The main focus of her research is the 19th-early 20th century history of Ukraine and the Russian Empire. She also maintains an active interest in the Stalin era and has written about the historiography of the Holdomor. She has taught undergrauduate and graduate courses on Stalin and Stalinism for many years. Kimberley Manning is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University. Co-editor of Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China’s Great Leap Forward and Famine (2011), she has published articles in Modern China, the China Quarterly, and The China Review. Her monograph (under review), “Attachments: Personal Ties and Social Policy Reform in Revolutionary China,” shows how elite and grassroots “party family” networks contributed to the early successes and catastrophic losses of the first decade of the People’s Republic of China.