About the Editor (2018- )
Our editor, Dr. Geraldine Fagan, holds a BA promoted to an MA in Modern Languages (Russian and German) from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She received her PhD in Philosophy and Religion from Bangor University in North Wales. She is an Orthodox Christian.
Dr. Fagan is the author of Believing in Russia—Religious Policy after Communism (Routledge, 2013). Based in Moscow from 1999 to 2011, she reported on religious issues across Russia, primarily freedom of conscience or belief, for Keston Institute and then Forum 18 News Service. During the same period, she conducted field trips to other nations previously in the Soviet orbit, including Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Ukraine.
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Fagan has been a research fellow at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and a scholar at the Kennan Institute, both in Washington, DC. She was part of the international team that produced Religion and Violence in Russia: Context, Manifestations, and Policy, a report by the DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (2018).
Dr. Fagan’s analysis of religious policy in the ex-Soviet space has appeared in Newsweek, The Times of London, and The Wall Street Journal. As editor of the East-West Church Report, she has been cited by Christianity Today, The Economist, The New York Times, and Reuters.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Dr. Fagan has provided media commentary on the role of Orthodox Christianity in the war, including for BBC Radio and Time magazine.
Two scholarly pieces by Dr. Fagan are available below:
(Draft of a chapter ultimately published in an anthology edited by Dominic Erdozain, The Dangerous God: Christianity and the Soviet Experiment, Northern Illinois University Press, 2017.)
“Truth Stumbles in the Street: Christian Democratic Activism in Belarus” (Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2012)
