National Identity in Russia from 1961 : Traditions & Deterritorialisation
National Identity in Eurasia I : Identities & Traditions
22-24 March 2009
New College, University of Oxford
Conference Participants
Sergei Abashin is a Senior
Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow. He is the author of Nacionalizmy
v Sredney Azii: V poiskah
identichnosti
(St Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2007). His research interests are in colonial,
Soviet
and post-Soviet Central Asia, nations, nationalisms, ethnic identities, and
Muslim identity.
Gulnara Abikeyeva is a well-known
Kazakhstani film critic. She is the artistic
director
of the International Eurasia Film Festival and the author of five books on the
cinematography of Kazakhstan and Central Asia. In 1984 she graduated from the
Faculty of Film Criticism of VGIK, Moscow. In 1990 she defended her PhD thesis
at VGIK on the topic ‘Interaction of Western and Eastern Cultures in the World
Cinematographic Process.’ In 2001-2002 she was Fulbright Scholar at Bowdoin
College, USA. She is a member of FIPRESCI (International Federation of Cinema
Critics) and NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema). In 2001 her
book Cinematography of Central Asia received the ‘Belyi Slon’ prize
from the Guild of Cinema Experts and Critics of Russia. In 2007 her book Nation-Building
in Kazakhstan and other Central Asian States, and How This Process is Reflected
in Cinematography received the ‘Kulager’ prize from the Council of
Cinematographers of Kazakhstan for the best work on cinematography in that year.
Levon Abrahamian was
born in 1947 and educated at the Yerevan State University (Dept. Physics, M.Sc.,
1970). He received his Ph.D. degree in Cultural Anthropology in 1978 (Moscow,
Institute of Ethnography). Since 1978 he works at the Institute of Archaeology
and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, as a researcher,
presently heading the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies at the
same Institute. Since 1990 he teaches different courses of Anthropology at the
Yerevan State University, at the Departments of Anthropology, Theology, and
Cultural Studies. He has taught also at the University of Pittsburgh (1994),
University of California at Berkeley (William Saroyan Professor of Armenian
Studies, 1997), Columbia University (2001) and UCLA (2008). In 2006 was elected
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. His
research interests lie in the area of identity. He is the co-editor (with Nancy
Sweezy) of Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity (Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001) and the author of Armenian
Identity in a Changing World (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2006).
Emel Akcali is an Honorary Research Fellow (and from October 2008 Visiting Lecturer) at the Political
Science Department of Birmingham University. She received her PhD in February
2007 at the Institute of Geography, Paris IV, Sorbonne, France, with a thesis on
the political geography of the Cyprus conflict. At the moment, she is working on
the relationship between political economy and the development of geopolitical
discourses, on the use of mental map methodology in ethno-territorial conflict
studies, and on ethno-territorial conflict resolution mechanisms in
multicultural societies. She is the author of: 'Eurasianism
in Turkey: the New Geopolitics of Kemalism', Geopolitics, 2007 (with M.
Perinçek; forthcoming); ‘Other Cypriots and Their Cyprus Questions’, The
Cyprus Review, vol. 19, n. 2, pp. 57-82; 'The European Union's Competency in
Conflict Resolution: The Cases of Bosnia, Macedonia (FYROM) and Cyprus', in Diez,
T. and Tocci, N. (eds.) Cyprus: A Conflict at the Crossroads (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, forthcoming). 'Turkey's Harmonisation with EU
Norms: Progress or Regress?', in Sperling, J. and Papacosmas V. (eds.) Turkey
and Europe: High Stakes, Uncertain Prospects (Nicosia: University of Nicosia
Press, 2008).
Victoria Arnold is a doctoral student at Hertford College, Oxford,
working under Professors Judith Pallott and Catriona Kelly on a thesis entitled 'Religiosity and Religious
Culture in Post-Soviet Russia: The Role of Sacred Spaces'. She studied geography
at Oxford and holds and MSc in Russian and East European Studies.
Albert Baiburin is
an anthropologist at the European
University in St Petersburg and the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology,
Russian Academy of Sciences.
His
research interests include the history of anthropology, Russian popular
practices, especially ritual, and the conceptualisation of byt [daily
life] in Russian culture. His publications include Ritual v traditsionnoi
kul’ture [Ritual in Traditional Culture] (St Petersburg, 1993), and over
two hundred other books, edited volumes, and articles. He is General Editor of Antropologicheskii
forum/Forum for Anthropology and Culture, a journal of anthropology
and cultural studies founded in 2004. He is currently working on a study of the
cultural significance of the Soviet passport (funded by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council).
Dmitry Baranov is Curator of the Russian
Ethnographic Collections
at the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St Petersburg. He has published a
large number of articles on Russian peasant beliefs and practices,
particularly those relating to pregnancy and childbirth. Recently, he has
begun working on the history of ethnography in Russia.
Mark Bassin is Professor of Human Geography at the University of
Birmingham. His
research focuses on geographies of identity, geopolitics, and the cultural
representation of nature, with particular attention to Russia and Germany.
His work has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the DAAD, and
the Leverhulme Foundation, and he has held visiting fellowships at the Kennan
Institute, the American Academy in Berlin, the Remarque Institute (NYU), and the
Institut für europäische Geschichte in Mainz.
His major study Imperial Visions:
Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in
the Russian Far East 1840-1865 was published in 1999 by Cambridge University
Press, and an edited collection География
и
Идентичность
в
Постсоветской
России
appeared in St. Petersburg in 2003.
He
is currently writing a book on Eurasianism and the ideas of Lev N. Gumilev.
Birgit Beumers is
Reader in Russian at the University of Bristol. She specialises in contemporary
Russian culture, especially cinema and theatre. Her publications include Burnt
by the Sun (2000), Nikita Mikhalkov: Between Nostalgia and Nationalism
(2005), PopCulture: Russia! (2005) and, as editor, Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema (1999) and 24
Frames: Russia and the Soviet Union (2007). She is the editor of the online
journal KinoKultura (www.kinokultura.com)
and of Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. She is currently working on
post-Soviet cinema and on the history of Russian animation.
Vitaly Bezrogov is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Pedagogical
Theory and History, Russian Academy of Education, Moscow. He specialises in the
history of education and history of childhood. He has published extensively on
the history of religious socialisation in twentieth-century Russia and on the
history of primary-school textbooks in the 1920s-30s and 1970s-2000s.
Doug Blum
is Professor of Political Science at Providence College. In recent years his
research has centered on the connections between globalization, identity, and
security in the former USSR. His recent publications include National
Identity and Globalization: Youth, State and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia
(Cambridge University Press, 2007), and an edited volume entitled Russia and
Globalization: Identity, Security and Society in an Era of Change (The Johns
Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson International Center, 2008). His
current project addresses the international social and cultural dimensions of
American decline.
Nancy Condee is Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh. She works on contemporary culture and
specialises in cultural analysis. Her book publications include: The
Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema
(New York: Oxford, forthcoming); Antinomies
of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
(Durham, Duke, 2008; co-edited with Terry Smith and Okwui Enwezor); Endquote:
Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style (Evanston, IL: Northwestern, 2000;
co-edited with Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko); and Soviet
Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late 20c. Russia
(Bloomington: Indiana, 1995; ed.). Her work (alone and with Vladimir Padunov)
has appeared in The Nation, New
Left Review, October,
PMLA,
Washington Post,
Sight and Sound,
as well as major Russian journals including New Literary Review
[Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie],
Questions of Literature
[Voprosy literatury],
Banner
[Znamia],
Cinema Art
[Iskusstvo kino], Anthropological
Forum
[Antropolgicheskii forum],
and Ab Imperio.
Tsypylma
Darieva
is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre
‘Changing Representations of Social Orders’ and she teaches at the Humboldt
University, Berlin. Her research interests focus on the anthropology of
migration, transnational diaspora, urban spaces, postsocialism and memory in
Eurasia (Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia). She is the author of Russkij
Berlin: Migranten und Medien in Berlin und London (Münster: Lit Verlag,
2004) and co-editor of Representations on the Margins of Europe: Politics
and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States (Frankfurt: Campus,
2007; together with Wolfgang Kaschuba). Currently she is researching the
concepts and practices of postsocialist urban transformation in South Caucasian
cities.
Olivier Ferrando is
a PhD candidate working on 'Mobilisation of ethnic minorities in Central Asia: a
comparative approach of the Uzbeks, the Tajiks and the Kyrgyz of the Ferghana
valley', under the supervision of Professor Olivier Roy, in the Department of
Political Sociology of Sciences Po Paris and at the CERI – Centre d’Etudes
et de Recherches Internationales (www.ceri-sciences-po.org/ceri.php).
He runs a seminar course on Central Asia and the Caucasus and tutorial classes
of theory and sociology of international relations at Sciences Po Lille. His
publications on ethnic minorities in Central Asia include: 'Manipulating
the Census: Ethnic Minorities in the Nationalizing States of Central Asia', Nationalities
Papers, vol.36 (3), July 2008, 489-520; 'Education
and Ethnic Minorities in Central Asia: a Comparative Analysis', Central
Eurasian Studies Review, vol.7 (1) , March 2008, 8-12,
(see here); 'Du concept de minorité en Asie centrale: l’exemple de la vallée du
Ferghana [the concept of minority in Central Asia: the example of the Ferghana
Valley]”, Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde
turco-iranien, n°39-40, December 2005, 73-100, see here
Michael Gorham (PhD,
Stanford University, 1994) is an Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the
University of Florida and serves as Associate Editor of The
Russian Review and Russian Language
Journal. Gorham has published a number of articles on the intersection of
language, literature, national identity and politics in Russia in the 1920s and
1930s. His book on this topic, Speaking in
Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary
Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003), was selected as an 'Outstanding
Academic Book' by Choice Magazine and
won the 2004 award for 'Best Book in Literary and Cultural Studies' from the
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL).
His current book project explores related issues of language, politics, and
national identity in late- and post-Soviet Russia, articles from which have
appeared in Russian Review, Ab Imperio, Groniek: Historisch Tijdschrift (Netherlands)
and the collected volume, Landslide of
the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia (Bergen, 2006).
Yoram Gorlizki is Professor of Politics at the University of
Manchester. Details of his research interests and publications can be found here.
Bruce Grant teaches
Anthropology at New York University. He is the author of In the Soviet House
of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas (1995) and Captive to the Gift:
Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (2009); and
co-editor of Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories, and the Making of
a World Area (2007).
Roger Griffin is
Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in the
history of fascism as an ideology. Details of his research interests and
publications can be found here.
Elza Guchinova holds a doctorate in history and works as a social
and cultural anthropologist at the
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Her specialisation are the Kalmyks. Her main research interests are in forced
migration, ethnic identity, gender, and narratives of a traumatic past (esp. in
the context of the emigration, deportation and collaboration of the Kalmyks
under Soviet rule).
Peter Holquist received his Ph.D. with distinction
from Columbia University in 1995. He is the author of Making
War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921 (Harvard,
2002), examining the war, revolution and civil war in the Don Territory.
He is founder and editor of the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and serves as
editor for the Kritika Historical Studies. Holquist's
current project, 'By Right of War', explores the emergence of the international
law of war in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prior
to joining Penn's History Department in Fall 2006, Holquist taught for nine
years at Cornell University. In Fall 2008
he is in residence at the School for Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced
Study (Princeton); in Spring 2009 he is conducting research and writing with
support from an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Grant and a Harry
Frank Guggenheim Research Grant.
Geoffrey Hosking is Emeritus Professor of Russian History at
SSEES-UCL. Details of his publications and research interests can be
found here.
Alisher Ilkhamov is
Research Associate of the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and Caucasus, SOAS.
He is the editor of the Ethnic Atlas of Uzbekistan and the author of a
number of academic and analytical articles on the issues of nationalism and
national identity, poverty and rural economy, Islamic movements, state and civil
society, with the geographical focus on Central Asia.
Andrew Jenks is Assistant Professor of History at California State
University Long Beach. He
is interested in the relationship between the Cold War, technology and science,
and identity. His earlier studies of Russian identity include Russia in a
Box: Art and Identity in an Age of Revolution (Northern Illinois University
Press, 2005); and ‘A Metro on the Mount: The Underground as a Church of Soviet
Civilization’, Technology and Culture, vol. 41 (October 2000): 697-724.
He is currently working on a biography of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Details of his research interests and publications can be found here.
Dina Khapaeva historian and
sociologist, currently holds the position of Associate Professor of History and
Director for Research at the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St
Petersburg State University). Her research interests include intellectual
history, Soviet history, history and memory, studies of historical time. Her
books include: Gothic Society: Morphology
of a Nightmare (Moscow: New Literary Review, 2007);
Dukes
of the Republic at
the Age of Translation (Moscow: New Literary Review, 2005); The Time of Cosmopolitanism. Essays on Intellectual History (St
Petersburg: Zvezda, 2002). She has also translated from the French Pierre Nora
et. al, France-Memory (St Petersburg:
St Petersburg UP, 1999), and publishes regularly in literary and cultural
journals.
Catriona Kelly is
Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and Co-Director of the European
Humanities Research Centre. Her work on Russian cultural history includes
studies of personal and national identity, for
example Refining Russia:
Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin
(Oxford University Press, 2001), and Children's World: Growing Up in Russia,
1890-1991 (Yale University Press, 2007). She is currently working on a
project on cultural memory in Leningrad-St Petersburg from 1961, funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Zoe Knox is
Lecturer in Modern Russian History in the School of Historical Studies at the
University of Leicester. Her research focuses on religion in twentieth-century
Russia and the Soviet Union. Details of her research interests and publications
can be found here.
Anna Kushkova is Associate Research Fellow at the European University in St Petersburg and Research Fellow at
the “Petersburg Judaica” Center. She holds a PhD in history. Her research is
in social and cultural anthropology, Jewish studies and the anthropology of
consumption. Her main research interests are in the area of identity.
Her recent publications include: 'In the Center of the Table: Zenith and Decline
of Salad "Olivje"', in Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (New
Literary Review), no. 76 (2005), 278-314 (also available here)
and 'The Concept of "Yikhes" and its Transformation during the Soviet
Time', Studia Ethonologica, no. 5 (2008), forthcoming.
She is currently working on
an article on late-Soviet deficit and consumption, as well as an article about
late Soviet urban Jewish identity though culinary practices.
Stephen Lovell is Reader in Modern European History at King's
College London. His publications include Summerfok: A History of the Dacha,
1710-2000 (Cornell UP, 2003) and, as editor, Generations in
Twentieth-Century Europe (Palgrave, 2007). He is also the author of The
Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2009) and is
currently at work on a Blackwell history of the Soviet Union and its successor
states since World War II.
Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at the University
of Oxford and Director of the St John's College Research Centre. Her research is
on urban and economic change, migration and gender relations. She is the author
of Hard Labour: The Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant Volunteer Workers
(UCL Press, 2005). She has a current ESRC research project about EU accession
state migrants in the London labour market. Her research interests and
publications may be found here.
Galina
Miazhevich has a PhD in Development Studies from Manchester University.
Currently, she is the Gorbachev Media Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford,
and an associate of the Rothermere American Institute. She is working on a
project examining the relationship between grassroots xenophobia and state
media in the Belarusian nation-building project. Her interest in emergent forms
of post-Communist identity is positioned at the junction of social psychology,
development, gender and media studies.
Nikolai
Mitrokhin is a
historian and sociologist. He is a Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany).
His fields of research include: Soviet society in 1953 -1985 (his current
project is on management practices of the bureaucratic apparatus of the CK KPSS)
and the contemporary Russian Orthodox Church (for more detail click here).
He is the author of The Russian Orthodox Church: Contemporary Consistence and
Actual Problems (Moscow: New Literary Review Publisher House, 2004; second
ed. in 2006);
and of 'The Russian
Party': The Russian Nationalist Movement in the USSR (1953-1985) (Moscow,
New Literary Review Publisher House, 2003, for contents and excerpts from the
introduction click here).
Не
has published over
80 academic articles in journals such as Novoe literatyrnoe obozrenie, Neprikosnovennyi
zapas and many others.
Rana Mitter is University Lecturer in the History and
Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford. Details of his research
interests and publications can be found here.
Alexander Morrison is
Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of All
Souls College, Oxford. His first book, Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910. A
Comparison with British India was published by Oxford University Press in
2008.
Elena Omelchenko is a sociologist based
at Ulyanovsk State University. She has special interest in youth issues and in
regionalism in contemporary Russia. She is the author of The
Heroes of Our Time. Sociological Studies [Geroi nashego vremeni:
Sotsiologicheskie ocherki], Ulyanovsk: Srednevolzhskii nauchnyi tsentr,
2000) and Youth and Drugs: An Overview
(Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 2003). She is the editor of The Thirteenth Step. An Analysis of Regional Anti-Drug Abuse Social
Policies [Trinadtsatyi shag. Opyt analiza antinarkoticheskikh
regional’nykh sotsial’nykh politik] (Ulyanovsk: Ulyanovsk State
University, 2002).
Alexander Panchenko is
a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy
of Sciences, St. Petersburg and a Professor of Slavic folklore at the Russian
State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg. His research interests are in
vernacular religion and religious identity, religious identity and social
changes, and new religious movements in Russia. His publications include: Studies
in Folk Orthodoxy. Local Holy Places of the Russian North-West
(Saint-Petersburg: Aleteia, 1998; in Russian), Hristovtschina
and
Scopchestvo: Folklore and Traditional Culture of Russian Mystical Sects
(Moscow: OGI, 2002; in Russian) and ‘Apocalyptic
Expectations in Changing World: Narratives on “the Last Days” in Modern
Russian Folk Culture’, SEEFA (2000), vol. 2 (in English; click here).
Hilary
Pilkington is Professor of Sociology at the
University of Warwick and a leading specialist in the sociology
of late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, with a particular interest in Russian
youth. She has also published extensively in the area of ethnic identity in
contemporary Russia, including Migration, Displacement and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia
(London and New York: Routledge, 1998); with E. Omelchenko, M. Flynn, U.
Bliudina, and E. Starkova, she edited Looking
West? Cultural Globalization and Russian Youth Cultures (University Park
Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002); and with G.
Yemelianova, she was the editor of Islam
in Post-Soviet Russia: Public and Private Faces (London and New
York:RoutledgeCurzon, 2002). For this project, she and Dr Omelchenko will
investigate attitudes to ethnic identity and ‘otherness’ among young
people, basing their analysis on questionnaires, interviewing, and fieldwork
in St Petersburg and Vorkuta.
Robert Pyrah is
a Postdoctoral Fellow on the CEELBAS programme (www.ceelbas.ac.uk)
at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is a cultural historian working on
questions of national identity construction through high cultural forms
(principally the theatre) in post-Habsburg East-Central Europe. In 2007 he
published the monograph The Burgtheater and Austrian Identity: Theatre and
Cultural Politics in Vienna, 1918-38. Articles on the State Theatres and
clerical fascism in Austrian politics appeared in the same year. He has a
further publication about cultural memory and identity construction in Poland /
Ukraine in press. He is currently working on a monograph about L’viv in the
20th Century.
Jessica Rawson is Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Professor at the
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, specialising in Chinese Art
and Archaeology. Details of her research and publications can be found here.
Madeleine
Reeves teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester,
where she is an RCUK Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change. Her research interests lie in the anthropology of the
state, transnationalism and citizenship regimes. Her doctoral dissertation
(2008) explored the everyday materialisation of a new international boundary in
the Ferghana valley. Her current research is a multi-sited ethnography of
labour migration between Kyrgyzstan and Moscow, focusing on everyday
experiences of law and illegality. She has previously taught anthropology at
the University of Cambridge and the American University – Central Asia in
Bishkek. She currently co-directs, with Nina Bagdasarova, the OSI-HESP Regional
Seminar for Excellence in Teaching, Nationhood and Narrative in Central
Asia: History, Context, Critique.
Alim Sabitov is Professor at the Kazakh State Academy of
Architecture and Construction in Almaty. His publications include Imaginary
Architectural Spaces,
(Almaty, 2000) and Contemporary Art of
Kazakhstan
(Almaty, 2002). He has also worked as production designer in a number of
films produced in Almaty and Moscow in the late 1980s-90s.
Gerry Smith is Emeritus Professor of Russian at New College
Oxford.
Jeremy Smith is Senior Lecturer in Russian History at the Centre
for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Details of her research interests
and publications can be
found here.
Ronald Grigor Suny is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of
Social and Political History at the University of Michigan and Professor
Emeritus of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is
the author of The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the
Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1972); Armenia in the
Twentieth Century (Scholars Press, 1983); The Making of the Georgian
Nation (Indiana University Press, 1988, 1994); Looking Toward Ararat:
Armenia in Modern History (Indiana University Press, 1993); The Revenge
of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
(Stanford University Press, 1993); and The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the
USSR, and the Successor States (Oxford University Press, 1998). He is
also the editor of Transcaucasia, Nationalism and Social Change: Essays in
the History of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia (Michigan Slavic
Publications, 1983; University of Michigan Press, 1996) The Structure of
Soviet History: Essays and Documents (Oxford University Press, 2003), and The
Cambridge History of Russia, III: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006); and co-editor of Party, State, and Society
in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History (Indiana
University Press, 1989); The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory:
Visions and Revisions (D. C. Heath, 1990); Making Workers Soviet: Power,
Culture, and Identity (Cornell University Press, 1994); Becoming National
(Oxford University Press, 1996); Intellectuals and the Articulation of the
Nation (University of Michigan Press, 1999); and A State of Nations:
Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford University
Press, 2001). He is currently working on a two-volume biography of Stalin
for Oxford University Press, a co-edited volume on the Armenian Genocide, a
series of essays on empire and nations, and studies of emotions and ethnic
politics. He was elected President of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies for the year 2006. His intellectual interests have
centered on the non-Russian nationalities of the Russian Empire and the Soviet
Union, particularly those of the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and
Georgia). He
has twice been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences at Stanford (2001-2002, 2005-2006). In 2005 the Middle East Studies
Association awarded him and his co-organiser, Professor Fatma Műge Goçek
of the University of Michigan its academic freedom prize for their work in
bringing Armenian and Turkish scholars together to further study of the Armenian
Genocide.
Alexander Titov is Teaching Fellow in Post-Soviet Politics at
SSEES-UCL. He completed his doctoral thesis at SSEES-UCL on
'Lev Gumilev, Ethnogenesis and Eurasianism' in 2005. Since then he has
been working as a research fellow on an AHRC project on government and reform
under Khrushchev at the University of Birmingham. His particular interest in
this period is in the crisis of communist ideology and its impact on Russian
consciousness. He also has a strong interest in Russian intellectual history,
specifically theories of history and Russian identity. He is currently finishing
a paper on the evolution of Russian conservative thought, using Danilevsky and
Gumilev as examples. His future research will focus on the influence of the
contemporary Russian conservatism on public discourse under Yeltsin and Putin.
Vera Tolz is Professor of Russian Studies at the School of
Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester. Details of her
research interests and publications can be found here.
Andreas Umland is currently a Research
Fellow at the Eichstaett's Institute for Central and East European Studies
(2008-11). He previously held lectureships at several universities in the
Ukraine, the UK and Russia. He is the
founder and General Editor of the book series 'Soviet and Post-Soviet
Society and Politics' (established in 2004; see www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html).
He has published numerous articles and review essays in major academic journals,
including European Political Science, Political Studies Review, Problems
of Post-Communism, East European Jewish Affairs, Demokratizatsiya,
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Osteuropa, Österreichische
Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Jahrbuch für Ostrecht, Forum
für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte, Politicheskie
issledovaniya, Voprosy filosofii, Pro et Contra, Obshchestvennye
nauki i sovremennost’, Neprikosnovennyi zapas, Ab Imperio,
etc.
Andrew Wachtel is
Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University,
where he serves as Dean of The Graduate School. His interests range from Russian
literature and culture to East European and Balkan culture, history and
politics. His most recent published books are The
Balkans in World History (Oxford UP, 2008) and Remaining
Relevant After Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe
(University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Enquiries: russian-nationalism@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
