Spotlight on GSAS Students and Alumni Brandeis University GSAS

Kelly Stedem, a PhD candidate in the politics department, discusses the  current protests in Lebanon and her dissertation, which explores  clientelism in the country. Stedem recently coauthored an article for  the Washinton Post's Monkey Cage blog about the protests.

In this episode of the Highlights Podcast, Alexander Herbert, a PhD  candidate in the history department, discusses his book, "What About  Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy  Riot."

PhD candidate Matthew Heck first fell in love with Shostakovich as a young violinist. He has spent his time at Brandeis investigating the nuts and bolts of Shostakovich's musical language—an area that he feels has been somewhat neglected by anglophone theorists.

Ryan Marcus, PhD'19, discusses the challenges associated with cloud  computing and the ways that machine learning may be able to address them.

Chris Konow researches the impact of growth on Turing patterns in the  Epstein Lab. Turing patterns are named after the British mathematician  Alan Turing, who proposed a mechanism for how differentiation can occur  within a homogeneous system. The Epstein and Fraden labs at Brandeis  have provided experimental support for Turing's predictions and are  currently performing research to improve our understanding of the Turing  mechanism.

Jack E. Davis, PhD'94, returned to campus on March 19, 2019 to give a talk about his Pulitzer Prize winning book, "The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea." He sat down with us for half an hour to discuss the book, his next project on the history of the bald eagle and to provide some words of advice on how students of history can improve their own writing.