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Doctoral Dissertations, 2023

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Slavic Review , Volume 83 , Issue 4 , Winter 2024, pp. 908 - 925
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Doctoral Dissertations on Russia, the Soviet Union, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Accepted by Universities in the United States and Canada, 2023.

This list, covering dissertations in the social sciences, humanities, and fine arts, was compiled through systematic searching in ProQuest’s Dissertations & Theses Citation Index, as well as OCLC WorldCat, and other university library catalogs. The current list for 2023 contains 255 titles from 105 universities and covers titles that were available for electronic database searching from July 2024 to December 2024.

A list of dissertations, through 1959, can be found in Jesse J. Dossick’s Doctoral Research on Russia and the Soviet Union (New York, 1960) and, through 1975, in the accompanying volume, Doctoral Research on Russia and the Soviet Union, 1960–1975 (New York, 1976). The second volume contains more than three thousand titles that have appeared in the Slavic Review annual list since 1964 (the 1964 list also included dissertations accepted from 1960 to 1963), as well as items not previously included in the first volume. In addition, the second volume offers some critical and statistical analysis, more than thirty major classifications, numerous subclassifications and sub-subclassifications, cross-references, an index of Russian and Soviet names, and an index of authors. A list of dissertations from 1976 to 1991 may be found in the winter issues of Slavic Review through the year 1992.

Russia, the USSR, and the Former USSR

Archaeology

Biyashev, Ismael. 2023. “Beyond Myths and Ruins: Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire and Early USSR 1850—1920s.” Illinois, Chicago.

Architecture

Kotsioris, Evangelos. See Urban Planning.

Art history

Boersma, Max. 2023. “Technical Difficulties: Abstraction’s Entanglements in the World, 1918–1933.” Harvard.

Bonin, Christianna. 2023. “Decentering Russia: Art and Empire, 1900–1973.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jung, Byungsam. 2023. “Vision, Thoughts, Desire: Photographic Objects in Russian Metafiction.” Stanford.

Kácsor, Adrienn. See Hungary.

Papadopoulos, Chloe Simone. See Literature.

Urchick, Stephen Tyler. 2023. “Realism by Rail: Art and Mobilities in Late Imperial Russia.” Yale.

Computer science

Kotsioris, Evangelos. See Urban Planning.

Lukin, Vladimir. See Literature.

Dance

Jay Carroll, Jordan Thomas. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Waller, Anna Louise. 2023. “Mass performance and the Dancing Chorus between the Wars, 1918–1939.” Columbia.

Digital communication and social media

Guha, Mithila. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Kuznetsova, Daria. 2023. “The Weaponization of Digital Communication Spaces: How Authoritarian Regimes Use Information Control to Suppress Contention.” Iowa.

Lebo, Aaron. 2023. See Ukraine.

Mousavi, Maryam. 2023. “Virality in the Digital Age: Contextualization, Messaging Strategies, and Framing Detection.” Arizona State.

Oppenheimer, Harry. 2023. “Essays on Digital Interdependence and Globalization.” Harvard.

Rosin, Randolph E. 2023. “Propaganda on Steroids: A Case Study on How Communication Technology ‘Pumped-Up’ Russian Black Propaganda.” American.

Tikhonyuk, Ekaterina. See Mass Media.

Economics

Cai, Sheng. 2023. “Essays on International Technology Diffusion.” Yale.

da Costa Monteiro, Joao Miguel. 2023. “Essays in Trade and Finance.” Northwestern.

Giorgadze, Salome. 2023. “Business Cycles, Exchange Rates, and Commodity Prices in Transition Economies.” Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Yushkov, Andrey. 2023. “Three Essays on the Nature of Vertical Fiscal Interactions in Federations.” Indiana.

Zhukov, Konstantin. 2023. “Studies in the Political Economy of Communism and Post-Communism.” George Mason.

Émigré and immigration studies

Bregman, Revital. 2023. “Views and Attitudes of Older Russian Immigrants on Mental and Physical Health and Its Impacts on Health Care Seeking Behaviors.” William James College.

Melnikova, Aleksandra. 2023. “Exploring Attitudes on Seeking Mental Health Services among Russian-Americans and Russian Immigrants Living in the United States.” Alliant International.

Miles, Marintha R. See Tajikistan.

Tabenkina, Ekaterina. See Language Instruction.

Vizlakh, Breanna. 2023. “Intergenerational Narratives: An Exploration of Psychological Sequelae and Identity of First and Second Generation Russian-Speaking Jewish Americans.” Adelphi.

Energy markets and resources

Mintzmyer, J. See International Trade.

Min, Luke Leelook. 2023. “Essays on Natural Gas and Electricity Markets.” Rice.

Environmental studies, including climate change

Durova, Aleksandra O. 2023. “Navigating Climate and Urban Change: Development Patterns, Conflicts, and Equity in a Sub-Arctic and Post-Socialist City.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Filimonova, Nadezhda N. 2023. “The Practice of Climate Change Adaptation Governance in Arctic Cities: Understanding Local Policymaking Interactions in Norway and Russia.” Massachusetts, Boston.

Herbert, Alexander. See Soviet History, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy.

Koskina, Mariia. See Soviet History, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy.

Ethnic and minority studies

Finkelman, Samuel J. 2023. “Ghetto, Gulag, Geulah: The Soviet Jewish Movement’s Russian and Ukrainian Encounters, 1953–1991.” Pennsylvania.

Shynkarenko, Mariia. 2023. “Flexible Identities, Resilient People: The Crimean Tatars’ Struggle for Self-Determination (1905–2020).” New School.

Vizlakh, Breanna. See Émigré and Immigration Studies.

Wilson, Elaine. See Literature.

Gender studies

Aripova, Feruza. 2023. “Fifty Shades of Vice: Decolonizing the Soviet Homophobic Legacy.” Northeastern.

Garcia, Maya. See literature.

Iasilli, Michael Anthony. 2023. “Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Reinvention of Culture in Revolutionary Russia: Populism, Women, and Education in the New Socialist Society.” St. John’s, New York.

Ter-Grigoryan, Svetlana. 2023. “‘There Is No Sex in the USSR’: Sex, Soviet Identity, and Glasnost,1986–1991.” Ohio State.

Wilson, Elaine. See Literature.

Gerontology

Leavitt-Quist, Danielle. 2023. “When the New Soviet Man Grew Old: The Meanings of Age and the Aging of Socialism, 1922–1991.” Harvard.

History

1801–1917

Biyashev, Ismael. See Archaeology.

Durham, Geoffrey F. 2023. “The Autocratic Politics of Standardization in the Russian Empire, 1797–1899.” Pennsylvania.

Zarkar, Rustin. 2023. “Regimes of Mobility and Imperial State Formation in the Caspian Sea Circuit.” New York.

1917–1921

Coggeshall, Samuel Frederic. 2023. “Revolutionary Frontiers: British and Soviet Missions and the Making of National Borders in the Russian Civil War.” Columbia.

Knotts, Kenneth L., Jr. See Military History.

Soviet History, Politics, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy

Austin, Lyudmila Boltenko. See Caucasus Region.

Biyashev, Ismael. See Archaeology.

Chan, Paula. 2023. “Eyes on the Ground: Soviet Investigations of the Nazi Occupation.” Georgetown.

Chesler, Angela M. 2023. “Politics after Autonomy: Repression, Rebellion, and Revision.” Notre Dame.

Herbert, Alexander. 2023. “A Complex Protective Structure: Construction and Controversy of the Leningrad Flood Protection Barrier, 1924–2011.” Brandeis University.

Koskina, Mariia. 2023. “Giving a Green Light to Development: State and Personal Encounters with Nature in Cold War Siberia.” New York, Binghamton.

Kotsioris, Evangelos. See Urban Planning.

Koziura, Karolina. See Ukraine.

McDonald, Garret J. See Psychiatry.

Urban, Alison Diana. See Theater.

Zajicek, Taylor C. 2023. “Black Sea, Cold War: An Environmental History of the Black Sea Region, 1930–2005.” Princeton.

Afghanistan and the Soviet Union

Lee, Jong Eun. 2023. “To End the War, or to Keep Fighting: When Small Allies Resist the Demands of Great Powers.” American.

Germany and the Soviet Union

Armelin, Maayan. 2023. “Leadership Styles and Peer Relations in the SS-Einsatzgruppen.” Clark.

United States and the Soviet Union

Sayers, Luke. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Post-soviet history, politics, political thought, and nationality policy

Herbert, Alexander. See Soviet History, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy.

Gulya, Lisa. See Sociology.

Kuznetsova, Daria. See Digital Communication and Social Media.

Lenton, Adam Charles. 2023. “Echoes of Empire: Subnationalism and Political Development in the Russian Federation.” George Washington.

Olimpieva, Evgenia Arkadyevna. 2023. “Putin’s Prosecutors: Personnel Politics and Building Authoritarianism in Russia.” Chicago.

Samarin, Melissa D. 2023. “Citizen-Initiated Contacting in the Russian Federation: Approaches from the Citizen Perspective.” California, Berkeley.

Tyan, Maxim. 2023. “Prospect Theory-Based Explanation of Majority Nationalist Mobilization: Cases of Russia and Kazakhstan.” Oregon.

Warren, Spenser A. 2023. “Security, Prestige, and Power: Understanding the Determinants of Russian Strategic Nuclear Modernization under Vladimir Putin.” Indiana.

Zajicek, Taylor C. See Soviet History, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy.

Europe and the Russian Federation

Min, Luke Leelook. See Energy Markets and Resources.

Ukraine and the Russian Federation, including the Russo-Ukraine War (2014—)

Caddell, Jessica C. 2023. “The Coming of Mental Warfare: How Russia Changed the Conduct of War.” Tufts.

Episkopos, Mark E. 2023. “‘We Can Do It Again!’: The Second World War in Contemporary Russian Memory Politics and Political Culture.” American.

Giddings, Cody M. 2023. “The New Normal: International Relations in a Shifting World Order.” California, Los Angeles.

Qadir, Abdul. See Ukraine.

Turkey and the Russian Federation

Baykaldi, Sevgi. 2023. “Examining Public Diplomacy Message Strategies during Times of Crisis Communication: An Analysis of Recent Major Turkey-Russia Crises.” Michigan State.

United States and the Russian Federation

Keerati, Ritt. 2023. “Essays in International Finance.” Columbia.

Royce, Dylan Payne. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Sisson, Thane. 2023. “Low-Yield Nuclear Parity in Great Power Competition.” National American.

International trade

Mintzmyer, J. 2023. “Assessing Sanctions Motivations Via Real-Time Shipping Data.” Harvard.

Language instruction

Tabenkina, Ekaterina. 2023. “Development of Online Curriculum for Eight-Week Program: The Art of Teaching English to EFL Students from Russia.” Alliant International.

Tsylina, Marina N. 2023. “The Perspectives of Learners, Non-Native-Speaker and Native-Speaker Teachers, and Non-Teacher Native Speakers on the Quality of L2 Russian Writing.” Wisconsin, Madison.

Law

Rodriguez, Alyssa. 2023. “How to Be Soviet: The Public Performance of Soviet Identity Via the Legal System, 1968–1985.” Rochester.

Linguistics

Friedman, Daniel Binswanger. 2023. “UNGERADE REDE: Other Speakers’ Speech in Valentin Vološinov, Thomas Bernhard and Heimrad Bäcker.” Cornell.

Rothstein-Dowden, Zachary. 2023. “Dental-Aspirate Presents in Greek and Indo-European.” Harvard.

Tabachnick, Guy. 2023. “Morphological Dependencies.” New York.

Literature

Brandly, Christy Monet. 2023. “Political Imagination and Liberal Reform: Figuring the Family in 19th – Century Russian Literature.” Chicago.

Champine, Tyler A. 2023. “As the Snake Sheds Its Skin: The Revolutionary Art and Science of Alexander Bogdanov.” Texas A&M.

Garcia, Maya. 2023. “The Queer Legacy of Ivan the Terrible.” Harvard.

Haxhi, Tomi. 2023. “Present Perfect: (Post)Humanism and the Search for the New Man in Soviet and Post-Soviet Fantastika.” Columbia.

Helbing, Felix Michael. 2023. “Building the Modular Body: Gender, Labor, and Trauma in the Work of Aleksei Gastev.” Pittsburgh.

Hong, Jiyoung. 2023. “Visual Play in Russian Gothic Literature: Epistemological Quests in 1793–1840.” Stanford.

Jacobson, Alexander Leaff. 2023. “Warring Works: The Russian Book of the 1960s and 1970s.” Princeton.

Jung, Byungsam. See Art History.

King, Zachary Murphy. 2023. “Modernism under the Microscope: The Reception and Translation of Marcel Proust, John Dos Passos and James Joyce in Soviet Russia, 1922–1942.” Chicago.

Lee, Daniel Taehun. 2023. “The Tales of Two Eurasian Empires: Modernization, Fall, and Troubled Identities of Russia and Turkey in Pelevin and Pamuk.” Northwestern.

Lukin, Vladimir. 2023. “Soviet Computers, Communist Robots: Cultural Epistemologies of Digital Media.” Duke.

Mutc, Valeriia. 2023. “The Dramatic Turn: Science, Theater, and Russian Literature at the End of the Nineteenth Century.” Yale.

Orengo, Serenity Stanton. 2023. “Transgressive Women and Bad Mothers: Alternatives to Traditional Maternity in the Russian Literary Context.” Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Papadopoulos, Chloe Simone. 2023. “Recasting the Past: Russian Literature, Drama, and the Plastic Arts in the Era of Reform.” Yale.

Schantz, Matthew. 2023. “Evolution and Fantasy in the Stalinist Scientific Imagination.” Harvard.

Vinogradova, Nadezhda. 2023. “Disruptive Humor: Fragmentation and Transformation in the Poetry of Nikolai Zabolotsky, Aleksandr Vvedensky, and Osip Mandelstam (1925—1937).” Northwestern.

Whittle-Shaw, Maria. 2023. “Writing the Frontier from Inside: The Geopoetics of Experience in Soviet Siberian Literature, 1953–1983.” California, Berkeley.

Wilson, Elaine. 2023. “The Soviet Exodic: Resistance and Revolution in Soviet Russian and Yiddish Literature, 1917–1935.” Columbia.

Marketing

Guha, Mithila. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Mass media

Tikhonyuk, Ekaterina. 2023. “The Intricacies of Russian Media Landscape during the Putin Era.” Ohio State.

Military history

Knotts, Kenneth L., Jr. 2023. “They Kept the Trains Running: The U.S. Russian Railway Service Corps in Russia’s Civil War, 1917–1920.” Nebraska, Lincoln.

Music

Chen, Vikki. 2023. “Tracing the Traditions and Incongruities: A Theoretical Analysis and Performance Guide of Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35.” Cincinnati.

Golubkova, Polina. 2023. “The Theory of Intonation: Boris Asafiev and the Russian Piano School Tradition.” South Carolina.

Huang, Yuzhou. 2023. “What Makes Nikolai Kapustin’s Classically-Oriented Works Sound Like Jazz Improvisation by Deconstruction of His 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Op.53 and Concert Etudes, Op.40.” Nevada, Reno.

O’Kane, Connor. 2023. “Prokofiev and the Soviet Dilemma: Censorship, Autonomy and the Piano Transcriptions.” Western Ontario, Canada.

Philosophy

Genovese, Taylor R. 2023. “Dark Cosmism or, the Apophatic Specter of Russo-Soviet Techno-Utopianism.” Arizona State.

Psychology

Allgire, Nikita. 2023. “The Anatomy of the Drives: An Intellectual History of Psychoanalysis in Russia from 1905 to 1930.” Southern California.

Hanson, Brian J. 2023. “An Examination of Adaptive Functioning in Previously Institutionalized Children Adopted from Russia.” Fielding Graduate.

Melnikova, Aleksandra. See Émigré and Immigration Studies.

Vizlakh, Breanna. See Émigré and Immigration Studies.

Psychiatry

McDonald, Garret J. 2023. “The Delusion of Reform: Punitive Psychiatry in Soviet History.” Fordham.

Public health policy and law

Ziganshina Lienhard, Dina. 2023. “Reducing Abortion Rates without Restricting Legal Access to Abortion: Evidence from comparative Analysis of Relevant Policies and Demographic Indicators in 15 Post-Soviet Countries and Adaptive Agent-Based Modeling of Unintended Pregnancies.” Arizona State.

Religion and religious history

Gorbunov, Kirill. 2023. “Social Media Regulations in the Church.” Catholic University of America.

Sociology

Gulya, Lisa. 2023. “Post-Soviet Americans: Familial and National Belonging for Russian Adoptees in the U.S.” Minnesota.

Hanson, Brian J. See Psychology.

Theater

Urban, Alison Diana. 2023. “Act of Remembrance as Acts of Resistance: Performances of Intergenerational Memory as Memorial.” California, San Diego.

Urban planning

Kotsioris, Evangelos. 2023. “Komp’iuter Architecture(s): Constructing the Soviet Information Age, 1953–1982.” Princeton.

Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and other baltic regions formerly under Russian control)

Estonia

Fedotov, Dmitriy. 2023. “Student Mobility and the Struggle over European Integration: The Lessons of the Bologna Process.” Toronto, Canada.

Lind, Mathilde Frances. 2023. “Entangled Wool: Handwork, Heritage, and Ecology in Estonia.” Indiana.

Lumijoe, Nikita. 2023. “Attitudes of Ethnic Minorities towards National Defense and Security in the Triadic Nexus: The Case of Russian Speakers in Estonia.” Old Dominion.

Rife, Gregory Scott. 2023. “The Saxophone Music of Hillar Kareva.” Iowa.

Finland

Choi, Sunny. 2023. “Broadening Music Performer Identity through Free Accompaniment Practices at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland.” New York.

Demchyk Savage, Mila. 2023. “Global Energy Consumption: An Analysis of Variables that Shape Per Capita Usage, or How Pump Price, Urbanization, and Fossil Fuels Imports Impact Fossil Fuels Consumption Per Capita across OECD Countries.” Old Dominion.

Dobben, Johnathan. 2023. “The Strategic Logic of Arms Purchasing.” Purdue.

Jones, Meg C. 2023. “Queer and Trans Inclusion in Finnish Teacher Education and Educational Research.” Rhode Island.

Silliman, Mikko Isak. 2023. “Essays in Education Policy and Labor Economics.” Harvard.

Tresansky, Lindsay M. 2023. “A Comparison of Teacher Evaluation Systems in New York State and Finland: Are There Alternatives to APPR?” State University of New York, Albany.

Latvia

Grizzard, Mark. 2023. “Cultural Expressions in Latvian Choral Music and Selected Works for Women’s Choir by Peteris Vasks.” Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Lithuania

Hoye, Katie A. R. 2023. “‘Lithuanian is the English’: How Language Policy and Ideology Condition Internationalization by Mediating Access to Spaces of Opportunity and Community at a Lithuanian University.” Baylor.

Siliunas, Andreja. 2023. “The Art of Westernizing: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Public Art in Post-Soviet Lithuania.” Harvard.

Belarus

Gopal, Ishita. 2023. “Political Activism and Social Media.” Pennsylvania State.

Kuznetsova, Daria. See Digital Communication and Social Media.

Caucasus region

General Coverage

Austin, Lyudmila Boltenko. 2023. “From Internationalism to Displacement: Minoritized Communities in the Formerly Soviet Southern Tier.” Michigan State.

Cromartie, Amy Elizabeth. 2023. “Agro-Pastoralism, Climate, Fire, and a Mountain Steppe: An Investigation of Social and Ecological Reorganization after Disturbance Events in the Bronze and Iron Age Southern Caucasus.” Cornell.

Glastonbury, Nicholas. 2023. “Audible Futures: Scenes of Sonic Encounter in Cold War Kurdistan, 1923–2023.” City University of New York.

Minakova, Valeriya. 2023. “‘And If My Language Disappears Tomorrow …’: Language Ideologies and Language Maintenance Practices of the Circassians in Russia.” Pennsylvania State.

Rizayeva, Afag. 2023. “Long-Term Land Cover and Wild Mammal Habitat Changes in the Caucasus Using Corona Spy Satellite Data.” Wisconsin, Madison.

Zarkar, Rustin. See History 1801–1917.

Armenia

Baralay, Supratik. 2023. “Arsacid Asia: Sovereignty, Subjection, and the Making of the Silk Roads.” Harvard.

Datastanyan, Ani. 2023. “The Acculturation Experiences of Armenian Immigrants Migrating to the United States of America.” Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Horswill, Rosanne M. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Minassian, Madlene A. 2023. “A Phenomenological Study on Lived Experience with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion of Multinational Enterprise Employees Residing in the Homogenous Republic of Armenia.” Drexel.

Mirzoyan, Inna. 2023. “The Diaspora Evolves: Young Armenians Forging Identities in Yerevan and Glendale.” Michigan State.

Sahakian, Cynthia. 2023. “The Other Side of War: Trauma of the Diaspora.” Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Tokmantcev, Anatolii. 2023. “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Post-Soviet Armenia.” California, Los Angeles.

Turabian, Michael. 2023. “Western European or Oriental? Armenian “Western Art Music” and the Influence of Folksong at the Fin-de-Siècle.” McGill University, Canada.

Azerbaijan

Eynula, Roza. 2023. “The Effect of the First Karabakh War in 1988—94 on the Education and Human Capital Accumulation of Internally Displaced Azerbaijani Children.” Boston.

Hii, Adam. 2023. “Can One-Party Dominant States be Democratic? A Meso-Level Classification of the Playing Field of Hegemonic Party States.” Loyola, Chicago.

Republic of Georgia

Fairley, Brian Robert. 2023. “Dissected Listening: A Media History of Georgian Polyphony.” New York.

Tsotniashvili, Keti. 2023. “Transformation of Academic Identities in Georgia: Diffractive Narratives in-between Defuturing and Refuturing.” Arizona State.

Central Asia

General Coverage

Cancellare, Imogene A. 2023. “Phylogeography, Population Structure, and Landscape Genetics of Snow Leopards across High Asia.” Delaware.

Sellati, Lillian Clare. 2023. “When is Herakles Not Himself? Mediating Cultural Plurality in Greater Central Asia, 330 BCE–365 CE.” Yale.

Kazakhstan

Aiypkhanova, Ainur. 2023. “Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) in Kazakhstan: Can We Trust Reporting? A Mixed-Methods Study of Institutional Culture, Context and Leadership in Hospitals and State Public Health Agencies.” Indiana.

Aktanzhanov, Talant. 2023. “A Critical Assessment of Modern Qazaqs’ Historical Claim that Islam is the Ancestral Faith.” Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Amankulova, Zhuldyz. 2023. “Reconceptualizing Social Capital Theory: Life Stories of Kazakhstani Youth from Rural or Lower Socioeconomic Backgrounds.” Minnesota.

Foster, Hannah Lofton. 2023. “Opening New Doors: English Language Learning and Entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan’s Capital.” Texas, Austin.

Kurakbayev, Kairat. 2023. “International-Standard Schools as a School Reform Modality: A Study of Policy Transfer from Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools to Regular Public Schools in Kazakhstan.” Columbia.

Laughney, Caitlin Isabella. 2023. “Examining Earlier Sexual Debut among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Kazakhstan at Elevated Risk of HIV.” Columbia.

O’Connor, Sara. 2023. “Urban Development and Civic Activism under Authoritarianism: Case Studies of Participation in Kazakhstan.” California, Irvine.

Torebekova, Zulfiya. 2023. “Science Policy in Kazakhstan: Exploring Experts’ Participation in Agenda Setting and Policy Formulation Processes.” Syracuse.

Troiani, Giorgia. 2023. “Representing a Language in Use: Corpus Construction, Prosody, and Grammar in Kazakh.” California, Santa Barbara.

Tyan, Maxim. See Post-Soviet History, Politics, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy.

Wilson, Joseph. 2023. “Literacy’s Displacements: Toward Transnational Orientations to Writing and/as Translation.” Washington.

Tajikistan

Haghighi, Mehdi H. 2023. “Persian Heritage and Tajiks’ Ethnic and National Identities: The Effect of Common Cultural Identities on Tajik-Iranian Diplomatic and Cultural Relationships.” Kent State.

Miles, Marintha R. 2023. “Tajikistan’s Diasporic Transnational Social Movements: Coalescence and Cooptation.” George Mason.

Parker, Clinton. 2023. “A Grammar of the Shughni Language.” McGill University, Canada.

Rostami, Mehrenegar. 2023. “The Silk Road Today: State Interventions and Intercultural Hospitality through Musical Encounters.” California, Los Angeles.

Sakhi, Farishta. 2023. “Transboundary Water Interaction: The Role of Weaker Riparian States.” George Mason.

Tsuei, Sian Hsiang-Te. 2023. “How Do Health Care Organizations’ Characteristics Affect the Effectiveness of Service Delivery Reforms?” Harvard.

Turkmenistan

Saparova, Marhabo. 2023. “Wearing, Carrying, and Caring for the Nation: Gender, Power, and Mobility in the Post-1990s Labor Migration from Turkmenistan to Turkey.” Northeastern.

Uzbekistan

Kasimova, Zukhra. 2023. “Hybridizing Sovietness, Modernity, Nationality and Provinciality in Uzbekistan, 1941–1984.” Illinois, Chicago.

Rostami, Mehrenegar. See Tajikistan.

Sakhi, Farishta. See Tajikistan.

Uzoqova, Mohinur. 2023. “Exploring the Experience of Parents of Children with Autism in Uzbekistan.” Alliant International.

Republic of Moldova

Austin, Lyudmila Boltenko. See Caucasus Region.

Ukraine

Bulakh, Tetiana. 2023. “Things That Matter: Humanitarian Aid and Citizenship among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ukraine (2014–2022).” Indiana.

Caddell, Jessica C. See Ukraine and the Russian Federation, Including the Russo-Ukraine War (2014–)

Daschko, Lev P. 2023. “Steam Engines, Postcards, and White Table Linens: Technology and Modernity in Austrian-Ruled Chernivtsi and Bukovina (1861–1914).” Northwestern.

Episkopos, Mark E. See Ukraine and the Russian Federation, including the Russo-Ukraine War (2014–)

Fang, Ming. 2023. “Three Essays in Development Economics.” Michigan State.

Finkelman, Samuel J. See Ethnic and Minority Studies.

Genovese, Taylor R. See Philosophy.

Gereliouk, Nadia. 2023. “Creating the Self: Life-Writing of Maria Matios and Oksana Zabuzhko as an Autobiographical Map of Meaning for Ukrainian Feminine Identity from Independence to 2013.” Toronto, Canada.

Giddings, Cody M. See Ukraine and the Russian Federation, including the Russo-Ukraine War (2014–)

Gnativ, Dmytro. 2023. “An Anthology of Flute Music by Ukrainian Composers, 1850–2022.” Miami.

Hsu, Hao-Che. 2023. “Choices in Economics: From Movie Videos, Leisure to Migration Decisions.” California, Irvine.

Imbriale, Peter H. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Isaqzadeh, Mohammad Razaq. 2023. “Coping with War Through God: Reassessing the Relationship between Religiosity and Political Violence.” Princeton.

Kafafian, Matthew. 2023. “An Exploration of Victimization and Offending in Unusual Contexts.” Northeastern.

Koziura, Karolina. 2023. “Erasing Violence: Political Contests over the Recognition of the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933.” New School.

Lebo, Aaron. 2023. “Comprop Computational Propaganda on reddit.com (2013–2022).” Texas, Dallas.

Mousavi, Maryam. See Digital Communication and Social Media.

Mrchkovska, Nela. 2023. “Religion in Contentious Times: Climate Change, Abortion Rights, and War.” Washington.

Qadir, Abdul. 2023. “A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-Based Generalized Approach for Sunflower Mapping and Area Estimation.” Maryland, College Park.

Secor, Andrew M. 2023. “The Use of Electronic Medical Records and Clinical Decision Support Tools to Evaluate and Strengthen HIV Care in Haiti and Ukraine.” Washington.

Shchubelka, Khrystyna. 2023. “Medically Relevant Genome Diversity in Ukraine.” Oakland.

Vitrukh, Mariia. 2023. “Embodied Educational Experiences of Students Who Were Forced to Move from Ukrainian War Areas and Study at Ukrainian Displaced Universities.” Arizona State.

Vsetecka, Johnathon. 2023. “In the Wake of Hunger: Confronting the Legacies of the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine during the 1930s.” Michigan State.

Williams, Kristine Lynn. 2023. “Examining the Traits and Behaviors of Ethical Leading by Executive Leaders from Lviv, Ukraine City Hall in the Context of War.” Indiana Wesleyan.

Yaremko, Vitaliia. 2023. “Essays in Macroeconomics and Comparative Economics.” California, Berkeley.

Central, South Central, and Eastern Europe

General

Harris, Sean David. 2023. “The Development of Nationalist Political Parties: Exploring Differences in Rhetoric, Strategy, and Policy.” Temple.

Koscielny, Pawel J. 2023. “Post Communist Memory as Democratic Pedagogy; Institutes of National Remembrance in Germany, Poland and Czechia.” California, Berkeley.

Valtin-Erwin, Leah. 2023. “The Shop Across the Border: Western European Retail and the Making of Post-Communist (Super-)Market Societies in Eastern Europe, 1989–1999.” Indiana.

Yaremko, Vitaliia. See Ukraine.

Ziganshina Lienhard, Dina. See Public Health Policy and Law.

Balkan Countries (General)

Lubura-Winchester, Borjana. 2023. “Altermobilities: Everyday Life on the Move in the Western Balkans.” Hawai’i, Manoa.

Albania

Elmazi, Eljona. 2023. “Parental and Individual Correlates of Work Ethic in Young People in Albania.” Clemson.

Nishku, Genta. 2023. “How the Silence Sounded: Writing Trauma in Albanian and Post-Yugoslav Literatures.” Michigan.

Tafilica, Marsida. 2023. “Coming Home: Challenges of Reintegration for Returned Migrant Women in Northern Albania.” Clemson.

Bulgaria

Petkov, Mladen Kirilov. 2023. “Journalism and the ‘Ghosts of Communism’: A Comparative Study of News Media Roles and Practices in the Fragile Democracies of Bulgaria and Romania.” American.

Tafani, Aurélien. See Romania.

Czech Lands to 1918, Czechoslovakia, and Czech and Slovak Republics

Alda, Kristina. 2023. “Absence, Materiality, and Co-Production of Urban Space in Post-Socialist Ostrava.” Toronto, Canada.

Coolidge, Tiffany Lynn. 2023. “Czech Female Composers and Their Music for Bassoon: Expanding the Repertoire Methodically by Focusing on a Geographic Region.” Wisconsin, Madison.

Dobben, Johnathan. See Finland.

Gou, Xiaoqian. 2023. “Selections from Václav Tomášek’s Eclogues, Opus 47, 51, 66 and 83: Performance Suggestions and Recording Project.” Arizona State.

Kim, Jinkyung. 2023. “Bohuslav Martinů’s Eight Preludes for Piano H. 181: Style Analysis and Pedagogical Approaches in Piano Performance.” South Carolina.

Koscielny, Pawel J. See Central, South Central, and Eastern Europe, General.

Meadow, Jon Kantor. 2023. “Traveling with Mary: Explorations of Bohuslav Martinů’s Opera Cycle Hry o Marii.” New York.

Paci, Simone. 2023. “Making the Fiscal Contract Work: The Politics of Tax Evasion, Tax Enforcement, and Redistributive Fiscal Governance.” Columbia.

Tabachnick, Guy. See Linguistics.

Volodarsky, Sasha. 2023. “The Impact of Social Model Factors on Voting Behavior: Uncovering and Capturing Bloc Predisposition.” Northeastern.

Williams, Benjamin P. 2023. “Effective Relations-Oriented Leadership Behaviors in a Multicultural Team.” Indiana Wesleyan.

East Germany and Germany since 1989

Baxter, Deborah Joanne. 2023. “Mutterrecht to Mauerfall: Cassandra and Penthesilea in 1980s East German Art.” Missouri, Kansas City.

Cevallos Fujiy, Brian. 2023. “Essays on International Economics.” Michigan.

Evans, Cynthia Rebecca. 2023. “Political Playgrounds: The Effekt Group’s Activist Art in Postwar West Germany and Yugoslavia.” Florida State.

Fedotov, Dmitriy. See Estonia.

Finkelstein, Emily H. 2023. “Beyond the Wall: Post-Socialist Museums in the Former German Democratic Republic.” Pittsburgh.

Glaese, Jana Catalina. 2023. “Making a Market of Migrant Workers: Recruiters, Small Businesses, and Contested Justifications of Foreign Recruitment in East Germany.” New York.

Leech, Amy Joyce. 2023. “A Multidirectional Europe: Post-Socialist Memory in Contemporary German Literature.” Columbia.

Kayim, Emine Seda. 2023. “The Stasi as an Architectural Producer: Surveillance Versus Scientific Management in the East German Built Environment 1961–1989.” Michigan.

Koscielny, Pawel J. See Central, South Central, and Eastern Europe, General.

Leech, Amy Joyce. 2023. “A Multidirectional Europe: Post-Socialist Memory in Contemporary German Literature.” Columbia.

Peet, Corrina. 2023. “Embracing Otherness: Counter-Colonial Discourses and Practices in Post-Unification East German Culture.” Wayne State.

Salvati, Giulio. 2023. “The Re-Settlement of National Refugees and the Birth of a Relief System in Postwar Italy and West Germany 1945–1980.” New York.

Sliwowski, Thomas Kamil. See Poland.

Tisserand, M. P. 2023. “Children in Transit: Literary Representations of Flight and Expulsion within East and West German ‘Kinder-und Jugendliteratur’ from 1949–1989.” Georgetown.

Volodarsky, Sasha. See Czech Lands to 1918, Czechoslovakia, and Czech and Slovak Republics.

Wellington, Joseph. 2023. “German Re-Unification: Short Sighted and Current Ramifications.” Southern New Hampshire.

Wilcox, Brandy E. 2023. “Of Walt and Wald: Power and Gender in East German and US-American Fairy-Tale Film Adaptations.” Wisconsin, Madison.

Zimmer, Emily C. 2023. “Die Birnen von Ribbeck: Time Discrepancies between East and West in the Wake of German (Re)Unification.” Cincinnati.

Hungary

Bulut, Dolunay. 2023. “Resilient Authoritarianism and Hegemonic Liberal Order: A New Script.” New School.

Chen, Tzu-Yi. 2023. “Departure, Conflict, and Rebirth in the Musical Language of Franz Liszt.” Maryland, College Park.

Dern, Laresa L. 2023. “The Impact of Medieval and Early Modern Migrations on Dental Nonmetric Variation in Hungary.” Nevada, Reno.

Harris, Sean David. See Central, South Central, and Eastern Europe, General.

Kácsor, Adrienn. 2023. “Migrant Aesthetics: Hungarian Artists in the Service of Soviet Internationalism, 1919–1945.” Northwestern.

Kozmane-Fejes, Zsuzsanna. 2023. “The History of Periodicals in Hungarian Secondary Mathematics Education between 1867 and 1956.” Columbia.

Kutasi, Kristof. 2023. “Essays on Matching Markets.” Rice.

Li, Szu-Yi. 2023. “Hungarian Composers of Piano Music: From Liszt to Ligeti.” Maryland, College Park.

Ridge, William Patrick. 2023. “Sociocultural and Demographic Change in Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, c. 4500–3600 BCE.” Illinois, Chicago.

Tabachnick, Guy. See Linguistics.

Tóth, Andrea. 2023. “The Long-Road to 21st-Century Hungarian Illiberal Nationalism: History, Nationalism, Memory Politics, and the Trianon Treaty over Time.” State University of New York, Binghamton.

Tyeklar, Nora. 2023. “Publics Otherwise: The Poetics of Exclusion Facing Roma Communities in Illiberal Hungary.” Texas, Austin.

Valyi-Nagy, Zsofia. 2023. “Vera Molnar’s Programmed Abstraction: Computer Graphics and Geometric Abstract Art in Postwar Europe.” Chicago.

Poland

Dulba-Barnett, Anna. 2023. “Representation of Land and the Female Body in Polish Dramatic Literature.” Oregon.

Fernandez-Nieto, Juan. 2023. “Beyond the Songs on the Vistula: Chopin and Poland, a Mythical Construction.” City University of New York.

Grossman, Rachelle. 2023. “Cultural Capitals: Postwar Yiddish Publishing between Warsaw and Buenos Aires.” Harvard.

Grzelka, Michalina. 2023. “Caregiving Automatons: Gender, Care, and Disability in Poland.” State University of New York, Albany.

Koscielny, Pawel J. See Central, South Central, and Eastern Europe, General.

Mzyk, Dawid. 2023. “Kazimierz Serocki’s Trombone Concerto: Prominent Work in Post-War Poland.” Nevada, Las Vegas.

Nowacki, Tobias. 2023. “Essays in Political Economy.” Stanford.

Stowell, Laura. 2023. “Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture between Dreams and Daily Work.” Washington.

Palmer, Matthew Steven. 2023. “Horses against Tanks: Historical Memory and the German Invasion of Poland.” North Texas.

Plominska, Marta. 2023. “Polish Nationalism and the Flute Sonatina: The Influence of Folklore on Inter-War Composers Tadeusz Kassern, Wojciech Kilar and Aleksander Tansman.” Nevada, Las Vegas.

Predescu, Alina. 2023. “People Have the Word: Experiments with Voice in Polish Documentary, 1960–1984.” California, Berkeley.

Premik, Filip K. 2023. “Procurement with Bid Preference and Buyer’s Switching Costs.” Minnesota.

Rompczyk, Jakub Dariusz. 2023. “Mieczysław Weinberg’s Symphony No. 8, Kwiaty Polskie [Polish Flowers], Op. 83 (1964): A Choral Symphony Exploring Poland’s History and Spirit.” California, Los Angeles.

Sadowski, Miroslaw Michal. 2023. “Law and Memory: Intersections.” McGill University, Canada.

Sliwowski, Thomas Kamil. 2023. “Felt History: Literary Senses of the Historical in People’s Poland and the German Democratic Republic around 1989.” California, Berkeley.

Stowell, Laura. 2023. “Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture between Dreams and Daily Work.” Washington.

Urban, Alison Diana. See Theater.

Wan, Fujia. 2023. “Seven Songs to Poems of James Joyce, Op. 54 (1926) by Karol Szymanowski: A Historical Musicology Analysis and Performance Guide.” North Texas.

Zaremba, Krzysztof. 2023. “Essays in Health Economics.” Columbia.

Zhukov, Konstantin. See Economics.

Republic of North Macedonia

Griffin, Michelle May. 2023. “Reverse Knowledge Transfer Using Communication Technologies in a Multinational Corporation: A Single Case Study.” Grand Canyon.

Romania

Bekowies, Zachary K. 2023. “Cultic constructions: A Visual Construction Grammar Approach to the Cult of Personality in Fascist Italy and Communist Romania.” California, Berkeley.

Bouzerdan, Camelia. 2023. “Working Overtime: An Analysis of the Employment—Economic and Health Security Nexus Using an Intersectional Approach.” Massachusetts, Lowell.

Daschko, Lev P. See Ukraine.

Dyck, Marissa A. 2023. “Born to Be Wild: Understanding Terrestrial Carnivore Ecology to Guide Wildlife Conservation and Management in Human-Dominated Landscapes.” Ohio.

Harris, Sean David. See Central, South Central, and Eastern Europe, General.

Karas, Andreea Sandu. 2023. “The Origins of ‘Origins’: Romanian Language History and the Conceptualization of Geneses.” Georgia.

Pacurar, Gheorghe Gelu. 2023. “Incarnate Ecclesiology and the Making of Democratic Law in Interwar Romania.” Indiana.

Petkov, Mladen Kirilov. See Bulgaria.

Tafani, Aurélien. 2023. “Investigating Mobility in the Northern Balkans during the Fifth Millenium BC through Strontium Analysis of Human Tooth Enamel.” South Florida.

Vlad, Adrian. 2023. “Be Fruitful and Multiply: Developing an Intentional, Missional, and Reproducible Discipleship Model for the Pentecostal Churches in Romania.” Asbury Theological Seminary.

Former Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, and New Yugoslav States

General Coverage

Babanovski, Ivan. 2023. “Dispensations of Partition: The Legacies of Balkanization in the Space-Time of 20th Century World Literature.” Wisconsin, Madison.

Grubisich, Peter. 2023. “Balkan Reflections: A Recording of Percussion Music Inspired by the Tambura Tradition of Southeast Europe.” Iowa.

Levin, Jeremy Kuperberg. 2023. “Contested Destinations: Tourism and Memory in the Former Yugoslavia.” Northwestern.

Milojevic, Louie. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Nishku, Genta. See Albania.

Todorovic, Nebojsa. 2023. “Tragedies of Disintegration: Balkanizing Greco-Roman Antiquity.” Yale.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Asimovic, Nejla. 2023. “Growing Closer or Further Apart: How Social Media Shapes Intergroup Relations within Ethnically Divided Societies.” New York.

Haviv, Elana Micahl. 2023. “Learning from the Courageous Actions of War and Post-War Time Teachers: A Bricolage of Bosnian Educators.” Antioch.

Talovic, Denisa. 2023. “Smoking Predictors for Teens in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.” State University of New York, Binghamton.

Croatia

Bužinkić, Emina. 2023. “Schooling Aftershocks: Perpetual Displacements of Refugee Youth amid Multiple Pandemics and Social (B)orders.” Minnesota.

Evans, Cynthia Rebecca. See East Germany and Germany since 1989.

Mudrovcic, Zaneta. 2023. “A Systematic Review of the Psychological Effects of War on Children from Croatia.” Pepperdine.

Polić, Ivana. 2023. “The (Re)Making of Young Patriots: Children and Nation-Building in Wartime Croatia and the Republic of Serb Krajina (1990–1995).” California, San Diego.

Talovic, Denisa. See Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Kosovo

Mailhot, Cameron Royce. 2023. “Programmatic Peacebuilding: International Missions, Domestic Commitments, and Post-Conflict Reforms.” Cornell.

Moore, Lorena Vangjeli. 2023. “Experiences of Kosovar Women Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence from the Perspective of Mental Health Providers.” Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Payler, Megan K. 2023. “Beyond Recognition: The Significance of External Legitimacy for De Facto States in the Global Arena.” Western Ontario, Canada.

Salihu, Linda. 2023. “Mathematical Learning and Its Difficulties: The Effects of Instructional Feedback on Learning and Motivation of Students with Mathematical Difficulties.” Gwynedd Mercy.

Montenegro

Erdem, Muhammed F. 2023. “Nation-Building, Ethnic Boundary Making, and Situational Nationalism: Why Did Montenegro Become More Divided and Less ‘Montenegrin’?” South Florida.

Serbia

Angeroth Franks, Eric. 2023. “The Serbian Trumpet Tradition: An Overview of the History, Repertoire, and Pedagogy of Classical Trumpet in Serbia.” Florida State.

Dakovic, Gligor. 2023. “Long-Term Social Processes and Demographic Dynamics of the Early Bronze Age (2800–1700 BC) in the Northern Banat Region of Serbia.” Pittsburgh.

Griffin, Michelle May. See Republic of North Macedonia.

Milic Kolarevic, Milica. 2023. “Negotiating Responsibility: Ethics of Choice and Care in Postsocialist Oncology Wards in Serbia.” Minnesota.

Sweigart, Michael M. 2023. “Contested LGBTIQ+ Activism, Complex Identities, and Entrenched Norms: Investigating the Normative Effects of EuroPride 2022 in Serbia.” George Mason.

Trumble, Ruth. 2023. “Anticipating Emergency Futures: Implementing Preparedness and Precaution in Post-Socialist Serbia.” Wisconsin, Madison.

Vujičić, Biljana. 2023. “Serbian Queer Identities in Diaspora in Canada and the United States: Challenging Theories of ‘Balkan Ethnonationalism.’” Toronto, Canada.

Slovenia

Hoffman, Andrew D. 2023. “The Same, but Different: Markedness & the Verb in Gottscheerisch.” Pennsylvania State.

Images of The Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World

Guha, Mithila. 2023. “The Impact of Social Media Brand and Consumer Activism: A Study of Peer Influence, Dialogues, and Brand Performance in the Sociopolitical Context.” Drexel.

Horswill, Rosanne M. 2023. “For Life and Longing: How the People of Eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasia Navigated the Interwar, as Witnessed by the 1919 American Military Mission to Armenia.” North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Imbriale, Peter H. 2023. “Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Logistics: Three Essays.” Bentley.

Jay Carroll, Jordan Thomas. 2023. “Return of the Swans: Envisioning and Defining the National and Cosmopolitan Characteristics of “British Ballet” after Diaghilev (1929–1956).” Northwestern.

Longe, Edward J. 2023. “The Alliance Apart: Anticommunism and the Anglo-American Relationship, 1948–1954.” Marquette.

Milojevic, Louie. 2023. “Building Tito Land: How the United States Learned to Stop Worrying and Live with Aiding Communist Yugoslavia, 1948–1963.” American.

Pritchard, Robert. 2023. “Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Revolutionary Literature of Jorge Amado and Graciliano Ramos.” Colorado, Boulder.

Royce, Dylan Payne. 2023. “Universalism: How it Affects States’ Behavior, and How It Drove the US into a New Cold War with Russia.” George Washington.

Sayers, Luke. 2023. “The Soviet Pilgrimage: American Writers in Russia, 1922–1947.” Baylor.

Yang, Sihwan. 2023. “Three Essays on International Economics.” California, Los Angeles.

Patricia K. Thurston is studying Computer Engineering at Southern Connecticut State University, with an interest in ascertaining how language integrates with data science technology. Her current studies were inspired by 20+ years’ experience at Yale University Library, where she worked with Librarians and support staff responsible for all technical aspects of non-Latin script collections and special collections projects requiring non-Latin script language and subject expertise, as well as IT colleagues responsible for maintaining databases and implementing information technology tools.