| 2007-2008 Graduate Award |
Joanna Matuszak |
“Self-Portrayal of a Soviet Artist: The case of Alksander Deineka’s Self-Portrait of 1948” |
| Master's Award |
Colin Dietch (tied for first place) |
“Nation and Regime: Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy in Post-Soviet Belarus and Ukraine” |
| |
Ryan Kilgore (tied for first place) |
“The Shtetl and Jewish Resettlement in Soviet Cinema of the Interwar Period” |
| Undergraduate Award |
Michael Gold |
“Restoring Indo-Russian Relations: An Evaluation of Russian Foreign Policy Strategies” |
| 2006-2007 Graduate Award |
Colleen Moore |
"The Popular Response to War and Mobilization in Russia in 1914" |
| Master's Award |
Andrew Ringlee |
"The Military Gymnazia in Reform Era Russia, 1863-1882" |
Undergraduate
Award |
Kathleen Minahan |
"Political Perestroika Interrupted: Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949" |
| 2005-2006 Graduate Award |
McGrath, Nicole (tied for first place) |
"The Tercentary Celebrations and the Romanov Identity Crisis " |
| |
Muller, Anna (tied for first place) |
"To not yield means to win: Fordoniakri-Stalinist Women Prisoners: The Experience, Sense of Suffering, and Memory of Women-Fighters" |
| Master's Award |
Burton, Andrew |
"Minority Self-Governance: Minority Representation in Flux for the Hungarian Roma" |
Undergraduate
Award |
Stewart, Jeremy |
"An Explanation of Differences in Hungarian and Romanian Responses to Perestroika" |
Year |
First Place |
Title |
Second Place |
Title |
| 2004-2005 |
Hart, Phil |
"Red Dusk? The Defeat of the Communist Party of the Russian
Federation in the 2003/04 Elections" |
Lutz, Leslie (tied for second place) |
"Russian Nonprofit Tax Law: A Call for Reform" |
| Undergraduate Award |
Milianta, Sarah |
"The Chernobyl Catastrophe: Stalin's Influence and Glasnost's First Test" |
Miles, Lyndsay (tied for second place) |
"Russo-Georgian Relations and the Impact of the Rose Revolution" |
| 2003-2004 |
Maceyko, Jennifer |
"Political and Cultural Mobilization Among Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Russians, Poles, and Hungarians" |
Curtis, Matthew |
“Small Nations, Tall Tales: Three Balkan Epics and National
Identity in Slovenia, Serbia, and Albania” |
| 2002-2003 |
Betka, Mark |
“Integration of Polish Farming to the European Union Common Agriculture
Policy: Challenges and Opportunities” |
Kanig, Christian |
“The Evolution of the Soviet Reeducation Program” |
| Undergraduate Award |
Shulman, Naomi |
"Moment's of Insufficiency: An Analysis of Halkin's Translation of Mendele's The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third" |
|
|
| 2001-2002 |
Cakars, Janis |
"Soldiers of the Pen: The Use of Media in the Non-Violent
Liberation of Latvia" |
Kanig, Christian (tied for second place) |
"Engineers of the Human Soul: Upravlenie Propagandy" |
| |
|
|
Kinney, Patrick (tied for second place) |
"National Religions and Religious Nationalities: Complexities
of Identity in Communist and Post-Communist Romania" |
| 2000-2001 |
Tuna, Mustafa
(tied for first place) |
"Gaspirah vs. Il'minskii: Two Identity Projects
for the Muslims of the Russian Empire" |
|
|
| |
White, Angela
(tied for first place) |
"The 'Perfect Compromise': Bernard Singer, Acculturation,
and the Polish-Jewish Press" |
|
|
| 1999-2000 |
Pruefer, Donald A. (tied for first place) |
"From Throw Weights to Metric Tons: The Radioactive
Waste Problems of Russia's Northern Fleet" |
|
|
| |
Wood, Nathaniel D. (tied for first place) |
"Becoming a 'Great City': Metropolitan Imaginations
and Apprehensions in the Cracovian Popular Press, 1900-1914" |
|
|
| 1998-1999 |
Jones, George,III D. |
"Homosexual Identity in the Art of Turn-of-the-Century
Russia" |
Cakars, A. Melissa |
"The Tlingit and Aleut Experience in Russian
America" |
| 1997-1998 |
Tarpley, John V. |
"Portrait of an Empire: Russian Approaches to
Asia in Aziatskaia Rossiia" |
Currie, H. Katherine |
"Nourishment for the Soul: The Importance of
Culture During the Siege of Leningrad" |
| 1996-1997 |
Prior, Daniel G. |
"Patron, Party, Patrimony: A Cultural History
of Kirghiz Epic from 1856 to the Present" |
Braeson, House E. |
"A History of Significance: the Kuban Cossacks
in the Service of the Volunteer Army" |
| 1995-1996 |
Fisher, David |
"Priests of the Marxist Parish? Americanists
and American Studies in the Former Soviet Union, 1953-1996" |
Lynn, Sargeant M. |
"The Social Politics of Music: Revolutionary
Legitimacy and Artistic Integrity in the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories,
1917-1932" |
| 1994-1995 |
Korfhage, David |
"Interpretation and Reinterpretation of Rukopis
Královédvorský and Rukopis Zelenohorský" |
Temple, Mark C. |
"The Politicization of History: Marshal Antonescu
and Romania" |
| 1993-1994 |
Gaffney, John |
"A New Era in Russian Relations in Northeast
Asia" |
Korfhage, David (tied for second place) |
"Social Movements and Democratization: the Case
of Civic Forum" |
| |
|
|
Panos, Caterina (tied for second place) |
"The Hardest Path: a Political Biography of Aleksandr
Tvardovskii" |
| 1992-1993 |
Terrell, Richard |
"Stalinist Interpretation of Lenin's Theory of
National Self-Determination" |
Pohl, Michaela |
"Peasant Women in Soviet Chastushki, 1922-1941" |
| 1991-1992 |
Sunderland, William |
“Peasants on the Move: State-Peasant Settlement in Imperial Russia, 1805-1830s” |
Ayres, Mary Helen |
“The Zhitie of Avvakum and Tolstoy’s Story ‘Otets Sergeii’” |
| 1990-1991 |
Keller, Shoshana |
"Islam in Soviet Central Asia, 1917-1930: The
Struggle for Control" |
Raisner, William |
"The Effect of the Invasion of Afghanistan on
Soviet-Pakistani Relations: an Historical Perspective" |
| 1989-1990 |
Woolhiser, Curt |
"Expletive' Pronouns in Slavic: Subject or Topic" |
Williams, Vicki |
"Towards an Interpretation of Pautina" |
| 1988-1989 |
Clough, Virginia L. |
"From Transmission Belt to Spark Plug: the Union
of Cinematographers Under Gorbachev" |
|
|
| 1987-1988 |
Montgomery, Robert |
"Aspects of Buriat Nationality Policy: Native-Language
Education and Alphabet Reform 1917-c.1930" |
Bisha, Robin M. |
"Disputed Dowries in Imperial Russia" |
| 1986-1987 |
Kosiba, Hal |
"Stalin's Balkan Aims: Turkey, the Percentages
Agreement, and the Resumption of the Cold War" |
Clough, Robert |
"Eastern Europe's Successful and Unsuccessful
Policy Choices in the Development of the Computer Industry" |
| 1985-1986 |
Richardson, Paul E. |
"Intervention in Afghanistan: Soviet Motives,
Strategy, and Effectiveness" |
Kiernan, Brendan |
"Lenin's Theory of Imperialism and Soviet Theories
of Neocolonialism" |
| 1984-1985 |
Pearcy, Mark A. (undergraduate) |
"Emperor Karl and Habsburg Dissolution 1916-1918 |
|
|
| 1984-1985 |
Clough, Robert |
"A Critique of Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest
Stage of Capitalism A Lesson in Over-Reliance on Two Sources" |
Miner, Steven M. |
"The Brief Resurrection of Maksim Litvinov, May
1939-June 1942" |
| 1983-1984 |
Felak, James |
"The Slovak State, 1939-1945: How Independent
Was It?" |
Ashanin, Marina |
"Self-Management in the Post-Tito Press: Who's
Managing Whom?" |
| 1982-1983 |
Albrecht, Catherine |
"Savings Banks in Bohemia, 1852-1900" |
Bennett, Vincent K. |
"Soviet Historiography and the Question
of Russian Colonization of Turkestan" |
| 1981-1982 |
Latawski, Paul |
"The Anglo-Polish Dispute on the Disposition
of Eastern Galicia 1918-1919" |
Norman, John |
"Snegurochka: The Odyssey of a Folk Tale" |
| 1980-1981 |
Troebst, Stefan |
"Some Aspects of Anti-Semitism in Bulgaria, 1878-1912" |
Kodat, Roger |
"Evaluating the Rush Succession Model: An Emperical
Analysis of Political Succession in Postwar Czechoslovakia" |
