Brigid O’Keeffe

Brigid O’Keeffe is Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is the author of Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomsbury, 2021) and New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2013) O’Keeffe is also preparing a manuscript for Bloomsbury’s “Russian Shorts” Book Series that will present in compact and accessible format the history of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire.