Alexander Kondakov - Böcker

This edited volume honors the research and teaching of Dan Healey in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES). Rather than draw exclusively on those whom Dan has taught, as would a traditional Festschrift, the volume includes contributions from Dan’s former students, as well as his colleagues, who together represent several generations, diverse genders and sexualities, multiple national traditions, and a variety of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The volume seeks to reflect the full range of Dan’s research interests, from Soviet and Russian history to the history of sexuality, medicine, and the Gulag. Essays in the volume represent different genres of writing and pay special attention to Dan’s influence in crossing, breaching, and even breaking the disciplinary, geopolitical, and generational boundaries that have defined REES since the Cold War. When taken together, the volume’s essays demonstrate how Dan’s research and teaching have not simply broadened the scope of REES overall, but just as importantly aided in current efforts to decolonize the field.The volume aims to document the full breadth of Dan’s influence, with each contributor explicitly considering the ways in which Dan’s work has had an impact on them, be it through the archives they consult or the methods and theories they employ. We have asked that contributors limit their essays to six thousand words, so that the volume may have a total of sixteen essays divided into three sections. After an introductory essay by Dan himself, the first section addresses the different methodologies that Dan’s work has inspired and includes an intellectual biography of Dan, while the second section examines how Dan’s research has illuminated the significance of everyday experience. The third and final section turns to transnational flows that transform our understanding of local histories and is followed by a conversation between Dan and Elena Gusiatinskaia, founder of Moscow’s Lesbian and Gay Archive. While a handful of essays address topics and material from contributors’ “desk drawer,” the majority of essays represent fresh research undertaken specifically with the volume in mind.