Past Theses

Graduation Year	Authors	Title
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
2018	Persia Goudarzi	Shanghaied into Cooperation: A Rationalist Evaluation of Russo-Chinese Relation Within the Framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
2018	Andrew Postovoit	The American-Russian Cultural Encounter in Siberia (1918-1920)
2017	David Ernst	Honor and Tyranny: A Theoretical Analysis of Contemporary Russia's Objectives in the Middle East
2017	Katherine Schroeder	Lights Out: Exploring the Historical Framework and Impacts of Russia's 2014 Smoking Policy
2017	Melanie Dalby	Make Russia Great Again: Russia's Politics of International Intervention
2017	Joel Beckner	Murmansk, the Arctic, and Russia: Interpreting the Drivers of Change
2017	Bri Mostoller	Nationalism and the Nagaika: The Cossack Movement In Russia
2017	Victoria Pardini	Recruiting for Excellence: International Hiring and Enrollment in Recent Russian Higher Education Reforms
2017	Seulgi Ko	Reshaping National Memory: Decommunization in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine
2017	Ivan Jiang	The Changing Dynamics in the Russian Empire's China Trade
2017	Caitlyn Littlepage	Under Pressure: What Outliers Can Tell us About Corruption in the Post-Soviet Space
2017	Ryan Wauson	You Can't Change Us: Russian Security Services in the Age of Reform
2016	Margarita Velmozhina	Challenges of Health Care Reforms in Post-Soviet Russia
2016	Ophelia Lai	Fighters and Lovers: The Politics of Disobedient Love in the Cinema of Eastern Europe
2016	Laura Marti	From Space to Sochi: The Strange Life of Russia's Stray Dogs
2016	Isaac Webb	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Ukraine since the EuroMaidan Revolution
2016	Uve Poom	Nation-Building in Donbas: Constructing the Novorossiyan Identity
2016	Ian McGinnity	The Sun Also Rises in Russia: Solar Energy Development Overview and Analysis