Associate Professor
Education
PhD, History, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
MPhil, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1996
BA, Cambridge University, 1993
Research Interests
Imperial Russia, late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Russian intellectual history; comparisons between Russia, Germany, France and Britain; history of friendship; history of Russian religious thought; history of emotions.
Representative Publications
"Obshchestvennoe mnenie. Ego oblik sverkhu: Neglasnyi komitet Aleksandra I" [Public Opinion: The View From Above. Alexander I's Unofficial Committee], Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 151 (2018).
"Vernost', izmena i predatel'stvo v druzheskoi srede: 1790" [Fidelity, Treason, and Betrayal Among Friends: the 1790s", Trudy Instituta russkogo iazyka im. V. V. Vinogradova. Vol. 9. Istoriia russkogo iazyka i kul'tury: Pamiati V. M. Zhivova, ed. A. M. Moldovan, A. A. Pichkhadze, and Iu. V. Kagarlitskii (Moscow: Institut russkogo iazyka, 2016), pp. 323-339.
"Freemasonry, Secrecy, and Letter-Writing in the 1780s," in "A Century Mad and Wise": Russia in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Emmanuel Waegemans et al. (Groningen: Instituut voor Noord-en Oost-Europese Studies, 2015), pp. 395-406.
"Friends: Gilbert Romme and the Stroganovs," Vivliofika: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies 3 (2015): 70-100.
"Atheism in the Russian Enlightenment," Russian Literature 75, 1-4 (2014): 121-61.
"Stankevič and Hegel's Arrival in Russia," Studies in East European Thought 65, 3-4 (December 2013): 159-174.
Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011).
"Radicals and Feelings: the 1860s" in Mark Steinberg and Valeria Sobol, eds. Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011), 62-81.
"Materialism and the Radical Intelligentsia, 1858-1863," in Gary A. Hamburg and Randall Poole, eds., A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830–1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 69-89.
"A Radical Circle Confronts a Radical Woman: M. L. Ogareva, the Westernizers, and the Problem of Individual Self-Fulfillment," in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 54, no. 2 (2006): 161-189.
"Istoriia kollektivnogo razocharovaniia: druzhba, nravstvennost' i religioznost' v druzheskom krugu A. I. Gertsena – N. P. Ogareva 1830 – 1840-kh gg.," tr. S. Silakova, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 49, no. 3 (2001): 159-190
