Ulvi Ismayil Editor

Mikail Mamedov, of dual Armenian-Azerbaijani heritage, explores the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict through personal and scholarly lenses. Educated at Moscow Lomonosov State University (Diploma), George Washington University (MA), and Georgetown (PhD), he teaches and writes on Caucasus history. Despite health challenges, he continues his work, including Zoom roundtables on the conflict since 2023.

Peter Orte is a visiting professor in Russian at Williams College. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent three years as an English teacher in Baku, Azerbaijan. His research focuses on 19th-20th century Russian literature and the South Caucasus. He has published articles on the work of Tolstoy, Lermontov, Nijinsky, and Akram Aylisli.

Nona Shahnazarian is a Senior Researcher at Armenia’s National Academy of Sciences and leads the Center for Independent Social Research Armenia. She has conducted fieldwork across the Caucasus and Russia, focusing on gender, war, migration, and memory. A former visiting fellow at Stanford and Michigan, she directs the Women in War Think Tank in Yerevan.

Ulvi Ismayil is an independent historian and researcher based in Washington, DC. Originally from Baku, he earned a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota in 2005. His published research explores common stereotypes in Azerbaijani rhetoric regarding the conflict with Armenia, the role of writers, literary depictions of the pursuit of peace, and misguided efforts at heroization.