href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCITKM95wJYBo8NJimK36yLg" target="_blank"Mikhail was born and raised in Moscow, where he received his bachelor#39;s degree in international journalism. In 1990 he moved to the United States to pursue his doctoral studies. Mikhail works as an adjunct professor of religion and philosophy at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he received The President#39;s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010. He co-chairs and serves on the faculty of the Department of Religion, Philosophy, and Theology at the Wilmette Institute as well as on the faculty of Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the author of more than two hundred scholarly, journalistic, and creative works that are published or presented all over the world. He has authored and edited twelve books, including the monograph, href="https://brill.com/view/title/32083" target="_blank"Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, and the Bahaacute;#39;iacute; Faith and an anthology entitled href="https://brill.com/view/title/38293" target="_blank"Russian Philosophy in the 21st Century that was published in 2020.