My first book examines the environmental history of economic transformation in the Russian north during the twentieth century. It asks questions about the relationship between nature and power in the Soviet Union, the forms of interaction with the environment that developed in communist systems, and the role of the Arctic in global environmental history. The study is based on an in-depth examination of a range of industries on the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of Russia. I also have several article-length projects that address industrial waste and Soviet environmental performance, the relationship between reindeer herders and conservation scientists, environmental subjectivity in the Soviet Union, and long-term human interactions with Lake Imandra. Future projects will focus on the Tunguska explosion of 1908 and Eurasian climate history.
