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Painting by G. F. Kersting titled "Woman at her Handywork" 1817

Cover of An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (OUP, 2013)

Cover of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays (OUP, 2020)

Cover of A Consumer's Guide to Information: How to Avoid Losing Your Mind on the Internet (Amazon, 2016)

Cover of The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Faberge (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Washington Post Op-Ed

Articles & Book Chapters

Matthew P. Romaniello, Alison K. Smith, and Tricia Starks, eds., The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-present (Bloomsbury, 2020)

I had a wonderful experience contributing to this volume, with my chapter entitled, "The Thickness of a Plaid: Textiles on the Chikhachev Estate in 1830s Vladimir Province."

Cover of Russian-language edited volume on the Regions of Imperial Russia, NLO Historia Rossica series, 2020

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Ekaterina Boltunova and Willard Sunderland, eds, Regions of Imperial Russia: Identity, Representation, Meaning (NLO Historia Rossica, 2020)

Another great experience of conference presentation transformed into an exciting edited volume. My chapter here is "A Regional Paradigm of Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Russia."

“Discovering Russian Regions: Fruits of the Archival Turn in Imperial Russian 2020 History,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 21, no. 4 (Fall 2020) (paywall)

“The Maiden and the Wolf: Law, Gender, and Sexual Violence in Imperial Russia,” Slavic Review 77, no. 1 (Spring 2018), 99-121; co-written with Sergei A. Antonov (paywall)

“’Prayed to God, Knitted a Stocking’: Needlework on a Nineteenth-Century Russian Estate,” Experiment, 22, 1-12 (2016). (paywall)

[(Russian) “Who Was Responsible for Vospitanie in the 19th Century? The Evidence of A. I. Chikhachev on Vospitanie as State Service”)], Herald of St. Tikhonov’s Orthodox University for the Humanities. Series 4: Pedagogy and Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 37, pp. 59-71 (2015).

Review of Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762? 1855 by Alexander M. Martin in Ab Imperio 3/2014 pp. 425-430 (paywall)

Review of From the Womb to the Body Politic: Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia by Anna Kuxhausen in Slavic Review Vol. 73, No. 2 (SUMMER 2014), pp. 426-428 (paywall)

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