Kyara Klausmann graduated with a Bachelor in History and Central Asian Studies from Humboldt University. She spent two semesters in Voronezh, Russia, where she did research on Stalinism and rural administrative structures in the Soviet Union for her BA thesis. Having lived in Germany, Chile, East Timor, Russia, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, she joined the Global History Master in order to investigate cultural and political developments without regional boundaries.