| May 15, 2026 | This website was created. |
| Apr 10, 2026 | Echoes of the American Civil War Abroad: Perceptions, Identities, and Historical Memory, co-edited with Victoria I. Zhuravleva, forthcoming from Bloomsbury in September 2026. |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Americans and All the Rest: Identity and Foreign Policy in U.S. History — English translation of the 2024 Prosvetitel award–winning book — forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in June 2026. |
| Jan 16, 2026 | Designated a “foreign agent” by the Russian Ministry of Justice. RASA statement of support. |
| Jan 08, 2026 | Teaching two undergraduate courses at Ohio State this spring: “Civil War and Reconstruction: Global Perspectives” and “History of U.S.–Russian Relations.” |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Signed with Routledge as co-editor (with Vladimir Gel’man and Sari Autio-Sarasmo) of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Russian History. |
| Nov 01, 2025 | Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American–Russian Relations, co-authored with David S. Foglesong and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, is out from Cambridge University Press. |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Book chapter “History as a Political Language” published in Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe: Infested with History (Routledge, 2025). |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Joined The Ohio State University as Visiting Professor of History for 2025–2026. |
| Jul 15, 2025 | New edition of Carl W. Ackerman’s Trailing the Bolsheviki: Twelve Thousand Miles with the Allies in Siberia, edited and annotated, is out from Anthem Press. |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Teaching at the Middlebury College Summer Russian Language School — courses on the history of Russian–American relations and the politics of memory. |
| Jun 01, 2025 | Battle for the Past: How Politics Rewrites History published by Palgrave Macmillan (English translation of the 2022 Russian original). |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Returned to Wellesley College as International Scholar in Residence for the Spring 2025 semester. |
| Dec 01, 2024 | Американцы и все остальные [Americans and All the Rest] (Alpina, 2024) won the Prosvetitel award for the best non-fiction book in Russian. English translation forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in June 2026. |
| Sep 01, 2024 | Joined Bowdoin College as Visiting Tallman Scholar in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for Fall 2024. |
| May 08, 2024 | Public lecture at Dartmouth College on Russian society during the war in Ukraine. |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Delivered the Cornille Lecture at Wellesley: “Political Use and Misuse of the Past in Russia, America, and Elsewhere.” |
| Mar 05, 2024 | Dismissed from the European University at St. Petersburg after signing an anti-war petition. The Moscow Times coverage. |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Spoke at Wellesley College and Harvard’s Davis Center on what the Russian people think about the war and its mastermind. |
| Jan 22, 2024 | Began appointment as Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. |