# Graduate Students ## expand\_more [### Sofiya Boroday ](/people/sofiya-boroday) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Alex Braslavsky ](/people/alex-braslavsky) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Alex Braslavsky earned her B.A. in English Literature and Russian Language and Culture from Columbia University in 2018. As an undergraduate, she began delving into Russian and French poetry and studied abroad in Moscow and Paris. She then went on to... ![Headshot of Alex Braslavsky weatring round glasses and a patterned shirt, with a blue background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/headshot.png?itok=EXTsPp0J) [### James Browning ](/people/james-browning) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Joanna Burdzel ](/people/joanna-burdzel) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Joanna earned her B.A. in Russian and Studies in World Literature from the College of the Holy Cross in 2019, with a minor in philosophy. As an undergraduate she studied at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, and at the Jagiellonian... ![Joanna Burdzel](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/image0.jpeg?itok=QjY_wdfB) [### Ali Ekdal ](/people/ali-ekdal) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Natasha Federow ](/people/natasha-federow) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Nathan Goldstone ](/people/nathan-goldstone)Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Nathan is a second-year PhD candidate from Waukesha, Wisconsin. His research interests include mechanical investigations into literary narrative (in short, how fiction works) and the nexus of aesthetics and politics in 20 th - and 21 st -century Slavic... ![Nathan Goldstone](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/goldstone_image.jpeg?itok=OPKYh6RH) [### Shiori Horton ](/people/shiori-horton)Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Anna Ivanov ](/people/anna-ivanov)Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Anna Ivanov (she/her/hers) received her B.A. in Russian, Linguistics, and Data Science at Macalester College in 2018. She has studied in Russia through the NSLI-Y scholarship, ACTR RLASP, and Middlebury Schools Abroad. She is currently a Media & Design... ![Anna Ivanov Headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/20220816.0.002_mdf.orientation.workshop_5d.a.cr2_.0032.jpg?itok=1yGtWk2U) [### Natasha Kadlec ](/people/natasha-kadlec) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Natasha studies the cultural history of the Soviet Union. Her research investigates Soviet narratives on world literature and their interaction with national politics, focusing on Belarus, Estonia and Russia. She examines official Soviet cultural... ![picture of Natasha](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/Picture%20for%20site-2.jpeg?h=9ee2329e&itok=77j_9oad) [### Elizaveta Kheresh ](/people/elizaveta-kheresh) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Nathaniel Kianovsky ](/people/nathaniel-kianovsky)Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Barbara Kukushkina ](/people/barbara-kukushkina) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Barbara (Varvara) Kukushkina is an amateur violinist, an entomology enthusiast, and a budding scholar of Russian modernism from Cherepovets, Russia. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and Linguistics from the Higher School of... ![Black and white headshot of Barbara Kukushkina](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-11/Kukushkina_Barbara.jpg?h=7e61c8f5&itok=NNAKCCbG) [### Rachel Landau ](/people/rachel-landau) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Paul Morrison ](/people/paul-morrison) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Paul is a PhD candidate from Scotland in the UK. He earned his undergraduate degree in German and Russian Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 2020, which entailed periods of study abroad at Moscow State University and the University of Tübingen... ![Paul Morrison head shot](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/morrison_paul_1.jpeg?itok=P8KwEY_L) [### Hope Nicholson ](/people/hope-nicholson) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Hope Nicholson earned her BA in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford in 2023 and an MPhil in Comparative Literature from the University of Cambridge a year later. During her undergraduate degree, Hope studied Russian literature from 1100 to the... ![Black and white headshot of Hope Nicholson.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Nicholson_Hope_0.jpg?itok=Adj6wxq_) [### Jemma Paek ](/people/jemma-paek)Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Jemma Paek graduated from the University of Oxford in 2018 with a BA in Spanish and Russian, studying language and literature with a specialist paper on Literature and the Visual Arts. In 2020, Jemma returned to Oxford University to complete a Masters in... ![a picture of Jemma](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/Jemma%20headshot-2.jpg?h=e0f410be&itok=Kh6lo9Qo) [### Youngkwang Shin ](/people/youngkwang-shin) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Sydney Stotter ](/people/sydney-stotter)Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures Sydney entered the doctoral program in Slavic Languages and Literatures in the fall of 2022 after receiving a master's degree from the REECA program. Her research interests include the politics of historical memory, film and literature of the Second World... ![Sydney Stotter photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/62f9f4d9-0939-4ca8-a5a9-88ef516831fb.jpg?itok=hdnKu1u9) [### Lina Turygina ](/people/lina-turygina)Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")