Research Interests
Ukrainian cultural and social history; Ukrainian diaspora and migration; gender and family; nationalism; global history; 20th century
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
Waterman Scholarship for Graduate Conference Travel, Department of History, 2025
ABD Fellowship, Department of History, 2024-2025
Summer Research Laboratory Associate and Title VIII Research Grant, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, 2024
FLAS Fellow, Polish, 2023-2024
History Department Fellowship, 2022-2023
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow, Ukrainian, 2020-2022
Awards and Honors
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
HIST 100 - Global History - Fall 2025
HIST 171 - US History to 1877 - Spring 2026
Additional Campus Affiliations
Curator of Russian Books of the 18th Century, digital collection by the Slavic Reference Service, https://archive.org/details/reees-18th-c-books
Recent Publications
“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.