Mark A. Soderstrom is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Aurora University in Aurora, IL, where he teaches courses on Russian, Soviet, Environmental, East Asian, and World History. He completed his PhD in History at Ohio State in 2011, and is currently completing a book project tentatively titled “Enlightening the Land of Midnight: Peter Slovtsov, Ivan Kalashnikov, and the Saga of Russian Siberia.”