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Past Theses

Graduation Year Authors Title
2024 Anna Harvey Building Putinism: National Mythology and Education in Russia
2024 Artur Kalandarov Identity Constructions and State Building in Occupied Ukraine: 2014-2022
2024 Mátyás Kisiday Reconstructing the Castle upon the Hill: Corruption, Nation Building, and Historical Revisionism in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
2024 Nazrin Garibova Wayfaring the Caucasus: Re-envisioning the Region through the Movements that Shaped it
2023 Laurel Baker Breaking the Ice: Russian and Chinese Sharp Power in the Interstate System
2023 Daria Novikov Mobilizing Maidan: Civil Societies in Russia and Ukraine on the Eve of the Soviet Collapse
2023 Jacqueline Kline Mother Russia: The Politics of Gender and Childbearing in Russian Combat Films
2023 Nathaniel Bogardus The Illegible Other: Comparative Reactivity to the Past and Present in Russia and Germany
2023 Claire Rips-Goodwin The Lives We Lost: Exploring Nostalgia for the Soviet Union
2023 Estelle Ciesla The role of the Foreign Agent Law in Russia's descent into authoritarianism
2022 True Sweetser Against the Current in the Kingdom of God: Isaiah Berlin’s Value-Pluralism and the Teachings of Leo Tolstoy
2022 Katherine Davidson Eroding Autonomy: An Analysis of Russian and Belarusian Media Coverage of the 2020 Belarusian Pro-Democracy Protests
2022 Xingru Chen Impacts of Media Usage on Political Trust: Evidence from Russia
2022 Christina Hill Information Warfare: Russian Cyber Strategy Abroad and Future Policy Recommendations
2022 Saga Hegelson Morris Legacy Media Coverage of Russia’s Activities in the Arctic
2022 Rachel Landau Photographs of Medical Care After Chernobyl
2022 Estelle Ciesla Russia’s Descent into Authoritarianism: The Role of the ‘Foreign Agent’ Law
2022 Rajiv Sinha THE WAR IN UKRAINE THROUGH COMPETING HISTORICAL VIEWS OF THE UKRAINIAN NATION
2022 Grace Kier Variations in Russian Support for Far-Right Actors
2022 Benjamin Bronkema-Bekker World Health Organization Alcohol Policy Prescriptions Under Scrutiny: Assessing Impact in Ukraine and Russia