Katya Tolstaya is associate professor at the Faculty of Religion and Theology and founding director of the Institute for the Academic Study of Eastern-European Christianity (INaSEC), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, as well as founding president of the International Association for Post-Soviet Theology and Study of Religion (PAST). Her work focuses on establishing the new field of interdisciplinary and interreligious post-Soviet theology within the interdisciplinary landscape of post-traumatic, post-totalitarian and post-genocidal studies. Her monograph Theology after the Gulag is forthcoming at Oxford University Press in 2019.