Collaborations

Peripheral Histories?

The Peripheral Histories? blog was founded in 2015 as a space to share emerging research by early career scholars on regions and peoples of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union which have been perceived as geographically, politically or culturally “peripheral”. To date, it has posted over 120 blog posts exploring the shifting ways in which “peripherality” has been constructed, the changing status of and relations between “centres” and “peripheries”, and the ways in which borderlands have been remade in particular historical circumstances.

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Anton Kotenko is a research fellow at the Chair of Eastern European History of the University of Düsseldorf. His recent publications include “For Fame and Fortune: The Origins of St Petersburg’s Zoo” published in Urban History in May 2024 as part of his research project “Zootopia: History of Zoological Gardens in the Romanov Empire.” He is collaborating with Catherine on a journal special issue on the urban toponymy of imperial cities and a collaboratively authored volume on thematic maps and cartographic visualisations of entanglements in the Romanov Empire.

Patrick Anthony is a social historian of science, empire, and extractivism who works across Eurasian and world geographies. He is especially interested in trans-regional histories of earth and environmental sciences, as well as survey sciences like geodesy, meteorology, and astronomy, which linked German and Baltic regions of Europe to global processes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His book Unearthed: Science and Environment across Mineral Frontiers is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. Patrick is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Uppsala University with the project “Anthropocene Frontiers: Colonial Climate Science in Siberia and Central Asia.” Catherine is collaborating with Pat on a journal special issue on entanglements in survey sciences across Eurasia.