Matt Reichert is a Preceptor at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University, where he teaches research design. His research asks about the origins of our beliefs about national identity. His book manuscript, “National Intelligentsias,” explores the role of authors, artists, and professors in shaping how everyday people thought about nationality in the late Soviet period, especially in places like Armenia, Lithuania, and Belarus. His work draws on elite interviews, oral history, primary sources from in and out of the archive, and digitized historical data. He has published in Politics & Society, The Lancet Digital Health, and the Annals of Family Medicine, amongst other journals.