Organizers
Dmitry Tartakovsky
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
Harriet Murav, a literary scholar, is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian professor of Global and Transnational Studies, 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 new project is Hefker: The Literature of Abandonment and the Russian Civil War. She is thinking about the overlap between the Jewish concept of hefker, unclaimed or abandoned property and the biopolitical notion of abandonment.
Keith Brown
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
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
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
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."
John Randolph
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, a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Modern Intellectual History, and has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in History. Currently, he leads a major, multi-university project, “The Classroom and the Future of the Historical Record,” which examines how digital technology is changing the way society, politics, and culture are documented and how US higher education should respond to these shifts.