History Department: Graduate Students Focusing on East European and Russian History

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