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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

Op-Eds, Podcasts, & Guest Blogs

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Guest Blog Posts:

“Work Will Not Save You“, guest post on The Professor Is In Blog

“Stay-at-home dads aren’t as new as you think,” Oxford University Press Blog

Op-eds:

“America has forgotten the value of the humanities at the moment it needs them most” in the Washington Post

“How the British defeated homegrown fascism — and how Americans can do the same” in the Washington Post

“The GOP Is No Longer A ‘Conservative’ Party: They’ve become radical, and they want to remake America” in the Huffington Post

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Screenshot of me as a talking head in The Last Czars

Podcast Appearances, Interviews:

Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree podcast

The Markup: "Plagiarism Detection Tools Offer a False Sense of Accuracy"

Wired: "Coronavirus Campus Shutdowns Hit Some Groups Especially Hard"

New Books in Russian Studies podcast

Flash Forward podcast

Past Loves podcast

The Last Czars on Netflix (episodes 2-5)

HNN “What I’m Reading” interview.

Interview with the Fair Observer

Podcast interview for World of Mom Radio

A selection of my old blog essays

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