SUMMARY:

In May 2016, Ann Laura Stoler visited Leiden University as the Spring 2016 Global Asia Scholar. Two Leiden historians, Amrit Dev Kaur and Sanne Ravensbergen, interviewed her about her professional choices and motivations and her writing patterns and views of disciplinarity in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the ideological and personal influences that she has experienced and what it means to be a “renegade” in your own field and the world of academia.
Ab Imperio publishes the Russian translation of the original interview which is appeared in Interirario 20, no. 3 (2016): 337–387. The Russian translation is by Marina Mogilner and Sergei Glebov. The editors of AI express their gratitude to Ann Laura Stoler for sharing the interview and supporting the idea of the Russian translation; to Amrit Dev Kaur and Sanne Ravensbergen for kindly supplying us with the complete version of the interview; to Carolien Stolte, the editor in chief of Itinerario, for being immensely helpful with organizing this publication, and to Cambridge University Press for granting us the right to the Russian-language publication.