Dr. Erin Hutchinson is an assistant professor at the Department of History, University of Colorado Boulder. She studies the history of nationalism and culture in the Soviet Union and has conducted research in Armenia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. She graduated from Harvard with a master's in regional studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (via the Davis Center's REECA Program)—and a Ph.D. in history. In 2020-2021, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center. In 2024, she won the Levin Prize from the journal Russian Review for her article “Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period.” Her book Writing the Nation After Stalin: Literature and the Collapse of the Soviet Union was published by Oxford University Press in 2026. Her next projects include a history of the nationalist movements in the USSR during the Gorbachev era and a translation of the diaries of the Soviet Ukrainian writer Oles’ Honchar. She is currently an associate editor at the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.
Last updated October 2026.
