People
Doctoral Fellows
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Allison Brooks-Conrad
Ph.D. Candidate, Historical Musicology
Project: The Sounds of Soviet Femininity: Socialist Expectations for Women’s Labor and Music in Soviet Tallinn, Tbilisi, and Riga (1970-1991)
Allison Brooks-Conrad is a PhD candidate in historical musicology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines the intersection of gender, labor, and socialist policy in different scenes of musical... (more)
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Alex Royt
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Project: A Socialist Financial Revolution: Debt and Violence in the Soviet Union 1917-1941
Alex Royt is pursuing doctoral studies in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Alex holds a Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Binghamton where he studied history and German. He also holds a Master of Arts from... (more)
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Kirby Sokolow
Ph.D Candidate, Religious Studies
Project: Buddhist Exceptionalism Behind Bars: Transforming Race, Religion, and Power
Kirby Sokolow is a PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Wesleyan University and a Master of Arts in Religious Studies from NYU. Across... (more)
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Rawad Wehbe
Ph.D. Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Project: Malmūm: Feeling Across Affective Temporalities in Ibn Muqbil's Annular Poetics
Rawad Zahi Wehbe’s research focuses on structural, formal, and emotional poetics across periodization in the Arabic literary tradition. In his dissertation, he examines structural innovation through studying the... (more)