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Meet the team

Team members and their individual research projects

Principal Investigator (PI): Stefan B. Kirmse
    • Culture on Trial I: Russian Colonialism, Georgian Jews, and the Translocal History of Blood Libel, 1850-1914
    • Culture on Trial II: Everyday ‘Crime’ in Central Asia. The Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet States Dealing with Bride Kidnapping and the Payment of Bride Price, 1860-present
Doctoral and postdoctoral projects
    • Lucien Turczan-Lipets: Return to Norms: Stefania Shabatura and the Ukrainian Shistdesiatnyky
    • Katie Sartania: The Georgian Perspective on Soviet Legality and Justice: Dissident Activities and the Legacy of Stalin’s Influence (1950-1980)
    • Leo Hedrich: Muslim Parliamentary Groups in the Russian State Duma, 1906-1916
    • Aikaterini Lykoudi: Russian-Ottoman Relations and the Karaite Question in Late Imperial Russia
    • Said Gaziev: The Crimean Tatars and Experiences of Exile in Soviet Central Asia
    • Gevorg Avetikyan: Legal Nationalism: Strategies of Seeking ‘Justice’ in the Post-Stalinist Armenian SSR

Also in the picture: guest scholar Anna Tchintcharauli (Ilia State University, Tbilisi, working on “Forced migration in the Soviet Caucasus: Resettlement and Its Effects through the Oral Histories of Vainakhs and Khevsurs”); our project coordinator Maija Susarina and student assistant Archil Longurashvili.