Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Johanna Conterio, a Wellcome Trust–funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London, specializes in the history of modern Russia. She studies environmental health and the environmental history of the Soviet Union, with a focus on the “subtropical” South and the Black Sea. Her current research project is a history of the culture and practice of turning to nature for health in the Soviet Union, told through the prism of the medical research and practice, urban planning, and landscapes of the health resort Sochi.
Michael Denner, Editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal, directs the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
Faith Hillis is Assistant Professor of Russian History at the University of Chicago. Her Children of Rus´: Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation was published in 2013. She is currently writing a history of Russian émigré communities in 19th-century Europe: Europe’s Russian Colonies: Culture, Community, and Politics across Borders, 1830–1917.
John-Paul Himka is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. He co-edited, with Joanna Michlic, Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe (2013) and co-wrote, with Liliya Berezhnaya, The World to Come: Ukrainian Images of the Last Judgment (2015). He is currently writing a monograph on Ukrainian nationalists and the Holocaust while co-editing, with Franz A. J. Szabo, a volume on Eastern Christians in the Habsburg Empire.
Georgiy Kasianov heads the Department of Contemporary History and Politics, Institute of the History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His publications include Danse macabre: Golod 1932–1933 rokiv u polititsi, masovii svidomosti ta istoriografii (1980-ti–pochatok 2000-kh) (Dance macabre: The Great Famine of 1932–33 in Politics, Public Awareness, [End Page 227] and Historiography [1980s–2000s] [2010]); and, with Alexei Miller, Rossiia–Ukraina: Kak pishetsia istoriia (Russia–Ukraine: How History Is Being Written [2012]). His current research project is History by Request: Historical Politics in Ukraine and the Post-Soviet Space (1980s–2000s).
Mikhail A. Kiselev is Researcher in the Laboratory for the Study of Primary Sources, Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg), and the Institute of History and Archeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS, Ekaterinburg). His recent research projects include “Return to Europe: The Russian Elite and European Innovations, Norms, and Models (from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries)” (Ural Federal University); and “Boundaries and Markers of Social Stratification in Russia in the 17th–20th Centuries” (Institute of History and Archeology, Ural Branch, RAS).
Alexei Miller is Professor at the European University in St. Petersburg and Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. He is the author of The Ukrainian Question in the Russian Empire (2nd ed., 2013; English ed., 2003) and the editor, with Stefan Berger, of Nationalizing Empires (forthcoming).
Randall A. Poole is Professor of History at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. He has translated and edited Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (2003) and edited, with G. M. Hamburg, A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830–1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (2010). In addition, he has written numerous articles and book chapters on Russian intellectual history and philosophy.
William Jay Risch, Associate Professor of History at Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA, is the author of The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv (2011) and the editor of Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc: Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe (2015). He is currently writing a book on his experiences during the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine.
Danielle Ross, Assistant Professor of Asian History at Utah State University, is currently completing a monograph on Muslim clerical families and networks in imperial Russia.
