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This study investigates, from a historic and comparative perspective, the representation of Serbo-Albanian ethnic conflict in the Albanian press of Kosovo. It also infers the intentions of the press in the promotion of ethnic tolerance and a multi-ethnic culture of peace vs. instigation of ethnic prejudice, fanaticism and intolerance. The historical and institutional factors underpinning these intentions will also be discussed.

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The representation of ethnic conflict in the Albanian press of Kosovo (65KB.pdf)

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Traditionally, scholars have recognized chartable voluntary nonprofit organizations as important actors in social, economical and political processes of governance. A number of political science, economic and social theories connect the establishment of robust nonprofit sectors to a promise of the development of civil societies, productive economic systems, and democratic regimes (Boris & Steuerle, 1999, ; Bryce, 2005, ; Putnam, 1995).

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Local Government and Nonprofit Service Organizations in the Russian Far East (57KB.pdf)

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The Soviet communist party’s failure to promote a popular sense of communist identity under Stalin is one of the greatest paradoxes in modern Russian history. What can account for such a shortcoming in a society organized along Marxist-Leninist lines?

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Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Political Indoctrination and Stalinist Terror in the USSR, 1928-1939 (56KB.pdf)

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My project examines the construction of Kazakh national histories in the late Soviet era, a process that, even today, continues to shape contemporary debates on Kazakh identity and the images of the Kazakh past displayed in “official” histories, textbooks, museums and encyclopedias.

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Making an Ancient Nation: Kazakh Historical Writing in the Late Soviet Era (97KB.pdf)

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This dissertation examines the culture of debt, credit, and insolvency in mid-nineteenth century Moscow region.

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Law and the Culture of Debt in Moscow Province during the Great Reforms, 1850-1870 (41KB.pdf)

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National history textbooks are controversial in post-Soviet Moldova, where the government and the intellectual elite have differing concepts of the nation and national identity (Casu 2005; King 2000). On September 1, 2006, the Ministry of Education replaced the existing national history curriculum, History of the Romanians, with a new one, Integrated History.

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Contested Curriculum: Moldovan Teachers’ Responses to Integrated History (118KB.pdf)

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My research focused on the impact of Armenia’s electronic media – largely television, but also some online – on the overall Armenian media, and how that impact in turn has influenced the population’s access to information, and hence its democratization.

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Altering the Media Landscape: The Impact of Electronic Media on Armenia’s Democratic Transition (37KB.pdf)

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My research was a contrastive study of local and international organizations that worked with displaced Muslims from the central Balkans in the last half of the 20th century. Return or integration of displaced people is basic to growth of stable democratic systems.

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Civil Society Associations of Displaced Muslims from Kosova & Macedonia vs. International Organizations in Kosova (345KB.pdf)

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My research focused on the intersections of musical culture with political and economic campaigns in two populations in the Ukrainian borderlands: the Hutsuls of the Western Ukrainian Carpathian mountains and the Tatars of Crimea.

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Civilizing Wildness: Musical Practices as Political and Economic Resources in Contemporary Ukraine (368KB.pdf)

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My dissertation explains why dominant parties emerge when and where they do.

The key to understanding the emergence of dominant parties lies in the incentives of individual elite actors to affiliate with the party. Where many previous scholars have sought to explain the endurance and institutional makeup of authoritarian regimes with reference to the preferences of the ruler, my approach shifts the locus of analysis to individual elites.

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Parties of Power and Commitment Problems: United Russia as a Dominant Party (36KB.pdf)

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