Author: jonathanslaght

  • History in my Mailbox

    Last week, at one of the many airports between Myanmar and Minnesota, I received an email from Carol Ueland, my undergraduate advisor at Drew University’s Russian Department. She forwarded me…

    History in my Mailbox

  • End of Year Summary: 2016

    Writing-wise, 2016 was a fantastic year for me. By my account I published 22 pieces—that’s about one article every two weeks. A full list is below. I also had an…

  • A Long Walk through Leopard Country

    My latest from Scientific American: In 2011 I was asked last minute to give a plenary talk about Amur tigers at a conference in Ussuriisk, Russia. Unfortunately, when I received…