| Jun 01, 2026 | My review of Aren Lerner Craig’s Every Revolution Was First a Thought: The Civil War and Transcendentalism in Transatlantic Context was published in History: Reviews of New Books. The book explores the intellectual and philosophical languages through which contemporaries understood the American Civil War. |
| May 26, 2026 | Discussed Russian neutrality in the American Revolution, Catherine the Great, armed neutrality, and the early history of Russian-American relations on the Analyzing American Revolution video podcast. |
| Apr 10, 2026 | Echoes of the American Civil War Abroad: Perceptions, Identities, and Historical Memory, co-edited with Victoria I. Zhuravleva, forthcoming from Bloomsbury in September 2026. |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Americans and All the Rest: Identity and Foreign Policy in U.S. History — English translation of the 2024 Prosvetitel award–winning book — forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in June 2026. |
| Jan 16, 2026 | Designated a “foreign agent” by the Russian Ministry of Justice. RASA statement of support.
The European Court of Human Rights has held that Russia’s “foreign agent” legislation is arbitrary and violates rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights in Kobaliya and Others v. Russia. |
| Jan 08, 2026 | Teaching two undergraduate courses at Ohio State this spring: “Civil War and Reconstruction: Global Perspectives” and “History of U.S.–Russian Relations.” |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Signed with Routledge as co-editor (with Vladimir Gel’man and Sari Autio-Sarasmo) of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Russian History. |
| Nov 01, 2025 | Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American–Russian Relations, co-authored with David S. Foglesong and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, is out from Cambridge University Press. |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Book chapter “History as a Political Language” published in Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe: Infested with History (Routledge, 2025). |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Joined The Ohio State University as Visiting Professor of History for 2025–2026. |