Cynthia Hooper is an associate professor of Russian History and the head of Russian and Eastern European Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is a specialist on Russian media and disinformation strategy, advising businesses and publishing in the Washington Post, Newsweek, theconversation.com, and Fortune Magazine, among others. Her scholarly interests include the Stalin-era Great Terror and the politics of memory. She received her PhD from Princeton University and BA from Harvard University, and has served as a fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center and the Woodrow Wilson Institute.