Past Theses

Graduation Year Authors Title Sort descending
2022 True Sweetser Against the Current in the Kingdom of God: Isaiah Berlin’s Value-Pluralism and the Teachings of Leo Tolstoy
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
2020 Matthew Sparks A Bodyguard of Lies: Russian Mercenaries, PMCs, and Information Warfare in the Modern World
2018 Hristiana Petkova An Evaluation of Extended Deterrence Policy: From Eisenhower to Trump
2015 Alyssa Haerle Between the Megaproject and the Entrepreneur: Evaluating the Development of Post-Soviet Russia's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
2016 Margarita Velmozhina Challenges of Health Care Reforms in Post-Soviet Russia
2014 Caroline Schottenhamel Dancing Propaganda: Soviet Folk Dance Ensembles and Western Audiences
2014 Brigid Connor Descent and Space in Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy
2022 Katherine Davidson Eroding Autonomy: An Analysis of Russian and Belarusian Media Coverage of the 2020 Belarusian Pro-Democracy Protests
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
2014 Robin Swearingen Geopolitics, Identity, and Ethnography in the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1924-29
2018 Jules Hirschkorn Guns, Rubles, and Oil: A Statistical Approach to Understanding Russia’s Military Modernization Programs
2017 David Ernst Honor and Tyranny: A Theoretical Analysis of Contemporary Russia's Objectives in the Middle East
2016 Isaac Webb Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Ukraine since the EuroMaidan Revolution
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
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