Yelizaveta Raykhlina-Khidekel is a historian of modern Russia and Eurasia, having received her Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University in 2018, and an information security analyst currently earning her M.S. in Cybersecurity at Fordham University.

Her historical research focuses on the intersection of empire, commerce, networks, and the press, and her work has appeared in the journals Russian History, Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Europe-Asia Studies, and REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Her forthcoming first book examines the rise of a professional and commercial press in the Russian empire in the 1820s–60s and the role of non-nobles, women, and ethnic and religious minorities in its creation. She is also currently editing a volume on press history in Imperial Russia and is working on an English translation of Avdot’ia Panaeva’s 1889 Memoirs.

Raykhlina-Khidekel has taught seminars at Georgetown University’s Department of History and at New York University’s Liberal Studies, and her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. She is the co-founder of Gazeta Workshop, a research group for scholars of Russian, East European, and Eurasian press history. She currently serves as the General Manager of the Lazar Khidekel Society and has co-curated exhibitions of contemporary art as well as 20th-century Avant-garde Eastern European art.

Historical research interests:

Modern Russian and Soviet history; cultural and social history; print culture; urban history; women’s participation in commerce and the professions; transnational and global history; network analysis.