Sarah Cameron is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, with research interests in genocide and crimes against humanity, environmental history, and the societies and cultures of Central Asia. Broadly, her work has explored how greater attention to the Soviet Union’s eastern periphery might challenge conventional understandings of the Soviet field. Her book on the Kazakh famine of the 1930s, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Cornell University Press, 2018), won numerous awards in the United States. It also provoked intense discussion in Kazakhstan, where the famine remains a largely forbidden topic, in part due to the country’s close relationship with Russia. At present, she is working on a new book about the causes and consequences of the demise of Central Asia’s Aral Sea. In 2022, she was named a Carnegie Fellow.
Sarah Cameron
Guest Speaker
Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park
