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Select peer-reviewed publications:

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‘Intellectual ‘Reflux’: Russian Orthodoxy and the Transmission of Distillation Technology into Muscovy’, The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, volume 14 (2025), forthcoming.

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'The Dawn of Vodka: Distilled Spirits in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy', The Sixteenth Century Journal, volume 55, numbers 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2024), 841-68.

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'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.

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Conference papers:

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"The Origins and Medicinal Past of Vodka", Food History Seminar at University of London's Institute of Historical Research (London, UK), March 2025.

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“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.

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"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.

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“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.

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“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.

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Naley enim Infunde significat: Sixteenth-Century Moscow’s Drinking Quarter and its German Dwellers”, Intoxicating Spaces: Global and Comparative Perspectives (Sheffield, UK), July 2021.

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“Vodka in Early Modern Muscovy: Foreign Doctors, Travelling Herbalists, and the Tsar’s Kitchen”, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery (Oxford, UK), July 2020.

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“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.

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“The Mongol Origins of Russian Vodka?”, 4th International Convention on Food History and Food Studies (Tours, France), June 2018.

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Translated books:

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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).

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