Jane Burbank  is a historian of Russia and, more generally, of law and  empire. At present she is writing, with Tatiana Borisova, a history of the Russian legal tradition and a monograph about imperial law and Russian sovereignty from 1870 to 1917, viewed from the province of Kazan.  In her scholarship on Russia, she began with intellectuals, then worked on peasants, and now studies officials (bureaucrats, chinovniki).

Representative Publications:

Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (with Frederick Cooper. Princeton University Press, 2010).

Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 (co-edited with Mark von Hagen, and Anatolyi Remnev. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007).

Russian Peasants Go to Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).

Imperial Russia:  New Histories for the Empire (co-edited  with David L. Ransel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).

Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).

Videos 

Normalizing Russia: The Empire Effect.
A lecture at New York University  (Recorded on September 28, 2011).