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I am a lecturer in East European and Eurasian Studies at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu. My research and publications broadly focus on:

• Russian Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries, the independent states of Estonia, Latvia, and Belarus;
• The history of cartography, mapping and geographical sciences;
• The politics of language and nationalism, ethnolinguistic and religious minorities, sub-national and regional identifications;
• Borders, borderlands, and borders regions; physical and imagined borders;
• The politics of memory;
• Social history of religion.

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8564-1223

Recent Publications

• Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic (Oxford University Press, 2022)
• (co-authored with Irina Paert) ‘Apostasy in the Baltic Provinces: Religious and National Indifference in Imperial Russia.’ Past & Present, 255:1 (2022), pp.233–278.
• ‘Experiencing Enumeration: Local Reactions and Resistance to Censuses in Imperial Russia, 1863–81.’ Journal of Social History, 55:3 (2022), pp.615–646,
• ‘Mapmaking in the home and printing house: women and cartography in late imperial Russia.’ Journal of Historical Geography, 67 (2020), pp.71–80.
• ‘Shading, Lines, Colours: Mapping Ethnographic Taxonomies of European Russia, 1851-1875.’ Nationalities Papers, 46:4 (2018), pp.589–611.
• Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, and Catherine Gibson (eds.). The Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Media Coverage

Social Media

Country Focus

Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus

Expertise by Geography

Eastern Europe, Russia

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Local & Regional, Material Culture, Museums, Religion, Science, World War I