The Fracturing of Tsarist Russia: Criminal Upperworlds and the Great Trials of the 1870s
by Sergei Antonov, Yale University (2019)

Troublesome Women: Policing Faith and Transforming Russian Elites after Napoleon
by Katherine Antonova, Queens College, CUNY (2019)

Amateur Experiments in Social Engagement: Serbian and Croatian Ciné-Clubs

by Meghanne Barker, University of Chicago (2019)

Sounding Socialist, Sounding Modern: Music,Technology, and Everyday Life in the Soviet Union, 1956-1975
by Gabrielle Cornish, Eastman School of Music (2019)

Sounding Romani Sonic-Subjectivity: Counterhistory, Identity and Affect in Romanian-Roma Music, 1941-1989
by Ioanida Costache, Stanford University (2019)

Aesthetic Education in the Russian Language Classroom: Engaging Moscow Museums for Curricular Development
by Jennifer Flaherty, College of William and Mary (2019)

Svoi or Rodnoi? Citizenship, Belonging, and Post-Soviet Mobilities in Moscow
by Mariana Irby, University of Pennsylvania (2019)

Fighting For Their Rights: Analyzing the Feminist-Based NGO Boom in Post-War Kosovo
by Dhurata Osmani, University of California, Berkeley (2019)

Books Across Borders: Cold War Culture, Soft Power, and the Production of Soviet Books for Postcolonial India, 1954-1991
by Jessica Bachman, University of Washington (2018)

Responses to Domestic Violence Against Women (VAW) in Kyrgyzstan: Understanding Actions and Attitudes of Criminal Justice, Health and Social Service Professionals
by Saltanat Childress, University of Texas-Arlington (2019)

Brand Nationalism: Neoliberal Statecraft and the Politics of Nation Branding in the Republic of Macedonia
by Andrew Graan, University of Helsinki (2018)

Holocaust Retribution in the Polish-Soviet West, 1944-65
by Alana Holland, University of Kansas (2019)

Food Security, Anti-Poaching Enforcement, and the Conservation of Farmland Birds in Siberia
by Aimee Kessler, IUCN Bustard Specialist Group (2018)

Reluctant Abolitionists: Captivity, Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus
by Sergey Salushchev, University of California, Santa Barbara (2018)

When Muhamed Became Misha: Central Asia in the Soviet Empire at War, 1941-1945
by Charles Shaw, Central European University (2018)

Changing Geographies of Childhood in Bihać, Bosnia-Hercegovina
by Reilly Wilson, CUNY Graduate Center (2019)

U.S. and Japanese Intervention in the Russian Civil War: Violence and Barbarism in the Far East
by Paul Behringer, American University (2018)

Networks of Conspirators in Dostoevsky’s Siberia: Competing Polish and Russian Cultural Memories
by Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University (2018)

The Social and Economic Consequences of Non-Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Georgia
by Samantha Guthrie, Independent Researcher (2017)

The Soviet Working Class after Stalin
by James Nealy, Duke University (2017)

Quiet River, Heavy Waters: Un-silencing Nuclear Narratives of Socio-environmental Inequalities in the Cradle of Soviet Plutonium, 1945-1977
by Rosibel Roman, Florida International University (2017)

More than just a “Bridge”? Russia’s Asian Pivot through Vladivostok
by Jeremy Tasch, Towson University (2017)

Preparing for Crises: Layers of environmental risk mitigation in Serbia
by Ruth Trumble, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2017)

The Business of Solidarity: Balkan Socialisms and Development Aid in the ‘Third World,’ 1953-1991
by Peter Wright, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2017)

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