Tanya Bakhmetyeva

I was trained as a Modern Russian historian with a particular interest in women’s and religious history, but since the publication of my book, Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016; winner of 2018 Harry Koenig Book Award, American Catholic Historical Association), I have broadened my research to add such topics as masculinity, gender and environment, ecofeminism, and gender and national identity. I am currently working on a new book project, How Khrushchev and Brezhnev Went Hunting with Fidel Castro: Political Masculinity and Nature Diplomacy in the Soviet Union. As one of the recipients of 2016 University of Rochester Research Award, I also work on an oral history research project in Ladakh, India where our team conducts a study on local community’s resilience and adaptation to climate change.