. From 2014–18 she was a Research Associate with the Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project at MIASU, and from 2018–19 a Research Associate at the University of Arkansas.
Kelly Knickmeier Cummings is a Lecturer in Russian at Howard University. Her doctorate is in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Kansas and her areas of interest are Russian Symbolism, European intellectual history, and the medical humanities.
Rossen Djagalov is an Assistant Professor of Russian at New York University, a member of the editorial collective of LeftEast, and the author of From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third World (2020).
Korey Garibaldi teaches at the University of Notre Dame. His scholarship on Henry James has been published in The Henry James Review, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and Reading Henry James in the 21st Century: Heritage and Transmission (2019). He is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled, Before Black Power: The Rise and Fall of Interracial Literary Culture, 1908–1968.
Susan Grunewald is the Digital History Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Pittsburgh World History Center.
Edward C. Holland is an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder in December 2012. He was subsequently a Title VIII Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University. His research on Kalmykia and the Kalmyks has appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, Religion, State & Society, and Inner Asia, among other venues.
Andrew Janco is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Haverford College. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago and an MS in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A historian of Russia by training, Andrew is a leader in the field of Slavic DH and has directed the Digital Humanities affiliate group of the Association for Slavic and East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) since its founding in 2015.
Christina Kiaer is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. She is the author, with Robert Bird and Zachary Cahill, of Revolution Every Day: A Calendar (2017), and the forthcoming Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism. Her current project is “An Aesthetics of Anti-racism: African Americans in Soviet Visual Culture.”
Hilah Kohen is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.
Erin Katherine Krafft is Assistant Professor of Crime and Justice Studies and Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She holds a PhD in Slavic Studies from Brown University. In both her teaching and research, she focuses on the relationship between institutional power, gender, race, and feminism in both US and transnational contexts, as well as on theories, histories, and practices of anti-oppressive education.
B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz is the Master Instructor of Russian at Howard University. She has her Master of Arts in International Studies in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies from the Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington, and a doctorate in Slavic languages and literatures from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Washington.
Laurence H. Miller is Professor Emeritus in the Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current area of research is the history and description of the collections of that library. From 1975 to 1989 and from 1997 to the present he has edited the annual reference book section in the Slavic Review.
Marina Mogilner holds the Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an affiliated researcher at Tyumen University, Russia. She is a founding editor of Ab Imperio Quarterly. She is the author of Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia (Nebraska, 2013). Her recently completed book, A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness (1860s–1930s), considers strategies and meanings of Jewish self-racialization in the Russian empire and early Soviet Union.
Christy Monet is a dual-degree PhD Candidate completing a dissertation between the Political Science and Slavic Languages and Literatures departments at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation focuses on the role of the family in nineteenth-century Russian literature and its interaction with emergent liberal ideas in imperial Russia. Her broader research interests include discourse analysis and interpretive methods, intellectual and conceptual history, and imperial and soviet legacies in contemporary Russian politics.
Chelsi West Ohueri is Assistant Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist, and her current book project is an ethnographic study of race and racialization in Albania. Her work appears in journals such as Medical Anthropology and Gender, Place, and Culture.
Brigid O'Keeffe is Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College (CUNY). She is the author of Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomsbury, 2021) and New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2013). She is currently preparing a manuscript for Bloomsbury's “Russian Shorts” Book Series that will present a compact and accessible history of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire.
Louis Howard Porter is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Texas State University and holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His current book project examines the participation of the USSR in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to trace Soviet engagement with ideas of world governance, world citizenship, and international community in the twentieth century.
Antonina Puchkovskaia works as an Associate Professor at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is a director of the International Digital Humanities Center and an academic leader of MSc “Data, Culture and Visualization.” She is also one of the 2018–19 Willard McCarty's Fellowship holder at the Digital Humanities Department at King's College London.
Katherine M. H. Reischl is Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University and co-founder of the Slavic Digital Humanities Working Group at Princeton's Center for Digital Humanities.
Eli Rosenblatt received his PhD in Jewish Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019–20, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
Sunnie Rucker-Chang is Assistant Professor of Slavic and East European Studies and Director of European Studies at University of Cincinnati. She is the co-author of Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison (Cambridge, 2020) and co-editor of Chinese Migrants in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Routledge, 2013).
Nari Shelekpayev is Associate Professor in History at the European University at St. Petersburg. In the past he was a postdoctoral fellow at Sciences Po, Paris and the 2018 Albert Einstein Fellow at the Einstein Forum and Daimler & Benz Foundation in Potsdam. He holds a PhD in history from the Université de Montréal (2019). His main research interests are urban and political history in comparative and transnational perspectives with a focus on Brazil, Canada, and (post)Soviet Central Asia.
Maria Taroutina is Associate Professor of Art History at Yale–NUS College in Singapore. Her first book, The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival, won the 2019 USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies. Currently, she is working on two book projects: a monograph on the artist Mikhail Vrubel and a study of Russian Orientalist painting, tentatively titled Looking East: Art, Race, and Representation in Russia in the Age of Empire.
Emily Wang is an Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Notre Dame and has written articles on Russian poetry published or forthcoming in Slavic Review, Russian Review, Comparative Literature, and The Slavic and East European Journal. Her current book project, supported by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, is entitled Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism.
Marina Yusupova is a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at Lancaster University. She has a PhD in Russian Studies from the University of Manchester (2017); has previously been a Fulbright Scholar at Stony Brook University (USA), and Aleksanteri Fellow at the University of Helsinki (Finland). She is the co-editor of Gender and Choice After Socialism (2018). Research interests include feminist theories in non-western contexts, race and coloniality in post-Soviet spaces, critical men and masculinities studies.
