Kefeli is a specialist of Islam in Eurasia and Central Asia. She conducts fieldwork in Muslim and Christian Tatar villages, which led her to appreciate religious diversity.

Manchester specializes in 19th and 20th century Russian history. Her current research interests include ethnic return migration, diaspora culture, oral history, and autobiographical narratives.

Clay studies the religious history of Russia and Eurasia, the Eastern Christian tradition, confessional identities, new religious movements and the spiritual marketplace in the Russian Empire and its successor states.

Elizabeth Meloy holds a PhD in European history from Brown University. She is a Faculty Fellow in Barrett, Honors College. In 2016, after two years on the Tempe campus, she joined Dr. Tom Martin at Barrett Poly.

Olenina specializes in Russian literature and visual culture, as well as media theory with an emphasis on performance and embodied spectatorship.