Graduate Alumni
Konstantin Avramov
REESC MA 2006
Thesis “Planning Progress: Scientific-Technical Revolution and Progress in Soviet Economic Discussions: 1959-1985″
Advisor: Julie Hessler
Laura Beth Brandt
REESC MA 2006
Thesis “Perekovka and the Contruction of the Belomor Canal”
Advisor: Julie Hessler
Melissa Cook
REESC MA 2009
Thesis “Frames of Mind: The Limits of Place and Space in the Work of Joseph Brodsky”
Advisor: Jenifer Presto
Matthew Derrick
REESC MA 2005
Thesis “Contested Autonomy: Tatarstan Under Putin”
Advisor: Ronald Wixman
Tom Dolack
REESC MA 2007
“‘The Orphaned Nightingale’: The Translations of Mandelstam and Pasternak”
Kathryn Dooley
REESC MA 2009
Thesis “Stalinist Policies, Indigenous Agents, and Peasant Actors: Negotiating Collectivization in Uzbekistan, 1929-1932″
Advisor: Julie Hessler
Hongyu Fang
REESC MA 2003
Thesis “Heroines in Chekhov’s Stories”
Advisor:
Masako Fujiyama
REESC MA 2005
Thesis “Distribution of the L-Participle in the 17-18th CC. Printed Russian Secular Tales”
Advisor: Cynthia Vakareliyska
Alexander Kashirin
REESC MA 2005
Thesis “The Trudoviki Faction in the Political Experience of the 1st and 2nd State Dumas”
Advisor: Alan Kimball
Chris Pike
REESC MA 2009
Thesis “Ecological Consciousness in the Poetry of Fedor Tiutchev”
Advisor: Katya Hokanson
Elena Rodina
REESC MA 2010
Thesis “How Publication Type, Experience and Ownership Affect Self-Censorship Among Moscow Newspaper Journalists”
Advisor: Caleb Southworth
Alayne Switzer
REESC MA 2008
Thesis “Children of the Gulag”
Advisor: Julie Hessler
Dmitri Venkov
REESC MA 2006
Thesis “From spontaneous to Official Carnival: The Role of Humor in the Soviet Film 1924-1941″
Advisor: Alan Kimball
Polina Yemelyanova
REESC MA 2009
Thesis: “Stalin’s Special Settlements”
Advisor: Julie Hessler
Anastasia Yurchenko
REESC MA 2008
Thesis “Bulgakov’s Novel The Master and Margarita and the Subversion of Socialist Realism”
Advisor: Jenifer Presto