{"id":22,"date":"2012-09-05T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kens\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:42:52","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Current Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Here (below) are some projects that are either in progress or at press.\u00a0Click here<\/a> to see a list of my\u00a0published works, and here<\/a> for a full CV<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent conference papers, public talks and invited lectures (past 5 years)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • (invited lecture) \u201cWartime Runet and Prigozhin\u2019s Mediated Mutiny: A Cautionary Tale.\u201d Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, 3 April 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • (Discussant) \u201cPolitics and Identity in the Soviet Arts.\u201d Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Lexington, KY, 1 March 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cTelegramming Mutiny: The Socially Mediated Rise of Evgeny Prigozhin.\u201d Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Boston, MA, 23 November 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • (invited lecture) \u201cMediated Navalny: A Rhetorical Analysis of Russia\u2019s First Digitally Networked Politician,\u201d\n
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    • The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC, 9 April 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Duke University. Durham, NC, 3 April 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • \u201cNavalny as Mediated Opposition: The Rhetorical Strategies of a YouTube Politician.\u201d Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Philadelphia, PA, 1 December 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • (Discussant) \u201cLinguistic Analysis of Slavic Media Discourse.\u201d Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Philadelphia, PA, 2 December 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • \u201cPrime-time Solov\u2019ev: Rhetorical Strategies of a Wartime Propagandist,\u201d for international conference on \u201cLanguage, Media, Culture, Literature, and the War: Constructions, Representations, and Responses,\u201d sponsored by the VW foundation, University of Hildesheim and the University of Alberta, Hannover, Germany, 22 February 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • \u201cNavalny, FBK, and the Digitally-mediated Rhetoric of Political Opposition in Putin’s Russia.\u201d (Virtual) Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), 1 October 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • \u201cRhetorical Strategies of the Networked Navalny: A Case-study of Digitally Mediated Communication.\u201d British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), Annual Meeting, Cambridge, UK (9 April 2022).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • (Discussant) \u201cThe Evolution and Diversity of Russian Online Trolling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Internet as Battlefield.\u201d (Virtual) Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), 3 December 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • \u201cSovereignty and Circumvention in Russia\u2019s Digital Information Sphere.\u201d Roundtable organizer and participant for (Virtual) Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, 7 November 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Publications in progress<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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      • (Book) Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Digital Age\u00a0<\/em>(at press, Cornell University Press; anticipated January 2026).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mgorham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}