Jamie Blake is a PhD Candidate in Musicology. Her dissertation, “Architects of Russian America: Musical Networks in the Early Twentieth Century,” focuses on early Russian émigrés and visiting artists in the United States, the transnational and international networks they developed, … Read more
Eugene M. Avrutin is Professor of Modern Jewish history and the Tobor family scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author and co-editor of seven books, including Jews and the … Read more
Nurlan Kabdylkhak is a PhD student in the UNC-CH Department of History. His research interests include religion, politics, and nationalism in late Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and contemporary Central Asia. He has an MA in Political Science from the OSCE … Read more
Donald J. Raleigh is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at UNC Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests focus on twentieth-century Russian history. As a political and social historian, he has published extensively on the Russian Revolution, with a … Read more
Professor Michel Abesser of the University of Freiburg will present his paper Imperial Cities Merging: Rostov and Nakhichevan as a Multiethnic Metropole on the Russian Empire’s Periphery. To join, please use Zoom link. The Carolina Seminar: Russia and Its Empires, … Read more
Dr. Maya Peterson is an associate professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Her research stands at the intersection of environmental history and imperial history. Peterson explores the inner workings of empires and how they function by focusing on how … Read more
Andrei Tcacenco received his PhD in History from the University of California Santa Cruz in September 2020. Andrei is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Russian Studies at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. His research interests include … Read more
Jeff Jones is an associate professor of Russian-Soviet and contemporary world history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His book, Everyday Life and the ‘Reconstruction’ of Soviet Russia During and After the Great Patriotic War, 1943-1948, was published … Read more
Kevin J. Hoeper is a PhD candidate in modern European history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on war, violence, and military culture in the Habsburg empire and its successor states. His ongoing dissertation … Read more
Karen Auerbach is associate professor of history and Stuart E. Eizenstat Fellow at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She researches Polish Jewish history in the 19th and 20th centuries, including issues relating … Read more
