Publications
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” Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
Book Reviews
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
Awards and Fellowships
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
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
Presentations
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
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
Nicole Harry, Ph.D. 