2023 Associates List

Name Institutional Affiliation Title of Research Project Email Dates on Campus
Abdullaev, Yasyn University of California Berkeley The Myth of Secret Societies' Conspiracy and the Rise of Modern Politics in Russia, 1789–1849 yasyn_abdullaev@berkeley.edu June 18-25
Aliyev, Mehraj University of Milan Southern Gas Corridor: Implications for the EU Energy Demand and EU-Azerbaijan relations    
Amvrosova, Alina Boston University "Dizzy with Success”: Traces of Humanitarian Catastrophe in the Satirical Journal “Krokodil” and "Perets" (1931-1933) aliamvr@bu.edu June 11-19
Axe, Kevin Free University of Berlin From ‘Model Pupils’ to Model State: Estonian Economists and the
Globalization of the (Post)Socialist World
k.axe@fu-berlin.de  
Badashvili, Madea Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University “The war in Ukraine: The Social, Political and Economic Changes and Their Impact on Georgian Society” medea.badashvili@tsu.ge June 14-21
Barris, Roann Independent Scholar From Kiev to New York: Remaking the Yiddish Theater rbarris@radford.edu June 20-July 1
Bezahler, Alex University of Iowa Natural Resources as a Source for National and Subnational Identity
Development in Post-Soviet Russia
alex-bezahler@uiowa.edu June 16-21
Biriukov, Dmitrii Freie University Berlin The Vicissitudes of ‘Byzantism’: Historical and Current Perspectives on Russian Byzantino-Centrism    
Bishop, Elizabeth Texas State University Armenian Contributions to Soviet Production Culture : The Aswan High Dam    
Blasing, Molly University of Kentucky Climate Across the Curriculum: Transdisciplinary Approaches To Teaching Climate, Energy, and Sustainability in Russian Studies mtblasing@uky.edu July 16-22
Blauvelt, Timothy Ilia State Universtiy E.H. Carr and the Soviet Nationalities timothy.blauvelt@iliauni.edu.ge June 14-19
Bryson, Jamie The University of Exeter The Russian Empire During the First World War jb1285@exeter.ac.uk  
Burton, Myla Southern Illinois University Carbondale The Dangerous Next-Door Neighbor: An Analysis of Russia's Effect on Polish
and Ukrainian Military Expenditures
myla.burton@siu.edu  
Clay, Catherine Shippensburg University The Honeybee and Beekeeping In Russian History cbclay@ship.edu June 19-27
Cohn, Edward Grinnell College The Admonitory State: KGB Surveillance, Prophylactic Policing,
and Political Control in the Late USSR
cohned@grinnell.edu July 24-28
Creech, Griffin University of Pennsylvania Buriats Beyond Borders: Making and Unmaking Multi-Layered Citizens in the
Russia-Mongolia Borderlands, 1890-1938
gbcreech@sas.upenn.edu June 19-28
Czerkawski, Betul The University of Arizona Story Mapping Crimean Tatar Literary Journey bcozkan@arizona.edu July 25-29
DeDominicis, Benedict Catholic University of Korea “The Social Identity Dynamics of the Europeanization of Bulgaria: Reconstructing Gramscian Hegemony in a Post- neocolonial Balkan Nation-State” bendedominicis@gmail.com  
del Cerro Santamaria, Gerardo Massachusetts Institute of Technology Russia and the Belt and Road Initiative: Megaprojects and Development gdelcerro@gmail.com  
Dixon, Megan The College of Idaho Opening Up ‘Russia’ with Alexei Ivanov mdixon@collegeofidaho.edu July 25-August 1
Dorroll, Philip Wofford College Theorizing Eastern Orthodox Religious Extremism: Genocidal Theologies of Nationalism Deployed Against Ukraine and Bosnia    
Farrow, Lee Auburn University at Montgomery Suffragists/Suffragettes and Socialism: The Intersectionality of Female Activism
in the Early 20th Century
   
Feldberg, Olga University of Virginia 90 Seconds to Doomsday: Managing Soviet Atomic Heritage in Times of War    
Fiaduta Prokharchyk, Kseniya Autonomous University of Barcelona The Voices of History: Literature, Ethics and History in Svetlana Alexievich’s Poetics kseniya.fiaduta@autonoma.cat  
First, Joshua University of Mississippi Soviet Health Care in Crisis: Welfare Technologies and the Fate of Socialism, 1960-1990 joshuafirst@gmail.com June 21-28
Földvári, Sándor Debrecen Univ. (Hungary) & Academy of Sciences of Hungary (part-time) Cultural Transfers Via the Migration of Books:  Encounters in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Their Impacts in the Hungarian Kingdom and Balkans    
Gentes, Andrew Independent Scholar Museum of Ruins: Siberian Exile and Late Imperial Russia, 1855-1917 katorzhnik@yahoo.com  
Gergely, Kathleen Indiana University, Bloomington Kto est Kto: Personnel Selection and Autocratic Survival in the Russian Federation kgergely@iu.edu June 18-27
Giurcanu, Magda National Louis University Russia and the Council of Europe relations: A view from within the European institution mgiurcanu@nl.edu June 21-23
Grant, Susan Liverpool John Moores University Socialist Healthcare Across Soviet Borders, 1960-2022 s.grant1@ljmu.ac.uk  
Grieder, Julia Elena University of Basel Invisible? National Minorities in Post-Stalinist Soviet Ukraine (1953-1982) juliaelena.grieder@unibas.ch July 9-22
Harris, Holly Texas Christian University Shot Down at War: Allied Prisoners of War on the Eastern Front During WWII holly.harris@tcu.edu June 15-24
Hatto, Emma Independent Scholar Becoming Yugoslav: A Slovene Perspective on Yugoslav State-Building Examined Through the Political Career of Dr Anton Korošec 1918-1940 emmaannehatto@yahoo.co.uk June 11-23
Ivanov, Andrey University of Wisconsin - Platteville The Godfather of the Enlightenment: Science, Empire and Feofan Prokopovych
at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy
ivanovan@uwplatt.edu June 24-July 3
Ivliyeva, Irina Missouri University of Science and Technology “Терминосистема словообразовательного синтеза в русском языке: особенности иерерхической структуры и области её применения на практике.”
[“On the hierarchical structure of the terminological system in Russian word-formation synthesis and its practical application options”]
ivliyeva@mst.edu June 13-23
Jenks, Andrew California State University, Long Beach Los Rusos: Revolutions, Statelessness, and the Russian Diaspora in Mexico (1905-1965) andrew.jenks@csulb.edu July 11-19
Kapinos, Andrew University of Kansas Cold War Gymnastics: Gender, Youth and Empire in the Eastern Bloc a.kapinos@ku.edu June 24-July 12
Kelly, Gabriel Recent Graduate of
George Washington University
Until The End of Days: Explaining the Endurance of Autocratic Regimes with Religious Origins gabriel_kelly@gwu.edu June 30-July 4
Kenworthy, Scott Miami University Patriarch Tikhon and the Orthodox Church in Revolutionary Russia kenwors@miamioh.edu June 26-July 1
Khajishvili, Devi Texas Tech University Forgotten Brews: Exploring the Role of Georgian Tea in Shaping the Soviet Union’s Cultural Identity and Everyday Life devi.khajishvili@ttu.edu June 11-21
Klots, Alissa University of Pittsburgh The Restless Generation: Soviet Retirees and the Meanings of Active Old Age, 1950s-1970s alissaklots@pitt.edu June 20-July 5
Knickmeier Cummings, Kelly Howard University Exploring Russia and Otherness through Autoenthographic Texts    
Knight, James Fulbright U.S. Student Program; Liberty University A Break in the Narrative: The Post-Hunnic Lower and Middle Danube of the Late Fifth Century jdknight1@liberty.edu July 12-August 5
Kocialkowska, Kamila Harvard University The Black Square and the Blue Pencil: Modernist Mimicry of Censorial Style in Avant-Garde Books    
Kotzeva, Elitza American University of Armenia Stuck Between Traditional, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Rhetoric:
Armenian Left-behind Rural Women Negotiating Gender Roles
elitza.kotzeva@aua.am  
Kupreishvili, Liana Ilia State University Medical Textbooks on Sexual Education in Russian Empire.    
Kuznetsov, Dmitrii University of Southern California Creative Interventions: Memorial Presence in Contemporary Russian Literature and Film dkuznets@usc.edu  
Lahana, Martha Independent Scholar A.S. Matveev, 1625-1682 marthalllh@gmail.com June 11-25
Lin, Tony Boston College Cold War at the Keyboard? The International Tchaikovsky Competition tony.h.lin@bc.edu June 20-27
Lucey, Colleen University of Arizona Imagining Terror: Women Revolutionaries in Late Imperial Russia luceyc@arizona.edu  
Mamedova, Roiala University of Pardubice The Historical Transformation of Turco-Muslim Women's Identity in the South Caucasus royalememmedli@gmail.com  
Miller, Thornton Illinois State University An Imaginary Britain: Conceptions of Britain in Cold War Musical Exchange, 1953–1989 ftmille2@gmail.com  
Miller, Melissa Colby College Decolonizing Motherhood? Midwives and the Female Body in the Russian Imperial Imagination mmiller@colby.edu July 23-29
Molchanov, Stan University of Minnesota-Morris Carl Schmitt in the Kremlin: The German Origins of Russian Cultural Conservatism molch004@morris.umn.edu June 17-25
Monday, Chris Dongseo University Russia’s Psychological Operations Against the West: The BioLabs Conspiracy chrisdongseo@gmail.com  
Nutting, Danielle University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The World Opens at Both Ends: Ontologies of Flute Performance and Pedagogy in Bulgaria desteve2@illinois.edu  
Nyshchei, Khrystyna University of Western Ontario Training of Priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Times of Persecution and the Activities of the UGCC Before New Persecutions    
Pavlenko, Ksenia Cornell University Seeing Expansion: Representation and Appropriation in the Visual Culture of the Late Russian Empire kp489@cornell.edu June 18-24
Porter, Louis Texas State University Knowledge Internationals: Paul Otlet, Soviet Library Science, and Utopian Visions of World Order l_p309@txstate.edu June 11-24
Prusskaya, Evgeniya Ilia State University Muslim communities in the Caucasus under the Tsarist rule    
Przygrodzki, Robert Western Governors University Publishing the Empire: The Russian Press as a Tool of Empire in Russian Poland, 1864-1915 rlprzygrodzki@yahoo.com July 10-17
Ramet, Sabrina Norwegian University of Science and Technology Economic Transition in East Central Europe since 1989 sabrina.ramet@ntnu.no  
Rewinski, Zachary College of Wooster 1927: Contingency, Contestation, and Crisis in Soviet Culture zrewinski@wooster.edu June 21-30
Richardson, Curtis University of North Carolina Polina Zhemchuzhina: The Life of an Elite, Soviet-Jewish Woman rossiiakurt@yahoo.com July 10-17
Sahakyan, Naira Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute The Azerbaijan-Türkiye-Armenia Triangle: Transformations of War Narratives Through the Speeches of State Leaders n.e.sahakyan@gmail.com  
Savelieva, Alla University of Colorado Diverse Russia: Developing a Russian textbook that reflects Russia's ethnic, religious and cultural diversity.    
Schmalz, Rachel University of Alberta Does ethnicity matter? The relationship between Russia, Ukraine, and the Crimean Peninsula. rschmalz@ualberta.ca July 18-August 4
Shubina, Aleksandra The Ohio State University Multiple Voices of Animation in the Socialist Bloc: A Dialogue between the ‘Center’ and the ‘Periphery’ on the Issues of Family, Gender, and Nationality in Late-Socialist Era    
Shylov, Volodymyr University of Szeged The Linguistic Landscape of the Transcarpathian Region volodymyrshylov@gmail.com  
Smith-Peter, Susan College of Staten Island/City University of New York Russia Without Empire: A Hidden History susan.smithpeter@csi.cuny.edu July 10-19
Soderstrom, Mark Aurora University Enlightening the Land of Midnight: Peter Slovtsov, Ivan Kalashnikov, and the Saga of Russian Siberia;
Siberia, Cold and Warm, in the Novels of Ivan Kalashikov
msoderst@aurora.edu July 10-14;
July 24-28
Steinwedel, Charles Northeastern Illinois University The Russian Empire and International Commodity Trade: The Case of Sugar    
Sternthal, Susanne Texas State University "The Roots of Putinism and the Role of Ukraine" sternthal@mac.com June 20-29
Stevens, Thomas  Independent Scholar Civil Wars to Stalinism: The Soviet "Front Generation" in Power tstevens@sas.upenn.edu  
Stone, Adam Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Women Citizen Activists and the End of the Cold War: Soviet Bloc and Western Transnational Connections, 1980-1989 adam.j.stone@rutgers.edu July 9-18
Stukey, Meredith Purdue University The Romanovs on a World Stage: Autocracy, Democracy, and Crisis, 1896-1918    
Stull, Madeline Indiana University, Bloomington The City as a Cultural Artifact: Tracing Literary Representations of Belgrade stullma@iu.edu June 12-17;
July 17-21
Svobodny, Nicole Washington University in St. Louis Dance-Writing and Post-war Modernism svobodny@wustl.edu June 19-28
Swank, Charles Princeton University Under the Banner of Lifebuilding: The Production Art Movement in the Early-Soviet Period, Theory and Practice    
Swierad-Redwood, Katarzyna University of Notre Dame Slavophile Romanticism and Nationalism, 1820–1863: Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus kswierad@nd.edu  
Szeląg, Paulina Pedagogical University in Krakow Approach of the United States of America to Former Yugoslavia Since Presidency of James Carter: The Case Study of Problem of Autonomy of Kosovo paulina.szelag@up.krakow.pl  
Tatsumi-Fujinami, Yukiko Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Revisiting the History of Publishing in Russian: Book Trade, Foreign Censorship, Translation in the Imperial Period tatsumi@tufs.ac.jp July 16-20
Umanets, Valeriia University of Wisconsin–Madison Political Participation of Women in the Soviet Union and Russia: From State-Sponsored Feminism to Putin's Machismo umanets@wisc.edu July 26-August 5
Wood Balsom, Alexander University of Western Ontario Building the Health of State: Constructing Public Healthcare Systems in the Soviet Union and Canada awoodbal@uwo.ca  
Yoon, Saera Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Akunin’s Orientalism in the Fandorin Series sayoon@unist.ac.kr June 11-16
Zemlinskaya, Rashel European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia The Debate on Russian Renaissance rzemlinskaya@gmail.com July 10-17
Zhang, Liao Valparaiso University "The Making of the USSR's Northeast Asian Borderlands, 1920s-1940s" liao.zhang@valpo.edu June 19-23
Zhuk, Sergei Ball State University The Origin of “Filtration Camps”: The Genocide, KGB Operations against the Displaced Persons after WWII and Putin’s War against Ukraine sizhuk@bsu.edu June 12-20