His first book Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language, Culture, and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003) received Choice Magazine’s ‘Outstanding Academic Book’ award and the 2004 AATSEEL award for ‘Best Book in Literary and Cultural Studies.’ He has just completed work on his second book, In Newspeak’s Wake: The Politics of Language and Language of Politics and in Late- and Post-Soviet Russia.