New Books in Eastern European Studies Creators & Guests

Carol Rittner is a writer and author of the book Advancing Holocaust Studies.

Marko Dumancic is an author.

Jeffrey Veidlinger is an author and Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

Sten Rynning is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark and author of "NATO Renewed" and "War Time."

Dr. Jade McGlynn is an author and Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her research focusses on Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014, propaganda, memory politics, and state-society relations in Russia.McGlynn is a frequent contributor to BBC, Deutsche Welle, The Telegraph and The Spectator. She has published four books about Russia. Her first book, "Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture," was published in 2022.Jade is also often engaged as a public speaker and to consult on issues of foreign policy, diplomacy and defence relating to Russia and Ukraine by governments and organisations in the UK, USA, and beyond.

Gediminas Lankauskas is an associate professor, writer, researcher, and author of the book The Land of Weddings and Rain.

Ayfer Karakaya Stump is an associate professor of history at The College of William and Mary.

Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer.

E. Natalie Rothman is an Associate Professor and Chair of Historical & Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

David Rainbow is an assistant professor in the Honors College at the University of Houston.

Thomas Fleischman is an assistant professor of history at the University of Rochester, writer, and author of the book Communist Pigs.

Yoram Gorlizski is a writer, and author of the book Substate Dictatorship Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union.

Chad Bryant is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina.

Larry E. Holmes is a Professor of History.

Oya Dursun-Özkanca is the Endowed Chair of International Studies and Professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College.

Oleg Khlevniuk is a historian, senior researcher at the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and author of the book Substate Dictatorship Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union.

Kathryn Ciancia is an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writer, researcher, and author of the book On Civilization's Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World.

Linda Kinstler is a writer, journalist, and editor. Currently, she is the Deputy Editor at The Dial Magazine and a contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine.Previously, Kinstler covered British politics for The Atlantic. She has been a contributing writer at Politico Europe, which she helped launch. Before that, she was the managing editor of The New Republic, where she covered the war in Ukraine.Kinstler's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired. Her first book, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends," was published in 2022.

Mariusz Kałczewiak is a cultural historian and author.