Mikhail Avrekh received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale, with a dissertation on the sentimentalist and early realist novel in France and Russia between 1790 and 1840. He is currently working on a book manuscript on statistics, governance, and emotions.
Stephen H. Blackwell teaches Russian Literature at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Zina’s Paradox: The Figured Reader in Nabokov’s “Gift” (New York, 2000), The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science (Columbus, OH, 2009), and many articles on Nabokov. He is most recently co-editor, with Kurt Johnson, of Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art (New Haven, 2016).
Jacek Frąś is a Polish comic book artist, illustrator and drummer. His style combines realism and surrealism with the cartoon, and includes traditional and digital media. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and also studied at the Arts Academy in Cracow. Frąś’s work has won several awards, most notably the French Alph-Art Award nad Grand Prix at the International Festival of Comics in Łódź, Poland.
Maria Ivanova is Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia. She earned her PhD in history of philosophy from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (2012). Dr. Ivanova’s current research interests focus on medieval and early modern Slavic philosophy and intellectual history, with a particular emphasis on the art of dissimulation. She has also published on twentieth century Russian literature, philosophy, and the dissident movement.
Yanni Kotsonis is Professor of History and Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and NYU, which he has chaired. He is founding director (emeritus) of the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. His most recent book weighs 1.4 pounds, contains 168,200 words (and is titled States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and the Early Soviet Republic [Toronto, 2014]).
Megan MacDuffee Metzger is a PhD candidate in Political Science at New York University. Her primary areas of interest are in political behavior in general and protest in particular, especially in hybrid regimes and transitioning democracies. Her work focuses especially on the role that social media plays in the mobilization of protest, how people use social media during protest, and how social scientists can use social media data to enhance our understanding of political behavior.
Andrei Markevich is a full professor at the New Economic School in Moscow. He specializes in Russian economic history, with a focus on institutional aspects of economic development of the Russian empire and the former Soviet Union. He has published articles in Journal of Economic History, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Kritika. His paper on Russian national income in 1913–1928 was awarded the Russian National prize in economics in 2011. He received his PhD from the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Science in 2002. He was a Marie Curie Research fellow at the University of Warwick in 2005–2007 and a national fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University in 2014–2015.
Steven Nafziger is an Associate Professor of Economics and Faculty Affiliate in History at Williams College. He is the author, most recently, of “Communal Property Rights and Land Redistributions in Late Tsarist Russia,” Economic History Review 69.3 (2016), and, with Andrei Markevich, “State and Market in Russian Industrialization,” in Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson, eds., The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery (forthcoming, 2017).
Peter Pastor is professor emeritus of history at Montclair State University, New Jersey. His special interest is the history of diplomatic and military relations between Hungary and Russia/USSR. He is the author of numerous articles, a monograph, and editor or coeditor of several books, including the 2012 publication, Essays on World War I (with Graydon A. Tunstall).
Kenneth M. Pinnow is Professor of History & Global Health Studies at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. He is the author of Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921–1929 (Cornell University Press, 2010). His current project explores the history of medical ethics and experimentation in the Soviet Union.
Olga Shevchenko is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College in Massachusetts. She is the author of Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow (2009, Indiana University Press), and the editor of Double Exposure: Memory and Photography (2014, Transaction Publishers), as well as a number of articles on post-Soviet political culture, consumption, memory and photography.
David Shneer is the Louis P. Singer Chair of Jewish History and Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author, most recently, of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust (2011) and co-editor-in-chief of the journal East European Jewish Affairs.
Ewa Stańczyk is Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on collective memory and national identity in east/central Europe. Her other interests include visual studies, comic books and photography, in particular, and the ways in which these media are used in the cultural constructions of past.
Alessandro Stanziani is full professor at the EHESS-PSL (École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales-Paris Sciences et Lettres) where he teaches global history and is senior researcher at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Paris. He has published seven monograks, twelve edited books and 120 articles in peer reviewed publications. Among his books are L’économie en révolution, le cas russe, 1870–1914 (Paris, 1998); Rules of Exchange. French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 2012); Bondage, Labor and Rights in Eurasia, 17th-20th Centuries (Berghahn, 2014), and After Oriental Despotism. Russian Growth in Global Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Joshua A. Tucker is Professor of Politics and an affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Data Science at New York University. He is the Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, a co-Director of the NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) lab, and a co-author of The Monkey Cage blog at The Washington Post. His latest book, Communism’s Shadow, co-authored with Grigore Pop-Eleches, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2017.
Michelle R. Viise is the Monographs Editor at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She obtained a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley (2006), and has published on the rhetoric of proclamations in the nineteenth century. She specializes in memory and printing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Poland-Lithuania and is currently working on a publication describing the relationship between memory images and prophecy in early modern Slavo-Byzantine Orthodox culture.
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya is the Associate Chair of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and is full professor (Directrice d’etudes) at E.H.E.S.S. in Paris. She is a laureate of the International Leontief Medal in 2010. She published extensively in leading economics and political science journals, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Political Science Review, and the American Journal of Political Science.
