Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Gregory Afinogenov is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University. His dissertation, "The Noblest Commerce: Intelligence and Sinology on the 'Russian Route,' 1674-1825," deals with the role of knowledge and intelligence in shaping the Russian Empire's relationship with the Jesuits and the Qing.
Eugene M. Avrutin is Associate Professor of Modern European Jewish History and Tobor Family Scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010). Currently, he is working on a book titled The Velizh Affair: Ritual Murder in a Russian Border Town.
Stephen V. Bittner is Professor of History at Sonoma State University. He is the author of The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat (2008) and the editor of Dmitrii Shepilov's memoir, The Kremlin's Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics under Stalin and Khrushchev (2007). Bittner is presently writing a history of winemaking in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, called Whites and Reds: Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar.
Anton Fedyashin is Assistant Professor of Russian History and Executive Director of the Initiative for Russian Culture at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of Liberals under Autocracy: Modernization and Civil Society in Russia, 1866-1904 (2012) and is currently working on his second book, Superpower Subconscious: The Cold War and the Spy Novel.
Juliane Fürst is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Bristol. The author of Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism (2010) and the editor of Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Reinvention (2006), she is currently writing a book on the Soviet Hippie Movement under Brezhnev. [End Page 699]
Maya Haber teaches history of science at Duquesne University. She completed her dissertation, "Socialist Realist Science: Constructing Knowledge about Rural Life in the Soviet Union, 1943-1958" (University of California, Los Angeles) in 2013 and is working on a book manuscript about the role of the social sciences in the expansion of Soviet governmentality.
James H. Meyer, Assistant Professor of Islamic World History at Montana State University, specializes in the Turkic world and is the author of a number of articles relating to Middle Eastern and Russian history. He is currently writing a book on trans-imperial Muslim activists. [End Page 700]
