Montgomery Raiser ’92 Thesis Prize: thesis prize in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Any discipline is eligible. Nominations should be accompanied by a letter from the thesis adviser.
2024 Senior Thesis Prize Winner
Abigail Litvak
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Dead Souls: An Elegy
Past Senior Thesis Prize Winners
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2017-2023 Winners
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2023
- Margaret Commander (co-winner), School of Public and International Affairs
Up in Arms: The Consequences of Globalization on the Russian Defense Industry - Marie-Rose Sheinerman (co-winner), Department of History
Gareth Jones: Constructing the Story of a Famine
2022
- Henry Barrett (co-winner), School of Public and International Affairs
Playing Orban’s Pávatánc: Protecting Article 2 Values Against the Illiberal Threat to EU Integration
- Montagu James (co-winner), Department of History
“Dictatorship of Ignoramuses”: Political Censorship of Polish Music in the Early Communist Period
2021
- Ivy T. Truong, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Black through Red: Seeing and Reading Post-Civil Rights America through the Soviet Press, 1968-1976
2020
- Leora Eisenberg, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Finding a Common Language: An Exploration of Language-Based Tropes in Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Media
2019
- Maddi Ross, History Department
Rebuilding Voronezh: Ideal and Reality in Postwar Soviet Reconstruction
2018
- Gabriel Arcaro, History Department (Co-Winner)
Shifting Stars: The Relationship between the Development of Persian Library Literary Identity and Nationalism in Tajikistan - Brittany Henderson, Politics Department (Co-Winner)
What Happens When You Poke the Bear: The Evolution of Internally-Revisionist International Strategy in the Russian-Federation
2017
- Joana Li, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Performance of Power: Examining the Parade of a Resurgent Russia
- Margaret Commander (co-winner), School of Public and International Affairs
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2006-2016 Winners
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2016
- Olivia Bowins, Department of History
Ukrainian Nation-building and Regional Identities: An Ideational Dilemma in Crimea and Transcarpathia
2015
- Jake Robertson, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Captive Audiences: The Untold Stories of Professional Theater in the Gulag Camps of the Komi Republic
2010
- Andrew T. Davis, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Syntax in Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: A Statistical and Interpretive Approach
2009
- Ilya Alex Blanter, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol: Democratic Transition and the Politics of Irredentism
2008
- Kayvon Michael Tehranian, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs|
The Political Economy of Natural Gas Cartelization. Will the GECF evolve into a natural gas version of OPEC?
2007
- Andriy Mykhaylovskyy, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Land and Corruption: A Case Study of Crimean Tatar Squatting
2006
- Andrew E. Fornarola, Politics
Walking Alone: The Curious Absence of a Liberal Youth Movement in Russia
- Olivia Bowins, Department of History