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Michael Loader is a Lecturer in Central East European Studies at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social & Political Sciences, where he commenced a permanent position in March 2023. He completed his PhD in History of the Soviet Union at King’s College London in 2015, with a thesis titled 'The Thaw in Soviet Latvia: National Politics 1953-1959'. Before joining Glasgow, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the International Centre for the History and Sociology of WWII Consequences at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow from 2016 to 2017. Following that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden from 2017 to 2020. In March 2020, he began a three-year Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at Glasgow, focusing on 'Centre-Periphery Relations in Flux: National Politics in the Soviet Borderlands'. He has served as an editor for the Journal of Baltic Studies and has published articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, and the Slavonic and East European Review. His research primarily addresses Soviet nationality politics, the Soviet Communist Party, and Soviet Latvia.