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Home » People » Graduate Students by Area of Study » Melissa Gayan

Melissa Gayan

Melissa Gayan
mgayan@emory.edu

Education

BA in Political Science & History, 2000
MA in History, UNC-Charlotte, 2003

Research Interests

Georgia & the Caucasus
Soviet Union
Nationalism & ethnicity
World history

Dissertation Topic

"The First Crack in the Ice: How the 1956 Protests Altered Soviet Cold War Hegemony"

Faculty Advisor

Matthew Payne

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