Education
2026 PhD, History
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
2022 MA, History
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Master’s Thesis: “Negation to Fulfillment: The development of a Soviet atheist worldview in the ‘long 1970s’”
2019 BA History
Minor: Russian and Eastern European Studies
Lafayette College
Honors Thesis: “’Weapons of Mass Persuasion:’ Eastern Bloc diplomacy and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty during the ‘long 1970s’”
Publications
Refereed
2025 “Red Priests in the Holy City: Vatican Ostpolitik, Informers, and Soviet Lithuanian Priests in the College of Saint Casimir, 1959-1965” Peripheral Histories
2025 “For Church and State: Catholic Petitioning and Soviet Legitimacy in Lithuania, 1964-1975” Forthcoming, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
Non-refereed
2026 “Harry on Martin, Beliakova ‘Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union: From Survival To Revival (1960s-1980s) Book Review, Global Sixties (forthcoming)
2024 “Harry on Friesen ‘Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much
Tribulation’” Book review, H-Russia
2022 “Fulbright-Hays Recipients Return to Research in Africa,” The Department Historian
2022 “UNC Supports Ukraine,” The Department Historian
2021 “Pauli Murray’s Powerful Legacy,” The Department Historian
2021 “History Graduate Students Establish European History Seminar,” The Department Historian
Awards and Fellowships
Internal
2025 Druscilla French Graduate Fellow – University of North Carolina College of Arts and Science
2025 Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Teaching Assistant – Peter Filene Fund
for Creative Teaching, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2025 Graduate Student Transportation Grant – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
External
2023 Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Fellowship –
Lithuania, American Councils for International Education
2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Open Study/Research Award, Lithuania,
United States State Department
2022 Cold War Archive Research Institute Fellow – Wilson Center, Columbia University, the Donald and Vera Blinken Open Society Archive, 2022-2023
Teaching Experience
Department of History, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Instructor of Record
Spring 2026 “Europe and the World: Ideas of the 20th Century”
Summer 2024 “From War to Prosperity: Europe in the 20th Century”
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2025 “The Olympic Games: A Global History”
Spring 2025 “Baseball and American History”
Spring 2024 “Modern Central Asia”
Fall 2024 “Lies, Conspiracy, and Misinformation”
Spring 2022 “The World Since 1945”
Fall 2021 “The Social History of Popular Music in 20th–Century America”
Spring 2021 “Big-Time College Sports and the Rights of Athletes, 1874 to Present”
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2022 “Humans and the Cosmos”
Conference Participation
Research presentations
2025 “Soviet Priests in the Holy City: Lithuanian Clergy at the Vatican and Vatican II”
Invited speaker, Carolina Seminar: Russia and Its Empires, September 2025
2024 “The Silent Church Speaks: The Role of Lithuanian Catholic Clergy in Cold War Diplomacy”
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference, Virtual, October 2024
2023 “For Church and State: The Catholic Community and State Legitimacy in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic”
International Student Conference of the Cold War Research Center, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, June 2023
2022 “Negation to Fulfillment: The Development of a Soviet Atheist Worldview in the Long 1970s,”
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference, October 2022
2022 “God and Country: Political Legitimacy and Ideological Flexibility in Soviet-Occupied Lithuania,” University of North Carolina – King’s College London Transatlantic Workshop participant, September 2022
Seminar and workshop organization
2025 Workshop Organizer, UNC-KCL International Workshop on Transatlantic Approaches, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, King’s College London
2022 Coordinator, Carolina Seminar: Russia and Its Empires
2022 Workshop Co-Organizer, Russian Invasion of Ukraine teach-in and panel
Professional development
2025 “Studying Russia Outside of Russia” – Speaker
Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
2025 “Roundtable: Career Prospects for History Graduates,”
Lafayette College
2022 “Roundtable: Undergraduate Perspective on Slavic Studies,”
Southern Conference of Slavic Studies, co-chair
2021 “Collaborative Online International Learning Graduate Seminar Module – Central and Eastern European History,” University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, King’s College London, Charles University – Prague, 2021
Additional Research Experience
2022 Graduate Research Consultant, Hist 89, “Modern Afghanistan,” Dr. Eren Tasar, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
2022 Research Assistant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of City and Regional Planning
Professional Experience
2024 Permissions Editor, photo permissions collection and organization, Dr. Pamela Grundy, University of North Carolina Press
2023 Editor, citation and bibliography compilation, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Department of History
2020 English Teaching Assistant, Social Media Assistant
Derzhavin Language Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 Intern, The Icon Museum and Study Center
Curator, “‘Twisted Trinity:’ Anti-Religious Soviet Propaganda”
Organizer, Free Fun Friday 2019, Highland Street Foundation
Academic Service
To the field
2025 Session Manager/Zoom Host, Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Virtual Convention
2025 Registration Volunteer, Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Washington, D.C.
To the department
2025 President, Graduate History Society
2021-2023 Governing Board Member, Graduate History Society
Professional Affiliations
Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Canadian Association of Slavists
Languages
Russian (advanced)
Lithuanian (intermediate)
Italian (reading proficiency)
Nicole Harry, Ph.D. 