| May 15, 2026 | This website was created. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |