I am a historian of U.S.–Russian relations, American foreign policy, and the politics of memory, with a particular interest in the international dimensions of the American Civil War and the political uses of history in contemporary Russia.

I am currently Visiting Professor of History at The Ohio State University, where I teach courses on U.S.–Russian relations and the global dimensions of the American Civil War.

My recent English-language books are Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American–Russian Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2025), co-authored with David S. Foglesong and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, and Battle for the Past: How Politics Rewrites History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). My Russian-language book Американцы и все остальные: истоки и смысл внешней политики США (Alpina, 2024) received the 2024 Prosvetitel Prize; an English edition is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2026.

I left Russia after publicly opposing the war against Ukraine and was dismissed from the European University at St. Petersburg in 2024.