Professor Kalinovsky has maintained a distinguished career of academic roles, with a focus on the legacy of the Soviet Union on economic and political development in Central Asia. He was a Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam for a decade and is now a professor of history and political science at Temple University. Over his career, Professor Kalinovsky has also published two books, A Long Goodbye, which is a detail on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Laboratory of Social Development, which focuses on Cold War politics and decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan. More recently, Professor Kalinovsky has been working on a project studying the entanglements between socialist and capitalist approaches in contemporary Central Asia.