Trevor Erlacher is a historian based in Pittsburgh, PA. He completed his PhD in Russian and East European History at UNC Chapel Hill in 2017 and is the author of Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography … Read more
Dr. Diana Dumitru has authored over forty articles and two books. Her second book, "The State, Antisemitism and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union," was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Currently, Dr. Dumitru … Read more
Emily Greble is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include Islam in Europe, the transition from empire to nation-state, civil conflict, and local responses to socialism. Greble’s first book, Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in … Read more
Elena Trubina is a professor of social theory and philosophy at the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where she also directs the Center for Global Urbanism. Her book Gorod v teorii took issue with the Eurocentrism of urban theories … Read more
Matt McGarry is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the UNC Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. His research focuses on the problem of realism in history and literature in Russian prose and poetry. Building on the work of … Read more
On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade and creating a political crisis that shook the world. To many observers, the Soviet invasion showed the lengths to which one of … Read more
Dr. Stephen Riegg is an associate professor of history at the Texas A&M University. His research and teaching interests revolve around the histories of Modern Europe, Imperial Russia, and the Caucasus. His award-winning book, Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and … Read more
Eren Tasar is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia (OUP, 2017). The seminar series is co-sponsored by … Read more
Alexey Golubev is an associate professor of Russian history and digital humanities at the University of Houston. His research interests lie in understanding the historical experience of 20th-century Russia and other socialist and post-socialist societies in the context of global … Read more
Cynthia Paces is a professor of modern European history at the College of New Jersey. She is the author of Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred Space in the Twentieth Century (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), where she investigates the … Read more
