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 ” 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 ’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 ” 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 : Kosovo and the ‘Rise’ of Serbian 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”

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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”

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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 Dialects of Japanese and Russian” Milliman, David A. (REES MA) “Russia’s National Security Constitution: Toward the Rule of Law in National Security”

1998 Aguilera, Karen (REES MA) “Central Asian Women and Soviet Liberation Efforts: Criminality and a Clash of Values”

1997 Brummond, Janice (REES MA) “Culture, the Environment and Development: Integrating the Buryat Model of Nature with Environmental Protection Efforts in the Lake Baikal Region of Russia and Mongolia” Pascal, Elizabeth (REES MA) “Negotiating the Russian State: The Center-Periphery Conflict over the 1993 Constitution” Peirce, Gina (REES MA) “Postcommunist Parties in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR: A Hindrance to Democratization?”

1996 Aishton, Richard (REES MA) “Specific Environmental Standards: An Issue for the Komi Republic” Barta, Phillip (REES MA) “Gradualism in Postcommunist Transformation: The Case of Bankruptcy in the Czech Republic” Belkind, Elizabeth (REES MA) “The Role of Newly Created Memory in Russian-Jewish Identity” Brachman Shoup, Sarai (REES/Public Policy MA/MPP) “The Modern Zaddikim: Martin Buber and Jiri Langer as Architects of a New Jewish Identity” Gardner, Victoria R. (REES MA) “Perceptions of Identity in Nineteenth Century Turkestan: The Sarts through the Eyes of Travelers” Rivera, David W. (REES MA) “Institutional and Civilizational Differences as Sources of Threat: Explaining Russian Military Policy in the ‘Near Abroad’” Stuebner, Christine (REES MA) “Facets, Not Fragments: Interethnic Marriages, Identity, and Responses to the Fracturing of the Yugoslav Federation, 1992-1993” Virakhovskaya, Olga (REES MA) “Woman’s Choice: Analyses of 500 Questionnaires Completed by Abortion Patients in Three Gynecological Clinics in St. Petersburg, Russia” 6

Wallbaum, Jeffrey S. (REES MA) “Can Liberalism Promote a Democratic Peace? Russian Perceptions of Democracy and Foreign Attitudes” Wampuszyc, Ewa (REES MA) “Conflicting National Mythologies in the Narratives of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944” Warner, Jennifer A. (REES MA/Journalism MA) “Blips and Blame: The Problems of Rising Adult Mortality in the Former Soviet Union”

1995 Bujakiewicz, Kristina (REES MA) “The Use of History in Polish Constitutional Debates, 1791 to the Present” Cislo, Joseph C. (REES MA) “Come As You Are: Globalization and Youth Culture in the Post-Cold War Settlement” Eglitis, Daina Stukuls (REES MA) “The Development of Emancipatory Civil Society in Poland and Latvia” Gladshtein, Alexander (REES MA) “Hegemon-Small State Relations: A Comparative Study of Russian- Armenian/Russian-Georgian Relations” Hurwitz, Jodie (REES MA) “On the Film Front: Soviet Cinema in the 1920s, the Role of the Avant-Garde, and the Debates between Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Their Critics” Karas, Catherine Buckle (REES MA) “The Dawn of the Nuclear Age in the Soviet Press” *Copy not available* Reynolds, Nadia (REES MA) “Discourse Analysis: New Ways of Understanding Social Tranformation during the Thaw and Glasnost” Zlidenny, Vera (REES MA) “Economic Reform in Ukraine: An Analysis of Environmental Forces and Their Impact on Current Economic Reform Efforts in Ukraine”

1993 Bristow, Kathy (REES MA) “Masculine Appeal: Revolution in the Russian Military” *Copy not available* Kovich, Irene (REES MA/Business MBA) “Human Resource Management in Joint Ventures and Wholly Owned Subsidiaries in Russia: Cross-Cultural Differences and Their Effect on Selection, Training, and Compensation Issues of the Russian Work Force” Mullaney, Patricia D. (REES MA) “A Comparative Analysis of Two Successful (Enduring) National Movements: The Crimean and Meskhetian Turks” O’Brien, Joseph (REES MA) “A Study of the Marketing Efforts of U.S. Consumer Goods Firms in Russia” Saladin, Claudia L. (REES MA) “The League of Nations and Minority Rights” Szaflarski, Magdalena A. (REES MA) “The Evolution of the Polish Mass Media from the Authoritarian to the Libertarian Model”

1992 Scaglione, Lisa A. (REES MA) “‘Not by Bread Alone’: Christian Discernment of Spirits in Soloviev’s ‘Short Story of the Anti-Christ’” Sellhorn Whitcombe, Beth (REES MA) “Foreign Policy and Public Opinion: A Case of Soviet-West German Relations, 1985-1989” Smeltz, Dina (REES MA) “Internal Colonialism: Slovakia between Two Worlds”

1991 Garland, Carmen R. Graham (REES MA) “The Party’s Call for Virgin-Landers” Sipher, Pamela Ashley (REES MA) “History: A Ghost from the Past or the Best Hope for the Future”

1990 Guerin, Gregory M. (REES MA) “Bloodied Goliaths: Disengagement Strategies in Vietnam and Afghanistan” Jaeger, Joan M. (REES MA) “Cooperatives as a Vehicle of Economic Reform: Health Care Cooperatives as a Test Case” 7

Loerke, Martha (REES MA) “Idealism vs. Realism in Soviet Foreign Policy: Options and Actions in Southeast Asia” Masteika, Joseph F. (REES MA) “Personal Computers in the Gorbachev Period” Price, Derek V. (REES MA) “The Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917: A Study of the Revolutionary Role of the Peasantry” Stoffer, Lisa (REES MA) “Creating a Normal Life: Popular Pedagogical Writing and the Construction of the Soviet Family” Zentis, Michelle (REES MA) “Regional Variations in Observed Levels of Corruption in the Soviet Union: Georgia and Lithuania”

1989 Dafeldecker, Beate (REES MA) “The Preservation of Ethnic Identity among Germans in the Soviet Union” Friedman, Jill (REES MA) “Ukrainian Language and Culture: Perseverance in the Face of Assimilatory Practices” Schrand, Thomas (REES MA) “Industrialization and the Stalinist Gender System: Women Workers in the Soviet Economy, 1928-1941” *Copy not available* Schueneman, Deborah L. (REES MA) “Moscow and the Uzbek Communist Party: Culture, Politics and Conflict” Stapleton-Gray, Sarah (REES MA) “Women and Nationalities in the Soviet Union: Equal Treatment?” Werner, Gedeon W. (REES MA) “‘Blank Spots’ in Polish-Soviet Relations: A Selective Survey of Polish Press 1987- 1989”

1988 Engel, Kevin (REES MA) “The Soviet Press and Arms Control: Peering into the ‘Black Box’” Jenks, Andrew L. (REES MA) “Gorbachev and the Struggle for a New Vision of Soviet Morality” *Copy not available* Kostelancik, David (REES MA) “The Gypsies of Czechoslovakia: Political and Ideological Considerations in the Development of Policy” Malone, John (REES MA) “Toward a Fuller Understanding of Soviet Industrialization during the First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932” *Copy not available* Mao, Hui-Ching (REES MA) “The Woman Question in the Soviet Union during the 1980s” Sigel, Thomas S. (REES MA) “Pechat’ in the 1920’s” *Copy not available*

1987 Calhoun, Laurie R. (REES MA) “The Politics of Reproduction: A History of Abortion in the Soviet Union” Kaplan, Samuel R. (REES MA) “Recent Trends in Everday Services in the Soviet Union” Smith-Moore, Michele C. (REES MA) “Germany in the Third World: A Soviet Surrogate?” Spero, Joshua B (REES MA) “Soviet National Policy: Émigré Assessments of Social Mobility Opportunities and Regional Differences in the USSR” Weinfield, Leslie (REES MA) “Inter-Regime Learning in Eastern Europe” *Copy not available*

1986 Coe, Steven (REES MA) “‘Everyone Write to the Paper!’: Tying the Press to Workers and Peasants in Wall Newspapers and Letters to the Editor in the 1920s” Kizilos, Peter J. (REES MA) “Promoting Soviet Export Goods Under Krushchev: The Reality Behind the Rhetoric” Mihalasky, Susyn (REES MA) “Emelian Iaroslavskii and the League of Militant Aetheists” Velkoff, Victoria A. (REES MA) “The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33: An Examination of the Literature”

1985 Arnold, Tina M. (REES MA) “Nikola Pasic’s Role in the Union of the South Slavs: For a Greater Serbia or Yugoslavia? A Survey of Views” 8

Durband, Randall (REES MA) “Svetovar Markovic in Switzerland” *Copy not available*

1984 Kosmalski, Mary A. (REES MA) “An Inquiry into the Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Marxist Theory and Its Application in the Twentieth-Century” Voas, Jeanette M. (REES MA) “The Anti-Zionist Campaign: An Overview”

1983 MacQueen, Michael C. (REES MA) “Notatki z Podziemia: The Polish Home Army and the National Minorities, 1939-1943”

1982 Wrisley, Jeffrey (REES MA) “Comparison of the United States with the Five Other Major Industrialized Markets” *Copy not available*

1981 Shine, Tara M. (REES MA) “Images of Uzbekistan: Drawing Together and Flourishing” *Copy not available*

1980 Herrick, Kim (REES MA) “Negotiations over Mutual Force Reductions in Central Europe” Taylor, John G. (REES MA) “Consumerism: The Highest Stage of Socialism? (Polish-Soviet Debate on the National and International Image of the Developed Socialist State)”

1977 Gross, Jildy H. (REES MA) “Grand-Boyars and Russians: The Russian Occupation of Moldovia and Wallachia, 1828-1834”

1976 Baldwin, David F. (REES MA) “Recent Developments in Moldavian Agricultural Administration: The Inter-Farm Association and the Agro-Industrial Complex” Bearman, Morton R. (REES MA) “Soviet Trade with the West and Its Relations to Foreign Policy” Lively, Susan (REES MA) “An Analysis of Sources Dealing with the Development and Decline of the Basmachi Movement”

1975 Mixter, Timothy R. (REES MA) “Of Grandfather-Beaters and Fat-Heeled Pacifists: Perceptions of Agricultural Labor and Hiring Market Dsiturbances in Saratov, 1872-1905”

1974 Kollmann, Jack E. (REES GC) “A Selective Comparison of Two Medieval Russian Juridicial Documents: The Merilo Pravednoe and the Stoglav”

1971 Huszczo, Adeline A. (REES GC) “Social Science Research in the Soviet Bloc: An Analysis of Function” Koprince, Ralph G. (REES Grad Cert) “Soviet Publication of Dostoevsky, 1956-1970” Radzilowski, Thaddeus C. (REES GC) “The Mensheviks and the October Revolution” Solchanyk, Roman (REES GC) “The Ukrainian Question in Russia”

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1970 Elliott, James (REES GC) “Sociolinguistic Implications of Linguistic Fragmentation in Yugoslavia” Gorlin, Robert H. (REES GC) “The Western Zemstvo: Opinions and Politics” Hewett, Edward (REES GC) “New Resource Flows Between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, 1955-1967” Janecek, Gerald J. (REES GC) “The Debate Around Solzhenitsyn” Larson, Susan (REES GC) “Literature in Post-Stalinist Russia”

1969 Eagle, Herbert J. (REES GC) “Ideological Views Among Czech and Soviet Writers of the 1960s” Gorlin, Alice (Russian Studies Grad Cert) “The Development of Industrial Associations: Soviet Union, Hungary, East Germany” Grier, Philip T. (Russian Studies Grad Cert) “Deterrents to Intellectual Innovation in the Soviet Union” Krohn, Janis (Russian Studies Grad Cert) “The Soviet Child’s World” McConnell, John S. (Russian Studies Grad Cert) “Aspects of Unemployment in the Soviet Union”

1968 Breslauer, George (Russian Studies GC) “The Soviet Union since Khrushchev: A Return to Stalinism?” Wobst, Susan (Russian Studies GC) “An Analysis of the Changes in Soviet Jewish Cultural Status from 1948-1967”

1967 Weitzman, Phillip M. (Russian Studies GC) “Some Problems of Rising Consumption in the USSR”

1966 Stigliani, Nicholas Anthony (Russian Studies G C) “Soviet Attitudes towards Decolonization”