Igor Cașu is the director of the National Agency for Archives (since April 2022), and a Lecturer at the State University of Moldova, Chișinău, since 1998. In 2016 he was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University giving talks on postwar famine at Toronto University, Yale, Harvard, and Stanford. His recent publications include “The Benefits of Comparison: Famine in Kazakhstan in the Early 1930s in Soviet Context”, in Journal of Genocide Research, Volume 22, issue 3, 2020, and “Do Starving People Rebel? Hunger Riots as Bab’y Bunty in Spring 1946 Soviet Moldavia”, in New Europe College’s Yearbook (Bucharest), 2020 and “Police vs. Party? Institutional Hierarchies and Agency in Soviet Moldavia, 1944-1952”, in Contemporary European History, vol. 32, no. 1, 2022. He is working on a book on the postwar famine in Soviet Moldavia in the European context, 1946-47.