Stephen K. Batalden is professor emeritus of history at Arizona State University, and founding director of the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies at ASU. A specialist on Russian/East European religious and cultural history, his Cambridge University Press volume, Russian Bible Wars: Modern Scriptural Translation and Cultural Authority, received the 2014 Reginald Zelnik Award of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for outstanding contribution to modern Russian history.