Research Interests
Russia, Soviet Union, 20th century history, cultural history, music history, criminality, film.
Education
MA in Global, International, and Comparative History, Georgetown University (2017)
BA in History, University of Maryland College Park (2015)
Grants
2020-2021 ASEEES Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship
2018-2020 FLAS Fellow, Russian
Awards and Honors
Frederick S. Rodkey Memorial Prize in Russian History (2019)
Joseph Ward Swain Prize for Outstanding Seminar Paper (2019), “Moldavanka on the Magnitofon: The Heterochronotopia of “Old Odessa,” Brezhnev’s Hooligans and the Criminal Reinterpretation of Society in the Music of Arkady Severny, 1971–1980.”
Additional Campus Affiliations
2018-2020 Editorial Assistant, Slavic Review
Highlighted Publications
Abosch, Elizabeth. 2021. “Moldavanka on the Magnitofon: The Music of Arkadii Severnyi and Singing the Streets ‘Old Odessa’ in the Soviet Apartment Block.” Slavic & East European Journal 65.