James Nealy

James Nealy received his PhD from Duke University in May of 2022. A specialist in the social, economic, and intellectual history of the Soviet Union and the world, his writing has appeared in Kritika, Revolutionary Russia, and Contemporary European History. He is the co-editor of the volume Soviet Workers in the World: Soviet Labor and Working-Class History in Global Context, which is forthcoming from Lexington Books. His research and writing have been funded by, among others, the Fulbright Program, the American Historical Association, and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Dr. Nealy is the recipient of three writing awards, including the Southern Historical Association’s Parker-Schmitt Award for best dissertation in European history; the Associate for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Tucker-Cohen Dissertation Prize for best dissertation in the history or politics of Russia; and the Contemporary European History Essay Prize. He has previously held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University. He is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University.