Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
John E. Fahey is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the United States Military Academy. He recently received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. His dissertation, "Bulwark of Empire: Civil-Military Relations in Przemyśl, Galicia (1867–1939)" was completed with grants from the Kosciusko Foundation and the Polish-US Fulbright CommitTee.
Kapitolina Fedorova graduated from St. Petersburg State University (Department of Philology) and European University at St. Petersburg (Department of Anthropology). She obtained her Candidate of Sciences in Philology degree from St. Petersburg State University in 2002 for her dissertation dealing with linguistic strategies used by Russian native speakers when communicating with foreigners. She teaches sociolinguistics at the Department of Anthropology, European University at St. Petersburg. Her research interests include language contacts, border studies, interethnic communication, ethnic and linguistic stereotypes, sociolinguistics of schooling, speech practices in historical perspective, and register studies. She has conducted several field researches in border areas of Russia supported by the German Research Society, the Russian Foundation for Humanities, and the Academy of Finland. She is an editor and principal author of the book Iazyk, obshchestvo i shkola, published in 2012 by Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie and over 30 articles and book chapters in both Russian and English.
Kristina Khutsishvili is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Rights and Global Politics at DIRPOLIS Institute (Institute of Law, Politics and Development), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. Her dissertation is dedicated to an exploration of contemporary Russian identity from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special reference to the corpus of political philosophy. Other research interests include multilingualism in politics, political language, and peace and conflict issues in the post-Soviet space. She is a former political and economic journalist in Moscow, the author of several books published in the Russian language, the recipient of a scholarship from the Swedish Institute (2015–16), and a Friedrich Ebert Foundation Egon Bahr fellow (2015).
Andrey Makarychev is Visiting Professor at Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science, University of Tartu. He is also guest Professor at the Center for Global Politics, Free University in Berlin and Senior Associate with the think tank CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). His previous institutional [End Page 153] affiliations included George Mason University (USA), Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research (ETH Zurich), and the Danish Institute of International Studies. He teaches courses on "Globalization," "Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eurasia," "EU-Russia Relations," "Regionalism and Integration in the Post-Soviet Area," and "Media in Russia." In recent years he has coauthored two monographs—Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (2016), and Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political (2017). He has coedited (all with Alexandra Yatsyk) a number of academic volumes—Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlands of Inclusion and Exclusion (2016), Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine (2017), and Borders in the Baltic Sea Region: Suturing the Ruptures (2017).
Harry Merritt is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Brown University, studying modern Europe. His research interests include nationalism, collective identity, interethnic relations, and the impact of war on society. He is currently writing a dissertation on Latvian soldiers serving in the German and Soviet armed forces during World War II.
Matthew D. Pauly is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. He has received numerous external fellowships and grants, including a 2016–17 US Scholar Fulbright grant for research on a book project entitled "City of Children: Juvenile Poverty, Crime, and Salvation in Odessa." He is the author of Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923–34 (2014) as well as articles and essays on early Soviet nationalities policy and the intersection between national identity, education, and childhood in late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.
Elena Shadrina holds a Ph.D. in Economics. She is an associate professor at the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University (Tokyo), where she is lecturing on Comparative Economic Systems and Russian Economic Studies. Her most recent research interests include energy governance with application of...
