Past Theses

Graduation Year Sort descending Authors Title
2014 Caroline Schottenhamel Dancing Propaganda: Soviet Folk Dance Ensembles and Western Audiences
2014 Sheena Wildes 'The Beauty of Them All is of One Family’: Platonic Views of Love and Tolstoy’s Depiction of Marriage in the Epilogue to War and Peace
2014 Jacob Parsley The School of Courage: Memoirs, Diaries, and Reports of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
2014 Robin Swearingen Geopolitics, Identity, and Ethnography in the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1924-29
2014 Brigid Connor Descent and Space in Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy
2014 Charles Powell Nuclear Canary: The Soviet Union’s Early Warning Network
2015 Alyssa Haerle Between the Megaproject and the Entrepreneur: Evaluating the Development of Post-Soviet Russia's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
2016 Amanda Lorei Unstable Bricks: Andrei Platonov's Weird Socialist Realism
2016 Uve Poom Nation-Building in Donbas: Constructing the Novorossiyan Identity
2016 Tom Koritschan Uranium on Trial: Mines and Minds in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1955
2016 Laura Marti From Space to Sochi: The Strange Life of Russia's Stray Dogs
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 Ian McGinnity The Sun Also Rises in Russia: Solar Energy Development Overview and Analysis
2016 Isaac Webb Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Ukraine since the EuroMaidan Revolution
2017 Caitlyn Littlepage Under Pressure: What Outliers Can Tell us About Corruption in the Post-Soviet Space
2017 David Ernst Honor and Tyranny: A Theoretical Analysis of Contemporary Russia's Objectives in the Middle East
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 Ryan Wauson You Can't Change Us: Russian Security Services in the Age of Reform