Valerie Kivelson Author

Valerie Kivelson is the Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Author of several books on medieval Russia, including Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell University Press, 2013) and Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2006). Sergei Kozlov is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Tyumen (Russia). Joan Neuberger is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Author of several books on modern Russian history, including This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Cornell University Press, 2019).