People

Daria Boltokova is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago.

Jonathan Bolton is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

Dasha Bough is a stopmotion, hand-drawn and 3D animator, animation director, and documentary filmmaker.

A native of Kyiv, Natasha immigrated to the United States during the Cold War and pursued studies of International Relations at the School of Foreign Service at Geor

Elizabeth Brainerd’s research focuses on labor and health economics, with particular interest in understanding the social and health consequences of the transition to capitalism in formerly socialist countries.

Alex Braslavsky is a scholar and translator of Russian, Polish, and Czech poetry.

Aurel Braun has published extensively on communist affairs and strategic studies with a special focus on the problems of the transformation of the socialist systems in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe.

Olga Breininger-Umetayeva’s research interests lie where culture intersects with politics, anthropology, history, and religion.