Talks & Media

Public lectures, podcasts, op-eds, commentary, and policy memos.

Select lectures and talks

  • 2024 — Wellesley College, The Cornille Lecture: Political Use and Misuse of the Past in Russia, America, and Elsewhere, 30 April 2024. Event page.
  • 2024 — Wellesley College & Harvard Davis Center, What the Russian People Think About the War and Its Mastermind, 15 February 2024. Davis Center profile.
  • 2024 — Dartmouth College, Public Lecture on Russian Society during the War, 8 May 2024. Dartmouth coverage.
  • 2023 — Yerevan Center for International Education (Armenia), American Identity and World Politics, 22 November 2023. Watch on YouTube.
  • 2022 — Wellesley College & Harvard Davis Center, Kathryn W. Davis Memorial Lecture, April 2022. Watch on YouTube.
  • 2022 — Center for Russian Studies, Konrad Adenauer South Caucasus Foundation, Political Use of History in Russia and its Neighbours. Watch on YouTube.
  • 2022 — The University of Texas at Austin podcast The Slavic Connexion, The Other: Russian–American Relations Through the Centuries. Listen on Apple Podcasts.
  • 2021 — Indiana University podcast, January 2021. Listen.
  • 2021 — Kansas University, Cold War in the Heartland Speaker Series, 27 April 2021. Watch on YouTube.
  • 2020 — St. Petersburg Public Lecture (in English), Use of History in Russian Politics. Watch on YouTube.
  • 2019 — Claremont McKenna College, Can Russian–American Relations Be Fixed? Lessons from History. Athenaeum page.
  • 2019 — Indiana University, Russian Studies Workshop Podcast. Listen on SoundCloud.
  • 2013 — Eisenhower Library (Abilene, KS), visiting scholar's talk on the Battle of Stalingrad. Press coverage.
  • 2013 — Kansas University Brownbag, The Use and Misuse of History in Contemporary Russia, 12 March 2013. Watch on YouTube.

Op-eds, commentary, and interviews

  • Op-eds published in: The Washington Post, The National Interest, Novaya Gazeta, The Moscow Times, Al Jazeera, Riddle, Russia Matters, Troitsky variant, polit.ru, republic.ru, gefter.ru, theconversation.com, inliberty.ru, and others.
  • Commentaries on: BBC, NPR, Sky TV, Südwestrundfunk, Kommersant-FM, Business-FM, Radio-KP, TV Dozhd, RTVi, Voice of Russia, Voice of America, RBC-TV, OTR, and others.
  • Quoted and interviewed by: The New York Times, The Washington Post, US News and World Report, Al Jazeera, la Repubblica, El País, Maclean's, Moscow News, The Moscow Times, The Village, Agence France-Presse, and many others.

Select policy memos for PONARS Eurasia

  • Do Russians Support the War? How the Answer Reflects Biases, Uncertainty, and Old Divisions (November 2022).
  • Nationalizing Russian (War) Memory Since 2014 (July 2020).
  • Toward the Possibility of a New U.S.–Russian "Reset": Does Their Hot & Cold Past Foretell Their Future? (May 2019).
  • The Anti-Russia Surge in U.S. Politics: Finding Context (April 2018).
  • History and Memory in Russia During the 100-Year Anniversary of the Great Revolution (January 2018).
  • The "Return of Stalin": Understanding the Surge of Historical Politics in Russia (May 2016).
  • The Implications of Russia's Law against the "Rehabilitation of Nazism" (August 2014).