Splash Biography



ALLISON SHELY, BC Sophomore Studying Political Science




Major: Political Science

College/Employer: BC

Year of Graduation: 2017

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

A native of Houston, Texas, a sunny city on the Gulf, Allison survived her first real winter least year as a freshman.
A student in the College of Arts and Sciences' Honors Program, Allison is majoring in political science. She loves languages; she studied Latin throughout high school and is now taking Russian and Farsi.
In her free time, Allison enjoys knitting, reading, and creative writing.



Past Classes

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R1158: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: The Rise and Fall of Leon Trotsky in Splash Fall 2014 (Nov. 16, 2014)
How does someone born in Ukraine wind up buried in Mexico? By leading a revolution, of course! Meet Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, the man who could bend thousands to his will with spellbinding oratory but was too shy to talk to strangers at parties.


R1003: Nothing You Saw In "Anastasia" Is True: A Very Brief Introduction to the Russian Revolution in Splash Spring 2014 (Apr. 06, 2014)
The Cold War may be over, but the Russian Revolution remains one of the defining events of the last century. This course will follow the Revolution from its roots in Russia's reluctance to leave behind its feudal past through years of exile, coups, and civil war to the ruthless power struggle following Lenin's death in 1924.


R917: Guillotines, Death, and Pigeons: Max Robespierre and the French Revolution in Splash Fall 2013 (Nov. 17, 2013)
Sometimes the only thing more "out there" than a revolution is the person leading it. This is certainly true of the French Revolution and Maximilien Robespierre, who rose to power in its bloodiest stage. How did the Revolution, which began as a struggle for "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", devolve into a "Reign of Terror"? And how did Robespierre, a soft-spoken lawyer fond of feeding pigeons during strolls in the park, come to be remembered as a tyrant and political terrorist? In this class, listen to the story of a man who devoted his life to a movement, only to have the movement destroy him.