Affiliated Graduate Students
History, PhD
cultural 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
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
20th century Russian literature, literature and ethics
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
Cultural History and Cultural Studies, Language and Society, Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
Russian modernism (Pasternak, Mandelstam, Gumilev, Remizov); Russo-Chinese literary and cultural interactions; Critical theory; Translation studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
Revolutionary Enthusiasm, Zoshchenko, Platonov, Intellectual History, History of Emotions
History, PhD
nationalism, urban history, and socialist culture
History, PhD
Eastern Europe in the 20th century; international finance and the Cold War; socialist economies; transnational history; social history
Italian, PhD; minor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
la 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
History, PhD
history of the late Ottoman and Russian empires
History, PhD
Defense and regional governance in Soviet Ukraine, regional elites, violence and subjectivity, socialist legality, resistance and rebellion in illiberal societies
History, PhD
history of the Soviet Union and the former socialist bloc, Slavic languages, spatial history, history of science and technology, and film.
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
narrative narratology, theories of realism, attention 19th and 20th Century Russian Literature
Modern Afghanistan, Impact of sound and radio technology on urban landscape of Kabul, Afghanistan
History, PhD
History, PhD
Jewish history, radical politics, nationalism
History, PhD
Early Modern Europe; Italian & Ottoman History; Communications History; Digital Humanities
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
Early twentieth-century avant-garde prose and theater
History, PhD
political culture, mass media, societal mobilization and visual propaganda, history of Soviet and Eastern European cinema after the Second World War
History, PhD
Security and intelligence services, Soviet postwar policy in the Baltics and East Germany, and science and technology in the Soviet Union
History, PhD
Nationalisms and State-Building in the Borderlands
Comparative Literature, PhD
20th century, Russian Literature, latin american literature, queer theory gender studies postmodernity marxist theory, Russia, Latin America, former Czechoslovakia
History, PhD
Russian and American Jewish History, Immigration, Intellectual History; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Anthropology, PhD and J.D.
heritage management and archaeology in Post-Soviet Europe; e-governance initiatives in Estonia
Anthropology, PhD
Kyrgyzstan, Housing, Materiality, Urban Space
Political Science, PhD
Comparative Politics, International Relations
Anthropology, PhD
Merchant capitalism, politics of distribution, gendered labor, intimacy, border markets in Post-Soviet Central Asia