Sophie Pinkham
Sophie Pinkham is a professor at Cornell University and a former NEH Public Scholar. Her writing on Russia and Ukraine has appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York Times, Guardian, New Yorker, and Harper’s. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
Awards
Shortlisted — Pushkin House Book Prize, 2026
Books by Sophie Pinkham

The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
Sophie Pinkham
Hardback, 2026
A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made—and resisted—Russia’s many empires.
The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
Sophie Pinkham
E Book
A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made—and resisted—Russia’s many empires.



