Contributors to This Issue
Adeeb Khalid is Professor of History at Carleton College. He is the author of The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (1998) and Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (forthcoming in 2007). His current project focuses on the transformation of Central Asia in the early Soviet period.
Nathaniel Knight is Associate Professor of History at Seton Hall University. He has published a number of articles exploring the intersection of nationality and scholarship in 19th-century Russia. He is currently completing a monograph on the history of Russian ethnography.
Irina Paperno, who holds advanced degrees in Slavic languages and literatures and in psychology, is Professor of Russian Literature and History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her recent publications include "Exhuming the Bodies of Soviet Terror," Representations 75 (Summer 2001); and "Intimacy with Power: Soviet Memoirists Remember Stalin," in Personality Cults in Stalinism/Personenkulte im Stalinismus, ed. Klaus Heller and Jan Plamper (2004). She is currently working on a book-length study of personal accounts of the Soviet experience.
Konstantin Shneider is Associate Professor (dotsent) in the Department of Ancient and Modern History, Perm´ State University, Russia. He is the author of "Problemy otechestvennoi istorii glazami russkikh liberalov" (Problems of National History as Seen by Russian Liberals"), Vestnik Permskogo universiteta, no. 2 (1998); and Rossiia: XIX vek, I polovina. Dokumenty, materialy, kommentarii (Russia in the First Half of the 19th Century: Documents, Materials, and Commentary [1995]). He is currently working on a book, "Early Russian Liberalism (1840–1860)."
George G. Weickhardt is a lawyer engaged in private practice in San Francisco. As an independent scholar, he has authored numerous articles on early Russian law. [End Page 937]
Douglas R. Weiner is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and immediate past president of the American Society for Environmental History. He is the author of A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev (1999) and Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia (1988 and 2000). He is currently investigating the social and political significance of debates concerning Russian science education from 1860 through the early 1930s.
Paul W. Werth is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His At the Margins of Orthodoxy: Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia's Volga–Kama Region, 1827–1905 appeared in 2002. He is currently working on a study of religious toleration and the civil order in imperial Russia, as well as a project considering the place of the Armenian Apostolic confession at the intersection of Russian internal and foreign policy.
