William Nickell, Ph.D. 1998

Dissertation: Tolstoy in the Public Domain: His Death as a National Narrative.

After Berkeley, William Nickell taught Russian language and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Among his creative projects was a communal apartment built with his students in the college dormitory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIYHqU7JGdM

For the 200 anniversary of Tolstoy’s death, he created a website:
The Death of Tolstoy, Astapovo Station, 1910

http://humweb.ucsc.edu/bnickell/tolstoy/

In 2010, Cornell University Press published his book:

William Nickell, The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910

http://cornellpress.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/william-nickell-in-the-new-york-times/

Since 2011, William Nickel teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.