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Affiliated Graduate Students

History, PhD
Arctic and Soviet environmental history with a focus on energy and industry
History, PhD
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
Art History, PhD; CMEMS Graduate Coordinator
Early Christian and Byzantine art, architecture, and space
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
Contemporary Russian prose; internet literature; Digital Humanities
Art & Art History, PhD
Histories of socialism; East European cinemas; Yugoslav studies; Experimental film; Politics of form
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
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
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
Late Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asian literatures; cultural and linguistic identity and hybridity; trauma and memory
History, PhD
History of the built environment, space, and the sociocultural consequences of Soviet rule
History, PhD
Postwar memory and the social and cultural implications of changing burial practices in Germany and Austria
Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD
Russian Literature; Chekhov; Humor Magazines; Theory of Literature
Anthropology, PhD
The long-term resilience of water infrastructure and its implication for contemporary heritage preservation
German Studies, PhD
20th Century German, Polish, and Hebrew Literatures and Cultures; Poetry and Poetics; Jewish Literature, History, and Thought; New Materialism; Critical Theory; Ecopoetics; Translation
History, PhD
East-Central and Southeastern Europe in the 20th-21st centuries; revolution, resistance, and radicalism; culture and subculture; regionalism and regional studies
History, PhD
Soviet Jewish cultural and religious history; late socialism; American-Soviet Jewish relations; transnational history; post-Soviet Jewish communities; Hasidism; oral history
History, PhD
The Cold War; political violence; the history of intelligence and terrorism