Philippa Hetherington is a PhD candidate in History, with a secondary doctoral field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her dissertation examines the intersection of sexual and migratory politics in late imperial and early Soviet Russia, as manifested in campaigns against the transnational crime of 'trafficking in women' in the period. She spent the 2011-2012 academic year in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Switzerland, Finland and the U.K. undertaking archival research for this project, which was generously funded by the Social Science Research Council, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and Harvard University. Since 2008 she has been an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and currently sits on the tutorial board for the undergraduate program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She will hold a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship in 2013-2014. She received her BA (Hons.) from the University of Sydney in 2006.