Past Theses

Graduation Year	Authors	Title
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
2020	Matthew Sparks	A Bodyguard of Lies: Russian Mercenaries, PMCs, and Information Warfare in the Modern World
2020	Stuart McLaughlin	Oz Tilin Bilu: Kazakh Identity and Trilingualism in an Educational Context
2020	Rossella Cerulli	The Problem of Russian Money Laundering and Its Implications for Western Security
2020	Abigail Thompson	Wet Walls: An Artistic Analysis of Street-Based Siberian Art
2019	Madelaine Grace Graber	Sluggish Schizophrenia in the Soviet Union: A Disease for Political Dissenters
2019	Jake Zawlacki	The Allegorical Aidahar: An Animated Look at Kazakh National Identity
2018	Hristiana Petkova	An Evaluation of Extended Deterrence Policy: From Eisenhower to Trump
2018	Jules Hirschkorn	Guns, Rubles, and Oil: A Statistical Approach to Understanding Russia’s Military Modernization Programs
2018	Skyler Samuelson	Pioneers in Politics: How the Words of Children Became the Language of War
2018	Patrick Goodridge	Putin and the End of Russia's Masculinity Crisis