Nicole Harry, Ph.D
@nicolerharry.bsky.social
Ph.D., Soviet soft power and Lithuanian religious identity | grammatically and dramatically stressed out | she/her
Are you using AI to write? Guess what, you aren't actually writing!
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2mo agoIf using AI for writing means you never have to stop, backtrack, or start over, you’re missing the most important part of the process, writes Eve Fairbanks:
The side project that kick started my research is in the world - Soviet Lithuania, petitioning, Catholics, legitimacy! Not to have a favorite child…. But editing this was a lot easier than the dissertation (though I love them both equally) brill.com/view/journal...
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Gave a guest lecture on Asia's Worried, sorry, World City, in @nicolerharry.bsky.social's Europe and the World class and it was really a labour of love for one of my favourite cities in the world. Covering the Opium Wars in just under thirty seconds might have been my best pedagogical feat to date.
Wrapping up the 2025 @aseees.bsky.social virtual convention, after another great year we’ve even convinced my cat to be interested in the field! (Look for him to be presenting next year)
Imagine having the confidence of this author that Neolithic Lithuanians worshipped the female Moose of All Moose
Excited to share my short piece on Soviet Lithuanian priests studying at the Vatican and their role in religious and diplomatic policy of the early 1960s! Thank you to @peripheralhist.bsky.social as well for the platform to do so. t.co/OOUz7xtn6U
https://www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/red-priests-in-the-holy-city-vatican-ostpolitik-informants-and-soviet-lithuanian-priests-in-the-c
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When am I writing my historiography section? Couldn’t tell you, but there might be signs…..
Cutting down block quotes feels like cutting out my favorite children
Brought a new stack of books home from the library and my partner innocently asked why I was “still reading things” since I’m writing my dis now….. how do I tell him the reading never ends?
Trying to convince myself that the amount of cat hair in my keyboard is actually somehow beneficial to dissertation writing (and not evidence of petting cats and not typing)
An important reward in the writing process is letting myself scroll up and down (and up and down and up and down and) through a completed chapter, as a treat.
Realizing that having all these ideas means I have to concretely write all these ideas
Auditioning for the role of PhD supervisor (literal understanding)
New book review: Harry on Friesen, Leonard G.: _Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation_. University of Toronto Press, 2022. Published by H-Russia. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20034924...
Friesen, Leonard G.. Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation. Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. Illustrations, maps. xviii + 401 pp. $42.95 (paper), ISBN 9781487524654.$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781487505516. Reviewed by Nicole Harry (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Published on H-Russia (May, 2024) Commissioned by Oleksa Drachewych (Western University)
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Reading Russian in Cyrillic VS reading Russian transliterated to Latin
Academic brain rot: just told myself I was going to have a “chill conference weekend” bc I’m only bringing my laptop and not my portable second monitor This is fine . It’s all normal.
