A.M. LaVey is a scholar-practitioner specializing in eastern Slavic spaces with scientific interests that includes archives and creativity, dance documentation, philately and visual culture. Trained both as an art historian and archivist-librarian, recent scholarship focuses on the archival and curatorial practices used to preserve and disseminate artistic information following the 2020 fraudulent presidential election in Belarus and the accompanying crackdown on Belarusian culture. A practicing dance archivist-librarian, LaVey also conducts research on authority / bibliographic control of dance information, the choreographic works George Balanchine and linked data, dance documentation, and primary source pedagogy for dance education, performance and research. LaVey consults on Slavic bibliography for the American Philatelic Research Library and The Ukrainian Museum.