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PUBLIC WRITING

"The Racist Treatment of Africans and African Americans in the Soviet Union." New Lines Magazine. February 17, 2023. 

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"Russian hypocrisy and the death of a Zambian student in Ukraine." Al Jazeera English. January 3, 2023. 

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"Ice Cream Diplomacy." Inkstick Media. February 7, 2022. 

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"Not Your Meme: Kazakhstan in the Western Imagination." Lossi36. January 28, 2022.

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"Black Women Shouldn't Have to Assert Their Right to Self Care." The Conversationalist. September 10, 2021.

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"Afro-Ukrainian Wrestler Zhan Beleniuk Won Olympic Gold But Can't Escape Racism." First and Pen. August 19, 2021.

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"My Joy over the Derek Chauvin Verdict was Fleeting Because I Know America." The Conversationalist. April 21, 2021. 

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"Andrea Lee's 'Russian Journal': A Tapestry of the Late Soviet Era." The Kennan Institute. February 19, 2021.

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"Yelena Khanga, Belonging, and Blackness in Russia." NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. November 06, 2020.

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"Russia as a Mirror of American Racism." The Conversationalist. September 17, 2020.

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"The Curious Case of Russian Lives Matter." Foreign Policy. July 11, 2020.  (paywall)

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"George Floyd, Brat 2, and Russian Depictions of African Americans." The Moscow Times. June 17, 2020.

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"Джордж Флойд, «Брат 2» и представления об афроамериканцах в России" The Moscow Times (Russian Edition). June 24, 2020.

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"In Search of Black Europe." Contingent Magazine. June 10, 2020.

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"Black Skin in the Red Land: African Americans and the Soviet Experiment". The Kennan Institute.  February 28, 2020.

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"Why does the Democratic Party have Superdelegates?". History News Network. Summer 2016.

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Interview: "Chronicling the Last Empire: Dr. Serhii Plokhii". Vostok Cable. June 2014. 

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Interview: "A Turbulent Time, Dr. Serhii Plokhii". Vostok Cable. June 2014. 

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"Kimberly in Kiev." Minority Students Abroad Project, School of Russian and Asian Studies. October 2013. 

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"Baba, Proletarka, and the Kolkhoznitsa" on Museum Studies Abroad. Summer 2012. Senior Thesis (Swarthmore College History Department)

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