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My research deals with Mediterranean, Slavic and Eastern Orthodox studies, in particular, Russia’s interest in the Near East in the post-Byzantine period. Currently, I am working on projects related to Russian-Greek relations and a study of Count Grigorii A. Stroganov (1770-1857), the Russian ambassador to Spain, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire. I offer courses on imperial and modern Russia, the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, Greece (ancient and modern), modern Europe, and the history of socialism. I regularly teach courses on the era of World War II and Nazi Germany, and online courses.

Courses Taught at Rider

• Imperial Russia
• Modern Russia
• The Ottoman Empire and the Balkans
• The Era of World War II
• Nazi Germany and Hitler’s Europe
• Ancient Greece
• History of Socialism
• 20th-Century Europe
• Europe since 1715
• World History

Publications

Major projects

• (guest-edited journal issue) , special issue of 2 (2022)
• (editor) (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2017)
• (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
• (co-editor with Mara Kozelsky) (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014)

Recent articles, book chapters and reference entries

• “1821 – A New Dawn for Greece: The Greek Struggle for Independence,” 2 (2022): 144-47.
• &�Բ�����;“The Greek Revolution and Russian Historiography: Trends and Interpretations (1821-2021),” in Yianni Cartledge and Varnava Andrekos, eds., (London: Palgrave, 2022), 271-96. 
• “The Churchwarden’s Quarrel and the Reality of Religion,” in Candan Badem, ed., (London: Routledge, 2021), 273-86.
• “Greece and the Crimean War,” in Candan Badem, ed., (London: Routledge, 2021), 190-202.    
• “La gran crisis de Oriente.” 54 (October 2021): 6-12.
• “El tratado de Berlín: Le mecha que prendería la Primera Guerra Mundial.” 54 (October 2021):  52-56.
• “The Orthodox Church,” in Paschalis Kitromilides and Constantine Tsakoufas, eds., (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021), 122-43.
• “P.A. Tolstoi,” in David Thomas and John Chesworth, eds., , vol. 14. Central and Eastern Europe (1700-1800). (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 596-91.
• “Nikita Zotov,” in David Thomas and John Chesworth, eds., , vol. 14. Central and Eastern Europe (1700-1800) (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 562-66.
• “V.M. Dolgorukov,” in David Thomas and John Chesworth, eds., , vol. 14. Central and Eastern Europe (1700-1800) (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 659-61.
• “Matvei Mironov,” in David Thomas and John Chesworth, eds., , vol. 14. Central and Eastern Europe (1700-1800) (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 632-35
• “Bulgaria during World War II: A Review of Recent Historiography,” 33 (2020): 273-86.
• “,” 53.3 (2019): 286-305.
• “La Cuestión Oriental y los orígenes de la Guerra de Crimea,” 38 (2019):  6-13.
• “,”  in Mika Suonpää and Owain Wright, eds., (London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2019), 57-77. 
• &�Բ�����;“,” in David Goldfrank, Valeria Z. Nollan, and Jennifer Spock, eds., (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2017), 307-32.
• “Europe’s Bellicose Periphery: Russia and the Cretan Insurrection of 1841,” in  , 403-16.    

Recent Reviews

• Alexa von Winning,  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) Russian Review 82.1 (2023): 158-59.
• Paschalis M. Kitromilides, ed., ,  (New York: Routledge, 2021.  40.2 (October 2022): 460-65.
• Mark Mazower,  (New York: Penguin Press, 2021) Journal of Modern Greek Studies 40.2 (October 2022): 460-65.
• Darin N. Stephanov, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020) Ab Imperio 2/2022: 317-20.
• Marie-Janine Calic, The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019) 35 (2022): 306-8.
• Athina Kakouri, (Athens: Pataki, 2020) Journal of Modern Greek Studies 40.1 (2022): 231-33.
• Vladimír Dzuro, The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War. Forward by Carla Del Ponte. (Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2019) 34.1 (2022): 195-96. 
• Matthew P. Romaniello,  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)  jgo.e-reviews 69.1 (2021): 144-46.  
• Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas jgo.e-reviews 3 (2020): 24-28.
• Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019) Terrorism and Political Violence 33.8 (2021): 1810-11.
• Eugene Miakinkov, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020) Journal of Military History 85.2 (2021): 497-99.
• Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019) Terrorism and Political Violence 33.2 (2021): 409-10.
• Mila Dragojević, Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Times of War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019) 34 (2021):  220-22.
• Raz Segal, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016) Terrorism and Political Violence 33.1 (2021): 215-16.
• Vasile Rotaru, Russia, the EU, and the Eastern Partnership: Building Bridges or Digging Trenches? (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2018) 34 (2021): 217-19.
• Scott Jasper, (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2020) Terrorism and Political Violence 33.5 (2021): 1122-23. 
• Ilya Yablokov, (New York: Polity, 2018) Terrorism and Political Violence 33.4 (2021): 886-87. 
• Leslie Chamberlain, (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2020) Ab Imperio 3 (2020): 410-13.  
• Boris Volodarsky, (Yorkshire and Philadelphia: Frontline Books, 2020) Terrorism and Political Violence 32.7 (2020): 1607-8.
• Will Smiley,  (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) American Historical Review 125.2 (April 2020): 616-18. 
• Anna Ohanyan, ed., (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018) Terrorism and Political Violence 32.2 (2020): 416-17.
• Michael Fredholm, (New York: Routledge, 2018) Terrorism and Political Violence 32.1 (2020):  194-95.
• Angela Jianu and Violeta Barbu eds., Earthly Delights: Economies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe, c. 1500-1900 (Leiden: Brill, 2018) 33 (2020): 165-67.
• Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, ed., Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th-19th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2017)  33 (2020): 168-70.
• Andrei Cusco, (Bucharest: CEU Press, 2017) Ab Imperio 4 (2019): 197-201.
• Anna M. Mirkova,  (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017)​​ Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas/jgo.e-reviews 9.3 (2019): 61-63.
• Andrew Robarts, (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) H-Russia, H-Net Reviews (March, 2019).
• Charles Clover, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016)  Terrorism and Political Violence 31.4 (2019):  894-95.
• Liviu Pilat and Ovidiu Cristea,   (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017) Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas/jgo.e-reviews 8.4 (2018): 61-62.
• Michael Provence, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) H-War, H-Net Reviews (August, 2018).
• Yiĝit Akin, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018) Journal of Military History 82.3 (2018): 976-78.
• Oliver Jens Schmitt, ed.,  (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016) Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas/jgo.e-reviews 3 (2018): 85-87. 
• Evrydiki Sifneos, (Boston, Leiden: Brill, 2018) Ab Imperio 3 (2018):  448-52.
• R. P. ​Grišina, et al, (Moscow: RAN, 2014) Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas/jgo.e-reviews 2 (2018): 35-37.
• Olga Katsiardi-Hering and Maria A. Stassinopoulou, eds., (Leiden: Brill, 2017.) Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas/jgo.e-reviews 2 (2018) 46-48.
• Denis Vovchenko, (New York: Oxford University Press. 2016) American Historical Review 122.4 (2017): 1344-45.
• Andreas Schönle, Andrei Zorin, and Alexei Evstratov, eds., (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois Press, 2016) Ab Imperio 3 (2017): 471-72.
• Michail V. Škarovskij, (Moscow: Indrik, 2014) Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas/jgo.e-reviews 1 (2018): 30-31.
• Brian L. Davies. (London: Bloomsbury, 2016) Journal of Military History 81.2 (2017):  554-56.                                                               
• Richard Stites. The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 32/33 (2016/2017): 420-23.

Current Projects

• “Foreign Policy and Aristocratic Culture in Imperial Russia: Count Grigorii A. Stroganov (1770-1857)” (current book project)
• “Russia’s Byzantine Heritage: Sixteenth-century Realities and Nineteenth-century Dreams”
• “The Myth and Reality of Russian Expectation and the Greek War of Independence”
• “Russian Philhellenes and Ionian Russophiles: Tsarist Interventions, Political Experimentation, and Military Traditions in the Ionian Islands (1768-1807)”

Fellowships and Awards

• Faculty Research Fellowship, Fall 2012
• Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, С����Ƶ, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.

Professional Service

• Executive Board, Northeast Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference (NSEEES), 2019-22
• Editorial board, The Library of Modern Russia, I. B. Tauris, 2017-21
• Treasurer, Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC), 2006-13, 2015-17
• Fellowships Evaluator of Research Projects, Rustaveli Foundation, Republic of Georgia, 2009-19
• Board member-at-large Northeast Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference (NSEEES), 2013
• Project Thalis, Greek Ministry of Education and European Union: The Black Sea and Its Port Cities, 1774-1914. Development, Convergence and Linkages with the Global Economy, 2011-13
• Executive Board, Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference (MASC), 2009-12
• Faculty-in-Residence, First-Year Experience Program, С����Ƶ, 2004-7