History majors complete their work with an original research project. These are some of my students' recent Honors Theses
Quinn Brown, "Deir Yassin 1948: Memory and Forgetting in the Construction of Nationalism," 2023
John Keirouz, "Immigrant and Refugee: Two Russian Churches in America." Emerson Fellowship, summer 2021.
Joseph Fraser, "To `Drive Nature out with a Pitchfork': Explaining the Inverse Trajectories of the Abolition of Slavery in the United States and the Abolition of Serfdom in the Russian Empire" 2020
Anna Warrell, "Class and Public Space in the Interwar Egyptian Women's Movement, 1919-1939" 2019
Wynston Pennybacker, "Postwar Pronatalism and the Construction of Gender and Sexual Norms in the Soviet Union, 1943-1964" 2019
Shoshana Keller
Professor of Russian and Eurasian History
Courses and other teaching
Introductory courses
Murder, Civil War, and Opera: Boris Godunov
The Silk Road
Jewish Civilization from the Talmud to the Yishuv
Survey courses
Kievan Rus' to Russian Empire, 861 - 1861
Modern Russian/Soviet history
History of the modern Middle East
Seminars
Russia's destiny: political thought from Peter to Putin
The USSR as a multi-national state
