Authors

Katerina Guba holds a master’s degree in sociology from the European University at Saint Petersburg and is currently writing her PhD thesis. The focus of her fieldwork is the academic world: she is studying disciplinary attention spaces through citation analysis. She has also participated, under the directorship of Mikhail Sokolov, in a community studies–style project examining the field of sociology in Saint Petersburg. Now she has another opportunity to observe a local academic community from an insider’s perspective as a staff member of a newly established research center for the study of science and technology in Tomsk.

Dina Gusejnova is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Transnational History, University College London, where she is studying the linkages between cosmopolitanism and institutions of war. More generally, she is interested in twentieth-century German and Russian intellectual and political history in transnational and transatlantic perspective. She has published on these topics in English and in Russian. Recently, she has been a contributor in history to the public science website www.postnauka.ru. Gusejnova holds a doctoral degree in history from the University of Cambridge. From 2009 to 2011, she worked as Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

Yvonne Jewkes earned her PhD in criminology from the University of Cambridge and is currently a professor of criminology at the University of Leicester. Her books include Media and Crime; Handbook on Prisons; Captive Audience: Media, Masculinity and Power in Prisons; Crime Online; and Dot.cons: Crime, Deviance and the Internet. She is the editor of the Sage book series Key Approaches to Criminology and, with Ben Crewe and Thomas Ugelvik, is the series editor of Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Jewkes was one of the founding editors of the journal Crime, Media, Culture, winner of the 2006 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’ Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal. Her current research, conducted with Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham) and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), concerns prison architecture, design, and technology in Europe.

Lisa Kings received her PhD in sociology from Stockholm University in collaboration with Södertörn University in 2011, with a thesis on civil mobilization in the Swedish urban periphery. She is currently a researcher at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity, and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University and a senior lecturer at the School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University. Her research interests include urban theory, social movements, and the study of everyday life.

Elena Kochetkova is writing her PhD thesis at the European University at Saint Petersburg; she is also a researcher in the Department of History at the National Research University–Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg). Her research is focused on the transfer of foreign technologies into the Soviet economy during the Cold War. In 2012 Kochetkova was a fellow of the Karen Johnson Freeze Fund, which supports young researchers studying the history of technologies. She has published several articles in English and Russian.

Zhanna Kravchenko received her PhD in sociology from Stockholm University in collaboration with Södertörn University in 2008, with a dissertation on political, normative, and everyday frameworks for work and care reconciliation in Russia and Sweden. She has completed a postdoctoral project at Lund University and currently holds the position of senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University and a researcher at the School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University. Her research interests include sociological theory, comparative methodology, housing policies, social mobilization, and the transition to adulthood.

Judith Pallot is a professor of human geography of Russia at Christ Church College, Oxford and the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. She has been actively involved in research in Russia since the early 1970s and is an authority on the social history of the Russian peasantry, Soviet spatial planning, and, latterly, the Russian penal system. She is the author of numerous books on these topics including Land Reform in Russia, 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin’s Project of Rural Transformation; Russia’s Unknown Agriculture: Household Production in Post-Socialist Russia (with Tat’yana Nefedova); and Gender, Geography and Punishment: The Experience of Women in Carceral Russia (with Laura Piacetini). She began researching the Russian penal system in the early 2000s when she lead a project on women’s imprisonment in Russia in collaboration with Laura Piacentini and Dominique Moran and, for a time, the FSIN Academy of Law and Penal Management in Ryazan’. Her current research project is on prisoners’ relatives in the Russian Federation. She is also the author of the website www.gulagmaps.org, which maps the history and geography of the past and present penal system in Russia and the USSR.