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Nicole Harry

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PhD candidate - Soviet soft power and Lithuanian religious identity |UNC Chapel Hill| grammatically and dramatically stressed out | she/her

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 14d

Imagine having the confidence of this author that Neolithic Lithuanians worshipped the female Moose of All Moose

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Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · 18d

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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Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Jul 24

When am I writing my historiography section? Couldn’t tell you, but there might be signs…..

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Jul 8

Cutting down block quotes feels like cutting out my favorite children

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Jun 25

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?

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Jun 11

Today I learned that one quarter of all known organisms are beetles

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Jun 11

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)

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Mar 6

Dissertation editorial team hard at work

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Dec 15

Please don’t ask how many of my footnotes still just say “find this,” though

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Dec 15

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.

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Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Nov 30

Evolution of the perfect loaf

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Nov 30

Realizing that having all these ideas means I have to concretely write all these ideas

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Nov 25

Auditioning for the role of PhD supervisor (literal understanding)

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H-Net Reviews @hnetreviews.bsky.social · May 24

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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Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Nov 22

Reading Russian in Cyrillic VS reading Russian transliterated to Latin

Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · Nov 21

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.