Current Team Members
Seth Bernstein
Maddy Berryman-Dages
Maddy Berryman-Dages
Madeline is a first-year doctoral student studying mathematics at the University of Florida. She enjoys Algebraic Topology and Differential Geometry, as well as eastern European and Soviet history. Currently Madeline works as a Calculus 1 teaching assistant and is a volunteer member of the KGB lab, where she reads Soviet police files and looks at the accuracy of optical character recognition tools. In the future, Madeline is interested in using mathematically founded classification techniques to consider large-scale historical questions, such as how government policy affected everyday life in the Soviet Union.
Thomas Cerniglia
Technological Support and Programmer
Thomas Cerniglia
Thomas is a fourth-year History and Anthropology Major with a Minor in Classical Studies. He is interested in the topic because he enjoy studying and furthering the greater fusion of technology with the humanities.
Sabrina Cooper
Annotator and Transcriber
Sabrina Cooper
Sabrina is a senior, and is triple majoring in Economics, Russian, and History. She is interested in topic of secret police files because she is writing an honors thesis using declassified NKVD documents, which are in Russian. This relates to the project, as she is a transcriber.
Madison Rose
Graduate Assistant | Lead of Data Curation and Annotation
Madison Rose
Madison is a first year Linguistics Master's student, specializing in First and Second Language Acquisition and Computational Linguistics. She is interested in analyzing linguistic trends of language used during secret police interrogations and how to improve organization and presentation of corpus data.
Levin Sconyers
Levin is a second-year History major at the University of Florida focusing on the European continent. He is interested in the organization, operation, and upbringing of Soviet secret police. His role is to collect and analyze data regarding Soviet secret police and website management.
Peter Vinogradov
Annotator
Peter Vinogradov
Peter is a history undergraduate with projected minors in Russian and anthropology. The KGB lab has allowed him to continue learning about the association of Russia with neighboring countries under the USSR and the current Russian Federation. Having written a thirty-page thesis in high school on the Russo-Ukrainian War and now having been awarded membership to the Dobro Slovo Honors Society, he hopes to continue understanding the interaction of government and culture in Eastern Europe and Siberia, specifically through military culture and religious society. Peter would like to thank the Russian Nobility Association and the UF History Department for awarding him the Scherbatow and McGahan scholarships, respectively, to pursue these topics of interest.