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What does a postmodernist historiographical approach reveal about the driving determinants that inform post-Soviet Belarusian and Ukrainian textbooks’ origin of nationhood and conception of ‘nation’? As one of the biggest stages for international conflict throughout the twentieth century, Eastern Europe

Project Title – Rapanui and the Obliteration of Isolated Civilizations: Causes, Effects, and Methods of Comprehension  Word Count: 656  Rapanui, a tiny grass-covered rock that is more commonly referred to as Easter Island, is the most isolated island in the Pacific

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As I have been narrowing my focus as we approach our project proposals, I have found the recent conflicts in Eastern Europe to be particularly pertinent to my research. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provoked a lot of questions among

Hi, everyone! Since we were cut short for time, I’m transferring all of my thoughts to my blog post for the week – but am happy to share in our unconference on Saturday if needed. In my previous post, I

What began as a simple, straightforward final project idea has now transformed into a new, complex, and nuanced research proposal. Based on my research from previous summers, I believed I had a firm grasp of the concepts and directions of

As I have researched and read for my project, I feel like I have already greatly shifted and morphed my ideas. I am primarily interested in the international and transnational flows and connections surrounding women’s movements and suffrage. While this

My reading has taken some odd turns in recent weeks, stretching from disease to sovereignty and finally to a (now technically obsolete) document. This document banned the use of explosive projectiles under 400g for being both inhumane and providing no

After many hesitations and detours about my research topic, I have finally settled on a study of the diffusion of climate anxieties and the establishment of environmentalist practices in the French colonial empire at the end of the 18th century.

I am fairly confident I want to focus on global intellectual histories’ implications within the consolidation of ethnolinguistic nationalism in Slavic states and their effect on their respective nationhood origin histories. I am particularly looking at Soviet satellite states such

Antje Dietze and Katja Naumann talked about how historians must look at space and spatial perspectives through a transnational lens. They talk about how space itself is a socially constructed concept, explaining that “the predominance of the national space has

I was born exactly fifteen years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion happened in 1986, and so it is always something that has intrigued me. Why did it take several days for the USSR to announce the explosion? How did people

I still haven’t nailed down what I want to do my project on, let alone articulated a theoretical base or identified my key source material. I was of half a mind to continue the theme I began in last week’s

Looking at transnational history through individual actors allows categories, such as space, which have often been defined by existing areas of historical research and often based on the nation, to be defined by the subject. Through this one can study