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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of History

Mariana Kellis

PhD Student
Editorial Assistant at Slavic Review

Biography

I am a historian of unfree labor in the Russian and Spanish empires in the 19th century. My tentative dissertation project explores the transition to free labor through the lens of social history, focusing on questions of status, mobility, and political imaginaries. 

Research Interests

Serfdom, labor, village life, rural peasantry 

Education

B.A. in History at the University of Central Florida, Magna Cum Laude 

Grants

Tinker Foundation Fellowship, 2025 

FLAS Academic Year Award, 2024-2025: Polish 

FLAS Summer Award, 2024: Russian 

FLAS Academic Year Award, 2023-2024: Russian 

FLAS Summer Award, 2023: Russian 

FLAS Academic Year Award, 2022-2023: Russian 

FLAS Summer Award, 2022: Russian 

Awards and Honors

Frederick S. Rodkey Prize in Russian History

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of History

309 Gregory Hall, MC-466

810 S Wright St

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-1155

Email: history@illinois.edu

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