Category: SlavicFacProfile

What are your current and future research projects? I am currently developing two book projects. The first investigates the introduction of Western-type science to Russia under Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century. I am interested in the the links between scientific knowledge and political and cultural thinking in Petrine Russia and its Western …

What are your current and future research projects? My main research project right now is a book on Alexander Pushkin. Although I had been exposed to Pushkin’s works in one way or another from an early age, I only became fascinated (alright, obsessed) with them while doing my graduate studies at Columbia thanks to the …