I am a historian of the Caucasus, Armenia, Central Asia, and the Russian North in the modern period. I received a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University (2024), an M.A. in Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies from Columbia University (2016), and a B.A. in Russian and Slavic Studies from New York University (2014). I am currently a visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. I have previously been a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute of Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University and have taught at Princeton University, Kean University, Union County College, and Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology. My research has been published by various peer-reviewed journals, including Nationalities Papers, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, the Caucasus Survey, Ab Imperio, and Slavic & East European Journal. My research topics include nationalism, national identity, national cultural expression, totalitarianism, geopolitics, mass atrocities, and inter-ethnic conflict. I speak, read, write, and conduct research in thirteen languages--English, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Portuguese, French, Italian, Armenian (Eastern and Western), Georgian, Uyghur, Uzbek, and Belarusian (in addition, I also have reading proficiency in Crimean Tatar and Kazakh).