About
I am a research fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia, specialising in the history of science in the Russian Empire in the long nineteenth century. I defended my PhD in May 2019 with a thesis examining how local populations in the Baltic provinces understood and participated in the production of cartographical knowledge about the Russian Empire and its peoples.
Co-editor of the scholarly blog Peripheral Histories?: A collaborative digital history of the Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet provinces, localities, and republics. https://peripheralhistories.wixsite.com/Education
PhD, European University Institute
MRes, European University Institute
MA, Social Science: Baltic Sea Region Studies, University of Tartu
MA, IMESS, School of Slavonic and European Studies, UCL
MA, Modern History and English, University of St Andrews Publications
(Selected)
- ‘Experiencing Enumeration: Local Reactions and Resistance to Censuses in Imperial Russia, 1863–81.’ Journal of Social History, 2021.
- ‘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).
Memberships
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS)
British Association of Slavic and East European Studies (BASEES)
