CREEES MA Capstone Presentations 2018

The capstone thesis is a central component of the CREEES MA program, which allows students, under the close supervision of affiliated faculty members, to produce a work of original scholarship during their year in the program.

11:00-11:15am
Skyler Clark Samuelson: “Pioneers in Politics: How the Words of Children Became the Language of War”

11:15-11:30am
Andrew Postovoit: “The American-Russian Cultural Encounter in Siberia (1918-1920)”

11:30-11:45am
Hristiana Petkova: “An Evaluation of Extended Deterrence Policy: From Eisenhower to Trump”

11:45am-12:00pm
Jules Hirschkorn: “Guns, Rubles, and Oil: A Statistical Approach to Understanding Russia’s Military Modernization Programs”

12:00-12:15pm
Persia Goudarzi: "Shanghaied into Cooperation: A Rationalist Evaluation of Russo-Chinese Relation Within the Framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization"

12:15-12:30pm
Patrick Goodridge: “Putin and the End of Russia's Masculinity Crisis”

12:30-12:45pm
Amber Frankland: “The Alphabet of New Eras: Latinization in Kazakhstan”