Current Students
Allison Buehler
M.A. Candidate in European Studies (2024)
B.A. in Anthropology, Culture and Communications Concentration, University of Virginia (2023)
B.A. in French, Minor in German, University of Virginia (2023)
Allison Buehler is a graduate student pursuing an M.A. in European Studies and a Fourth Year Student in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a double major in French and in Anthropology with a Concentration in Culture and Communication. She is also a German Minor. Allison is particularly interested in European languages and speaks French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese fluently. She is extremely involved in her extracurriculars, and she is currently the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society. In addition to her extracurriculars, Allison is the Program Assistant Her current research interests include secularization and education in France, belonging, and marked and unmarked identities. Her past research has dealt with linguistic anthropology, national memory, cruelty, identity, and the importance of names. She plans to study abroad in Lyon, France during the fall semester of 2023.
Genevieve Hebert
M.A. Candidate in European Studies, University of Virginia (2023)
B.A. in Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia (2022)
Genevieve Hebert is in the process of completing my BA in Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Genevieve is also a first year graduate student in European Studies. Genevieve is interested in ideas about European identity and its relationship with Euroscepticism and the rise of right-wing populist parties. Genevieve is also interested in how the Brexit vote has impacted the relationship between countries within the United Kingdom as well as relations between the EU and the UK. As a MA candidate Genevieve hopes to expand my research on European identity and tensions resulting from the rise of right-wing populism and Euroscepticism.
Emma Krasnopoler
M.A. Candidate in European Studies , University of Virginia (2023)
B.A. International Affairs, George Washington University (2019)
Justine Stolworthy
M.A. Candidate in European Studies, University of Virginia (2023)
B.A. in Foreign Affairs, Minor in Spanish, University of Virginia (2022)
Justine Stolworthy is a fourth year undergraduate in Foreign Affairs with a minor in Spanish and Justine is in their first year of the European Studies B.A/M.A. program. Justine is interested in European politics, with a focus on European identity, EU-skepticism, and nationalism.
Former Students
Brigid Hanrahan
M.A. in European Studies (2020)
B.A. in History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Brigid Hanrahan is a current student in the European Studies Master’s program. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2018 from Penn State University, where she studied History and Religious Studies. Her research interests include Irish history, religion in Ireland, Irish diaspora, and Ireland’s relationship to the United Kingdom. In 2019 she studied abroad at Queen’s University Belfast, where she took courses related to the public history of Belfast, Brexit, and Northern Irish politics. Brigid has also worked as a Teaching Assistant for an undergraduate history course at UVA on Nazi Germany. Her forthcoming thesis is entitled, “Republicanism, Religion, and Remembrance: The Dark Tourism and Public History of Irish Gaols.”
Trevor Hazelwood
M.A. Candidate in European Studies (2022)
B.A. in History, University of Virginia (2020)
Trevor Hazelwood is in the process of completing his BA in History from the University of Virginia. He is also a first-year graduate student in European Studies. His areas of interest include race, nationalism, German and Chinese relations, and memory. Trevor plans to study at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany in Fall 2021. He is an intern at Jefferson’s University – The Early Life, studying the history of the University of Virginia.
Hannah Litkowski
M.A. in European Studies (2020)
B.A. in Global Security and Justice and French, University of Virginia (2019)
Hannah Litkowski completed her B.A. degrees in Global Security and Justice and French in Spring 2019, and wrote her undergraduate thesis on policy alternatives for unaccompanied migrant youth traveling through Europe. She spent Spring 2017 in Lyon, France, at Sciences Po Lyon and interned with the US Department of State’s Population, Refugees, and Migration’s European Affairs Office as well as UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office in Amman, Jordan. During her time in the European Studies program, she spent a semester at Lunds Universitet in Lund, Sweden and a summer in Kraków, Poland studying Polish on a Kościuszko Foundation scholarship. The title of her thesis is: "European Enough? The Treatment of Eastern European Migrants at the European Court of Human Rights.” Hannah currently works as a Program Assistant with USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.
Aurora lofton
M.A. in European Studies (2018)
B.A. in Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia (2017)
Aurora Lofton was a transfer student from Northern Virginia Community College to UVA in 2015. She recently received her B.A in Foreign Affairs, and has transitioned into the European Studies program in fall 2017. In 2018, she studied abroad in Valencia, Spain, conducting research, studying, and writing her MA thesis in European Studies (under the direction of Prof. Mila Versteeg, UVA School of Law). During the 2018 J-Term, Aurora interned and directly supported the work of Dr. Barbara Harrell-Bond at the RIghts in Exile Programme, in Oxford, England. Her work included assisting refugees in their asylum claim process, compleing research on current and changing refugee policies, and helping the organization identify country-of-origin experts for Nigeria, Iran and Egypt. This trip was partly funded by UVA's Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation.
Anna Stormoen
M.A. in European Studies (2020)
B.A. in Foreign Affairs and Anthropology, University of Virginia (2018)
Anna Stormoen areas of academic interest include cultural studies, French politics and history, the role of European institutions, the preservation of cultural heritage, and diplomatic history. As part of her undergraduate studies, Anna spent the summer of 2017 studying in Lyon, France where she returned for the fall of 2019 semester as part of her M.A. studies. She has also conducted archaeological fieldwork at a medieval castle in Spain and worked as a sociological research assistant at a university in Belgium. Anna has also completed research internships with the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Department of State. While completing her thesis on the function of lieux de mémoire within the commemorative landscape of the city of Lyon, she has begun a new position with a tech startup working with data pertaining to Europe and Sub Saharan Africa
Ryan Wilson
M.A. Candidate in European Studies (2022)
B.A in Political Philosophy, Policy & Law and French, University of Virginia (2020)
Ryan Wilson is a graduate student at the University of Virginia pursuing a M.A. in European Studies. Ryan earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 2020, where he double-majored in Political Philosophy, Policy & Law (PPL) and French. He was an Echols Scholar as an undergraduate at the University, and wrote a thesis on the political philosophy of Charles de Gaulle and its implications in contemporary Europe for democratic governments facing legitimacy crises. During this time, Ryan made several trips to Paris to conduct research for the project. As an M.A. candidate, he hopes to expand on this work and further pursue his interests in Western European nationalism, French language and cultural studies, as well as the comparative study of legal cultures in European states.
Ruting (Oliver) Yan
M.A. Candidate in European Studies
B.A. in Foreign Affairs (2019)
Oliver Yan attended high school in Sterling, Virginia. Prior to moving to northern Virginia, Oliver spent 11 years living in China. He received his BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 2019 and began the European Studies program fall 2018. He intends to focus on European politics and society with a focus on immigration policy and regional security for his research and eventual thesis. Oliver is also an Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia.