Rees Ma Theses and Graduate Certificate Essays, 1996-Present
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REES MA THESES AND GRADUATE CERTIFICATE ESSAYS, 1996-PRESENT 2017 Craver, Alexander (REES MA) “Soviet Man And Soviet Machine: Social Construction Of Industrial Labor In The Early Soviet Union” Guzman, Ana Gabriela (REES MA) “Russian Foreign Policy In The Former Soviet Republics: Georgia As a Case Study” 2016 Jason, Alexandra Scott (REES MA) “Democracy of Nationalist Takeover?: The Disputed Role of Svoboda and Pravyi Sektor in Ukraine’s Euromaidan Movement” Manki, Einar David (REES MA) “Armed Conflict in Ukraine: The Concept pf Hybrid Warfare and its Implications for US Military Doctrine” Stricklan, Jesse Webb (REES MA/Law JD) “Portrait of the Artist as Holy Fool: Petr Pavlensky’s Transformation of Prosecution into Performance” Zemaitis, Justin Michael (REES MA) “The Impact of the Isotype: Otto Neurath and His Work in the Soviet Union” 2015 McIntyre, Andrew Nickolas (REES MA) “History of Stamps is History of States: A Critical Reading of Stamps of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 1991-1996” Power, Eoin Lazaridis (REES MA)“Financing Trust: The Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank” Osborn, Paula (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Policy Recommendations for Emigration in Ukraine” Sadovnikova, Anna (REES MA/Public Health MPH) “Integrating Human Donor Milk Banks into the United States Breastfeeding Promotion Strategy: Lessons Learned from the Turn of the 20th Century Russian ‘Drop of Milk’ Program” Shakarian, Pietro A. (REES MA) “School without Walls: Political Reform and the Historical Evolution of Innovative Education in Soviet and Post-Soviet Armenia” Sweeney, Benjamin Shubik (REES MA ‘15/Public Policy MPP ‘14) “Inclusive Development in Contemporary Georgia” Zhang, Bo (REES MA) “Natural Gas as a Russian Foreign Policy Tool: A Game-Theoretic Approach” 2014 Fitzharris, Colleen (REES MA/Law JD) “The Law-Finding Function of the Russian Jury” Goff, Krista (REES GC/History PhD) “Early Soviet Nationality Politics in Azerbaijani Non-Titular Communities” Lu, Ruoxi (REES MA) “Under External Interference and Internal Strife―’Ukrainianness’ as a Breakthrough of 2013-14 Crisis” Saco, Reina (REES MA) “Meditations on a Millennium: An Examination of the ‘Millennium of Russia’” 2013 Arpagian, Jasmine (REES MA) “Romani Web: Articulations of Identity Online” Bondarenko, Eugene (REES MA) “Problems of Rural Development in Post-Soviet Ukraine” Hennick, Frank (REES MA) “Balkan Environmentalisms through the Lens of Civil Society and Waste Management” Park, Kwangkeun (REES MA) “A Spatial-Temporal Analysis (1975-2009) of the Timber Industry in the Russian Far East and Siberia” 2 Parelman, Matthew (REES MA/Law JD) “Reining in Russa’s Robber Barons: Lessions from an American Legal Perspective” Reardon, Brendan (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “The Echo of Moscow: Independent Media during Popular Protest in Putin’s Russia” 2012 Brown, Kevin (REES MA) “Adaptability of Kyrgyzstan’s Pastoral Social-Ecological System” Getty, Amanda (REES MA) “The Early Films of Pavel Lungin: ‘The Agonizing, Convulsive Awakening of the Human Soul’” Nelson, Elizabeth (REES MA) “Who Is To Blame? in My Past and Thoughts: A Comparative Analysis of Alexander Herzen’s Philosophy of the Individual and New Morality in His Pre- and Post-Emigration Works” Schroeder, Rachel L. (REES MA) “The Crimes and Punishments of the ‘Enemies of the Church’ and the Nature of the Russian Desecularizing Regime” Smith, Maria (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Building the Azerbaijani Muslim: Perspecitves on National Traditions of Islam in Azerbaijan” Stiff, Lyndsay M. (REES MA/Law JD) “Northern Territories vs. Southern Kuriles: Russia and Japan’s Terriotrial Dispute” Tomasevic, Nenad (REES MA/Business MBA) “University Spin-Offs in Eastern Europe: A Meta-Analysis with Recommendations for Further Research” Tumanyan, Naira (REES MA) “Economic Privatization, Manipulation of Security Threat and the Failure of Democracy in the South Caucasus during 1994-2003 Period” Winter, Travis (REES MA) “Russia’s National Poet ‘Invents’ The Nation: Allegory and History in Boris Godunov and Poltava” 2011 Carlisle, Jamie(REES MA) “The Story of a Nation: Remembering the Holodomor in Ukraine” Hubbard, Rutherford (REES MA/Law JD) “‘Corruption’ and the ‘State’: Exploring Corruption and Legimacy in Kosovo and Nagorno-Karabakh” Trimble, Kelly (REES MA) “Cracking the Literary Canon: War, Peace, and Tolstoy” 2010 Fisher, Jessica (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Respect for Human Rights in Russia: Exploring & Explaining Russia’s Post-Soviet Record” Langer, Katherine(REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Roma Education: Assessing Progress Halfway into the Decade of Roma Inclusion” *Copy not available* Tercheva, Milena (REES MA) “Creation of European Security and Defense Policy: An Auxillary Function as an End” Voogt, Ryan (REES MA) “Analyzing Change in Eastern Europe through Socialism and Globalizsation: Comminities, Relationships, Localitiles” 2009 Aiken, Ryan (REES MA) “Democracy Promotion in the U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Russia” Jones, Deborah (REES MA) “Speaking Differently but Speaking with Culture: Kul’turnost and the Everyday Phenomenon of Bilingual Conversation in Post-Soviet Ukraine” Hill, John Wesley (REES GC/Theatre PhD) “Reveler, not Minstrel: Reconsidering the Skomorokhi” McGee, Heather LaRue (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Exploring and Understanding the Factors Underlying Differences in Achievements of Farmers’ Associations: A Study of Collective Action in Southern Kyrgyzstan” 3 Milena Todorova (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Organized Crime in Bulgaria: Factors which Allow it to Thrive and Implications for Bulgaria’s Development and EU Security” 2008 Graber, Kathryn E. N. (REES MA) “Everything Old is New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post- Soviet Buryatia” Jurasaite-Harbison, Elena (REES GC/Education PhD) “Learning in and from Experience: How National Education Culture and Elementary Teachers in Lithuania and the United States Interact in the Process of Constructing Teachers’ as Learners Identities” Vanderwerff, Matthew (REES MA) “Serbian Nationalisms: Kosovo and the ‘Rise’ of Serbian Nationalism in the Late 1980s” Youngblut, Alicia (REES MA) “Continuing with Tradition or Forging a New Path Online: Examining the Cultural Values of the RuNet Population” 4 2007 Borden, Catherine (REES MA) “Leningrad’s Siege and the Multiple Meanings of ‘Patriotism’” Courtman, Adam (REES MA) “A View from the High Tatras: Consumptives and Consumption in a Heterotopic Space of the First Czechoslovak Federal Republic” Hill, Shannon (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Evaluating and Assessing the Value of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and the Regional Cooperation Council” Metton, Bertrand (REES MA) “A Reframed Image of Self: Youth Magazines and the Modernization of the National Narrative in WWII Slovakia” 2006 Bird, Mary Elizabeth (REES MA) “Observations on Ethnic Minorities in the Moscow Work Force” Eagen, Elizabeth (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “The BTC Pipeline in Georgia: Assessing the Impact of Foreign Investment and Corporate Social Responsibility on Civil Society” Glasson, Daniel (REES GC/Urban Planning MUP) “Patterns and Causes of Suburban Development around Warsaw, Poland” Moran, Patrick (REES MA) “The End of an Avant-Garde? Czechoslovak Surrealism Outside the Historical Interwar” Perrine, Sarah (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “The Roma of Bulgaria: Initiatives, Infrastructure and Identity” *Copy not available* Steele, Doran (REES MA/History MA) “Colonizing the Mazurka: Cultural Borrowings and Colonial Power in Late Imperial Russia” Thomsen, Vibeke (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Between East and West: Moldova’s European Aspirations” Ziegeweid, Joy (REES GC/Urban Planning MUP) “The Nature of the Russian Public Sector: Implications for Public- Private Partnerships for Municipal Water Provision” 2005 Patton, Raymond (REES MA) “Rebellion Diluted: Rock and the Press in 1980’s Poland” Schwartz, Mara V. (REES MA) “Opportunities and Obstacles for Collaborative Ecosystem Management at Gauja National Park, Latvia” 2004 Buck, James H. (REES MA) “A Comparison of Published Russian Spectral Reflectance Values and Digitally-Derived Brightness Values” 2003 Samuels, Joel H. (REES MA) “Condominium Arrangements in International Practice, or ‘Building a Condominium from the Ground Up’: A Possible Solution to the Territorial Dispute over the Kurile Islands” 2002 Bruce, Stephen M. (REES MA) “The Impact and Evolution of Russian Civil-Military Relations” Hays, Meghan (REES MA) “Education Women for the Nation: The Lyceum Debate in Late Nineteenth Century Croatia” Phillipson, Eric A. (REES MA) “Democratization, Elections, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Former Soviet Union” Rogers, Douglas J. (REES MA) “Personhood, Socialism, Postsocialism: A Review Essay” Soller, Daniel (REES MA) “Retreat from Serbia 1915: Decision for a South Slavic Nation” 5 2001 Thurston, Adam (REES MA/NRE MS) “Effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on Nutrient Load to Lake Peipsi: A Preliminary Analysis” 2000 Staklis, Sandra (REES MA) “National Identity, Ethnic Minorities, and Education in Latvia Ten Years after Independence” 1999 Borhani, Christopher (REES MA) “A Prisoner of the Caucasus? Azerbaijan’s Revision of the History of the Bolshevik Seizure of Power” Goldberg, David (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Russia and the IMF: An Uncertain Course toward Economic and Political Stabilization” *Copy not available* Ioffe, Olga (REES MA/Public Policy MPP) “Sustainable Development in Kazakhstan and FDI Inflows: Is There a Balance?” Lee, Tae-Hun (REES MA) “Vowel Systems and Morphologically Conditioned Vowel Variations in