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Alexander Μ. Martin

Professor of History at University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on Imperial Russia between the mid-18th and mid-19th century. His first monograph was an intellectual and political history: Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries, a study of Russian conservatism in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. His second was an urban history: Enlightened Metropolis, a book that explores the transformation of Moscow into a modern city from the perspective of social, intellectual, and urban history. He has also edited and translated Dmitrii Rostislavov’s Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment, an account of a village boy’s encounter with Imperial Russia’s schools, bureaucracy, and hierarchical social order.

Korinna Schönhärl

Substitute Professor at the KIT Karlsruhe. She qualified as a Professor of Modern History (University Duisburg-Essen) with her postdoctoral thesis on European investment in Greece in the 19th century (European Investment in Greece in the Nineteenth Century. A Behavioural Approach to Financial History, 2020). Schönhärl holds a PhD from Goethe-University Frankfurt (Knowledge and Visions. Politics and theory of the economists around the poet Stefan George, Akademie 2008). Further research foci are the history of economic thought, moral economics and historiographic methodology. Her current research project at Goethe University Frankfurt is entitled “International cultural history of tax morale” and compares discourses on tax paying behaviour in Western Germany, Spain and the USA after 1940

Yanni Kotsonis

Professor of History & Russian & Slavic Studies, NYU, USA. Raised in Athens and educated in Montreal, Copenhagen, London, and Moscow. His first position was at the University of Essex before moving to NYU where he teaches on Russia, the USSR, economic thought, and dystopianism and supervises doctoral students in a variety of subfields. He is the founding director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and father to three children. Winner, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, 2015, Canadian Historical Association for the best book in a topic outside Canadian history, for States of Obligation. Winner, Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for an outstanding monograph on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe, for States of Obligation.