Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Ecaterina Balica is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the Romanian Academy, in the Laboratory “Violence and Crime: Prevention and Mediation.” She is an Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Bucharest. She is a member of the Romanian Society of Criminology (2007) and member of the “Association Internationale des Criminologues de Langue Française”—AICLF (2010). Starting in 2011 she became the contact member for Romania in the “European Academic Network EUCPN.” She has been a consultant for the Ministry of Justice, the National Institute of Criminology, the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport, and NGOs. Her main research interests are: violent crime, homicide, restorative justice, victim offender mediation, youth subcultures, and corruption. She coedited Violence and Crime in Europe: Social Interventions and Research Methods (Bucharest: Ars Docendi, 2012) with Pascal Décarpes. Her books include Violent Crime: Trends and Risk Factors (Bucharest: Oscar Print, 2008) and Youth, Norms, and Values: Landmark for Sociology of Youth (Bucharest: Lumina Lex, 2002) (coauthored with Ioana Petre and Dan Banciu). She collaborated for the editing of some collective books: Ion Durnescu, ed., Probatiunea de la teorie la practica [Probation from theory to practice] (Iasi: Polirom, 2011) and Camelia Beciu and Nicolae Perpelea, eds., Europa în context. Identităţi şi practici discursive [Europe in context. Identity and discursive practices] (Bucharest: Ars Doncendi, 2011).
Edith W. Clowes was appointed the Brown-Forman Professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Virginia in Summer 2012. She spent nearly 14 years at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, where she was a professor and served four years as director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Her primary research and teaching interests span the interactions between literature, philosophy, religion, and utopian thought. Among her recent book-length publications are an interdisciplinary examination of post-Soviet Russian identity, Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geography and Post-Soviet Identity (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011); a discursive history of Russian philosophy, Fiction’s Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004); and an editorial collaboration, Sbornik “Vekhi” v kontekste russkoi kul’tury (The Landmarks Collection in Its Russian Context; Moscow: Nauka, 2007). She is also interested in society, culture, and business [End Page 141] in Russia, most recently realized in the Russian translation of an editorial collaboration, Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998). The Russian translation (Kupecheskaia Moskva: Obrazy ushedshei rossiiskoi burzhuazii) was published in 2007 (Moscow: ROSSPEN). She is an associate editor of Russian Review and serves on the editorial boards of Losevskie chteniia and Region.
Gary Guadagnolo is a PhD student in the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently working on his dissertation, an urban history of Kazan that explores interactions between Russians and Tatars in the early Soviet era. He has received several grants to conduct archival research in both Russia and America and has also helped to edit a Tatar-Russian-English textbook and phrasebook published in Kazan in 2012. His research interests include Islam and minority nationalities in Russia, Soviet subjectivities, and spatial history.
Tuulikki Kurki is a Senior Researcher in Cultural Studies at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. Her research interests are Finnish language literature in Russian Karelia, amateur writers and ethnographers in Finland, and literature in national borderlands. On these themes Kurki has published over 30 articles, one monograph, and several edited volumes. Her doctoral dissertation in 2002 received the Kalevala-award from the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Since 2003, Kurki has had two individual research projects (2003–07) and one international research project (2010–13) funded by the Academy of Finland. The individual research projects discussed Finnish language literature in the former Soviet Karelia and in the contemporary Republic of Karelia in Russia. The international research project “Writing Cultures and Traditions at Borders”, done jointly between the universities of Eastern Finland and Tartu, focuses on amateur and professional writers at the Finland-Russia and Estonia-Russia national borderlands. Her most recent publication...
