ABOUT ME
I am a historian of Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union. I am a second-year doctoral student (Ph.D.) in History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Experience, identity, subjectivity, nationality policy, and the constructions of race and nation, define the core of my work.
My dissertation project is an exploration of the form, function, and understandings of race in the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic through the experiences of African Americans and Africans.
Photo Credit: Laurence Kesterson.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Soviet Nationality Policy
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Race and Ethnicity in the USSR and GDR
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Race and Racism in the former-Soviet Union
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African-American experience in the USSR and Russia
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Soviet Subjectivity
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Old Believers in the Russian Empire
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, 2020-2026
Ph.D.|History
Fields: Modern Europe (Russia, Soviet Union, Eurasia) and America (From 1877)
Harvard University, 2012-2014
M.A.| Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
Focus: History and Russian language
Swarthmore College, 2008-2012
B.A.|History
Adams State University, 2017-2019
Graduate-level courses in American history