Ana Siljak received her PhD in History from Harvard University and was a professor of history at Queen’s University until 2023. She received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to study the philosophy and literature of the Russian Silver Age. Her most recent publications include her edited volume entitled Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism (Cornell University Press, 2024) and her edition of the translation of the correspondence of Nikolai Berdyaev and Jacques Maritain entitled An Exceptional Dialogue, 1925–1948: Nikolai Berdyaev and Jacques Maritain (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) Ana Siljak’s first book, entitled Angel of Vengeance, on Russia’s first female terrorist, was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for narrative non-fiction and was named one of the top 100 books of the year by the Globe and Mail. She is currently a co-author of the textbook, Visions of the West, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2026. She has published articles and essays in the Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought; Journal of Modern History; Modern Intellectual History; and Canadian Slavonic Papers. She is currently completing her book on the personalist philosophy of Nikolai Berdiaev. She has contributed essays and book reviews in the Wall Street Journal, Mere Orthodoxy, and the Literary Review of Canada.