List of Contributors

440 List of Contributors 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. s-abashin@mail.ru Anna AYDINYAN, Ph.D. Student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. anna.aydinyan@yale. edu Olivier BEAUD, Professor of Public Law, University of Paris 2 (PantheonAssas ), Paris, France. olivier.beaud@u-paris2.fr Seymour BECKER, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. seymourb@nyc.rr.com Adrienne Lynn EDGAR, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. edgar@history.ucsb.edu Andreas FRINGS, Dr. Phil., Research Fellow, Department of East European History, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. afrings@unimainz .de Sergei GLEBOV, Editor of Ab Imperio (USA and Canada), Assistant Professor, History Department, Smith College and Five Colleges, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. sglebov@smith.edu Charles J. HALPERIN, Ph.D.,Visiting Scholar, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. chalperi@indiana.edu Nikita KHRAPUNOV, Candidate of Sciences in History, Research Fellow, 441 Ab Imperio, 4/2009 Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ukrainian NationalAcademy of Sciences, Crimean Branch, Simferopol’, Ukraine. khrapunovn@mail.ru Valerie A. KIVELSON, Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. vkivelso@umich.edu Natalia KOVALCHUK, Candidate of Sciences in History, Head of theWorld History Chair, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine. nkovalchuk@ yahoo.com Nikolai KRADIN, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History, Archeology, and Ethnography of the Far-Eastern Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia. kradin@mail.ru Maria KRISAN’, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. maria-krisan@ yandex.ru Richard LIM, Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean, Greece and Rome, LateAntiquity, Department of History, Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA. rlim@smith.edu Munkh-Erdene LKHAMSUREN, Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. lmunkherdene@yahoo.com Sergei LIUBICHANKOVSKII, Doctor of Sciences in History, Leading Research Fellow, The Volga Region’s Branch of the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Orenburg, Russia. svlubich@ yandex.ru Wim van MEURS, Associate Professor of European History and Politics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. W.v.Meurs@let.ru.nl Noam PIANKO,Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. npianko@u. washington.edu Matthew P. ROMANIELLO,Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA. mpr@hawaii.edu Vladimir SAPON, Doctor of Sciences in History, Associate Professor, Chair of History of Political Parties and Social Movements, Department of International Relations, N. I. Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. vladimail2007@mail.ru Dmitry SHLAPENTOKH, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University in South Bend, IN, USA. dshlapen@Iusb.edu 442 List of Contributors 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 David SNEATH, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit and a Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. ds114@cam.ac.uk George STEINMETZ, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Germanic Language and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. geostein@ umich.edu Marina VITUHNOVSKAJA, Ph.D. in History, Researcher, Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Marina.Vituhnovskaja@saunalahti.fi Andrei ZAKHAROV, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Editor of the Journal Neprikosnovennyi Zapas; Associate Professor, Department of History, Political Science, and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. hazarov@gmail.com Anika WALKE, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. awalke@ucsc.edu ...