Recent Posts

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.

January 21, 2021

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.

January 21, 2021

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

January 15, 2021

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.

January 8, 2021

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.

January 4, 2021

Boris Kagarlitsky on Moldova