Tatiana Saburova

Dr. Tatiana Saburova is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Indiana University Bloomington and former Co-Director of the Russian Studies Workshop. She served as Visiting Professor at Indiana University from 2015 to 2017 and Tompkins Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta during the 2017-18 academic year. Additional appointments include visiting scholar at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Fall 2016), Tübingen University (Fall 2013), University of Freiburg (Winter 2013 and Fall 2010 via DAAD), and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Indiana University (Spring 2011). Saburova earned her BA/MA in 1991, PhD in 1996, and Doctorate in 2008. Her research deals with the history of the late Russian Empire, science and exploration of the borderlands, photography, cartography and visual representations of space, linking history, visual studies and Digital Humanities, as well as Siberian Studies.

Her major publications include Mythologies of the Russian Intellectual World: Socio-Cultural Representations of the Russian Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth Century (Omsk: Nauka, 2005); Siberian Society at the Turn of the 19th–20th Century: Social Identity and Behavior Strategies (Omsk, 2009, editor); Friendship, Family, Revolution: Nikolai Charushin and the Generation of Populists in Russia (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2016) and its English version A Generation of Revolutionaries: Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika (Indiana University Press, 2017), both co-authored with Ben Eklof; and co-edited Photographing Central Asia: From the Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence (De Gruyter, 2022). Key articles are Geographical Imagination, Anthropology, and Political Exiles Photographers of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia (Sibirica, 2020); 'Seeing like a Professor' or Shifting Gears: University Temporality and the Pace of Transformation in Post-Soviet Russia (European Education, 2020); and 'Remembrances of the Distant Past': Generational Memory and the Collective Auto/Biography of Russian Populists (Slavonic and East European Review, 2018, with Ben Eklof). Saburova has received the Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award (2020), Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities Faculty Fellowship (2023-24), SHERA Publication Grant (2021), and several other IU grants and fellowships. She is an editorial board member of AvtobiografiЯ, Journal of Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, and teaches courses including The Making of Modern Russia, Siberia: Russia's "Wild East," Photographing History, and Histories of the Cold War.