Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Maria Bucur is the John W. Hill Professor of East European history at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in 1996. Her teaching and research focus on the recent history of Eastern Europe, with a focus on Romania and gender, and thematically ranging from questions of war and memory to the history of eugenics, as well as gender and citizenship under communism. Her recent publications include Heroes and Victims: Remembering Romania’s Wars in the Twentieth Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), “Eugenics and Colonialism in Eastern Europe,” in Philippa Levine and Alison Bashford, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), and “An Archipelago of Stories: Gender History in Eastern Europe,” in The American Historical Review (2008). She is finishing up a book manuscript entitled “The Birth of Democratic Citizenship: Women and Everyday Life in Socialist and Post-Socialist Romania.”
Kelly A. Kolar is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches history and archival science courses as part of the graduate public history program. She received her Ph.D. in History in 2012 and a Master of Library and Information Science in 2004, both from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research is in Soviet history with an emphasis on information institutions. Her current research investigates the development of the Soviet archival system in the first fifteen years of Bolshevik rule. Her published works include the chapter, “Russian Archives and Libraries: Their Development Since the Introduction of Technology,” in Ravi Sharma, ed., Technology and Libraries in the Twenty First Century: An International Perspective (Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2012).
Brandon Gray Miller is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the William P. Clements Department of History at Southern Methodist University. His research focuses on postwar life in the Soviet Union with a particular interest in consumption and the transformation of labor and working-class identities. His dissertation, “Between Creation and Crisis: Soviet Masculinities, Consumption, and Bodies after Stalin,” investigated the relationship between material consumption and understandings of Soviet masculinity in the 1950s and 1960s and argues that the state’s consumptive policies acted as a means of modernizing Soviet men and their practices. [End Page 137]
Benjamin Warren Sawyer is Lecturer in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University and Book Review Editor for REGION. His work focuses on the history of economic systems, with a particular emphasis on the histories of capitalism and communism in the twentieth century and the Soviet experiment. His current research examines migration from North America to the Soviet Union during the years of the New Economic Policy (NEP—1921–27).
Elena Shadrina graduated from Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law, KSAEL (Russia). She defended her dissertation of Candidate of Sciences in Economics, entitled “Evolution of Russian Foreign Trade Policy during the Transition Period,” in 1999. She was an Associate Professor in international economic relations at KSAEL until 2005. She worked at the Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (Japan) as a research assistant from 2006–9. She completed her Ph.D. in Economics with her doctoral thesis “Energy Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Insight into Impact on Region Formation” from Niigata University in Japan in 2009, after which she became a visiting researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies from 2009–10. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Meiji University Graduate School of Governance Studies in Tokyo, where she has been since 2011. Her major research interests include energy (oil and gas) governance, energy policy transition (in Russia, Japan, China, South Korea), and Russian energy policy towards Northeast Asia. Among her recent publications are: “Russia’s Natural Gas Policy toward Northeast Asia: Rationales, Objectives and Institutions,” in Energy Policy (2014); “Russia’s Dilemmas about China’s Gas Market,” in The Northeast Asian Economic Review (2014); “Russia’s Energy Governance Transitions and Implications for Enhanced Cooperation with China, Japan, and South Korea,” in Post Soviet Affairs (2013, co-authored with Michael Bradshaw); “The Fukushima Fallout: Gauging the Change in Japanese Nuclear Energy Policy,” in...
