Maya Vinokour is an Associate Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU and the author of Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture (Cornell University Press, 2024). Recent academic articles have appeared in journals like Monatshefte, The Russian Review, and Russian Literature. Vinokour has also written on contemporary Russian politics and culture for the Jordan Center Blog, which she edits; for the Los Angeles Review of Books; and for Foreign Policy. Other public-facing writing has appeared in Jacobin, Public Books, and The Boston Globe. With the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Jordan Center, and an NYU University Research Challenge Fund grant, Vinokour and several collaborators have created a public-facing Multimedia Sourcebook of the Russian 1990s, which charts the rise and fall of Russia's only independent public sphere to date, from 1986-2000. During her time as a Visiting Scholar at the IES, she and Sophie Pinkham are working on a joint project on the uses and abuses of history in contemporary Russian literature.