The Peripheral Histories? project is run on a volunteer basis by the editorial collective. We are supported by an international advisory board of specialists who supplement our expertise on different regions.
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Editorial Collective:
Siobhán Hearne is currently a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on health, gender and sexuality in late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on the Baltic region. She tweets from @siobhanhearne.
Catherine Gibson is a Lecturer in East European and Eurasian Studies at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research to date has focused on borders, language politics, and science in the Russian Empire in the long nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the Baltic. She tweets from @C_H_Gibson.
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Alun Thomas is Lecturer in Modern History at Staffordshire University. His work to date has mainly concerned the political, social and economic transformation of Central Asia in the early Soviet period, and the memorialisation thereof in the present day. Find him on Twitter @AlunR_Thomas.
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Susan Grunewald is an Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union and the digital humanities. She tweets from @SusanGrunewald1.
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Hanna Matt is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on displacement and relief in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union, with a particular focus on Central Asia. She tweets from @histhannamatt.
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Anastasiia Akulich is a Teaching Fellow in International History at the University of Leeds. Her research explores Sino-Russian interactions in religious and cultural spheres.
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Filippo Boscolo Gioachina is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the literary aspects and cultural exchanges in the Russian Far East and the Sino-Russian border.
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Keith Harrington is an Assistant Professor in Twentieth Century European History at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on separatist violence and minority experiences during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Priska Komaromi is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research focuses on the history of gender, sex work and sexuality in Central Eastern Europe during the state socialist period, especially in Hungary.
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Maksymilian Loth-Hill is a Teaching Fellow in Modern European History at Durham University. He specialises in the social and cultural history of modern Poland (particularly during the period 1945-1989) and his research focuses on public history, museology, memory and identity.
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Eugenia Seleznova is a PhD researcher at Central European University. Her research interests include queer Eastern European and post-Soviet history, gendered histories of Russian and Soviet colonialism, and regional history of art.
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Yevhen Yashchuk is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. His research engages with the transimperial history of East Central Europe through the focus on the Great Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878.
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Former Editors:
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Dakota Irvin is a PhD Candidate in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the Russian Revolution and Civil War in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg, in particular issues concerning local government and state power. He tweets from @ddirvin1.
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Jo Laycock is senior lecturer in history at the University of Manchester. Her current research focuses on migration, refugees and humanitarianism, particularly in Armenia and the South Caucasus. She currently chairs the BASEES Caucasus Study Group. @jolaycock. Jo has now joined our advisory board.
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