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Research
Research interests
- Politics and culture in late Imperial Russia
- Russian identity, Russian nationalism
- Historiography of modern Russia
- Political violence
- Memory
Current research
In the earliest part of my career, I looked at right-wing nationalists in late imperial Russia. This was the subject of my first monograph, The Radical Right in Late Imperial Russia: Dreams of a True Fatherland (Routledge, 2016), which was nominated for the Alec Nove Prize in Russian and East European Studies. The work assessed the changing social dynamics of the populist-nationalist radical right as it emerged in the early twentieth century in Russia. Key concepts examined were national identity, the use of anti-Semitism and the adoption of violence by the major groups assessed.
Following this, I focused on studies of political (mostly secular) martyrdom and martyrology in the revolutionary period in Russian history. The book project connected to this examines cases from 1881 to 1918 and has the unique selling point of assessing cases from right across the socio-political spectrum, from the nationalist right through to revolutionary examples and even Russia’s liberals. A monograph Martyr Cults in Revolutionary Russia is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic, and research articles appearing in (for instance) The Russian Review and The Slavonic and East European Review (both 2022) consider different historical examples.
I am an enthusiastic educator, and this is also reflected in my publications. I edited Reading Russian Sources (2020), part of Routledge’s Guides to Historical Sources series, which won Best Historical Materials for 2020 and 2021 from the American Library Association. I am contracted to write a textbook on late imperial Russia for Routledge together with my colleague Jennifer Keating, titled New Directions in Late Imperial Russia.
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Teaching
I have a broad range of teaching experience in European and world history, but my primary focus is always the history of modern Russia. My current undergraduate teaching consists of a number of modules on Russian history from the early nineteenth century to the present day, and a team-taught module on the radical right.
I have experience of teaching postgraduate students on a variety of modules, with a special focus on the history of Russia considered within a transnational (sometimes European) frame.
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Biography
I am an Associate Professor (senior lecturer) specialising in modern Russian history at the University of Southampton, UK. My own research focuses most closely on events, places and people from the exciting revolutionary period of Russia’s history (c. 1880s-1920s). More broadly I am most interested in social and cultural history, and, in particular, themes of nationalism, national identity and commemorative culture in this same era.
My first monograph, The Radical Right in Late Imperial Russia: Dreams of a True Fatherland (Routledge, 2016) was nominated for the Alec Nove Prize in Russian and East European Studies. I also edited Reading Russian Sources (2020), part of Routledge’s Guides to Historical Sources series, which won Best Historical Materials for 2020 and 2021 from the American Library Association. I am contracted to write a textbook on late imperial Russia for Routledge together with my colleague Jennifer Keating and have a forthcoming monograph tentatively titled martyr cults in revolutionary Russia for Bloomsbury Academic.
I am a member of the British Association of Slavonic and East European studies (BASEES). I am current chair of the Research and Development Committee for BASEES (2025-), having previously held the role of Secretary (2019-22), and been on the R&D committee since 2022. I am also an active member of the Study Group of the Russian Revolution: responsibilities here include conference organizer (2023, 2024). At Southampton, I am co-director for the Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, and I am also affiliated to the Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across the ages. I have a wide range of teaching experience in Russian history and modern European and world history more broadly. In addition to my undergraduate teaching, I would be particularly interested in supervising research students in aspects of modern Russian history.
Prizes
- Reading Russian Sources: Winner of Best Historical Materials for 2020 and 2021, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association (2022)
- Reading Russian Sources: Winner of Best Historical Materials for 2020 and 2021, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association (2022)
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