Emily Johnson

Emily D. Johnson is co-director of the Romanoff Center for Russian Studies and the Brian and Sandra O’Brien Presidential Professor of Russian at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie (Penn State University Press, 2006), the editor and translator of Arsenii Formakov, Gulag Letters (Yale University Press, 2017), and, along with Julie Buckler, co-editor of Rites of Place: Public Commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe (Northwestern, 2013). Most recently, she co-edited the volume Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, 2022) with Alan Barenberg.

Session Two | 1:00PM, May 15, 2023

“We Sent What We Could: Postal Communication between Ukraine and the Soviet Gulag in the Post-War Period."