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 (2020) and was a Fulbright Fellow in Russia and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. From 2010 to 2014, she worked as a reporter in Moscow. 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—an investigative memoir about abuse and the tension between narrative and evidence in understanding the past—will be released on August 20, 2024 by PublicAffairs.