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Kate Daloz, Director of the recently inaugurated GSAS Writing Studio, discusses her background, shares advice for dissertating students, and reveals what she has planned for the Studio’s future.

“I was drawn to Slavic studies by the psychological depth of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels, the Cold War-era processes of cultural ‘othering’ engaged in by both the USA and the USSR, the mystique of the Cyrillic alphabet, and my hopefulness for the future of post-Soviet states.”

View a list of recent dissertations defended and dissertation proposals deposited.

“I’m researching the experience of Muslim-Americans serving in the US military after 9/11. It’s an overlooked topic that raises complicated questions about who is and is not considered an ‘American.’”