Senior Independent Study Theses from 2024
Jesus from the Desk Drawer: Sacred Authorship in The Master and Margarita, Nina Anderson
Department: Religious Studies; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
Putin's "Corrective Project": An Examination of State Repression Against Russian Nongovernmental Organizations, Ethan Sieber
Department: Political Science; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022
“Don’t You Have A Conscience?”: The Economic Underpinnings Of Corruption And Its Portrayal In Russian Media, Katherine Yordy
Department: Economics; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
Kindred Ideologies: Fascism and Communism in Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, Joseph Ferraro
Department: Russian Studies
Make Some Noize: Rap as a Form of Political Protest in Russia, Daphne Letherer
Department: Global and International Studies; Russian Studies
The Song of Siros, John-Paul W. Richard
Department: English; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
What it Means to be Lithuanian in America And What Russia’s Got to Do With it: A Study of Ethnic Identity Formation Among Later Generations in a Diasporic Community, Marija Cyvas
Department: Russian Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Sputnik, The Beep-Beep-Beep Heard Around the World: An Analysis of the Orbital Trajectory of Sputnik and its Reception in the Soviet Union, Gillian Gregory
Department: Mathematics; Russian Studies
Is it still 1991? How the status of contemporary Russian women, in relation to men, has remained unchanged in politics, education, the workforce, health, and the home since the fall of the Soviet Union., Claire Russ
Department: Global and International Studies; Russian Studies
The Memorialization and Legacy of the Soviet Playwright Aleksandr Vampilov in the Irkutsk Region, Erin S. Tupman
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
The First Spacewalk: An Exploration of the Mathematical and Cultural Implications of the Space Race, Aidan Brown
Department: Mathematics; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
Once Upon a Regime: Nazi and Soviet Propaganda in Children’s Literature in the 1930s and 40s, Grace Shannon
Department: German Studies; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
The Lady in Red: Fashion and Femininity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia 1922-2000, Katarina J. Greenslade
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
The Adulteress and the Patriarchy: The Search for Female Independence and Autonomy in Anna Karenina and The Awakening, Sarah Carracher
Department: English; Russian Studies
Russian military adaptation to a changing battlefield: A study of military reforms after 1992 and the 2008 conflict in Georgia, Nicholas J. Oneill
Department: History; Russian Studies
Our Crimea or Our Can of Worms? (Крым Наш или Нам Крыш?): A Russian media portrayal of the 2014 Crimean crisis, Katherine B. Tuttle
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
"You Laugh and Cry from the Same Mouth": An Exploration of Successful Aging in Contemporary Russia, Caroline Bilsky
Department: Russian Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
With or Without the State's Consent: Female Sexuality in the Soviet Union During WWII, Allison K. Miraldi
Department: History; Russian Studies
The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Application of U.S. Special Forces: a Combat Analysis, Zachary M. Sessa
Department: Mathematics; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Putin and the Russian Federation: Securing Power at the Expense of Democracy, William F. Burkhart
Department: History; Russian Studies
Chekhov: a Response to Romantic Solopsism in the "Little Trilogy", Briana Ewing
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Chechnya: Death, Journalism, and History, Samuel Foulkes
Department: English; Russian Studies
In the Shadow of the Prophet: Shalamov and the New Prose of the Gulag, Daniel H. Hollingsworth
Department: Russian Studies
Big Brothers and Barbarians: the Role of Images and Perceptions in Russia's Foreign Policy, Arielle Neu
Department: Russian Studies; International Relations
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
Defining Episodes in the History of the Russian Moderate Activist, Kaitlin Ball
Department: History; Russian Studies
The End of a Nation: Russian Nationalism As a Reaction to Westernization, Jeremy Bervoets
Department: Russian Studies; History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
Observing Political Identity Contestation Among the Political and Societal Elites of the Russian Federation, Stephanie Diane Stanislav Ham
Department: Political Science; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name: Talking About Sexual Minorities in French, German and Russian, Michelle M. Ort
Department: French and Francophone Studies; German Studies; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2004
Doubt and Faith in Dostoevskii's Later Novels: a Re-Evaluation of Bakhtin's Polyphonic Theory, Jesse R. Menefee
Department: English; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
Mothers, Wives, Prisoners: Feminine Literary Perceptions of Stalin's Purges, Lindsey Coleman
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002
Russian Foreign Policy 1995-2002, Jonathan L. Hayes
Department: Russian Studies; Political Science
Hope & Strength: Images of Women in Ivan Klíma's Work, Laura Tobin
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
Return of the Black Hundreds: Antisemitic Social and Political Trends in Russia, 1988-1999, Daniel B. Borsody
Department: History; Russian Studies
Censorship and the Development of the Russian Media, Tara P. Phelps
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
Chechnya: A Literary Legacy Chechens in Russian Literature and History, Sara Rance
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
Ideology and Foreign Policy: the Soviet Union's Foreign Aid Policy in Africa, Anna M. Navis
Department: Political Science; Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
Marxism, Patriarchy, and "Bourgeois Feminism": the Position of Women in Soviet Russia, Beth Ciha
Department: Russian Studies
"Why Vodka?: Understanding the Russian's Obsession With Alcohol", Heather Foster
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1996
Women's Travel Literature From Russia, M. Alexandra Clark
Department: Russian Studies
Sustainable Development and the Indigenous Peoples of Siberia: Environmentalism With a Social Conscience, Jennifer O'Callaghan
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1995
Power Maps and Pit Stops: the Development of the 1993 Russian Constitution and Its Historical Context, Jennifer B. Seaman
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1994
The Devil Tells the Truth in Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita', Daria M. Stefaniuk
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1993
Soviet Mass Media: Pravda and the Untruths of the Chernobyl Accident, Laura B. Gutnick
Department: Russian Studies
Emergence and Evolution of Russian Women's Prose, LeAnn Judd
Department: Russian Studies
1993 Split of Czechoslovakia: Contributors to Ethnic Tension Between the Czechs and the Slovaks, Anne M. Swierenga
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1992
A Critical Study of Peter Chaadaev's Philosophy, Jennifer Amtmann
Department: Russian Studies
Soviet Environmental Issues: Their Effect on the Livelihood of Their Regional Populations, Shane Robson
Department: Russian Studies
Tak Dal'She Zhit' Nelz'Ya, Daniel M. Stefaniuk
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1991
The Moralist Versus the Pragmatist: A Comparison Between Andrei Sakharov and Mikhail Gorbachev in Regards to Human Rights in the Soviet Union, Colleen A. Conway
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1990
"It Is No Use Blaming the Mirror If Your Mug Is Crooked" Satiric Elements in the Works of Vladimir Voinovich, Jennifer J. Dunn
Department: Russian Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1989
Iurii Valentinovich Trifonov: Studies in the Moral Decay of the Soviet People, Victoria B. Kimbrough
Department: Russian Studies
Slavic Paganism and Russian Orthodoxy: A Synthesis, Beth E. Snyder
Department: Russian Studies