Academic Publications

Articles & Book Chapters

“The Poetics of Hunger: Responding to Rupture in the Wake of the 1932-1933 Famine (Holodomor) in Soviet Ukraine” as part of the special issue, “Rupture: When Things Fall Apart.” The Russian Review 83 (January 2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12582

“Let Ukraine Speak: Integrating Scholarship on Ukraine into Classroom Syllabi,” in Ukraine’s Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited eds., Olena Palko and Manuel Férez (The University of New Europe’s book series “New Europes,” 2023). This same article was translated and featured in the Spanish-language edition of the book that also appeared in 2023. See, “Dejar a Ucrania Hablar: Integrando el conocimiento sobre Ucrania en los programas de estudio,” in Descubriendo Ucrania: Su historia, cultura y gente eds., Olena Palko and Manuel Férez Gil (Poledro Editorial de la Universidad San Isidro, January 2023)

“Toward a Social History of the Holodomor and its Aftermath: Famine Survivor Testimonies in the Archive of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine” in Myroslav Shkandrij ed., Documenting the Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine: Archival Collections on the Holodomor Outside the Former Soviet Union (Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2023). This was originally published as an article in a special issue, “Documenting the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: Archival Collections on the Holodomor outside the Former Soviet Union” in Ukraina Moderna 30 (2021).

“Memories of the Masses: Famine, Genocide, and the Politics of Testimony in the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, 1985-1988,” in Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocides ed., Victoria Khiterer (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020)

Book Reviews

Maximilian Hess, Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West (C. Hurst & Company, 2023), H-War, H-Net Reviews (forthcoming)

Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History (W.W. Norton and Company, 2023), Polish Review (forthcoming)

Greta Lynn Uehling, Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2023), The Russian Review (July 2022)

Ray Gamache, Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor (Welsh Academic Press, 2016), Harvard Ukrainian Studies 38: 1-2 (September 2021): 145-148

David Darrow, Tsardom of Sufficiency, Empire of Norms: Statistics, Land Allotments, and Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1700-1921 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), H-Environment, H-Net Reviews (July 2020)

Serge Cipko, Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada’s Response (Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 2017), Europe-Asia Studies (June 2020)

Ola Hnatiuk, Courage and Fear (Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2019), H-Empire, H-Net Reviews (April 27th, 2020)

Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn, eds., Communism and Hunger: The Ukrainian, Chinese, Kazakh, and Soviet Famines in Comparative Perspective (Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2016), East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 6:1 (April 2019): 187-191

Andrij Makuch and Frank E. Sysyn, eds., Contextualizing the Holodomor: The Impact of Thirty Years of Ukrainian Famine Studies(Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2015), East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 4:1(March 2017): 223-227