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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
The stretch and fold schedules of my sourdough dough are my new pomodoro timer method
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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)
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by Nicole Harry
Imagine having the confidence of this author that Neolithic Lithuanians worshipped the female Moose of All Moose
September 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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
t.co
September 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
When am I writing my historiography section? Couldn’t tell you, but there might be signs…..
July 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Cutting down block quotes feels like cutting out my favorite children
July 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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?
June 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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)
June 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dissertation editorial team hard at work
March 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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.
December 15, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Evolution of the perfect loaf
November 30, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Realizing that having all these ideas means I have to concretely write all these ideas
November 30, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Auditioning for the role of PhD supervisor (literal understanding)
November 25, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Nicole Harry
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)
networks.h-net.org
May 24, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Reading Russian in Cyrillic VS reading Russian transliterated to Latin
November 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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.
November 21, 2024 at 4:06 PM