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CREEES M.A. Conference Travel: Julia Lasiota
Julia Lasiota, CREEES M.A. '26, recently attended the 32nd Annual REECAS Northwest Conference for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington to present her paper “Playing All Sides: Central Asia's Ideological Arbitrage in Great Power Competition.” This trip was funded through Stanford Global Studies' Global Perspectives Award.
CREEES 2026 Vucinich Fellow: Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz
CREEES is proud to welcome our 2026 Vucinich Fellow, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz. Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz is a historian specializing in Eastern European history and focuses particularly on the experiences of Jewish communists. She is affiliated with both the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political Thought. To learn more about Katarzyna's research, attend her presentation, "Jewish "Reds": Radicals in Poland, 1918–1968 — A Collective Biography" on Friday, May 15.
