Russia

Yevhenii Monastyrskyi is a Ph.D. Student at the Department of History at Harvard University. He specializes in the history of the Soviet Union and is particularly interested in history of Soviet migration regimes, intergenerational history of the Soviet...

Jason Chan is a PhD candidate in modern Chinese history at Harvard University, where he researches the history of earth sciences in twentieth-century China. For more information, please visit his site.

Alex Jackson studies Soviet history, with a focus on Soviet nationalisms and internationalisms.  He graduated from McGill University with a BA in history, and the Harvard Extension School with an MA in history.  His research interests include discourses...

Leora Eisenberg entered the Ph.D. program in the fall of 2021 and is studying Central Asian Soviet history. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and a minor in Russian...

Emma Friedlander entered the History PhD program at Harvard University in 2020. Her dissertation is titled “The Soviet New Age: Alternative spirituality and the collapse of communism, 1975-2000.” This project examines the popular culture of alternative...

Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz entered the Ph.D. program at Harvard University in 2019. She is interested in domestic security institutions, denunciation, and perceptions of ethnic and ideological otherness in the Stalinist period.