Broadly speaking, my research focuses on issues of urban poverty and inequality in the late Russian Empire, particularly in Russia's rapidly-growing cities.

My dissertation focuses on the Imperial Russian penny press (1908-18). These newspapers were the first to target Russia's poor and lower classes as their primary audience, and reached large numbers of readers across the Russian Empire in the decade immediately preceding the Russian Revolution of 1917. My dissertation will explore how and why these newspapers were so widespread, successful, and popular, and their influence on the attitudes and behaviour of Russia's lower classes.