Alexandra (Sasha) Luckau

Sasha Luckau is a first year master’s student specializing in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She earned a BA in international and Russian studies from Vassar College, where she also worked as a first-year Russian language teaching assistant for a year. Sasha spent one semester in St. Petersburg, Russia, studying at the State Hermitage Museum and another in Moscow at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She speaks English and Russian and studied the latter for two summers in Tallinn, Estonia, and Riga, Latvia.

Sasha is interested in the growing presence of conservative moral values and the Russian Orthodox Church in contemporary Russian politics, its relationship to authoritarianism, and its effects on domestic and foreign policy in Russia.