Ania Aizman is an assistant professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures whose work engages 20th and 21st century cultural studies of Russia and East and Central Europe, particularly the intersections of literary, visual, and performing arts with historical events and political ideas. She is currently working on a book called Anarchist Currents in Russian Culture, which tells the stories of artistic, literary, and political anarchists in the Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the Russian Federation. She has written about anarchist influences on Tolstoy and his famine aid initiatives; the memoirs of “Soviet anarchists;” and Russian performance art and documentary theater. Her work has appeared in a range of publications, including The Slavic Review, The Russian Review, the Slavic and East European Journal, The LA Review of Books, and The New Yorker.