Andy Bruno is Associate 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: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Isis, The International Review of Social History, Environmental History, and REGION, as well as chapters in several edited volumes. Currently, he is writing a book on the history of the Tunguska explosion of 1908.
Johanna Conterio is Lecturer in International and Modern European History at Flinders University. Her research focuses on the environmental history of the Soviet Union, with a geographical focus on the Soviet south and the Black Sea region. She has recently published “‘Our Black Sea Coast’: The Sovietization of the Black Sea Littoral under Khrushchev and the Problem of Overdevelopment” in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (Spring 2018). Her current research project is an urban environmental history of the health resort Sochi, covering the entire Soviet period.
Diana Georgescu is Assistant Professor of Transnational Southeast European Studies at University College London. She is currently working on two book projects: a generational history of socialist childhood and citizenship in Ceaușescu's Romania tentatively entitled ‘Ceaușescu's Children:’ The Making and Unmaking of Romania's Last Socialist Generation (1965–2010), and a research project on international youth exchanges as practices of socialist internationalism during the late Cold War.
Tuomas Laine-Frigren is a postdoctoral researcher in general history at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His PhD thesis, Searching for the Human Factor (2016), dealt with psychology, politics, and social planning in post-Stalinist Hungary. His latest publication is the edited volume Encountering Crises of the Mind: Madness, Culture and Society 1200s-1900s (Brill, 2018). Currently, he is working on a research project entitled Vanquished as Victims: Post-War Victimization Discourses and their Uses in the European Loser States of the Second World War. His other research interests are history of childhood, history of child psychiatry, and disability history.
Inna Leykin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. She studies the interactions between the cultures of intellectual expertise and policymaking, democratic transformations in postsocialist countries, and emerging practices of the self in contemporary Russia. Her research explores how post-Soviet demographic reality came to be conceived as a dramatic national problem and as an object of government intervention and popular concern.
Kirill Ospovat is Assistant Professor in the Slavic Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He defended his PhD in Russian literature at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in 2005, and has since occupied teaching and research positions in Russia, Europe, and the US. In 2016, he published a study of eighteenth-century Russian tragedy, Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia.
Douglas Rogers is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals (Ithaca, 2009) and The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism (Ithaca, 2015). His current research concerns the history and contemporary practice of hydrocarbon biotechnology and petroleum microbiology, as well as global debates about the origins of oil.
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is a Reader at King's College London. She is an author of Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism Inside Russia (Notre Dame University Press, 2010), an editor of Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985 (Lexington Press, 2012), and author of many articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests focus on Russian regional and national politics, the political economy, and political psychology.
