This page serves as an archive for projects from past years of the Russian Studies Conference. For more information, visit the main page.
Projects from 2020:
Literature:
Bea Green, Macalester College: “An Evaluation of Historical Interpretations of Russian Byliny”
Anna Kasradze, Duke University: “Polyphonic Prozac? Aesthetics of Anti-Psychiatry in Chekhov’s ‘Black Monk’”
Faith Milon, Macalester College: “The Interplay of Poses in Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin”
Grace Riegel, Macalester College: “Divinity Prevails: Margarita as a Christ Figure”
Interdisciplinary Studies:
Aaron Backs, Macalester College: “A Science-Fiction Utopia: Russian Cosmism and Art of the Post-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde”
Charlie Bonham, Macalester College: “Soviet Architecture in the 1950s and 1960s”
Charles Connon, Indiana University: “The Political Economy of Recent Wildfires in Siberia: The Intersection of Human Economic Activity, the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), and the Rapidly Expanding Environmental Degradation in Russia’s Boreal Forests”
Mallie Kermiet, Macalester College: “The Perennial Question of Monumental Propaganda: Post-Socialist Remembering and Re-imagining”
Linda Parranto, University of Minnesota-Duluth: “Radiant Paths for Soviet Women in Films and the Tension between Femininity and Emancipation”
Jake Pflueghoeft, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “The Red Hubris and Art’s Eternal Power to Critique, Realized through Shakespeare”
History:
Wilson Battle, Carleton College: “Gorbachev’s Noose”
Ian Bell, Carleton College: “(Post)-Soviet Champagne in Russia and the Evolution of Nostalgia”
Eleanor Grinnell, Macalester College: “Alaska and California: Russia’s New Frontier in the 18th and 19th Centuries”
Muling He, Carnegie Mellon University: “Khrushchev’s USSR through the Eyes of the Chinese State”
Artur Kalandarov, Bowdoin College: “The Soviets and Americans in Afghanistan: A Clausewitzian Framework for Comparative Conflict Analysis”
Casey Smith, Wheaton College: “The Last Days of the Emir: Bukharan Reform Movements under Russian Influence”