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Alan Barenberg received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 2007.
He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Texas Tech
University. His book, Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta,
was published by Yale University Press in 2014. He is also the author of articles
on various aspects of the Gulag and its relationship to Soviet society.
Artem Kravchenko has received his MA in public history from the University of Manchester/
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences in 2014. He is currently a
staff member of the Public History Program at the Moscow School of Social and Economic
Sciences. His research focuses on practices of history representation to teenage
and children audiences in the Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, as well as on the
history of Soviet magazines for children.
Judith Pallot is Professor of the Human Geography of Russia at the University of
Oxford, UK. Her research interests are in Russian “peasant studies” and the geography
of the Russian peasantry past and present, as well as the carceral geography of
Russia. Her most recent research has focused on women’s experiences of imprisonment
and impact of imprisonment on prisoners’ families, which resulted in many publications,
including her recent monograph coauthored with Laura Piacentini, Gender,
Geography and Punishment: Women’s Experiences of Carceral Russia (Oxford University
Press, 2012).
Ivan Peshkov received his PhD in development studies from Poznan University of
Economics, Poland. He is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Eastern
Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His publications include
Etatyzm i przemoc w teoriach zacofania gospodarczego (Etatism and Violence in Economic
Backwardness Theories), published by Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej
in Poznan in 2004. His current research focuses on the political dimension of quasiindigenousness
on the Russian-Chinese frontier. He has carried out research оn the
China-Russia-Mongolia border triangle and the main economic and historical processes
that characterize this area.
Vladislav Pocheptsov received his bachelor’s degree in history in 2010 from Udmurt
State University, where he majored in ethnology and regional studies. Pocheptsov
studied issues of globalization and localization processes, cultural identity,
and ethnicity in modern society. In 2008 he completed an academic internship
at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and another one at the University of Algarve,
Portugal, in 2009–2010. In 2014 he graduated from Moscow School of Social and
Economic Sciences and received a master’s degree in public history from the University
of Manchester. His thesis is titled “Myth as a Means of Historical Representation
in the Films of Theo Angelopoulos.” Currently Pocheptsov works in the field
of sociological and marketing research as the executive director of Research Innovation
Center ProResearch, Moscow.
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby received her PhD in Slavic languages and literatures
from the University of Virginia. She is currently a professor in the Department of
Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Kentucky.
She teaches Russian language, linguistics, and folklore. Her current research
examines vernacular religion and folk legends in the postsocialist era. She is coauthor
and editor (with Yelena Minyonok and Tatiana Filosofova) of the online digital
archive and critical edition The Russian Religious Folk Imagination. She is the author
of Village Values: Negotiating Identity, Gender, and Resistance in Urban Russian Life-
Cycle Rituals (Slavica, 2008).
Irina Shcherbakova holds a candidate of sciences degree in philology and is the director
of youth and education programs at the International Memorial Civil Rights
Society, the director of the high school competition “People in History: Russia, 20th
Century,” and editor-in-chief of the educational website “Uroki Istorii” (History Lessons)
(www.urokiistorii.ru). She is a member of the Scientific Board of Trustees of the
Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Germany, and of the International
Academic Board of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies,
Austria. Shcherbakova directs a number of joint Russian-German research projects in
history; she was the curator for the exhibition Gulag: Traces and Testimonies (Germany,
2012–2014) that was jointly organized by the Buchenwald Memorial Foundation
and the International Memorial Society. Her interests include problems of historic
memory, oral history, memoirs, Soviet repressions, women in the Gulag, and
social history. Shcherbakova is the author of over 300 publications in Russian and
other languages. In 2014 she was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Prize, named after
the German 1935 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Vieda Skultans obtained her PhD in social anthropology in 1971 from the University
of Wales. Her working life from 1971 has been spent at the University of Bristol, initially
in the Department of Mental Health and later in the Department of Sociology.
Her research interests lie in the fields of cross-cultural psychiatry, moral anthropology,
narrative, and life histories. She has carried out fieldwork in India, Nepal, Latvia,
and Ukraine. Among her publications are The Testimony of Lives: Memory and Narrative
in Post-Soviet Latvia (Routledge, 1998) and Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical
and Narrative Anthropology (Berghahn Books, 2007). She is currently the director
of a four-year project at the University of Latvia looking thematically and structurally
at Latvian, Russian, and Romany life histories.
Sofia Tchouikina holds a PhD in sociology. She is an assistant professor at the Department
of Slavonic Studies at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis. She
is conducting research in the sociology of memory. Her research interests include the
sociology of museums; public perceptions of museum exhibitions; commemorations,
monuments, and memorial places in post-Soviet cities and towns; and the transmission
of family memory. Her doctoral dissertation was devoted to the collective memory
of noble families about their life in the USSR during the interwar period. Currently
she is participating in a research project titled “Memory and Museums of the
First World War: International Comparison of Museums’ Exhibitions” at the Institute
for Social Studies of Politics in Paris.
Olga Ulturgasheva is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, University
of Manchester. She has participated in a number of international projects exploring
human and non-human personhood, movement patterns, childhood and adolescence
in Amazonia, Russia, and the American Arctic. She is the author of Narrating the Future
in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny (Berghahn
Books, 2012) and coeditor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals,
Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn Books, 2012).
Andrei Zavadski graduated from Moscow State University of International Relations
(MGIMO University) with a BA in regional studies (2009) and from Moscow School of
Social and Economic Sciences/University of Manchester with an MA in public history
(2014). Starting in the fall of 2015, he will be a PhD candidate and member of the
Emmy Noether junior research group on “Mediating (Semi-)Authoritarianism: The
Power of the Internet in the Post-Soviet World” at the Institute for Media and Communication
Studies, Free University of Berlin.