School of Humanities and Sciences
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Richard E Brown
Ph.D. Student in Political Science, admitted Autumn 2023
BioRick is a political science graduate student who is interested in public policy at the state and local level. He researches the politics of higher education and housing policy. Prior to Stanford, Rick worked for one year as a predoctoral research fellow at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard.
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Alina Bykova
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2020
BioAlina is a PhD candidate in Russian and East European History. Her research interests include Arctic and Soviet environmental history with a focus on energy and industry. Alina is writing her dissertation on the history of energy and extraction on Svalbard, Norway. She also works as a research associate and editor-in-chief at The Arctic Institute, an interdisciplinary think tank.
Alina earned her masters in European and Russian Affairs from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto in 2019. Her masters thesis was about the rise and fall of Soviet mining settlements on Svalbard. Prior to her work in academia, she completed a Bachelor of Journalism at Ryerson University and worked as a breaking news reporter at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper.
