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Sep 08, 2026 Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American–Russian Relations, co-authored with David S. Foglesong and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, was named the 2026 PROSE Award Category Winner in North American/U.S. History by the Association of American Publishers.
Jul 30, 2026 Echoes of the American Civil War Abroad: Perceptions, Identities, and Historical Memory, co-edited with Victoria I. Zhuravleva, was published online by Bloomsbury Academic and is now available through Bloomsbury Collections.
Jul 22, 2026 The eBook edition of Americans and All the Rest: Identity and Foreign Policy in U.S. History was published by Palgrave Macmillan and is now available online. The hardcover edition is scheduled for August 26.
Jul 21, 2026 My review of Jonathan Haslam’s Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War against Ukraine was published online in Slavic Review, vol. 85, no. 1 (Spring 2026), pp. 258–259.
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, was under contract with Bloomsbury Academic.
Feb 20, 2026 Americans and All the Rest: Identity and Foreign Policy in U.S. History — English translation of the 2024 Prosvetitel Prize-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.”
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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.
Jul 15, 2025 New edition of Carl W. Ackerman’s Trailing the Bolsheviki: Twelve Thousand Miles with the Allies in Siberia, edited and annotated, is out from Anthem Press.
Jun 23, 2025 Teaching at the Middlebury College Summer Russian Language School — courses on the history of Russian–American relations and the politics of memory.
Jun 01, 2025 Battle for the Past: How Politics Rewrites History published by Palgrave Macmillan (English translation of the 2022 Russian original).
Jan 20, 2025 Returned to Wellesley College as International Scholar in Residence for the Spring 2025 semester.
Dec 01, 2024 Американцы и все остальные [Americans and All the Rest] (Alpina, 2024) won the Prosvetitel Prize for the best non-fiction book in Russian. English translation forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in June 2026.
Sep 01, 2024 Joined Bowdoin College as Visiting Tallman Scholar in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for Fall 2024.
May 08, 2024 Public lecture at Dartmouth College on Russian society during the war in Ukraine.
Apr 30, 2024 Delivered the Cornille Lecture at Wellesley: “Political Use and Misuse of the Past in Russia, America, and Elsewhere.”
Mar 05, 2024 Dismissed from the European University at St. Petersburg after signing an anti-war petition. The Moscow Times coverage.
Feb 15, 2024 Spoke at Wellesley College and Harvard’s Davis Center on what the Russian people think about the war and its mastermind.
Jan 22, 2024 Began appointment as Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College.