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Past Theses

Graduation Year Authors Title
2026 Julia Lasiota A Grand Gesture or a Grand Illusion?: The Myth and Reality of Sino-Russian Affinity
2026 Blake Cheater National Security, Integration, and the Unintended Consequences of Language Securitization in the Baltics
2026 Grace Skaggs Kędziora The War Next Door: Public Opinion on Russia’s War in Ukraine on NATO’s Eastern Flank 2022-2025
2026 Charlie Sagner Umom Putina ne ponyat'? Understanding Russian State Ideology with Natural Language Processing
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