Kelly O'Neill

Kelly O'Neill is a historian of Russia and an advocate of spatial history. She created and directs The Imperiia Project at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. 

Dr. O'Neill is interested in why “where” matters. Behind that question lurks the conviction that thinking spatially prompts us to ask new questions, work in new ways, produce new knowledge, communicate that knowledge through new media, and build new communities. Her work attempts to move from locating things, places, and people, to understanding how location shaped the lives of individuals, societies, and states.