REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.
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.
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.
Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.
John Davis on Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets published by Bloomsbury.
Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.
Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press.
Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.
Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.
Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.
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Guest: Olga Kuchinskaya on The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl published by MIT Press.