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.

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Experience, identity, subjectivity, nationality policy, and the constructions of race and nation, define the core of my work.

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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.

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Photo Credit: Laurence Kesterson.

Image by Simon Hurry

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

  • Soviet Nationality Policy

  • Race and Ethnicity in the USSR and GDR

  • Race and Racism in the former-Soviet Union

  • African-American experience in the USSR and Russia

  • Soviet Subjectivity

  • 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