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Perry Carter
Perry Carter
Department of Politics
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Research Interests: Historical Legacies, Politics of Territory, Identity Politics, Social Networks, Vote Buying

Dissertation Title: The Politics of Loss

Zenobia Chan
Zenobia Chan
Department of Politics
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Research Interest: She studies signaling in foreign policy and the economic statecraft of revisionist powers. 

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Isabelle DeSisto
Department of Politics
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Research Interests: legacies of state repression, anti-authoritarian resistance, and public opinion in eastern Europe

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Alex Fisher
Department of Architecture
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Alex Fisher is a PhD student in the history and theory of architecture at Princeton. His research interests include social infrastructure, memory politics, and the repurposing of materiel in Eastern Europe.

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Aram Ghoogasian

research interests: book history, Armenian studies, South Caucasus

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Laura Howells
Department of Politics
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Research Interests: Comparative political behavior; authoritarianism; contentious politics

Mari Jarris
Department of Comparative Literature
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Research Interests: Marxism and Critical Theory, queer and feminist theory, environmental humanities, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and Russian literature

Dissertation Title: Utopia, Aesthetics & Gender: Queer Currents in Revolutionary Russia and Germany, 1860s-1920s

Fedor Karmanov
Fedor Karmanov
English Department and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
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Dissertation Title: Simultaneity: Multiple Invention in the Arts

Aurora Ling
Department of Politics
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Research interests: Aurora’s research interests pertain to international human rights, religious conflict, mass atrocities, vaccine diplomacy, and soft power. Her regions of focus are Russia and China.

Dissertation Title or Topic: Aurora’s dissertation topic is about religion as a political actor in mass atrocities (terrorism, genocide).

 

Anastasiia Lystsova
Anastasiia Lystsova
Department of History
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Research Interests: social, legal, and gender Russian history of the imperial period

Matthew McDonald
Matthew I. McDonald
Department of History
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Research Interests: Early Modern Europe; History of French; Historical Sociolinguistics

Dissertation Title: "A Linguistic Archipelago: The Spread of European French, 1740–1815"

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Hannah CJ McLaughlin
Department of Music
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Research Interests: Early Soviet Music, Russian Silver Age, Scriabin

Dissertation Title: Scriabin and Speculative Music in Russia, 1900-1925

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Adrien Mercat
Department of Near Eastern Studies
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Research Interests: Intellectual History, 19th century South Caucasus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia

Patrick Monson
Patrick Monson
Department of History
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Dissertation Title: Shifting Pluralities in Imperial Russia’s Baltic Legal Landscape, 1860-1917

Benjamin Musachio
Benjamin Musachio
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Research Interests: The Western reception of Russian literature, translation studies, cultures of the Cold War.

Dissertation Title: Through the Looking-Glass: The Popularization of Soviet Russian Poets in 1960s America.

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Orla O,Sullivan

Orla’s research focuses on the digital geography of social media, from the role and risks of social media in Latin American migration to the development of homeopathic health support groups on Russian social media. She is interested in the social life of the global Internet, Internet fracturing, and iin the value chains of digital development…

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Céleste Pagniello
Department of Music
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Research Interests: Georgia, Soviet Union, Opera, Ballet, Music & Politics

Dissertation Title: The Georgian Opera and Ballet Theatre: A Cultural Nexus at the Heart of the Russian Colonization of Georgia, 1851-1951

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Camila Pletuhina-Tonev

Camilla Pletuhina-Tonev is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe. Her research traces the altering narratives on Christian Orthodoxy and the methods of enforcing Orthopraxy in a trans-imperial Eurasian setting in the 17th and 18th centuries. In particular, she is interested in studying the mobility of Orthodox communities and…

Abigail Schoenfeld
Abigail Schoenfeld
Near Eastern Studies
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Research Interests: Intellectual and political history of Eurasia in the 20th century

Maria (Masha) Slautina
Maria (Masha) Slautina
Department of Art & Archaeology
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Research Interests: specializing in Japanese and Global art history. She is interested in the construction and conceptualization of visualities, in the formation of national art traditions, in transcultural interactions and the global life of objects, as well as in the interplay between artifactual and natural worlds, focusing on the artistic production of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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Jianyuan Sun
Department of Near Eastern Studies
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Research Interests: Central Asia

Jacob R. Tucker
Jacob R. Tucker
Department of Politics
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Research Interests: the political psychology of autocracies with a regional focus on Russia and the Former Soviet Union

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Andrew A. Whittington-Biehle

Andrew A. Whittington-Biehle  research interests include, among others, psychoanalysis and literature, the thinking of Wilfred R. Bion, materialisms, the forms and functions of prose, Russian and Soviet imperialism, and Russophone literatures of Central Asia.

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