Contributors to This Issue
Daniel Brower is Professor of History at the University of California-Davis. His most recent work is the volume co-edited with Edward Lazzerini, Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917 (1997). He has just completed a study, "Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire," that traces the history of Russian colonialism in Turkestan from conquest until the 1917 revolution.
Sara Dickinson, an assistant professor of Slavic literature at Ohio State University, specializes in Russian literary and cultural studies, travel writing, and Orientalism. Her recent work includes a forthcoming book on Russian travel writing and cultural identity, as well as several articles, including "Four Writers and a Waterfall: Questions of Genre in Russian Travel Writing about Western Europe, 1791-1825" (Germano-Slavica, 1999); "The Russian Tour of Europe Before Fonvizin: Travel Writing as Literary Endeavor in Eighteenth-Century Russia" (Slavic and East European Journal, 2001); and "Representing Moscow in 1812: Sentimentalist Echoes in Accounts of the Napoleonic Occupation" (forthcoming in Moscow and Petersburg, 2002). Topics of her current research include Pushkin and Russian Orientalism, and class, taste, and material culture in Russian literature and thought.
Rafaella Faggionato is a researcher in Russian language and literature at the Department of Languages and Cultures of Eastern Europe, University of Udine (Italy). She is the author of several works on the history of Russian Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism. Her current research concerns the history of ideas at the time of Alexander I, in particular the history of the Russian Bible Society and the links between literature and Rosicrucian and Masonic ideologies.
Aleksandr Il'ich Filiushkin holds the degree of candidate of historical sciences and is Docent in the Department of Russian History at Voronezh State University, Russia. He is author of Istoriia odnoi mistifikatsii: Ivan Groznyi i Izbrannaia Rada (1998). His main research interests concern the methodological problems of investigating Russian medieval narrative, the hermeneutics of Russian medieval literature, and discourses of power in medieval Russia.
Austin Jersild is Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University and the author of Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917 (forthcoming in 2002).
Neli Melkadze is Chief Librarian at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia in Tbilisi, and Lecturer at Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State.
Serhy Yekelchyk, who received his Ph.D. from the University of
Alberta, is Assistant Professor of History and Slavonic Studies at the
University of Victoria (Canada). He has just completed a book manuscript
entitled "Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in
Soviet Historical Imagination."
