Research Interests: Historical Legacies, Politics of Territory, Identity Politics, Social Networks, Vote Buying
Dissertation Title: The Politics of Loss
Research Interest: She studies signaling in foreign policy and the economic statecraft of revisionist powers.
Research Interests: legacies of state repression, anti-authoritarian resistance, and public opinion in eastern Europe
Alex Fisher is a doctoral student in the Department of Architecture. His research interests are varied, and include housing typologies, social infrastructure, memory politics, and the repurposing of Soviet-era materiel. He approaches his subjects of inquiry from multiple perspectives, often in cooperation with artists and other cultural…
research interests: book history, Armenian studies, South Caucasus
Research Interests: Comparative political behavior; authoritarianism; contentious politics
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
Dissertation Title: Simultaneity: Multiple Invention in the Arts
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).
Research Interests: social, legal, and gender Russian history of the imperial period
Research Interests: Early Modern Europe; History of French; Historical Sociolinguistics
Dissertation Title: "A Linguistic Archipelago: The Spread of European French, 1740–1815"
Research Interests: Early Soviet Music, Russian Silver Age, Scriabin
Dissertation Title: Scriabin and Speculative Music in Russia, 1900-1925
Research Interests: Intellectual History, 19th century South Caucasus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia
Dissertation Title: Shifting Pluralities in Imperial Russia’s Baltic Legal Landscape, 1860-1917
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.
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 political economies shaping digital development in its relation to human rights, investigative journalism,…
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
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…
Research Interests: Intellectual and political history of Eurasia in the 20th century
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
Research Interests: the political psychology of autocracies with a regional focus on Russia and the Former Soviet Union
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.