Brigid O’Keeffe

Assistant Professor, History, Brooklyn College

Brigid O’Keeffe’s book, New Soviet Gypsies, examines how, during the first two decades of Bolshevik rule, Soviet nationality policy enabled Roma to refashion themselves as conscious, integrated Soviet citizens. O’Keeffe has also begun a new research project that examines Esperanto and internationalism in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union.