2023-24 Graduate Student Research Fellow
About
Forrest is a cultural historian of the Russian Empire with broad training in early modern European and global history. He is especially interested in the history of religion, magic, and historical formations of rationality. His dissertation, “Empire of Superstitions: The Civilizational Geography of Enlightenment Russia,” is a cultural history of magic, superstition, and irrationality in the Russian Empire during the late-eighteenth century.
Forrest is currently researching themes of magic and irrationality in eighteenth-century Russian literature, including short stories, plays, poetry, and essays.
