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Claire Roosien is an Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University and Director of Graduate Studies for the European and Russian Studies MA program (2024-25). Her research examines Soviet cultural history in Central Asia, with focus on media, gender, and colonial dynamics.
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2019
- A.M., University of Chicago, 2014
- A.B., University of Chicago, 2010
Research integrates literary analysis, archival work, and fluency in Russian, Uzbek, Turkish, and Persian. Publications explore Soviet-era Uzbek teahouses as ideological spaces, women's textile labor as cultural narrative, and popular music's role in identity formation.
Awards:
- A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Fund Award
- Whitney Humanities Fellowship
- Central Eurasian Studies Society Graduate Student Paper Award
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA)
Teaches courses on Central Asian cultures, Russian literature, and socialist aesthetics. Language proficiencies enable primary-source research across regional archives.
