Dr. Yelizaveta Raykhlina
Yelizaveta Raykhlina is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU’s Liberal Studies. She received her Ph.D in History from Georgetown University in 2018. Her dissertation examined the newspaper Northern Bee (Severnaia pchela) and journal Library for Reading (Biblioteka dlia chteniia) as sources of a middle-stratum culture, arguing that a non-elite reading marketplace had formed earlier than previously thought, and had a wider reach than traditionally acknowledged. She is now working on her monograph, tentatively titled: The Birth of Imperial Russia’s Commercial Press: Periodicals, Publics, and Social Identity in the Age of Pushkin and Dostoevsky.
Ala Graff
Ala Graff is a PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. She studies the Russian press and its emerging social and political role during the late nineteenth century. Her dissertation “Print and Politics Entangled: The Rise of the Russian Press and Its Influence on Politics and Public Opinion, 1860s-1880s” examines the influence of opinion newspapers on political processes and decision-making in late Imperial Russia. She has written articles on Russian press and politics for The Kennan Institute, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Moscow Times.