Captain Nicholas Bruno, US Army, will be graduating with an MA in Russian Culture and Certificate in Slavic and Eurasian Studies. His thesis “Russian Diaspora Policy and the Near Abroad: An Indicator and Warning for Intervention” addresses the future ways and means of Russian foreign policy in Eurasia. After graduation, Captain Bruno will move to Garmisch, Germany as a Foreign Area Officer (FAO) Trainee and attend the Eurasian Foreign Area Officer Training Program at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He hopes to be assigned as a FAO to a US embassy in Eastern Europe where he can continue to utilize and refine the lessons learned from his time at Duke University.
Elyse Demas is a Class of 2023 graduate with majors in public policy and Russian studies. After graduation, she will be moving to D.C. to work as a health policy and data analyst for Acumen LLC. She is excited to read more Gogol and Chekhov in her free time!
Samantha Dilley is a graduating senior with degrees in the Global Cultural Studies Program in Literature and Russian. Post-graduation she will be moving to Washington, D.C. to work as a paralegal specialist for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, with hopes of practicing law in the future.
Elise Michels is a senior graduating with majors in Political Science and Russian and a minor in Music. After graduating, she will work as a management consultant in San Francisco.
Alberto Garcia Perez will be graduating with a B.S. in Environmental Chemistry, a B.A. in Russian Language and Culture and a certificate in Energy and the Environment. During his time at Duke he was a Karsh International Merit Scholar, a member of the Bass Connection A city and its river, and performed extensive research on local heavy metal pollution in soils and solar panel efficiency improvements. Following graduation, he will work for the Boston Consulting Group in their San Francisco office where he intends to focus on the areas of Energy and Sustainability.
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