ESC Scrapbook

Liliya Dashevski had the incredible opportunity to travel to Russia for my dissertation project on dolls and toys in the 19th century Russian culture.

Emily Sigman, MF/MA ‘21, exploring Saint Petersburg’s bustling fruit markets. Emily is spending the summer in Russia studying Advanced Russian with the Yale Summer Session, and conducting research on Saint Petersburg’s unique, multicultural and perennial fruit markets. Behind Emily is a stand containing fruits from Central Asia. Her research aims in part to untangle the myriad ways both the fruits and the people selling them come to Saint Petersburg.

Katie Wells, Yale College 2021, Benjamin Franklin College.

Mireille Pardon, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, in Bruges, June 2019

Miklós Veszprémi is a PhD candidate in music theory. His dissertation is on “double function form” works, in which musical form unfolds on multiple, mutually exclusive hierarchical levels simultaneously. It asks how mid nineteenth-century listeners perceived such forms, and focuses on the reception and international dissemination of Franz Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto.

Darya Smirnova is a second year MA student in the Europeans&Russian Studies program. Originally from Vinnitsa, Ukraine, she completed her undergraduate degree at the University of St Andrews, UK.