Affiliated Graduate Students

Soviet byt; relationship between the state, literacy, and subjectivity; censorship; soviet samizdat

Arctic and Soviet environmental history with a focus on energy and industry

The evolution of Jewish leftist radicalism in East-Central Europe; the history of culture under totalitarianism; the role of memory in shaping current political debates

Early Christian and Byzantine art, architecture, and space

Russian and Ukrainian Soviet Avant Garde art in the early 20th century, Soviet Montage film, Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, Contemporary Ukrainian Feminist Art, Contemporary Ukrainian, and Memory Politics

Contemporary Russian prose; internet literature; Digital Humanities

Histories of socialism; East European cinemas; Yugoslav studies; Experimental film; Politics of form

20th and 21st century Russian, and Ukrainian literatures and cultures; post-colonial studies; feminist, gender and queer studies; cultural identity and hybridity; canonization; digital humanities; Turkish and Crimean Tatar; translation

Late Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asian literatures; cultural and linguistic identity and hybridity; trauma and memory

Postwar memory and the social and cultural implications of changing burial practices in Germany and Austria

Russian Literature; Chekhov; Humor Magazines; Theory of Literature

The long-term resilience of water infrastructure and its implication for contemporary heritage preservation

20th Century German, Polish, and Hebrew Literatures and Cultures; Poetry and Poetics; Jewish Literature, History, and Thought; New Materialism; Critical Theory; Ecopoetics; Translation

East-Central and Southeastern Europe in the 20th-21st centuries; revolution, resistance, and radicalism; culture and subculture; regionalism and regional studies

Soviet Jewish cultural and religious history; late socialism; American-Soviet Jewish relations; transnational history; post-Soviet Jewish communities; Hasidism; oral history

Intersections of art, power, war, and everyday life, grounded methodologically in historical materialism, memory politics, decolonial theory, gender and feminist theory, and an affirmation of critical thinking as a public good

The Cold War; political violence; the history of intelligence and terrorism

Soviet and Yugoslav literature