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Associate Professor in History, University of Nottingham

Most of my work is concerned to explore historical processes of interaction among 'space', 'populations' and 'power'. My approach is interdisciplinary: I draw on methods and theoretical perspectives from human geography, cultural studies, social anthropology, sociology, economics and political science. Although I primarily conduct my research on twentieth-century Russian and East European history, much of my work is also comparative in approach.

My current research project is a cultural history of early Soviet cartography, which I am completing with funding from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and Leverhulme Trust'

Experience

  • 2004–present
    Associate professor, University of Nottingham
  • 1999–2004
    Senior research fellow, University of Manchester

Education

  • 2001 
    University of Birmingham, PhD in Russian & East European History
  • 1995 
    University of Oxford, MPhil in in Russian & East European Studies
  • 1991 
    University of Oxford, BA/MA in History with Modern Languages (German)

Publications

  • 2022
    Chapters of Accidents. A Writer’s Memoir (co-ed. with Colin Holmes), Vallentine Mitchell
  • 2017
    Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953. Ideologies, Identities, Experiences (ed.), Brill
  • 2009
    Warlands. Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945-50 (co-ed. with Peter Gatrell), Palgrave
  • 2008
    Soviet Karelia. Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia,1920-1939, Palgrave
  • 2007
    The King of Karelia: Col P.J. Woods and the British Intervention in North Russia 1918–1919, Francis Boutle
  • 2004
    Homelands. War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924 (co-ed. with Peter Gatrell), Anthem Press

Grants and Contracts

  • 2024
    The Power of Maps: Cartography and Cultural Revolution in the USSR, 1917-1957
    Role:
    Research Fellowship
    Funding Source:
    Leverhulme Trust
  • 2023
    The Power of Maps: Cartography and Cultural Revolution in the USSR, 1917-1957
    Role:
    Research Fellowship
    Funding Source:
    Gerda Henkel Stiftung