About

Joy Neumeyer is a journalist and historian of Russia and Eastern Europe. She received a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley and was a Fulbright Fellow in Russia and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She has also worked as a reporter in Moscow and Warsaw. Her writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New Left Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, The Baffler, Vice, ARTNews, the Guardian, Tablet Magazine, The Moscow Times, Calvert Journal, and Cat Fancy.

Her first book, A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell (PublicAffairs, 2024), is an investigative memoir about abuse and the tension between narrative and evidence in understanding the past.