He has published extensively on the history of the human sciences in Russia and concepts of identity in Russian culture. His most recent work is ““Geography, Race and the Malleability of Man: Karl von Baer and the Problem of Academic Particularism in the Russian Human Sciences.” Centaurus: An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects, v. 59, no. 1-2 (Feb/May 2017): pp. 97-121. He is currently working on completing a monograph on the history of Russian ethnography.