Sahar Bostock is a historian of science, technology, and the environment in the modern Middle East, specializing in the history of Palestine/Israel. She received her PhD in History from Columbia University and is currently a Postdoctoral Associate with the Program in...

Azat Bilalutdinov is a PhD candidate in History at Columbia University. His dissertation, “The Russian Empire Adrift: Nationality, Property, Commerce, and Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Black Sea, 1917–1923,” draws on research in more than 40 archives...