Michael S. Gorham (NHC Fellow, 2023–24)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2023–24

Michael S. Gorham completed basic research, drafted eight chapters, an introduction, and epilogue for his book Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Digital Age, and has submitted it to a press for consideration. He finished his article, “Prime-time Solov’ev: Rhetorical strategies of a wartime propagandist,” on the rhetoric or Russian television propaganda in the months leading up to and following the outbreak of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and submitted it to Canadian Slavonic Studies. He also edited and submitted final proofs for “Russian Political Discourse,” an 8000-word encyclopedia article at press with Brill.