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May 2026 Issue

In the May issue, Tatsiana Shchurko asks why the legacy of Russian and Soviet imperialism remains obscured in scholarship. Zach Rewinski reflects on an opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration. Grant Harward offers a perspective from military history. ASEEES interviews 2025 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize winner Masha Salazkina about her study of melodrama and global popular culture.

ASEEES announces the 2026 Next Generation Dissertation Research Fellows and the 2026 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellows. Read on for information about the 2026 Annual Convention, the Exploring Career Diversity and Mentoring programs, upcoming grant and prize deadlines—and more!

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Articles in This Issue

May 15, 2026

An Interview with 2025 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Winner Masha Salazkina

By NewsNet

There are so many issues in this story that still resonate today: our false assumptions about what could and could not be popular in any given place; the rift between the scholars of cinema and the regular viewers over what touches them; or what is considered “progressive” or “backwards” politically at any given moment.
May 15, 2026

Writing Romanian Military History: Perspectives from a SEEES Scholar with a Day Job

By Grant Harward

Military history is crucial for understanding Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
May 15, 2026

De-Siloing: For Robust Interdisciplinary Engagement

By Zach Rewinski

Seemingly disparate fields of knowledge are not, or at least, need not be, as disconnected as we might imagine.
May 15, 2026

The Afterlife of Empire: Unlearning Russocentrism Through a Feminist Politics of Knowledge

By Tatsiana Shchurko

To understand the endurance of Russocentrism requires to recognize it not as a residue of the past but as a living epistemic formation that continues to organize value.