List of Contributors

501 Ab Imperio, 4/2005 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Sergei ABASHIN, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. abashin@iea.ras.ru Darima AMOGOLONOVA, Associate Professor, Institute of Mongol, Buddhist, and Tibet Studies of the Siberian Branch of the RussianAcademy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Russia. amog@inbox.ru Karen BARKEY,Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, USA. kb7@columbia.edu Natalia BAYER, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA. bayer@rice.edu Alain BLUM, Director, Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen, EHESS; Editor, Cahiers du Monde Russe, Paris, France. blum@ehess.fr L. Carl BROWN, Garrett Professor in ForeignAffairs Emeritus, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. lcbrown@princeton.edu Elke FEIN, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Freiburg University, Germany. Elke. fein@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de Iaroslav GOLOVIN, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy and Political Sciences, Moscow State Open University, Moscow, Russia. yarosgolo@mail.ru Michael GORHAM, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. mgorham@germslav.ufl.edu 502 List of Contributors Orysya HACHKO, M.A. in Women’s Studies and Religion, Drew University , Madison, NJ, USA. ohachko@hotmail.com Mark von HAGEN, Professor of Russian, Ukranian, and Eurasian History, Columbia University, New York, USA. mlv2@columbia.edu Alisher IL’KHAMOV, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Research Associate, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, UK. ailkhamov@yahoo.com Marianne KAMP, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wyoming, Larame, WY, USA. mkamp@uwyo.edu Christopher KAPLONSKI, ResearchAssociate, Mongolia and InnerAsia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge, UK;Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, USA. Danzan@ChrisKaplonski.com John KEEP, Professor of Russian Studies Emeritus, University of Toronto , Canada, now independent scholar, Bern, Switzerland. johnkeep@ bluemail.ch Adeeb KHALID, Associate Professor of History, Chair of History Department , Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA. akhalid@carleton.edu Ekaterina KHODZHAEVA, Senior Research Fellow, Research Laboratory of Sociology of Culture, Department of Sociology, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia. sparta@online.kzn.ru Nikita KHRAPUNOV, Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ukrainian NationalAcademy of Sciences, Crimean Branch, Simferopol, Ukraine. khrapunovn@mail.ru Charles C. KOLB, Ph.D., Senior Program Officer/Humanities Administrator , National Endowment for the Humanities, Independent Scholar, Washington, DC, USA. ckolb@neh.gov Maria KRISAN’, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. maria-krisan@ yandex.ru Ilya KUKSIN, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Independent Scholar, Chicago, Illinois, USA. kuksin@sbcglobal.net Gaëlle LACAZE,Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnology, University of Strasbourg, France. gaelle.lacaze@umb.u-strasbg.fr 503 Ab Imperio, 4/2005 Marlene LARUELLE, Research Fellow, the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, USA. marlenelaruelle @yahoo.com Guzel MAKAROVA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Law and Socio-Economic Sciences, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russia. makarova_guzel@mail.ru Igor’ MARTYNYUK, Associate Editor, Ab Imperio; Doctoral candidate, History Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. igor. martynyuk@abimperio.net Viacheslav MEN’KOVSKII, Professor of Russian History, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus. menkovski@bsu.by Marina MOGILNER, Ph.D., Editor of Ab Imperio (Russia and NIS), Kazan State University, Russia. marina@abimperio.net Vyacheslav MOROZOV,Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. vemail@mail.ru Andrea ORZOFF, Assistant Professor, History Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA. aorzoff@nmsu.edu Serguei OUSHAKINE, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. sao15@columbia.edu Tatiana SKRYNNIKOVA, Professor, Institute of Mongol, Buddhist, and Tibet Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Russia. skryta999@mail.ru Nonna SMELOVA, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rubtsovsk Industrial Institute, Rubtsovsk, Russia. martin1956@mail.ru Ivan SOKOLOVSKII, Candidate of Sciences in History, Research Fellow, Institute of History, Literary Studies, and Philosophy, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk , Russia. sokolowski@yandex.ru Pavel STEFANOV,Archimandrite,Associate Professor, Shoumen University , Shoumen, Bulgaria. pavel_stefanov@hotmail.com Sylvie THÉNAULT, Research Fellow, Institute of...