Ph.D. 
egeist@email.unc.edu

Major Field: Russian History

Adviser: Donald J. Raleigh

B.A. College of William and Mary
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008
M.A. Thesis: ”Scenarios for Survival: Representations of Nuclear War in American and Soviet Civil Defense Manuals, 1954–1972″
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013

Research Interests

Cold War; the impact of nuclear weapons on society and culture; civil defense; Soviet material culture; history of consumer technology.