For any of you who are masochists, you can now listen to me do my best quiet public radio voice for a whole hour in an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio! We talk about sound, sensory history, Eastern Europe, and politics. www.wpr.org/shows/univer...

Ukraine’s nuclear power plants reduced their electricity production as a precautionary measure due to large-scale missile strikes targeting the country’s energy infrastructure, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement on Nov. 17.

Teaching a couple of courses this semester on the long history of Russian-American entanglement. A few images from recent lectures on the House Un-American Activities Committee, McCarthyism, and the search for enemies within.