A
historian
of
Soviet
Russia,
my
work
is
situated
at
the
intersection
of
cultural
and
political
history,
and
centres
on
interdisciplinary
topics
related
to
collective
memory
and
temporal
culture.
I
am
currently
working
on
Soviet
views
of
the
future.
My
recently-published
monograph,
Monuments
for
Posterity:
Self-Commemoration
and
the
Stalinist
Culture
of
Time
(Cornell
University
Press,
2023)
explored
the
striving
to
“immortalize
the
memory
of
the
era,”
which
undergirded
the
vast
Stalinist
program
of
monument
construction.
Specifically,
I
analyzed
how
this
objective
affected
monument
design,
what
factors
prompted
the
yearning
to
be
remembered,
and
what
the
culture
of
self-commemoration
revealed
about
changing
outlooks
on
the
future—both
in
the
Soviet
Union
and
beyond
its
borders.
My
new
project
studies
regime
censorship
of
utopian
science
fiction,
the
main
forum
for
imagining
and
popularizing
visions
of
the
future.
My
research
reveals
that
irrespective
of
declining
“belief,”
imaginings
of
the
communist
future
remained
vibrant,
variegated,
and
contested.
Contrary
to
established
views,
utopianism
did
not
ossify
in
the
late
Soviet
period,
but
changed
its
character
and
functions,
with
complex
ramifications
for
both
Soviet
ideology
and
cultural
life.
Education
-
B.A.
University
of
Alberta,
2013
-
M.
Phil.
University
of
Oxford,
2015
-
D.
Phil.
University
of
Oxford,
2019
Selected
Publications
-
2023 Monuments
for
Posterity:
Self-Commemoration
and
Stalinist
Culture
of
Time. Ithaca:
Cornell
University
Press.
-
2020
“Historicist
Architecture
and
Stalinist
Futurity” Slavic
Review 79.3:
591-612.
-
2018
“Stalinist
Crimes
and
the
Ethics
of
Memory.” Kritika:
Explorations
in
Russian
and
Eurasian
History 19.3:
599-626.
-
2018
w/
Thorsten
Holzhauser.
“Communist
Successors
and
Narratives
of
the
Past:
Party
Factions
in
the
German
PDS
and
the
Russian
CPRF,
1990-2005.”
In Historical
Memory
of
Central
and
East
European
Communism.
Edited
by
Agnieszka
Mrozik
and
Stanislav
Holubec,
41-73.
Abingdon:
Routledge.
-
2017
“Strength
in
Diversity:
Multiple
Memories
of
the
Soviet
Past
in
the
Russian
Communist
Party
(CPRF),
1993-2004.” Nationalities
Papers:
The
Journal
of
Nationalism
and
Ethnicity 45.3:
370-392.
-
2016
“Interpellation
in
the
Late
Soviet
Period:
Contesting
the
De-Ideologization
Narrative.” Canadian
Slavonic
Papers 58.1:
23-48.
