Amy Singleton Adams is Professor of Russian Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. She received her B.A. in Russian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College, and her M.A. and PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She co-edited and contributed to the volume Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018). Her research focuses on the non-ecclesiastical meaning of icons and the iconic in Russian literature, culture, and society.
Olga Andriewsky is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Trent University (Canada). She holds a PhD in history from Harvard University. Her research focuses on late imperial Russia and early Soviet history, with a special interest in politics, social formations, and discourses on and in the borderlands, particularly relating to nineteenth and twentieth century Ukraine.
Epp Annus is Associate Professor with the Institute of Humanities at Tallinn University, Estonia. She also lectures in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University (USA). Her recent books include Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands (Routledge, 2018), and Coloniality, Nationality, Modernity: A Postcolonial View on Baltic Cultures under Soviet Rule, ed. Epp Annus (Routledge, 2018). She is the author of two novels.
Lyudmila B. Austin is the 2023–2024 Postdoctoral Fellow in History at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. She holds a PhD in history from Michigan State University. As a historian of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet space, she focuses on migration, nation-building, and national identity.
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a historian of migration in the Ottoman and Russian empires. His first monograph, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State, is forthcoming with Stanford University Press in 2024.
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.
Kayhan A. Nejad is the Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies at the College of International Studies, the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on historical linkages between west Asia and the Soviet and post-Soviet space.
Mark D. Steinberg is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His most recent books are The Russian Revolution, 1905–1921 (Oxford 2017; Russian edition 2018), and Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities (Bloomsbury, 2021). His current project is “Moral Storytelling on the Streets of New York, Odessa, and Bombay in the 1920s.”
Dr. Patryk Wasiak holds MA titles in sociology and art history (Warsaw University) and a PhD in cultural studies (Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities). He is a former fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation, the Center for Contemporary History Potsdam, the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His research interests include the cultural history of the Cold War, and history of home technologies. Currently he works on the history of industrial design and communist ideology in state socialist Poland. His current project is supported with a 3-year research grant from the National Science Centre of Poland.
Dr. Katarzyna Stańczak Wiślicz holds MA title in history (Warsaw University) and PhD in literary studies (Polish Academy of Sciences). Her research interests range from gender and women's history in post-war Poland to the history of popular culture and popular discourse analysis. She was a principal investigator of the project “Women in Poland 1944–1989” supported by the National Program for the Development of the Humanities. Currently she works on a monograph about personal narratives written in Poland during the crisis of the 1980s.
