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1944 and given an academic appointment at the influential Institute of Law in Moscow. Yet his nascent career was quickly stomped out, apparently because of professional rivalries: he was not allowed to continue to publish before his untimely death. This dramatic life story and the prospect of the publications Voskresenskii might have contributed to our field during his lifetime without these obstacles evokes our current academic climate, when approximately three-quarters of university teaching faculty in the US are contingent and therefore prevented from developing their full scholarly potential (let alone rewarding the investment of the universities that trained them). In this light, Voskresenskii’s story is at once heartening and deeply depressing, but certainly not remote from our immediate professional concerns.