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