Anastasiya Novatorskaya will join the Miller Center and Department of History as a postdoctoral associate for the 2026-2027 academic year. She earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she majored in history, and this summer she will defend her doctoral dissertation in history from Northwestern University. Her research investigates the ideological labor of women, the emotional structure of far-right nationalism, and the gendered dynamics of authoritarian movements in twentieth-century east-central Europe. Her book project, Unheard Voices of the Invisible Architects, reinterprets the roots of radical nationalism by revealing the intellectual, symbolic, and emotional labor of women within far-right movements. Spanning Austria, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, the project asks how women helped give nationalist and authoritarian movements moral coherence, and symbolic and emotional legitimacy. Rather than treating women as marginal supporters of male ideologues, her work shows how they acted as co-producers of nationalist politics through writing, translation, political activism, religious symbolism, and practices of moral discipline. The project develops the concept of “affective sovereignty” to describe how emotional authority itself can become a form of political power. During her appointment at UVM, Anastasiya will continue developing this project into a book manuscript, teach courses in Russian and Holocaust history, and give a number of public lectures.