Dmitry Tartakovsky became the Managing Editor of Slavic Review in February 2016. He has a BS in history from Bradley University, an MA in Russian and Balkan history from Arizona State University, and a PhD in Russian and Balkan history from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His prior work has included serving as political officer for the Department of State in Moldova, Balkan analyst for Army Special Forces at Fort Bragg (now Liberty), and south Slavic specialist for the Slavic Reference Service at the UIUC Library.
Harriet Murav, a literary scholar, is a Marjorie Roberts Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a joint appointment in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature. Her research focuses on Russian and Yiddish literature. She is the author of Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels & the Poetics of Cultural Critique (1992), Russia's Legal Fictions (1998); Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner (2003); Music From a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia (2011), and David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity (2019). She is the co-translator, with Sasha Senderovich, of David Bergelson’s Judgment (2017), and with Sholem Berger, of a trio of poems by the Yiddish poet Leyb Kvitko. She was awarded the MLA Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1999, a Guggenheim in 2006, a Marta Sutton Weeks Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center in 2012, and a University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Fellowship in 2020. Her most recent book is: As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine. She is working on a new project on time, wartime, and contemporary Ukrainian poetry.
Keith Brown is the Director of the Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, and Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. During 2021-22 he was on research leave as a Core Fellow at the Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago and a BA in classics from Oxford University. His work focuses on history, culture and politics in the Western Balkans, with a particular emphasis on 20th century Macedonia. He has spent extended time in the region, and his published works include The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation (Princeton University Press, 2003) and Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia (Indiana University Press, 2013).
Eva Rogaar is a social and cultural historian of modern Eurasia and the Muslim world. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2022). She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, within the ERC-funded project "Building a Better Tomorrow: Development Knowledge and Practice in Central Asia and Beyond, 1970-2017." Her main research interests include ethnic and religious minorities; oral and life histories; public history; gender studies; and history of science and medicine in colonial and postcolonial contexts. She is a co-director for the Central Asia Research Cluster and the forthcoming project, "Muslim Lives in A Shifting World: Revivals, Encounters, and Identities in Late Soviet and Contemporary Russia, 1970s-Present."
Katherine Ashcraft is a reference librarian in the Slavic Reference Service. She received her MLIS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include history of literacy in Central Asia; language and national identity in the post-Soviet space; and children’s literature in Tajikistan. She was recently awarded a research fellowship through Title VIII Eurasian Regional Language Program, administered by American Councils for International Education and hosted at the American Councils Dushanbe office. She is currently the co-director of the Central Asia Research Cluster and the forthcoming project, "Muslim Lives in A Shifting World: Revivals, Encounters, and Identities in Late Soviet and Contemporary Russia, 1970s-Present."
Joe Lenkart is the Head of Slavic Reference Service, a dedicated year-round research service for REEES scholars. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include ethnic and religious minorities; ethnic press; history of publishing; and global diasporas. He is the co-founder of the Doctoral Research Support Program and the Global Diasporas Program at the University of Illinois. He is the co-director of the Central Asia Research Cluster and the upcoming project, "Muslim Lives in A Shifting World: Revivals, Encounters, and Identities in Late Soviet and Contemporary Russia, 1970s-Present."
Serenity Stanton Orengo is the Editorial Associate for Slavic and East European Journal and a library specialist at the Slavic Reference Service, where she leads the Publishing Consultation Service. She is also the Managing Editor of the American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ABSEEES). She received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023. Her research focuses on transgressive motherhood, particularly in the form of abortion, contraception, and infanticide in nineteenth-century Russian literature. She is especially interested in the intersection of the law and medicine in literature and exploring these themes in women’s writing.
John Randolph is the Director, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, and Associate Professor of History. Professor Randolph has been Director of REEEC since 2017 and is PI for REEEC’s Department of Education NRC and FLAS grants. He is a specialist in Imperial Russian intellectual and cultural history, with research interests in mobility studies, digital humanities (DH), and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He has received multiple awards for his REE&E area research, including two book prizes for his biography of the Bakunin family and a grant from the MacArthur Foundation in support of a series of symposia on Russia’s role in human mobility. Professor Randolph is a Faculty Affiliate of the Illinois Informatics Institute.