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Recent publications

Bekus, N. 2005 "Baikonur as a Sacrifice Zone: Eco-Nationalism, Sovereignty, and Outer Space", in Cosmic Fragments. Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age, ed. Asif Siddiqi, 119-135, University of Pittsburgh Press. 

Bekus, N. 2024. “Protecting Culture Through International Law in the Postwar World,” in Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies, Raluca Grosescu, and Ned Richardson-Little (eds), 163-184, Oxford UP. 10.1093/9780198920205.003.0008 

Bekus, N. 2024. “Conflicting Temporalities of Socialist Urbanity. Modernisation vis-à-vis Architectural Heritage in Minsk.” in Time and Material Culture, edited by Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, Federica Rossi London: Routledge.  

Kobak, D., Bessudnov, A. Ershov, A., Mikhailova, T. Raksha A. 2025 “War Fatalities in Russia in 2022–2023 Estimated Via Excess Male Mortality: A Research Note”. Demography https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11862998 

Bessudnov, A., Tarasov, D., Panasovets, V. et al. Predicting perceived ethnicity with data on personal names in Russia. J Comput Soc Sc 6, 589–608 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-023-00205-y 

Dupré, C. 2024.Hungary's attacks on human dignity: Article 2 TEU and the foundations of democracy in the European Union.” Eur Law J. 30(3): 260-283. doi:10.1111/eulj.12526 

Çelik, S., Luke C., Roosevelt CH. 2024. “Ottoman lakes and fluid landscapes: Environing, wetlands and conservation in the Marmara Lake Basin, circa 1550–1900.” Environment and History 30(1): 53–76. 

Luke, C., Çelik, S. 2023. “Princeton’s Gift to Turkey”: Exploring the Political Matrix of the Orpheus Mosaic from Jerusalem and Late Ottoman Sardis. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 1 December 2023; 11 (4): 419–437. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.4.0419 

Gallaher, B. 2025. “Human Rights: a Sophiological Reenvisioning. Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (published online ahead of print). https://doi.org/10.1163/17831520-20240043 

Gallaher, B. 2024. “Chalice of Eternity: An Orthodox Theory of Time.” in Time and Propinquity: An Anthology of Fiction and Philosophy, eds. Mike Sauve and David Matthew. San Francisco/Toronto: Montag Press/ghosTTruth, 26-59. 

Gallaher, B. 2024 “An Alternate Modernity for Orthodox Christianity?-Two Challenges from Western Modernity--Sexual Diversity and Nationalism.” Performing Christianities Differenzfähigkeit des Christlichen in planetarem Kontext 247-287.

Heathershaw, J., Prelec, T. and . Mayne  2024  Indulging Kleptocracy: British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption, Oxford Academic.  

Heathershaw, J. 2024. Security after Christendom Global Politics and Political Theology for Apocalyptic Times, Wipf and Stock Publishers. 

Cooley, A., Heathershaw, J., & Soares de Oliveira, R. 2023. “Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism. European Journal of International Relations, 30(2), 382-407. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661231186502 

Joe Andrew, Katharine Hodgson, Robert Reid, Alexandra Smith, 2025.  “Introduction,” in Joseph Brodsky and Modern Russian Culture, Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Brill.  

Hodgson, K. 2024. “Yevgenii Yevtushenko: The Last Soviet Poet in the Post-Soviet Afterlife.” In: Boele, O., Schellens, D. (eds) Reading Russian Literature, 1980–2024. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69816-3_5 

Lavrenteva, K. 2025. Gatekeeping Access: Exploring Open Access Challenges for Museum Collections Held in Russia Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 12(2).

O'Mahony, A. and E. Loosley (eds) 2024.  Christian responses to Islam Muslim-Christian relations in the modern world. Manchester University Press. 

Loosley Leeming, E. 2024. “Syria and Palestine in the Byzantine Empire,” Medieval Studies, Oxford Bibliographies, DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195396584-0332 

Lygo, E.  2022. Russian Poetry and Cold War Politics in the West. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.

Maguire M., McAteer C (eds). 2024. Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context. Open Boks Publishers. 2024 10.11647/OBP.0340.00 

Maguire, M. 2024. “Russian Literature in the Anglophone Nations,” in Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context 673-684, Open Book Publishers 2024 10.11647/OBP.0340.41 

Maguire, M 2024. "A Melmoth? a cosmopolitan? a patriot?’: Melmoth the Wanderer's Russian Epigones," Gothic Studies vo. 26, No. 2, pp. 148-164 

Maguire, M. 2023. Stalin’s Ghosts. Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang Verlag. 

Mark, J. Baker C, Iacob BC, Imre A. (eds.) 2024. Off White Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race  Racism, Resistance and Social Change. Manchester University Press. 

Mark, J. 2023. “The Travelogue: Imagining Spaces of Encounter—Travel Writing Between the Colonial and the Anti-Colonial in Socialist Eastern Europe, 1949–1989,” in Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War edited by Kristin Roth-Ey, London, Bloomsbury Academic.  

Mark, J. Betts, P. 2022. Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonization. Ed. James Mark and Paul Betts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

McCallum, C. E. 2024. “We Know What War Is”: Veterans, Soldiers, and Military Masculinity in the Soviet “Fight for Peace," c. 1955–65," The Russian Review. 83. 548–572. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12661 

McGinity-Peebles, A. 2024. “Cinematic queering of the Russian heartlands: Three case studies from the 2010s,” Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, Volume 9, Issue 3, 257 – 276 

Coutu, C. Finbog, L-R., McGinity-Peebles. A. et al. 2024. Ambiguous geographies between water and land Mediating Arctic wetlands in scientific discourse, film, and television” in The mediated Arctic Poetics and politics of contemporary circumpolar geographies. Manchester University press.  

Aquilina, K., & Mulaj, K. 2024. “The International Criminal Court and responsibility for mass atrocities: Can JCE enhance capacity to hold masterminds accountable?” Contemporary Justice Review, 27(2–3), 132–156. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2024.2364034 

Oskanian, K. 2023 “Beyond the core: Conceptualising Russia's Hybrid Exceptionalism in times of war.” In Exploring Russia’s Exceptionalism in International Politics, edited by Raymond Taras. Routledge,  

Oskanian, K. “Beyond State and Hegemony: International Orders as Anarchic Meta-Fields,” International Studies Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 2, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad034 

Outeram, A. Librado, P., Tressières, G., Chauvey, L. et al. "Widespread horse-based mobility arose around 2200 bce in Eurasia," Nature 631, 819–825 (2024). 

Cianetti, L, Del Panta G., Owen C.  2025. “What is a “Regime”? Three Definitions and Their Implications for the Future of Regime Studies,” Democratization, http://hdl.handle.net/10871/140645 

Loke, B., Owen, C. 2924. "A contextual approach to decolonising IR: Interrogating knowledge production hierarchies." Review of International Studies. Published online. 1-21. doi:10.1017/S0260210524000639 

Qin, X., Owen, C. 2023 “The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai." J OF CHIN POLIT SCI 28, 619–644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-022-09838-8 

Phillips, B.Back to the Other Shore: The Prerevolutionary Russian Emigration,” Kritika Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2024  25(1):195-206 J10.1353/kri.2024.a919530 

Phillips, B. Gilbert G, 2024. "Introduction: Political Martyrdom in Late Imperial Russia." The Slavonic and East European Review 102(1):1-12. 10.1353/SEE.00001 

Phillips, B. “The Sozonov Case, 1910: The Making of a Russian Revolutionary Martyrology,” The Slavonic and East European Review 102(1):126-152, 2024  

Rendle, M., & Retish, A. B. 2025. ‘Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives and Lenin will always Live!’ The Centenary of Lenin’s Death. Revolutionary Russia, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2025.2457843 

Rendle, M. 2023. "Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Legacy of the ‘Archival Revolution.’" Revolutionary Russia, 36(2), 167–174. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2023.2304449 

Shumylo, S. 2024. "The Participation of Athonite Monks in church and cultural processes in the 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth territories," Rocznik Teologiczny. Chrześcijańska Akademia Teologiczna w Warszawie LXVI – z. 1, 27-52.

Shumylo, S., Lastovskyi, V. 2024. "Heroism of Ukrainian People in 20th and 21st Centuries." In: Scott T. Allison, James K. Beggan and George R. Goethals. (eds) Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies, Springer, Cham.

Shumylo, S. 2024. "Crise de l’orthodoxie ukrainienne : tendances, défis et moyens de les surmonter." In: Les églises et la construction de la paix en Ukraine, ed. by Prof. Antoine Arjakovsky. Paris: L’Harmattan, 47–60.

Skidelsky, E. 2024. “Economics and Three Faces of Prudence." In: Róna, P., Zsolnai, L., Wincewicz-Price, A. (eds) Homo Curator: Towards the Ethics of Consumption. Virtues and Economics, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51700-6_9