Mira Markham is a PhD student at the UNC Department of History. Her dissertation examines how citizens in a rural region of Czechoslovakia engaged with state power while also maintaining and defending their traditional local identities, practices, and relationships during … Read more
Paula Michaels is an Associate Professor at the Department of History at Monash University. Professor Michaels’ work bridges the histories of Eastern and Western Europe, integrating the USSR into a pan-European and global narrative through the study of social and … Read more
Eliza Rose is an Associate Professor of Central European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She researches the visual cultures and literature of Poland and East Central Europe with a focus on science fiction. Her current … Read more
Thomas Ort is associate professor of modern European history and director of the Honors in the Social Sciences program at Queens College, The City University of New York. The main focus of his research has been modernist and avant-garde life … Read more
Kevin Hoeper is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He focuses on the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century military culture in Central Europe, with a particular focus on the late … Read more
MAJ Kara Irvin grew up in West Lafayette, Indiana and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2012. She was commissioned as a Chemical Officer and has served in leadership and staff positions at the platoon, company, and brigade levels. … Read more
© Photo by Mara Lavitt June 7, 2022 Yale University, New Haven, CT. Faculty of Arts and Sciences headshots. Claire Roosien is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Her work focuses on … Read more
Eren Tasar is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia (OUP, 2017). He will present a draft of the … Read more
Oleg Budnitskii (NHC Fellow, 2023–24) is professor of history and director of the Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at the National Research University–Higher School of Economics (HSE University) in Moscow. He is the author or coauthor of nine … Read more
The seminar is pleased to welcome back Dr. Petra James, who will present the attached paper, entitled The Belgian and Czech Decadent Novels between Gothicization and Colonialism in the 1890s: Bruges la Morte (1892) by Georges Rodenbach and A Gothic … Read more
