Education

Georgetown University, Washington DC:  Ph.D., Russian and East European History

University of Rochester, NY: BA, Modern European History (High Honors); BA, Political Science (International Relations)

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Books

    The Tsar’s Colonels. Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia (Harvard University Press, 1998)

    Refereed Journal Articles

    “Armed Ukrainians in L’viv: Ukrainian Militia, Ukrainian Police, 1941 to 1942,” Canadian – American Slavic Studies, vol. 48 (2014), No. 3: 271-287

    “The Third Reich Enlists the New Soviet Man: Eastern Auxiliary Guards at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Spring 1943,” Russian History, vol. 41 (2014), No. 2: 269-282

    “Imperialism, Reform, and Strategy:  Russian Military Statistics, 1840-1880,” Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 74, No. 4 (Oct. 1996): 621-639

    Book Chapters
    “’Aktion Reinhard’ Camp Guards’ Soviet Trials, 1960–1970: The Footsoldiers’ Final Justice,” Katharina Rauschenberger, Joachim von Puttkamer and Sybille Steinbacher (eds.), Investigating, Punishing, Agitating. Nazi Perpetrator Trials in the Eastern Bloc (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2023), 246-263.

    “Law and Accountability, Secrecy and Guilt: The Soviet Reinhard Defendants’ Trials, 1960-1970,” in: Vanessa Voisin, Irina Tcherneva, and Eric Le Bourhis (eds.), That Justice be Done: Society and Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes, 1940s–1980s (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022), 221-256.

    “«Подвійна віктимізація»? Відповідальність радянських військово-полонених за полон та колаборацію у повоєнний час” [A ‘Double Victimization’? Postwar Soviet POWs’ Accounts of Incarceration and Collaboration], Сторінки воєнної історії України, 2019, Vyp. 21: 227-246 [unredacted version published].

    “Das Zwangsarbeitslager Lemberg-Janowska: Arbeits-, Durchgangs- und Vernichtungslager” [Forced Labor Camp Lemberg-Janowska: Labor, Transit and Extermination Camp], commissioned chapter for Zeithistorische Beiträge zu ausgewählten Orten nationalsozialistischer Massenmorde [Places of Nazi Mass Murder — Then and Now], ed. Hanna Huhtasaari and Marin Langebach (Bonn: bpb, 2017), 170-187.

    “Building Foundations for Effective Intelligence: Military Geography and Statistics in Russian Perspective, 1845-1905,” in Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the great to the Revolution, ed. Bruce Menning and David Schimmelpenninck (Cambridge University Press, 2004): 168-188.

    “Russia,” in The Origins of World War I, ed. Holger Herwig and Richard Hamilton (Cambridge University Press, 2002): 188-226

    Conference Proceedings

    “Soviet Witness Evidence of Corpse Disposal in Generalgouvernement Killing Centers, 1942–1944,” in U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Occasional Papers, in press

    “Aktion Reinhard’s Foot Soldiers: Soviet Trophy Documents and Postwar Trials as Sources,” in John Roth and Elisabeth Maxwell, eds., Remembering for the Future: the Holocaust in the Age of Genocides, vol. 1 (Palgrave, 2001): 688-701

    Projects

    ‘In Perfectly Orderly Fashion’: Hungary’s Gendarmerie and the Catastrophe of Hungary’s Jews, Spring-Summer 1944: A Documentary History, with Judit Schulmann and Judit Molnar, manuscript under consideration

    Memberships

    ASEEES USA

    SISSCO Italy

    Memorial Italia

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