Research Projects

Black Russians and Race in the Soviet Union

Rosa Lovo, Brendi Wilmore

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Indigenous Cultural Revitalization in the Sakha Republic

Dana Brouillard, Emily Nunes

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Restoring the Ice Age in an Attempt to Combat Climate Change

Aissa Dearing, Gloria Cheung

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State and Peasant Response to the Russian Famine of 1921-1922

Robert Jimenez, De’Vonte Tinsley, Freya Regan, Damian Cabrera

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The Writers of the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association

Belyn Peters, Syeira Stephens, Sophia Williams

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Wings and Chains: Queer Russian Literature as a Means of Combating Contemporary Legislative Erasure

Expanding on the Tunguska Explosion

Damian Cabrera (University of Illinois at Chicago), Justin Mackie (University of Arizona), Linda Zhou (Stanford University), Ollie Mason (Howard University)

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Dissatisfaction of People’s Medicine: The Effects of Politicized State Medicine

Dani Massey (Lawrence University), Sonya Gupta (University of Illinois at Chicago), Zakkaria Reaves (Howard University)

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Legislating Language: Public Perception and Social Media in the Sakha Republic and the Republic of Buryatia, 2018-2021

Dana Brouillard (University of Arizona), Juliette Oliver (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Homosexuality in the ‘Bulwarks of Christendom’: LGBT Rights and European Identities in Post-Socialist Poland and Croatia

Beatrice Washburn (University of Arizona)

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The Soviet Union’s Role in Promoting Black Radicalism in the Developing World

Belyn Peters (California State University, Los Angeles), Francia Pressard (Howard University), Lina Felix (Howard University), Stephen Octable (Howard University)

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