contributorsxvethnic relations in the post- Soviet world and the former Eastern
Europe.
Natalya Kosmarskaya is Senior Researcher at the Centre for
Central Eurasian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian
Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia). She is also a Deputy
Editor in Chief of the Russian language academic journal
Diaspory. Her areas of research are ethnic and diaspora studies,
migration studies, urban sociology and Central Asian studies.
Within these broad disciplines, she has prioritized post- Soviet
migration to Russia, the position of the Russian- speakers in
the newly independent states, trajectories of ethnic/social iden-
tity change in the post- Soviet (urban) context, adaptation of
immigrant/minority communities and their relationships with
the receiving population in different ethno- cultural milieus and
formation and (de)construction of ethno- cultural stereotypes.
Kosmarskaya has published extensively on the above- mentioned
topics in Russian and English (more than seventy publications,
including two books). She has contributed to a number of col-
lected volumes and to academic journals both in Russia and in the
West, such as Acta Eurasica, Ethnographic Review, Nationalism
and Ethnic Politics, Nationalities Papers, Europe–Asia Studies,
Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development and
Russian Journal of Communication. Her last book is ‘Children
of the Empire’ in Post- Soviet Central Asia: Mental Shifts and
Practices of Adaptation (Russians in Kyrgyzstan, 1992–2002)
(Natalis, 2006, in Russian).
Marlene Laruelle is Research Professor of International Affairs
and Associate Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and
Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School of International
Affairs, George Washington University, USA. She explores con-
temporary political, social and cultural changes in Russia and
Central Asia through the prism of ideologies and nationalism. She
has authored Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2008), In the Name of the Nation:
Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (Palgrave,
2009) and Russia’s Strategies in the Arctic and the Future of