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Much of William Nickell's work has focused on media studies in Russia and the USSR. His book, The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 (Cornell University Press, 2010), uses media coverage of the dramatic story of Tolstoy’s death as a lens for examining Russian culture between the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Since 2016, he has been teaching a course called Media and Power in the Age of Putin and Trump, and his talk for Humanities Day will be drawn from Russian Media at War, a University of Chicago course based entirely on current events. Nickell is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago.