Affiliated Graduate Students
Ali Aydin Karamustafa
History, PhDcultural interactions in early modern Eurasian history, specifically the role of Caucasian geography in early modern Turko-Persian, Russian, and Armenian identities; interactions of nomads and settled people in Eurasian history; imperial strategies for securing loyalty from borderland groups in in the Ottoman, Iranian, and Russian Empires
Jillian Burgie Costello
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD20th century Russian literature, literature and ethics
Anne Burke
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhDCultural History and Cultural Studies, Language and Society, Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Jinyi Chu
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhDRussian modernism (Pasternak, Mandelstam, Gumilev, Remizov); Russo-Chinese literary and cultural interactions; Critical theory; Translation studies
Jason Cieply
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhDRevolutionary Enthusiasm, Zoshchenko, Platonov, Intellectual History, History of Emotions
Lukas Dovern
History, PhDEastern Europe in the 20th century; international finance and the Cold War; socialist economies; transnational history; social history
Nicole Gounalis
Italian, PhD; minor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhDla scapigliatura, Italian and international Futurisms, Antonio Gramsci, the politics of avant-garde movements, fascism and aesthetics, neorealism in literature and film, Italo Calvino, the history of Italian cinema, the Gruppo ’63 and the neoavanguardia, Italian feminism, postcolonial and migrant literature
Orysia Kulick
History, PhDDefense and regional governance in Soviet Ukraine, regional elites, violence and subjectivity, socialist legality, resistance and rebellion in illiberal societies
Nicholas Levy
History, PhDhistory of the Soviet Union and the former socialist bloc, Slavic languages, spatial history, history of science and technology, and film.
Anna Lordan
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhDnarrative narratology, theories of realism, attention 19th and 20th Century Russian Literature
Mejgan Massoumi
Modern Afghanistan, Impact of sound and radio technology on urban landscape of Kabul, AfghanistanHistory, PhD
Rachel Midura
History, PhDEarly Modern Europe; Italian & Ottoman History; Communications History; Digital Humanities
Lenora Murphy
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhDEarly twentieth-century avant-garde prose and theater
Kristo Nurmis
History, PhDpolitical culture, mass media, societal mobilization and visual propaganda, history of Soviet and Eastern European cinema after the Second World War
Alexandra Sukalo
History, PhDSecurity and intelligence services, Soviet postwar policy in the Baltics and East Germany, and science and technology in the Soviet Union
Alice E.M. Underwood
Comparative Literature, PhD20th century, Russian Literature, latin american literature, queer theory gender studies postmodernity marxist theory, Russia, Latin America, former Czechoslovakia
Ashley Walters
History, PhDRussian and American Jewish History, Immigration, Intellectual History; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Lori Weekes
Anthropology, PhD and J.D.heritage management and archaeology in Post-Soviet Europe; e-governance initiatives in Estonia
Grace Zhou
Anthropology, PhDMerchant capitalism, politics of distribution, gendered labor, intimacy, border markets in Post-Soviet Central Asia
