Mie Nakachi is a historian of the former Soviet Union. She earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and teaches at Hokusei Gakuen University in Japan. Her specialty areas are population policy, women, family, gender, and reproductive health. She is the author of Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union (OUP, 2021) and co-editor of Reproductive States: Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy (OUP, 2016). She is currently conducting research on the history of Soviet demographic studies from Ukrainian beginnings through the 1970s.