Mischa Gabowitsch received his Ph.D. with distinction from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, in 2007. He is currently working on a book, in English, based on his doctoral dissertation, "The Specter of Fascism: Russian Nationalism and its Opponents,1987-2007," which analyzes the ways in which Russian nationalism has been dealt with, conceptually as well as practically, in Russia and internationally, since perestroika. His approach is multi-disciplinary, employing oral history and archival research as well as ethnographic observation and interviews. Past distinctions include the first Einstein Fellowship awarded to live and work in Albert Einstein's summer house in Caputh, Germany. At Princeton he has taught a seminar entitled “Loving and Hating the West,” a comparative historical and sociological analysis at pro- and anti-Western movements across the world, as well as a course on “People, Things, and Animals,” which dealt with classification and the construction of boundaries within and around humanity. He has also offered seminars on French pragmatic sociology and the sociology of memory. In addition to his book manuscript, he is working on a comparative research project on antiracist and antifascist traditions and organizations in different countries, as well as a number of smaller projects on collective memory and cultural institutions in post-Soviet Russia. A past editor of the Russian journal NZ, he is now the editor-in-chief of Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, a bilingual (Russian/English) journal launched in Saint Petersburg in 2009.