The study of Russian, Eurasian, and eastern European history at CEU focuses on the seventeenth through twenty-first centuries. Faculty members employ an array of approaches, including intellectual, social, cultural, and diplomatic history, plus the history of science. Our geographic expertise includes the Habsburg borderlands, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, and Central Asia. We welcome a range of M.A. and Ph.D. thesis topics to complement our faculty research in topics as varied as early modern Russian-Ottoman diplomacy, ninteenth-century patent law, Soviet physics, World War II and humor, Perestroika, and Soviet hippies.
Charles Shaw
Constantin Iordachi
- Fascism and Totalitarianism
- Nation and Nationalism
- Political History
- Southeastern Europe/Balkans
Jan Hennings
- Early Modern Europe
- Muscovy and Imperial Russia
- History of Diplomacy and International Relations
- Russian-Ottoman Relations
- Travel Literature and Cultural Encounters
Juliane Fürst
- Soviet Social and Cultural History
- Subcultures, Non-Conformism, Dissent
- The Long Perestroika/Perebudova
Karl Hall
Marsha Siefert (Emerita)
- Cinema, Diplomacy, and Cold War Culture
- Media History, Music History, and Technology
- Labor, Information, Communication, and Infrastructure
Aliaksandr Bystryk
- History of Nationalism
- Mass Media and Nationalism
- History of Belarus
Boris Fonarkov
- Diplomatic History
- Intercultural Encounter & Differentiation/Othering
- Imperialism in Eurasia
- Sino-Russian & Sino-European Relations
Daniela Munteanu
- History of Human Sciences
- New Imperial History
- History of Knowledge
- History of Self
Emilia Castelao
- Diplomatic History
- Cultural History
- History of Sport
Julia Boechat Machado
- History of the Book
- Tamizdat Publishing
- Alternative Publishing Practices
MA Students in Russian Empire and Soviet Union
As well as PhDs, our MA students study and publish in their chosen research fields. Click on the image above for a list of MA students working in the field of Russian and Soviet History.
Mariia Golovina
- Early Modern Information Networks
- New Diplomatic History
- Venice and the Early Modern World
- Muscovy in European Discourses
Central Asia in the Soviet Empire
History and Visual Studies: Photography and Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century
Topics in Soviet Intellectual History
Extending the Borders of Russian History: Essays in Honor of Alfred J. Rieber
Mass Culture and Perestroika in the Soviet Union
Russia and Courtly Europe: Ritual and the Culture of Diplomacy, 1648-1725
