Maria Cristina Galmarini-Kabala is Assistant Professor of History and Global Studies at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of scholarly articles published in the journals The Russian Review, European History Quarterly, and Historical Research. Her book, The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016), explores notions of rights and practices of welfare for marginalized citizens in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1950.

Irina Gigova is Associate Professor of modern history at the College of Charleston, SC. She has published articles on Bulgarian and east European history, most recently in The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700, edited by Irina Livezeanu and Arpad von Klimo (2017). Her book manuscript, Crossroads: A Generation of Writers in Modern Bulgaria's History, uses literati to explore broad processes of state-building, political transition, and culture (high and low) in the modern age.

Ingrid Kleespies is Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida. She has written on travel, nomadism, and Russian mythologies of the frontier. She is the author of A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature. She is currently working on two book manuscripts, Bounding the Russian Frontier: Mythologies of Space and Identity in Narratives of Russian National Expansion and The Necessary Man: Tracing the Long Shadow of Chaadaev in Russian Literature.

Boris Noordenbos is a researcher and lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His expertise is in post-Soviet literature and film, cultural memory, as well as nostalgia and conspiracy theories. His recent and forthcoming publications include the monograph Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity (Palgrave, 2016), and the edited volume Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Confronting the Empire's Legacies (Routledge, 2018).

Luke Parker is Assistant Professor of Russian at Colby College. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has previously published in the Russian Review and Times Literary Supplement. His book manuscript treats the relation of Vladimir Nabokov and other interwar Russian émigré writers to film and the international cinema industry.

Ivan Sablin leads the Research Group “Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China, and Mongolia, 1905–2005” at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is the author of Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924: Buddhism, Socialism and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building (London, 2016) and other works on the history of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

Daniel Sukhan graduated from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, where he also worked as Research Assistant on the Project “Applied GIS in Humanities.” He focuses on the history of the Russian Far East in his research.