2026 Associates List

Name                                 Institutional AffiliationTitle of Research ProjectEmail                                                                                                                                                                   Dates on Campus                                                                      
Medea BadashviliI. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State U (Georgia)The South Cacasus Between Two Empires and Two Wars: Regional Security Dynamic the War in Ukraine and Tensions with Iranmedo.badashvili@gmail.comJuly 19th-July 26th
Roann BarrisUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPerforming Religion by Design: Boris Aronson and the Jewish Kulturkampf in the Visual Artsbarris@illinois.edu
Diego Benning WangHarvard UniversityFolklore and the Crimean Tatar Tragedy: Perso-Turkic Jest, Greco-Byzantine Hagiography, and an Untold Cultural Genocide in Soviet Crimeadbwang@fas.harvard.eduJune 29th-July 11th
Tabitha CochranUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignSocializing the Ukrainian Child: Extracurricular Activities and Organizations in the 1950's and 60'stabithac@illinois.edu
Benedict DeDominicisCatholic University of Korea,Building US Hegemony: Alliance Integration and Fighting Corruption in Bulgaria in Comparitive Perspectivebendedominicis@gmail.comJuly 19th-July 28th
Nikita GaidyshevNational Research University Higher School of Economics in St. PetersburgThe Case of Simon Digby: Towards Resident Diplomacy in Anglo-Russian Relationsnagaydshev@edu.hse.ruJuly 7th-July 22nd
Mia HansonUniversity of PittsburghRegulating Morality Across National Difference: Gender and Private Life in the Kazakh SSR, 1953-1986mih241@pitt.eduJune 8th-June 13th
Irina IvliyevaMissouri University of Science and TechnologyToward Universal Principles of Sound-Verb Synthesis: A Morphological and Corpus-Driven Matrix Modelivliyeva@mst.eduJune 8th-June 12th
Sergey KatsubaUniversity College DublinSexuality, Censorship, and Authoriarian Legality in Russiasergey.katsuba@ucdconnect.ieJune 15th-June 24th
Fethi KelesSyracuse University Who belongs, who doesn't, and who gets to decide? Refugee integration in urban United Statesfkeles@syr.eduJune 8th- June 26th
Martha LahanaIndependent ResearcherA. S. Matveev, 1625-1682marthalllh@gmail.comJune 7th-June 21st                                        
Dongkun LyuUniversity of RochesterFrom Socialist Cultural Infrastructure to Post-Socialist Art Worlds: Artistic Labor and Institutional Transformation in Romaniadongkunlyu.ludwig@gmail.comJune 8th-June 28th
Joanna MatuszakThe University of Texas at TylerRussian Performance Art in the 1990s: Between Avant-Garde and Rear-Gardejoannamatuszak@alumni.iu.eduJune 27th-July 24th
Konstantyn MoharychevPurdue UniversityThe Crimean Project: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Proposals of the Jewish Autonomy in the 1920s-1940skmoharyc@perdue.eduJune 17th-June 27th
Stephen NafzigerWilliams CollegePeasant Property Rights, Imperial Reforms, and Resistance to Soviet Collectivizationsnafzige@williams.eduJuly 26th-August 1st
Robert PrzygrodzkiWestrern Governors UniversityPublishing the Empire: The Russian Press as a Tool of Empire in Russian Poland, 1864-1915rlprzygrodzki@yahoo.comJuly 6th-July 10th
Curtis RichardsonUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"The Crimean Affair and the Destruction of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee." Polina Zhemchuzina: The Life of an Elite, Soviet-Jewish Womanrossiiakurt@yahoo.comJuly 6th-July 10th
Ekaterina RichardsonIndependent ResearcherMyth and language: Slavic goddess Mara and the concept of deathkutty.astkaterina@yandex.ruJuly 6th-July 10th
Daria SadovaNYURecovering Sof’ya Khvoshchinskaya: Translation, Transcription, and Canon Formationds8331@nyu.eduJuly 7th- July 21st
Mark SoderstromAurora UniversityEnlightening the Land of Midnight: Peter Slovtsov, Ivan Kalashikov, and the Saga of Russian Siberiamsoderst@aurora.eduJuly 6th-July 14th
Charles SteinwedelNortheastern Illinois UniversityThe Russian Empire, the Brussels Sugar Convention, and the Regulation of the International Sugar Trade, 1880-1917crsteinw@neiu.eduJuly 5th-July 12th
James TallonLewis UniversityThe War for Centralization: Ottomanisim, Modernization, and Resistance in the Albanian Rebellions of 1909-1912j_tallon@hotmail.comJuly 6th-July 14th
Meredith Tuttle StukeyEureka CollegeThe Romanovs on a World Stage: Autocracy, Democracy, and Crisis, 1896-1918mstukey@eureka.eduJune 24th-June 29th
Maria VyatchinaUniversity of TartuUndisplayed and Unprocessed: Zelia Nuttall's 1896 Collecting Mission in the Russian Empiremaria.vyatchina@gmail.comJune 30th-July 11th