Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Richard Bidlack is Associate Professor of History at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is also co-founder and past chairman of the school’s Russian Area Studies Program. He has published several articles on the Leningrad blockade. Together with the Russian historian Nikita Lomagin, he has written a forthcoming book on the blockade for the Annals of Communism series.
Francis Butler, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of Enlightener of Rus′: The Image of Vladimir Sviatoslavich across the Centuries (2002) and numerous articles, mostly on medieval Slavic topics. His current interests include depictions of royal women in the Povest′ vremennykh let and connections between early East Slavic and Scandinavian written traditions.
Scott M. Kenworthy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Religion and an associate of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program at Miami University of Ohio. He has published several articles on the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in 19th- and 20th-century Russia. His monograph To Renounce the World: Reviving Monasticism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russia is forthcoming in 2010.
Alison K. Smith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. In 2008, she published Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars; and she has contributed articles on food and drink in imperial Russia to Environment and History, Slavic Review, and a forthcoming Handbook on Food History. She is currently working on a new research project investigating movement between legal social categories in 18th- and 19th-century Russia.
Vera Tolz is Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. She has published widely [End Page 412] on various aspects of Russian nationalism and the relationship between academics and political power in the early Soviet period. She is currently working on a project on Oriental Studies and Russian national identity in the 1870s–1920s. Her publications related to this project include “Orientalism, Nationalism, and Ethnic Diversity in Late Imperial Russia,” Historical Journal 48, 1 (2005): 127–50; and “European, National, and (Anti-)Imperial: The Formation of Academic Oriental Studies in Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Russia,” Kritika 9, 1 (2008): 53–81. [End Page 413]
