Select peer-reviewed publications:
"Navigating the Little Waters: Early Printed Herbals, Western Court Physicians, and the Making of Vodka in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy," History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, accepted for publication
"’Oh, More Evil Than Evil Is the Tatar Honour!’: The Failed Transfer of Distillation Technology from Mongols to Russia," Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Asian Interactions, vol. 24, no.1–2, forthcoming.
"Intellectual ‘Reflux’: Russian Orthodoxy and the Transmission of Distillation Technology into Muscovy," The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, vol. 14 (2025), 59–84.
"The Dawn of Vodka: Distilled Spirits in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy," The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 55, no. 3–4 (Fall/Winter 2024), 841–68.
"Vodka in Early Modern Muscovy: Foreign Doctors, Travelling Herbalists, and the Tsar’s Kitchen," in Herbs & Spices: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, ed. Mark McWilliams (London: Prospect Books, 2021), 146–54.
Conference papers:
"The Origins and Medicinal Past of Vodka," Food History Seminar at University of London's Institute of Historical Research (London, UK), March 2025.
"Yo-ho-ho, and a Bottle of… Rumney: The Forgotten Origins of Rum’s Name," Seminario Internacional Historia de las Bebidas: Siglos XV al XXI (Tenerife, Spain), October 2024.
"Waving at the Grand Prince: Orthodox Clergymen and Distillation Technology Transfer into Muscovy," 2nd Conference of the International Academy of the History of Science (Athens, Greece), September 2023.
"Intellectual ‘Reflux’: Eastern Orthodoxy and the Transmission of Distillation Technology into Russia," International Conference on Food and Religion in Early Modern Europe (Lille, France), June 2023.
"The Dawn of Vodka: Distilled Spirits in Sixteenth-Century Foreign Accounts of Muscovy," 7th International Conference on Food History and Food Studies (Tours, France), June 2022.
"Naley enim Infunde significat: Sixteenth-Century Moscow’s Drinking Quarter and its German Dwellers," Intoxicating Spaces: Global and Comparative Perspectives (Sheffield, UK), July 2021.
"Vodka in Early Modern Muscovy: Foreign Doctors, Travelling Herbalists, and the Tsar’s Kitchen," Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery (Oxford, UK), July 2020.
"The Mongols’ Influence on the Development of Russian Vodka," 15th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (Jeonju, Republic of Korea), August 2019.
"The Mongol Origins of Russian Vodka?", 4th International Convention on Food History and Food Studies (Tours, France), June 2018.
Translated books:
F. Paul Pacult, Double Scotch: How Chivas Regal and The Glenlivet Became Global Icons
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005). Translated and edited the Russian edition (2009).
