Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Andy Bruno is Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History (Cambridge University Press, 2016), articles in Kritika, Environmental History, Isis, and International Review of Social History, as well as chapters in several edited collections.
Kirstyn Hevey is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto in political science. Her research focuses on the former Soviet Union, democratic transitions, nationalism, and conflict. Hevey is interested in the ways in which political identities effect political and social change.
Kirill V. Istomin has been a senior researcher at the Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Science Center, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar, Russia) since 2012. Earlier he spent seven years working as a senior researcher in the Siberian Studies Center, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany). His sphere of scientific interests includes ecology, techniques of traditional reindeer herding, and cognitive anthropology, particularly the study of the specific cognitive skills of reindeer-herding nomads. However, Istomin has also published extensively on the history of reindeer-herding groups and their complicated relations to the larger society. The results of his research have been published in such leading international journals as Current Anthropology, Human Ecology, Polar Research, and others.
Hye-Jin Kim is a Humanities Korea research professor at the Institute of Russian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea). She is the author of numerous journal articles and books, including Minjokui mosaic Eurasia (Eurasia, the Mosaic of Nationalities), Russiaui minjok: Bukseobu & Volga-Ural pyeon (Nationalities of Russia: A Special Focus on the Northwest & Ural-Volga Regions), “Russia guekji tochak sosuminjokui somyeol wigie daehan gochal” (A Study on the Endangered Indigenous Peoples in the Russian Artic Regions), and “Hanguk geoju Goryeoin chungyeoncheungui minjokjungchesung byunhwa” (Changes of Ethnic Identity of Young Russian-Koreans in South Korea). Her research interests include various ethnic groups of Russia and Eurasian countries and their culture. [End Page 317]
Yulia Krylova holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from George Mason University. She is currently affiliated with the Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Corruption Center at George Mason University. Her research interests include authoritarianism, anticorruption policies, and social movements in Russia and other post-Soviet states.
László Kürti is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1989) with extensive fieldwork experiences in Hungary, Romania, and the USA. He taught at The American University in Washington, DC, and the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest, and is presently a professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Miskolc, Hungary. His English-language books include The Remote Borderland (2001), Youth and the State in Hungary (2002), and he has served as coeditor for Beyond Borders (1996), Working Images (2004), Post-Socialist Europe (2009), Every Day’s a Festival: Diversity on Show (2011). From 2001 to 2006 he was secretary of the European Association of Social Anthropologists; currently he serves on the international editorial board of Visual Studies, Urbanities, AnthroVision and Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
Colum Leckey teaches history at Piedmont Virginia Community College. He is the author of Patrons of Enlightenment: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia (University of Delaware Press, 2011), as well as articles and book chapters on Russian cultural and economic history. He is currently researching the Pugachev rebellion in Orenburg province with special focus on the participation of the region’s ethnic minorities.
Alexandr A. Popov is a senior professor of the Chair of Statehood and Law at the Komi Republican Academy of State Service (Syktyvkar, Russia) as well as the chief secretary responsible for international cooperation and coordination at the Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Science Center, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar, Russia). He obtained his Candidate of Sciences degree (the Russian equivalent to a Ph.D.) in 1985 from Leningrad State University (now St. Petersburg State University) and his Doctor of Sciences degree (the next degree after Ph.D. in Russia) in...
