Ewa M. Thompson taught Slavic Studies and is a scholar of Russia and Poland. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and her doctorate from Vanderbilt University. Her books and articles have been translated into Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Italian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, and Chinese. She has published scholarly articles in Slavic Review, Slavic and European Journal, Modern Age, Teksty Drugie and other journals, and she has done consulting work for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education, and other institutions and foundations.