Stephen Badalyan Riegg

Congratulations!

The directorship of SSEES has been advertised. Closing date 15th February. Spread the word!
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Jane Burbank Global Legal History Article Prize | American Society for Legal History The Jane Burbank Article Prize in global legal history will be awarded annually to the best article in regional, global, imperial, comparative, or transnational legal history published in the previous...

Historians and legal scholars: please submit your articles for the Burbank Global Legal History prize! Any article published in 2025 is eligible. The deadline is June 1.

I am chairing the committee this year so reach out with any questions!

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Congratulations!

It’s here—all 800 pages of it!

The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy draws on contributions from 45 established and emerging academics to explore the Ottoman Empire and its legacies (from the 18th to the early 21st century).
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Our ASEEES 2025 Books on Display - Cornell University Press Welcome to our virtual booth book display! In coordination with the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies annual convention in Washington, DC, we’ve created this online portal...

Hint: You don't have to be here to get the discount... you can head to the #ASEEES25 @cornellupress.bsky.social virtual booth and use 09EXP40 for 40% off and free domestic shipping. No virtual socks or hats though, unfortunately...
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The Russian Review: Vol 84, No 4 Click on the title to browse this issue

***FREE TO READ ALERT***

For those of you who aren’t subscribed to the journal, ALL articles, featured reviews, and the review essay from the October 2025 issue are free to read THIS WEEK ONLY!

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Please consider donating to Caucasus Heritage Watch, a unique research project based at Cornell and Purdue that documents and monitors abuses of cultural heritage in war zones in the Caucasus using high-resolution satellite imagery.

crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028

Please consider donating to Caucasus Heritage Watch, a unique research project based at Cornell and Purdue that documents and monitors abuses of cultural heritage in war zones in the Caucasus using high-resolution satellite imagery.

crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028

Wonderful news and very well-deserved!

Chino's Gun One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Wherein I write about the staging of the West Side Story in Soviet Armenia in 1963 open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

Coming soon @egasmb.bsky.social www.routledge.com/From-Empire-...

The Russian Review is delighted to have published a thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” in the October 2025 issue. We invite readers to begin with the introductory essay by Mark Bassin, Dmitrii Dorogov, and Mikhail Suslov.
doi.org/10.1111/russ...

What do I mean by "civilization-by-proxy" as a tool of tsarist statecraft in the Caucasus of the 1800s?

Check out my latest article to find out!

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YCIE Research Fellowship Program | Call for applications: 2025–2026 academic year - YCIE Program overview The YCIE Research Fellowship Program is designed to support research in the social sciences and humanities. We welcome applications from scholars at various stages of their academic c...

A terrific research fellowship in Yerevan. Write, work in the archives and libraries, meet friendly and smart colleagues --what more can we ask?
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RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.

What do I mean by "civilization-by-proxy" as a tool of tsarist statecraft in the Caucasus of the 1800s?

Check out my latest article to find out!

muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

Registration link:
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The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (arisc.org) is hosting this valuable event on Zoom on Sept 18 for prospective students seeking graduate training in the US.

Scholars, teachers, and students: Check out our Living Syllabus Collection! russianreview.ku.edu/livingsyllabus

These guides are meant to help teachers create syllabi or course modules that draw on the journal’s past issues, all of which are readily available online.

The AHA's proverbially defeatist rhetoric strikes again: "Banning generative AI is not a long-term solution; cultivating AI literacy is."

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

My book Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union has just been released in paperback at an affordable price. The digital edition is available open access.

SALE STARTS TODAY!

Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print* between Mon., June 23rd + Fri., June 27th.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

* US orders only. Excludes Leuven UP. Not applicable for pre-order books.

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Very much looking forward to reading this when it's out in November! A must for folks interested in Russian peasants, social transformations, and WW I histories.

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Note to researchers coming to work for the first time at the National Archives of Armenia: the building is under renovation and the front entrance is closed. Get in touch if you'd like pics of how to get inside through the back courtyard.

See you soon!

Not this time, unfortunately. But hopefully something will be recorded soon!