Florian Bieber is Professor for Southeast European History and Politics and Directors of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair in the Europeanization of Southeastern Europe. He recently published The Rise of Authoritarianism in the Western Balkans (Palgrave 2020) and Debating Nationalism: The Global Spread of Nations (Bloomsbury 2020). He is currently working on a history of the Dalmatian island of Hvar.
Kate Brown is Professor of History in the Science, Technology and Society Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of the prize-winning histories Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford, 2013) and A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (Harvard, 2004). Brown was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work has also been supported by the Carnegie Foundation, the NEH, ACLS, IREX, and the American Academy of Berlin, among others. Her latest book, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, was published March 2019 by Norton (US), Penguin Lane (UK), and Czarne (Poland). In 2020, it will be translated into Ukrainian, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian, French, Spanish, and Korean.
Christopher Burton is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. He is co-editor, with Fran Bernstein and Dan Healey, of Soviet Medicine: Culture, History and Practice, and researches the Soviet science of environmental health with an emphasis on air and water pollution.
Choi Chatterjee is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the author of Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture, and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910–1939 (Pittsburgh, 2002), and co-editor of Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present (Routledge, 2013), Everyday Life in Russia: Past and Present (Indiana, 2015), and The Global Impacts of Russia’s Great War and Revolution: The Wider Arc of Revolution, vol. 1 and 2 (Slavica, 2019).
Stephen Crowley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics at Oberlin College. Among other publications, he is the author of Stability Amid Stagnation: The Politics of Labor and Deindustrialization in Putin's Russia (Cornell University Press, forthcoming).
Paul Josephson teaches history at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and is affiliated with MIFI and Tomsk State University. He has just completed a history of big technology in contemporary Russia.
J. Paul Goode is Associate Professor of Russian Politics, Convener of the research group on Nationalism, Populism, and Radicalism at the University of Bath, incoming Editor-in-Chief of Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Associate Editor of Nationalities Papers. He is the author of The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia (Routledge, 2011) and has published research in journals including Post-Soviet Affairs, Russian Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nationalities Papers, Social Science Quarterly, Problems of Post-Communism, Perspectives on Politics, and Europe-Asia Studies.
Olga Kuchinskaya is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl (MIT, 2014). Her research focuses on issues of the production of ignorance, lay knowledge production practices, and knowledge infrastructures.
Marlene Laruelle is Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. Dr. Laruelle is also a Co-Director of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia). She received her PhD in history at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO) and her post-doctoral degree in political science at Sciences-Po in Paris. She recently authored Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields (Routledge, 2018).
Laurence H. Miller is professor emeritus in the Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current area of research is the history and description of the collections of that library. From 1975 to 1989 and from 1997 to the present he has edited the annual reference book section in the Slavic Review.
Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. His interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of eastern Europe and the political and cultural history of the Cold War. His latest book is Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (OUP, 2019).
Aneta Strzemżalska is an associate researcher and a PhD candidate at the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia, where she expects to receive her PhD in cultural anthropology. Her dissertation is titled: “Mugham, Jazz, Meykhana: Musical Nationalism in Contemporary Azerbaijan.” She is also a guest lecturer at the University of Warsaw and a regular contributor to Nowa Europa Wschodnia, a bimonthly news journal that focuses on central/east European affairs.
