Sergey Glebov
Smith and Amherst Colleges, HSE in Saint-Petersburg
Sergey Glebov has been a visiting professor at the Department of History, HSE-St Petersburg (2013-2014), is an Assistant Professor of History in Smith College and Amherst College. Co-founder and member of the editorial board of the international quarterly Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space. Recent publications include: Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism. Co-edited with Mark Bassin and Marlene Laruelle. Pittsburgh University Press, 2015
Alexander M. Semyonov is the chair of the Department of History, Deputy Director, Co-founder and member of the editorial board of the international quarterly Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space. The expert in intellectual history, the history of the Russian Empire in the XIX-XX, comparative history of empires, colonialism and nationalism. Recent publications include:
The Empire and Nationalism at War / Науч. ред.: E. Lohr, V. Tolz, A. Semyonov, M. von Hagen. Bloomington : Slavica Publications, 2014.
Semyonov A. “Greater Britain” into “Greater Russia”: A Case of Imagining Empire and Nation in the Early Twentieth Century Russian Empire, in: Eutropes: The Paradox of European Empire Issue 7: Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks. P., Chicago : University of Chicago Center in Paris, 2014. P. 25-48.
Semyonov A., Gerasimov I., Mogilner M. >Russian Sociology in Imperial Context, in: Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of A Discipline. L., Durham : Duke University Press, 2013. Ch. 2. P. 53-82.
Jeremy Smith
University of East Finland, Karelian Institute
Jeremy Smith is Professor of Russian History and Politics at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. He has worked extensively on the non-Russian nationalities of the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states, and is author of Red Nations: the nationalities experience in and after the USSR (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Recent publications include: ‘Russia, Crimea, and the New Border Order' La Frontera 34 (2), March 2014
‘Russia's uncertain future after Putin's Crimean adventure' Helsinki Times, 27 March 2014
Professor Suny is a world-renowned historian with an admirable breadth of interests across the Eurasian field in both spatial and temporal terms. Professor Suny’s intellectual interests have centered on the non-Russian nationalities of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, particularly those of the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia). The “national question” was an area of study that was woefully neglected for many decades until peoples of the periphery mobilized themselves in the Gorbachev years. His aim has been to consider the history of imperial Russia and the USSR without leaving out the non-Russian half of the population, to see how multi-nationality, processes of imperialism and nation-making shaped the state and society of that vast country. This in turn has led to work on the nature of empires and nations, studies in the historiography and methodology of studying social and cultural history, and a commitment to bridging the often-unbridgeable gap between the traditional concerns of historians and the methods and models of other social scientists.
Professor Suny's contribution to the theory and history of nationalism in comparative perspective took the form of the pathbreaking monograph, which reconsidered the role of nationalism in the making of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and provided theoretical account for its comparative strengths and weaknesses: The Revenge of the Past (Stanford University Press, 1993). His historical research on nationalism and empire in Russian and Soviet history and in comparative perspective resulted in the following mostly noted by scholars books: A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford University Press, 2001); and A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2011). Add publications on Caucasus, on nationalism, on revolution and the last book on the Armenian genocide.
Professor Suny is the academic director of the international research project Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism at the HSE in Saint-Petersburg
