russian, eastern european, and eurasian studies @ penn
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Allison Evans
Graduate Student in Political Science
@ Penn since 2006
Interests: Russian politics, (un)civil society in postcommunist areas, local level state-societal relations
Yakov Feygin
Graduate Student in History
@ Penn since 2011
Interests: history of Russia and the Soviet Union, diplomatic history and the history the international political economy
Claire Pogue Kaiser
Graduate Student in History
@ Penn since 2010
Interests: nationality policies, late- and post-Stalin Soviet history, and Georgia and the Caucasus
Pavel Khazanov
Graduate Student in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
@ Penn since 2011
Interests: Mid-19th-early 20th century literature
Masha Kowell
Graduate Student in Art History
@ Penn since 2005
Interests: Russian avant-garde, art, film and poetics
Alex Moshkin
Graduate Student in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
@ Penn since 2011
Interests: Global russophone cultural production, with a specific focus on the Israeli literature written by Russian immigrants of the 1990s
Sam Casper
Graduate Student in History
@ Penn since 2010
Interests: modern Russian and Soviet history, as well as Modern European Jewish history
Mary Catherine French
Graduate Student in History
@ Penn since 2007
Interests: Russian cultural history, professionalization, journalism and print culture in developed socialism
Adam E. Leeds
Graduate Student in Anthropology
@ Penn since 2006
Interests: Post-socialism, governmentality, liberalism and neo-liberalism, modernity, expert knowledges, poverty, bureaucracy, economics, history of science, semiotics, historiography, social theory, German Idealism; Russia.
Courtney Ring
Graduate Student in History
@ Penn since 2011
Interests: History of the Russian Orthodox Church and economic history in early modern Russia.
Maya Vinokour
Graduate Student in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
@ Penn since 2011
Interests: Contemporary Russian and German Literature