His areas of expertise include Russian history and the history of colonialism in North America. His recent publications are “The Russian-American Company as a Colonial Contractor for the Russian Empire,” in Alexei Miller and Alfred J. Rieber, eds. Imperial Rule. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2004; “Circumnavigation, Empire, Modernity, Race: The Impact of Round-the-World Voyages on Russia’s Imperial Consciousness.” Ab Imperio, 2001, nos. 1–2; “Why Did Russia Sell Alaska?” Acta Slavica Iaponica, vol. 23, 2006; “Classical Eurasianism and Its Legacy.” Canadian-American Slavic Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2000; Editor and Translator: Petr Savitskii, Petr Suvchinskii, Nikolai Trubetskoi, Georgii Florovskii, Exodus to the East: Forebodings and Events: An Affirmation of the Eurasians. Idyllwild, CA: Charles Schlacks, Jr. Publisher, 1996.