Nikolay Tsyrempilov Editor

Melissa Chakars is professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, USA. She specializes in Eurasian history with a focus on the Mongolian and Siberian peoples of Russia. She has published numerous articles, an edited volume, and the monograph The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia in English with Central European Press (2014) and in Russian with Academic Studies Press (2022).

Nikolay Tsyrempilov is associate professor of History at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan and a historian of Inner Asia, specializing in the religious and political history of the Russian and Qing empires. He is the author of numerous works including Under the Shadow of White Tara: Buriat Buddhists in Imperial Russia (Brill 2021). His research explores Buddhism, empire, and identity among Buryat, Mongolian, and Tibetan communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.