CREEES MA Student Capstone Presentations

The capstone thesis is a central component of the CREEES MA program, which allows students to produce a work of original scholarship during their year in the program.  Students work closely on a topic of their choice, under the guidance of a faculty advisor and in consultation with the CREEES director and associate director.

Join this event to learn about students' capstone research projects.

Benjamin Bronkema-Bekker: World Health Organization Alcohol Policy Prescriptions Under Scrutiny: Assessing Impact in Ukraine and Russia

Alexa Black:  Memory Politics in Nazarbayev's Kazakhstan: The Great Famine and Kazakh National Identity

Xingru Chen:  Impacts of Media Usage on Political Trust: Evidence from Russia

Estelle Ciesla:  Russia’s Descent into Authoritarianism: The Role of the ‘Foreign Agent’ Law

Katherine Davidson:  Eroding Autonomy: An Analysis of Russian and Belarusian Media Coverage of the 2020 Belarusian Pro-Democracy Protests

Christina Hill:  Information Warfare: Russian Cyber Strategy Abroad

Grace Kier:  Variations in Russian Support for Far-Right Actors in the West

Rachel Landau: Photographs of Medical Care After Chernobyl

Saga Helgason Morris: Media Coverage of Russia in the Arctic

Rajiv Sinha: Nation at War: What Putin's Vendetta is Doing to Ukraine

True Sweetser:  The Influence of Religion on Tolstoy's View of History