About

I am a UCIS/REES postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh.  I also host the podcast New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies.  I received my PhD in History at UCLA. Currently, I am writing a book tentatively titled, Communism in Crisis: Social Trauma and Russia’s Lost Generation, 1921-1931, which examines the traumatic legacies of social upheaval on youth in post-revolutionary Russia.

Curriculum Vitae

Al-Jazeera Articles

The ‘New Decembrists’ face off against Putin

Why haven’t the 2011 protests hit Russia?

Warscapes Articles

Politkovskaya and Putin — Six and Sixty

Russia’s Prosthetic Volunteerism

The eXile(d) Articles:

Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny: Uniting Nationalists and the Urban, Educated Middle Class

Nemtsov’s White Paper: Bombshell or Dud?

Nashi: Is It Really The End?

Russian Academia Under Fire

The Myth of the Democratic Model

A Russia-Watcher’s Fairytale

The Pajamas Media Articles:

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cold War II

Russia’s New President … ‘Putvedev’?

The Short Happy Life of a Russian Anti-Corruption Investigator