Hana Connelly Stankova

 

post-colonial studies; Russian imperialism and nationalism; 19th century Russian literature and culture; travel writing; cultural exchanges between France and Russia; Central Asia; the Caucasus.

 

 

Ph.D. (expected 2025), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University

 

M.Phil. (2022), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University. Minor field: Francophone Studies

 

B.A. in History and Literature, Certificate in Russian Language, Harvard University (2017)

 

 

“‘Benefiting the Scientific World Above All:’ 19th Century Scientific Explorations of Central Asia,” European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), Almaty (2023)

 

“From Romantic to Realist and In-Between: Imam Shamil’s Image and its Impact on Tolstoy’s Hadji Murat,” Tolstoy and Russian Imperialism Conference, Tbilisi (2023)

 

“‘I left politeness behind in the last European city—Petersburg’: Dumas’ Journey Through the Caucasus,” NESEES, NYC (2023)

 

“Kidnap in the Caucasus: Rethinking the Caucasian War Through Women’s Narratives,” NEMLA Conference, Niagara Falls (2023)

 

“Not Primitive or Provincial, but Universal: The Anticolonial Poetry of Amrouche and Abdullaev,” Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, Tartu (2022)

 

“’Like a Bird in a Golden Cage:’ Hamid Ismailov’s The Devil’s Dance,” Hamid Ismailov Retrospective Symposium, New Haven (2022)

 

“A ‘Window to the World’: Translation in the Works of Pushkin and Abai,” ASEEES Virtual Conention (2021)

 

“‘More American Than the Most American American:’ When Russian and East European Avant‑Garde Artists Discovered the New World,” AATSEEL Virtual Convention (2021)

 

 

MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University (2023)

 

Russian Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University (2022)

 

MacMillan Center Summer Fellowship for Language Study of Turkish, Yale University (2021)

 

Foreign Language and Area Studies Award for Uzbek language, Yale University (2020)

 

Barbara Miller Solomon Prize for a senior thesis of high distinction, Harvard University (2017)

 

Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research on the senior thesis, Harvard University (2017)

 

Sohier Prize for the best undergraduate thesis in English or another modern literature, Harvard University (2017)

 

Goldman Undergraduate Research Travel Grant for Russia and Georgia, Harvard University (2016)

 

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Thesis Grant Award for Russia and Georgia, Harvard University (2016)

 

Barrett Wendell Prize for best sophomore essay in History and Literature, Harvard University (2014)