Open Research Laboratory and Summer Research Laboratory alumni publish articles, book chapters, and monographs that help shape the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Find below the 2023 publications that have resulted from research conducted at the Research Labs:
Anna Batori
Batori, Anna. 2024. The Extreme Cinema in Eastern Europe: Rape, Art, (s)Exploitation. Edinburgh University Press.
Molly Blasing
Blasing, Molly. 2024. “Pathways for Engaging Climate, Energy, and Sustainability in the Russian Language Classroom.” In Teaching Russian Through STEM: Contexts, Tools, and Approaches, edited by Svetlana Nuss and Maria Khotimsky. Routledge.
Timothy K. Blauvelt
Blauvelt, Timothy. 2024. “The Ukrainian Gambit: The Sacking of L.H. Mel’nykov and the Post-Stalin Succession.” Europe-Asia Studies, October 31, 1–17.
Blauvelt, Timothy. 2024. “Institutional and ‘Clan’ Conflict in the Interwar Georgian and Transcaucasian Political Police, 1921-1939.” Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas 25 (2): 44–76.
Blauvelt, Timothy. 2024. “E.H. Carr and the Soviet Nationalities.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 25 (2): 359–80.
Blauvelt, Timothy, and Ketevan Akhobadze. 2024. “Perspectives on the August 1924 Uprising in Georgia.” Caucasus Survey, August 15, 1–24.
Greta Bucher
Bucher, Greta. 2025. “Midwifing Modernity: Popularizing Modern Health Care for Women in Late Imperial Russia.” The Russian Review 84 (1): 51–71.
Andrew Buck
Buck, Andrew. 2024. “Critical Letter Writing and Deliberation during the Brezhnev Era.” Europe-Asia Studies 76 (4): 590–612.
John P. Burgess
Burgess, John P. 2024. “A Nation’s Right to Exist: Insights from Christian Ethics for the War in Ukraine.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 44/2: 321–39.
Laura Dean
Dean, Laura A., and Kocha Changelia. 2024. “The Social Construction of Human Trafficking Victims in the Russian Media.” European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, ahead of print, June 24.
Ben DeDominicis
DeDominicis, Benedict Edward. 2024. “Russian Irredentism, Authoritarian Populism, Regime Evolution, and Strategic Corruption: Current Trends in Macro Comparative Perspective.” The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies 20 (1): 1–26.
Sylvain Dufraisse
Dufraisse, Sylvain, and Cécile Pichon-Bonin. 2024. “‘Fiz! Kul´t! Ura!’. Moulding Young Soviets through Physical Activity.” Translated by Augusta Dorr. Cahiers d’histoire Russe, Est-Européenne, Caucasienne et Centrasiatique 65 (1): 19–30.
Dufraisse, Sylvain. 2024. “Le Kremlin et l’olympisme. Divergences et Convergences Entre Visions et Pratiques de l’internationalisme.” Revue d’histoire Culturelle 8: 1–17.
Dufraisse, Sylvain. 2024. “Construire La Collaboration Sportive Franco-Soviétique. Le Rôle de l’ambassade d’URSS à Paris (Années 1950-Années 1980).” Revue Des Études Slaves XCV/1-2: 85–97.
Dufraisse, Sylvain. 2024. “Recompositions Des Espaces Sportifs Soviétiques et Post-Soviétiques (Années 1980-1990).” Sciences Sociales et Sport 2 (24).
Dufraisse, Sylvain, and Cecile Pichon-Bonin. 2024. “Fiz ! Kul´t ! Ura ! » : Former, Par Le Corps, l’enfance et La Jeunesse Soviétiques. Introduction.” Cahiers d’histoire Russe, Est-Européenne, Caucasienne et Centrasiatique 65 (1): 9–18.
Sibelan Forrester
Forrester, Sibelan E. S., and Olʹga Simonova-Partan, eds. 2025. The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis. Myths and Taboos in Slavic Cultures. Academic Studies Press.
Tom Grusiecki
Grusiecki, Tomasz. 2024. “Sigismund III of Poland, Persian Carpets, and the Pitfalls of Provenience.” In The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art, edited by Stephen J. Campbell and Stephanie Porras. Routledge.
Grusiecki, Tomasz, and Olga M. Hajduk. 2024. “Art of Renaissance Poland-Lithuania.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford University Press.
Irina Ivliyeva
Ivliyeva, Irina. 2024. “Maximizing Student Learning Outcomes in ‘Scientific Russian:’ A Case Study.” In Teaching Russian Through STEM: Contexts, Tools, and Approaches. Routledge Series on Russian Language Pedagogy and Research.
Ivlieva, Irina Valentinovna. 2024. “Rol’ Mikro- i Makrostruktury Slovaria Terminov v Reshenii Zadach Sinteza Russkogo Glagola.” Society and Science: Future Development, July 19, 149–64.
Ivliyeva, Irina, and Perry Koob. 2024. “Multi-Dimensional Scaling of Web-Scraping Results from the A.A Zalizniak Grammatical Dictionary and the Russian National Corpus. Creating a Corpus Fragment of All Possible Word-Forms of Modified Russian Sound Verbs Using Web-Scraping Methodology. Compilation of a Summary Table for the Present Tense, Past Tense, Future Tense, Imperative, Imperfective and Perfective Gerund Forms.” Research Data 12.
Agnes Kefeli
Kefeli, Agnes. 2024. “Ildar Khanov’s Temple of All Religions in Kazan.” In Dwelling in Parallel Worlds. Esoteric and New Age Milieus in the Late and Post-Soviet Period, edited by Birgit Menzel and Anna Tessmann. New Religious Milieus and Spiritualities in Eastern Europe. LIT Verlag.
Andrei Korobkov
Korobkov, Andrei. 2024. “Labor Markets and Migration.” In The Elgar Companion to the Eurasian Economic Union, edited by Alexander Libman and Evgeny Vinorurov. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Liana Kupreishvili
Kupreishvili, Liana. 2024. “Unamuso of Tiflis: Urban Women in Pre-Revolutionary Georgia.” Caucasus Survey 13 (1): 1–24.
Julia Leikin
Leikin, Julia. 2024. “Russia’s Mediterranean Moment: Constellations of Sovereignty and the Making of a Region, 1770-1830.” Journal of Modern History 96 (1): 78–118.
Elphinston, John. 2024. Russian Faith, Honour, & Courage Displayed in a Faithfull Narrative of the Russian Expedition by Sea in the Years 1769 & 1770. Edited by Leikin, Julia and Smilianskaya, Elena. Published by The Boydell Press for the Hakluyt Society.
Alexander McConnel
McConnell, Alexander. 2024. “‘Tragic Presentiments’: Maksim Gor΄kii and the Invention of Soviet Humanism.” Slavic Review 83 (2): 300–317.
Melissa Miller
Miller, Melissa. 2024. “Keywords in the Critical Medical Humanities: A Model for Research and Teaching.” 4S Backchannels Report-Backs, Society for Social Studies of Science, July.
Miller, Melissa. 2024. “Pregnancy and Writing the Female Body in Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s The Kukotsky Case.” All the Russias, the Blog of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU, January.
Erika Monahan
Monahan, Erika. 2024. “Bukharan Trade Networks in Eurasia.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press.
Monakhan, Ėrika. 2024. Sibirskie kupt︠s︡y. Torgovli︠a︡ v evrazii rannego Novogo vremeni. New Literary Observer.
Sean Pollock
Smith-Peter, Susan, and Sean Pollock. 2024. “How the Field Was Colonized: Russian History’s Ukrainian Blind Spot.” Russian History 50: 145–56.
Smith-Peter, Susan, Sean Pollock, Alexander Hill, et al. 2024. “Periodization as Decolonization.” Russian History 50 (3–4): 157–84.
Pollock, Sean. 2024. “‘A True Russian Soldier’: Fabius Larionovich’s Less‐Is‐More Art of War.” The Russian Review 83 (2): 272–76.
Assel Rustemova
Tutumlu, Assel, Burak Önemli, and Ilyas Rustemov. 2025. “Deciphering Dictators’ Discourse on Indigenous Democracy: A Case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan.” Central Asian Survey 44 (1): 64–84.
Imyarova, Zulfiya, and Assel Tutumlu. 2024. “RETRACTED: Civilian Protective Agency in the Communal Attacks by the External Groups in Kazakhstan.” Frontiers in Political.
Danko Sipka
Šipka, Danko, and Wayles Browne, eds. 2024. The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press.
Saera Yoon
Yoon, Saera. 2024. “Flipping the Colonialist Paradigm: Grigorii Chkhartishvili’s Akunin.” The Russian Review 83 (2): 243–57.
Luyang Zhou
Zhou, Luyang. 2024. “China’s Observations of the Nationalities Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1949 to 2011.” Nationalities Papers 52 (6): 1332–50.
Zhou, Luyang. 2024. “How the First Revolution Affected the Second: The Setback of the Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1920s.” Modern Asian Studies 58 (2): 448–84.
Zhou, Luyang, and Li Wenrong. 129AD. “The US Sociological Studies on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.” Twenty-First Century 206.
Sergei I. Zhuk:
Zhuk, Sergei I. 2024. The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946-2024. 1st ed. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic.
Zhuk, Sergei I. 2024. “Soviet Studies in the West, the Russian Fight against America, and the Case of Ukraine.” In The Unpredictable Past? Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
Zhuk, Sergei I. 2024. “Geopolitics of Ukraine in History Writing of Post-Soviet Space.”. In The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics, by Sergei Zhuk. Springer Nature Switzerland.
Zhuk, Sergei I. 2024. “The Americans and ‘Sleeper Cells’ of Russian Intelligence in America: A Story Behind the TV Show.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 50 (2): 125–39.