USA
Faith Hillis
e-mail:
Faith.hillis@gmail.com
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago
PhD:
Yale University, Department of History, 2009
Research interests:
Empire, nationalism, political culture
Ukraine in late 19th - early 20th centuries
Current research project:
The politics of nationalism and the political right in late imperial Kiev
Nancy P. Condee
e-mail:
condee@pitt.edu
Current position:
Associate Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Pittsburgh
PhD:
Slavic, Yale 1980
Research interests:
Contemporary Russian culture and cultural politics,
late Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; imperial and postcolonial theory;
Selected publications:
The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema. Oxford University Press, 2009
Current research project:
Post-Soviet noir
David Rainbow
e-mail:
der3@nyu.edu
Current position:
PhD student, New York University
Research interests:
Russian Empire; Siberia
Current research project:
Siberian Regionalism
Nadieszda Kizenko
e-mail:
kizenko@albany.edu
Current position:
Associate Professor, Department of History
University at Albany
PhD:
PhD
Research interests:
Russia; Ukraine; Orthodox Christianity; Russian Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodox Christianity; confession; religion in Russian culture
Bram Mikhail Caplan
e-mail:
caplanb@georgetown.edu
Current position:
PhD candidate
Smolny College of Liberal Arts, St.Petersburg
Research interests:
Comparative Politics, Russian Politics, The State
Peter Blitstein
e-mail:
peter.a.blitstein@lawrence.edu
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History
Lawrence University
PhD:
PhD, History
Research interests:
Soviet nationalities policy
Melanie Bush
e-mail:
Melanie.e.l.bush@gmail.com
Current position:
Assistant Professor
PhD:
PhD in Anthropology, 2002
Research interests:
Nationalism, US, Race/Ethnicity, inequality, social movements
Selected publications:
Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness;
variety of journal articles and book chapters
Current research project:
Tensions in the American Dream
James Caron
e-mail:
jcaron@sas.upenn.edu
Current position:
Doctoral candidate, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests:
social and cultural history; Pashto; oral literature
Selected publications:
2007. “Afghanistan Historiography and Pashtun Islam: Modernization Theory's Afterimage,” History Compass, 5/2, 314–329
2004. “Three Posters: Negotiating Time/History and Community in Pakistani Sufi-Oriented Lithograph Portraits.” Pakistan Studies News VIII (13:1)
Current research project:
Social roots of Pashtun nationalism in Afghanistan – patriarchy, state rule, and oppositional public spheres under absolute monarchy (1929-1964)
Natasha Margulis
e-mail:
nrm15@pitt.edu
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
PhD:
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Research interests:
East European and Balkan History, the Habsburg Empire;
the Holocaust, Contemporary Nationalism and National Identity
Davies Brian
e-mail:
brian.davies@utsa.edu
Current position:
Assoc. Prof., History, University of Texas at San Antonio
PhD:
PhD, University of Chicago, 1983
Research interests:
16-18 cc. Russia, Ukraine, Crimean Khanate and Ottoman Empire
Selected publications:
State Power and Community in Early Modern Russia: The Case of Kozlov, 1635-1649 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004)
Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700 (Routledge, 2007)
Current research project:
Empire and Military Revolution in Eastern Europe: Russia’s Turkish Wars in the Eighteenth Century (book)
