Research Interests
20th century nationalism and diaspora; Ukrainian migration; gender and family; global history; US migration
Education
MS in Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2022
MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UIUC, 2022
BA in Russian Studies and International Studies, Macalester College, 2013
Grants
Summer Research Laboratory Associate and Title VIII Research Grant, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center - 2024 and 2026
Waterman Scholarship for Graduate Conference Travel, Department of History - 2025
ABD Fellowship, Department of History - 2024-2025
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow, Polish - 2023-2024
History Department Fellowship - 2022-2023
FLAS Fellow, Ukrainian - 2020-2022
Awards and Honors
Facilitating Learning Excellence (FLEX) Award, UIUC, Fall 2025, Spring 2026
Association for Women in Slavic Studies Graduate Essay Prize - 2023
"Ukrainians To Their Very Soul: Discourses on Motherhood and Revolutionary Reproduction in Interwar Ukraine (1932-1936)"
Frederick S. Rodkey Memorial Prize in Russian History, History Department, UIUC, 2023
Courses Taught
Teaching Assistant:
HIST 100 - Global History - Fall 2025
HIST 171 - US History to 1877 - Spring 2026
Highlighted Publications
“‘Ukrainians to Their Very Soul’: Interwar Discourses on Ukrainian Intermarriage and Motherhood for the Nation.” Aspasia vol. 20 (Fall 2026), 106–126. (In press.)
Recent Publications
“What Do Graduate Students Think?” Kritika vol. 27, no. 3 (Summer 2026), 439–450. Co-author with Griffin Creech and Alexandra Noi.
“Review: MAPA Digital Atlas of Ukraine.” Reviews in Digital Humanities vol. 6, no. 4 (April2025). https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/mapa-digital-atlas/release/1
Contributing reviewer in Laurence H. Miller, “Reference Books of 2022–2023: A Selection,”in Slavic Review 83, no. 2 (Summer 2024), 441-447.
Contributing reviewer in Laurence H. Miller, "Reference Books of 2021–2022: A Selection," in Slavic Review 82, no. 2 (Summer 2023), 575-585.
Contributing reviewer in Laurence H. Miller, "Reference Books of 2020–2021: A Selection," in Slavic Review 81, no. 2 (Summer 2022), 566-575.