Dissertation Title:
National Fabric, Socialist Tapestry: Classical Literature and the Weaving of the National Character in the Soviet Borderlands, 1934–1991

MA, Harriman Institute of Russia, Eurasian, and Eastern Eurpean Studies, Columbia University

BA, New York University (major in Russian & Slavic studies, minor in Latin American studies)

Research Interests:

North Caucasus, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Soviet Union, Russian Empire

Ethnicity, nationalism, conflict, diaspora, Soviet-Latin American relations