Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Dietrich Beyrau is Professor emeritus at the Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Universität Tübingen. His recent publications include Formen des Krieges: Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (The Forms of War: From Antiquity to the Present [2007]), which he coedited with Michael Hochgeschwender and Dieter Langewiesche; "Die Soldaten der Sofja Fedortschenko" (The Soldiers of Sof'ia Fedorshchenko), in Armiia i obshchestvo v rossiiskoi istorii XVII-XX vv. (Army and Society in Russian History, 17th-20th Centuries), ed. P. P. Shcherbinin et al. (2007); and Deutschsein als Grenzerfahrung: Minderheitenpolitik in Europa zwischen 1914 und 1950 (Germanness as a Liminal Experience: Minorities Policy in Europe, 1914-50), which he coedited with Matthias Beer and Cornelia Rauh-Köhne (2009).
Ekaterina Boltunova is affiliated with the Russian School of Anthropology at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU). She is the author of Gvardiia Petra Velikogo kak voennaia korporatsiia (The Guards of Peter the Great as a Military Corporation [2010]). Her current project explores the tsar/emperor discourse in the state topography of Moscow and St. Petersburg from the late 17th through the 18th centuries.
John Connelly, Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, is currently Interim Director of the Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies. He has published Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education (2000), which won the 2001 George Beer Award of the American Historical Association; and edited, with Michael Gruettner, Universities under Dictatorship (2005). He is currently working on a study of the evolution of Catholic thinking on the Jewish people from 1933 to 1965, tentatively titled The Church against Itself. He acts as North American editor for Contemporary European History and sits on the editorial boards of Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung and Slavic Review.
Simon Dixon is Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies [End Page 940] and an associate editor of Kritika. Among his books are The Modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825 (1999) and Catherine the Great (2009). Most recently, he has edited Personality and Place in Russian Culture: Essays in Memory of Lindsey Hughes (2010).
Igor Fedyukin is Director for Policy Studies at the New Economic School, an independent graduate school in economics in Moscow. His research focuses on the social and intellectual history of early modern Russia; and his article in this volume is a part of a larger study of theories and practices of governing in the second half of the 17th and first half of the 18th centuries.
Michelle Lamarche Marrese is an independent scholar and the author of A Woman's Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861. She is currently writing a book on the social and political authority of noblewomen at the 18th-century Russian court, titled Queen of Spades: Princess Dashkova and the Politics of Gender in the Era of Female Rule.
Alexander M. Martin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and an editor of Kritika. He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I and is currently working on a book about Moscow in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Simo Mikkonen is Adjunct Professor of East European History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the author of Music and Power in the Soviet 1930s: A History of Composers' Bureaucracy (2009). He is currently working on a study of the cultural Cold War and cultural influences across international boundaries, especially in U.S.-Soviet relations. [End Page 941]
