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Graduate Students Focusing on East European and Russian
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Melissa Cakars
Current research interests: currently writing a dissertation about
sovietization in Buriatia, Russia.
Dissertation Title: “Being Buriat: Sovietization in Siberia”
mcakars@indiana.edu
Aimee Dobbs
Current research interests: education policies in late Imperial Russia
and the Soviet period and the formation of nationalism among the Russian
empire's Muslim groups.
ardobbs@indiana.edu
Elizabeth Harrington Lambert
Current research interests: gender issues, pedagogy and holocaust education,
and memory and the commemoration of fascism and communism in central and
eastern Europe, namely East Germany/the former GDR. My dissertation will
deal with representations of Weimar, Dresden and other East German cities
between 1919 and 1989, particularly during the
post-WWII era.
ehlamber@indiana.edu
Jolanta Mickute
Fields of study: Jewish History (major), East European / Russian History
(minor), Jewish Studies, Gender.
My dissertation will be on the sociocultural lives of Jewish women in
interwar Lithuania and Poland.
jmickute@indiana.edu
Colleen M. Moore
Current research interests: late Imperial Russia, social history, the
Great War, Stalinism, Modern Europe.
colmmoor@indiana.edu
Ania Muller
Current research interests: gender, Polish modern history (and Ukrainian),
gender relationships and anti-Communist opposition.
anmuller@indiana.edu
Leone Musgrave
Current research interests: the early history of the Balkans and the Caucasus,
especially transculturation and cultural preservation in mountain regions
and Russian and Ottoman imperial competition in these regions.
mmusgrav@indiana.edu
Benjamin J. Stellwagen
Fields of study: Russian history (major), Eastern Europe (inside minor),
Religious Studies (outside minor).
In studying the Soviet treatment of Christian minorities, I am concerned
with the effect of adapted expressions of faith on formal church practices.
bstellwa@indiana.edu
Susan Williams
Current research interests: Romani history, the history of Southeast Europe
and Romania, minorities and the creation and negotiation of identities,
and the “near abroad”.
suwillia@indiana.edu
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