Dissertation: Reclaiming Native Soil: Cultural Mythologies of Soil in Russia and Its Eastern Borderlands from the 1840s to the 1930s.
Mieka Erley has been teaching (Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies) at Colgate University. She is the author of On Russian Soil: Myth and Materiality, which appeared in the Northern Illinois Press/Cornell University Press Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2021.