Affiliated Graduate Students

Empire, ethnography, and folkloristics; exotification and alterity; interactions between the Slavic and Turkic worlds; and kitsch

20th century Russian literature, literature and ethics

Cultural History and Cultural Studies, Language and Society, Linguistic Approaches to Literature

The relationship between state power and the production of social knowledge; revolution; early Soviet interactions with US/UK

20th and 21st century Ukrainian literature, critical theory, modern philosophy and literary theory

Contemporary Russian prose, internet literature, Digital Humanities

History of the Soviet Union and the former socialist bloc, Slavic languages, spatial history, history of science and technology, and film.

Modern Afghanistan, Impact of sound and radio technology on urban landscape of Kabul, Afghanistan

Early twentieth-century avant-garde prose and theater

History of the built environment, space, and the sociocultural consequences of Soviet rule

Political culture, mass media, societal mobilization and visual propaganda, history of Soviet and Eastern European cinema after the Second World War

Russian Literature, Chekhov, Humor Magazines, Theory of Literature

East-Central and Southeastern Europe in the 20th-21st centuries; revolution, resistance, and radicalism; culture and subculture; regionalism and regional studies

Security and intelligence services, Soviet postwar policy in the Baltics and East Germany, and science and technology in the Soviet Union

Nationalisms and State-Building in the Borderlands

Soviet Jewish cultural and religious history, late socialism, American-Soviet Jewish relations, transnational history, post-Soviet Jewish communities, Hasidism, oral history

Comparative Politics, International Relations

Merchant capitalism, politics of distribution, gendered labor, intimacy, border markets in Post-Soviet Central Asia