MA Thesis Archive

2024

Maggie Lindrooth

CHINGGIS KHAN HAD THIS SONG IN HIS PLAYLIST: Constructing Mongolian Identity through Viral Musical Success

Nazerke Mukhlissova

Nationalization of Central Asia 1916-1936: The case of Kazakh and Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Union Republics

Casey Smith

Mennonites and the Colonial Periphery: Russian Mennonites and the Great Trek

2023

Cary Beehler

Feminine Subjectivity in Platonov’s Happy Moscow: Reading through the Male Gaze

Mourad Boumlik

Spatialité dans le roman maghrébin de langue française: Vers une cartographie et poétique-autre

Caroline Dunbar

Dignity as Lived Experience: How the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Shaped Ukrainian Soviety from the Underground to the Maidan (1945-2022)

Holly Harris

France, Nationalism and Migration: Evidence of French Nationalism in French and European Political Party Platforms

Vanessa Maderova

Revolutionary Desire to Secularise the Kingdom of God: Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of History

Maksimas Milta

History of Russia’s Evasion of the United States Sanctions

Yevhenii Monastyrskyi

International is Everywhere: Fate of the Communist International Institutions on Case of International Red Aid (MOPR)

Ilya Plyat

From Vasily Shulgin to Dmitry Galkovsky: Ukrainian issue in Russian ideology through 100 years, a comparative study

2022

Giorgi Buzaladze

Cultural Backlash vs. Economic Self-Interest: Democratic Backsliding in Hungary

Peter Chen

The Ukrainian Perception of China through News Media From 2010 to 2018

Zachary Cho

Pogrom in the Americas: Dutch Brazil, the Portuguese Inquisition, and the Cristãos-Novos of Pernambuco (1497-1654)

Meagan Ford

Going Beyond the Famine: the Secret Police in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1925-1939

Gabriel Rom

Sovereignty and Statelessness: Moses and Poland in the Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ali Salmenbayev

What are the prospects of interaction between the European Union and Eurasian Economic Union?

2021

Calvin K.C. Chang

Post-Cold War Russian and American Exceptionalism as Factors in Bilateral Relation

Nicholas Budd Fenton

World Economy and World Politics in 1934: A Discursive Analysis of the Soviet Turn to Collective Security and the Popular Front

Sisi Liu

Time and Victory over Time: Georg Lukács and the Problematic of Temporality

Alicia Strong

Shqip Hop: Race, Nation & Transnational Identity Negotiation in Kosova

2020

Logan Kilsdonk

The Making of a Government: The 1634 Form of Government in Sweden

Elliot Mertz

An Acquired Taste Mnemonic Arts in 18th Century Consumer Culture

Madeleine Muzdakis

Gender and Foodways in Early Modern London, 1660-1760

Cornell G. Overfield

Brake-ing Bad: European Debt Brakes and a Theory of Dictated Constitutional Change

Yurina Takeichi

When do ‘strong’ leaders emerge for right-wing populist parties? Comparative analyses of personalization in Western Europe

Ying Xing

Cultural Alterity: Foucault’s Conundrum in his Critique of Modernity

Hestia Zhang

Blurring the Lines: Paintings of Public Gardens in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris

2019

James Samuel Daniel V

Reading Possession: Demonic Possession and National Identity Formation in Early Modern England

Irina Bakhareva

Impact of Migration on National Security of Receiving States A European perspective

Kathryn Fuselier

Subjects “Old” and “New”: Ceded Colonies and Imperial Reform in British Quebec and Spanish Louisiana, 1759-1774

Sarah Holzworth

Russian Identity and Preferences in Status-Seeking, 2008-2018

David Labastida Rodríguez

A Godly Desire for Transcendence: The Figure of the Biblical Scapegoat in Weimar’s Nazi Mentality and Buchenwald’s Christian Symbolic Meaning

Isabel C. van Paasschen

Distinctively Dutch: Women, Marriage, and Commerce in Colonial New York, through the Lives of Robert and Alida Livingston and their Descendants

Nathan Phair

“That which is interest differs totally from usuries”: A Reexamination of Peter Canisius’ Augsburg Mission

Emma Simmons

Affective Revolutions: Time and Emotion in Pil’niak’s The Naked Year and Olesha’s Envy

Darya Smirnova

Between Real and Imagined: Depicting National Identity During the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict (2014-2016)

Ruoxi Sun

Financial Markets and Political Crises in Europe, 1750–1960

2018

Harutyun Derderyan

Western Balkans: Actors and Factors Influencing Post-Communist Democratization

Sergii Drobysh

Failing the Liberal Order: NATO’s Response to War in Georgia as a Factor in Russia’s Current Aggression Against Ukraine

Hayk Esaghoulyan

“The Only Armenian, Out of Several Thousands”: Reading “The Life and Adventures of Joseph Emin” as Enlightenment Text

Charles R. H. Littlewood

Russian Relations with the States of the Arabian Peninsula: The Long View

Kyle Mancuso

“Fuimus Troes:” The German “Discovery of Sicily” from Riedesel to Goethe

Patrick McNeill

Murder in the Salt Marshes: Labor, Migration, and the Aigues-Mortes Massacre

Jeffrey Michels

Electronic El Dorado Silicon Valley as a Vision for West Germany’s High-Tech Future 1977-1987

Mariia Muzdybaeva

Remembering Forgotten Wars: William Faulkner’s Military Discourse in Russian Adaptations

Kamila Orlova

Shelby Alexus Pinkerton

From Empire to Nation: Origins of Hungarian National Identity in the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Benjamin Spikol

Money, Trade, and the Transformation of Economic Systems: New Approaches to Industrialization in New England, 1740-1820

2017

Daniel Bottino

Landscape, Memory and the Early Modern Sense of the Past

Matthew Dudley

Micro and Macro Perspectives on the Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora

Stephen R. Eesley

The Conception of the Carolingian Empire: The Dynamic Creation of the English Empire under Charles II to Counter Continental Claims to Universal Monarchy

Colin Hoch

Witness to Ruin: the Long Reformation, Iconoclasm, and Violence in Early Modern Memory

Zytha Kock

NOT FROM HERE, BUT OF HERE Moluccan commemoration and identity in the Netherlands, 1951-2012

Jacob McAuliffe

Brendan Murphy

“Reconfiguring the Geopolitical Framework in Western-Russian Energy Security”

Qiyang Niu

Cooperation Unnecessary? Russian Far East and Northeast China in the Context of Stagnant Regional Economy

Joan Robledo-Palop

The Rise of Empathy: Goya and the Disasters of War

Max Shafer-Landau

The Novus Cursus Honorum: Practical Pedagogy for Training the Modern Demos

2016

Kristina Arakelyan

Addressing Human Trafficking in Armenia

Harry Leech

The Interpretation of Mercantilism in the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1656

Thomas Morley

William Schreiber

Case Studies of Municipal Reform: Challenges and Opportunities in Kyiv, Ukraine 2014-2016

Julia Sinitsky

Competing Ideas About Identity and Reforms in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Era Russia

Ruoyin Zheng

Russia’s China Policy at the Turn of the 20th and 21th Centuries

2015

Wendi Bootes

The Narrative Shape of Violence: Georg Lukács, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Subject Formation in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg

Lauren Young

Peter’s Curious Cabinet: Peter the Great’s Kunstkamera in European Context

Zixiang Zhao

Weather as a Cause of the Turmoil in Spain in the Mid-17th Century

2014

Liqi Dong

Sino-Russian Energy Cooperation The Economic and Political Factors in Energy Relations

Rachel Fleig-Goldstein

Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: Between Politics and Law

Jake Robert Nelson

The Hollande Doctrine: Counterterrorism and the Rhetoric of a New French Renaissance

Laura Leigh Neville

Russia’s Multifaceted Role in the Syrian Conflict: Evaluating Security, Geopolitical, and Economic Interests

Andrey Semenov

Free Market Meets Monopoly or Geopolitics of European Gas Trade

James Wang

Contesting Mitteleuropa

Matthew Thomas Wormer

An Empire of Luxury? Patriotism, Imperial Politics, and the Birth of Neo-Toryism, 1748 – 1763

2013

Matilda Curtis

‘Mostly British, but with a tiny little bit of European’: Examining Student Experiences of the Year Abroad and European Identity Change

Earl Joshua Hodil

Russian Diplomacy and the German Wars of Unification: Otto von Bismarck, Alexander Gorchakov, and Dmitrii Miliutin

Tiffany Rechsteiner

Sweetheart, Mistress, Friend: Wives’ Roles and Strategies in Caroline and Restoration England

Brian Salant

Political Participation of Immigrants in Belgium: the Quest for Equal Political Knowledge

Sara R. Softness

Pathologizing the Jewish Image: The Legend of the Wandering Jew in the Modern Era

2012

Brian Davidson

Divisions Among the Elite: Georgian Advertisements for Books in London and the English Provinces

Dana LaMendola

The New Old Boys’ ‘Club : Voluntary Associations and English Middle Class forays into polite and political society. A Case Study of the Mock Corporation of Sephton

Deirdre A. Shannon

Falling Out of Love with the Market: The Influence of the European Economic Crisis of 2007-2012 on European Identity

Alexandra Sukalo

Better a Hundred Friends than a Hundred Rubles: The Soviet Union, A State of Survival

2011

Nicole Bauer

The Copernican Sun: Jesuits, the Sun King and Symbolic Imagery

Jolanta Jasina

Katyn 1940 - Smolensk 2010 National Trauma and a Possiblity of Reconciliation

Jeppe Mulich

The Absolutist Turn Monarchical coups and political transitions in Northern Europe, 1648-1682

Elizabeth Rogers

The Trials of Danton and Bukharin

2010

Nora Anderson

For His Love of War: Toward a Gendered Narrative of the Falklands War

Frank Brown

Mountain Jews

Virginia Insley

Framing Culpability: a Critical Analysis of the Woyzeck-Wozzeck Morphology in Opera and Literature

Major Robert R. Johnston II

European Security After the Lisbon Treaty: an Opportunity for Russia?

William Jones

Marxist Methodology: Melancholy and Form in Adorno, Benjamin and Lukacs

Kathleen Minahan

The Struggle for Identity in the Interwar Polish Education System

Tricia Ross

International Calvinism and the Synod of Dort

Rachael Streeter

Dalle Ceneri: The Theology of Seventeenth-Century Italian Alchemy

Emily Yao

Maghrebian Masculinities: Spaces and Selves in Mohammed Dib, Rachid Boudjedra and Tahar Ben Jelloun

2009

Claire Morelon

1918 Bohemian Lands

Jeanette Norris

Identity, Structure, and Regionalist Parties

Elizabeth Sterling

From Immigration to Immigrant Policy: Shifting the Balance Across the European Union

Tao Zeng

The Relationship between Russia and the EU with a Focus on the Energy Issue

2008

Jennifer Gardner

Responding to the Nazis: Narratives of Russian Emigres in German-Occupied France

William Ko

Applying the “Third-Generation” Theoretical Approach to Soviet Strategic Thought: Implications and Framework for Cross-National Studies in Strategic Culture

Marc Ozawa

Toward a New Growth Model? The Russian Defense Industry in the 21st Century

Maryam Shahabi

The European Union’s Democratic Deficit: Myth or Reality?

2007

Silvio Pitter

Russian Multinational Energy Companies: LUKoil’s Global Expansion

Patrycja Podracjik

European Union’s Common Security and Defense Project a Decade Later: Case Study of the War in Lebanon in 2006

2006

Yulia Rusanova

YUKOS and Krivorozhstal: Case Studies of Property Rights in Russia and Ukraine

Jessica Scholes

“Russia For Russians”: Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Nationalism in Contemporary Russia

2005 and earlier - Master of Arts Program in Russian and East European Studies

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