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Past Theses

Graduation Year Authors Title
2025 Daniel Lehmann A Bridge for Revolutions or Looming Danger? The Many Borders of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic
2025 Diana Gor Found in Translation: George Orwell's Animal Farm and Its Ukrainian Translation
2025 Vahakn Manoogian Minerals & Mountains: The Mining Industry and the Potential of Mine Tailings Reclamation in Armenia
2025 Sean Barton Polar Prestige: Russia's Grand Strategy in the Arctic
2025 Rebecca Ye Revisiting the Sino-Soviet Alliance: Perspectives from Soviet Specialists
2025 Stella Webster She Who Remained on the Cross: Constructing the Martyrdom of Anna Abrikosova (1882 – 1936)
2025 Ashley Meyer Staging the State: Strategic Role Construction in Independent Estonia
2025 Elizabeth Douglas The Impacts of Sanctions on Russia's Partnerships
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