Fellows Research

The primary focus of the six-week research project in Tbilisi, Georgia, was to investigate the current status and potential of the country’s advertising industry to support the further development of a pluralistic and independent media. A secondary objective was to ascertain the effectiveness of recent governmental legislation requiring television and radio stations to file an annual report to the Georgia National Communications Commission (GNCC) listing individuals who were owners of the stations.

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The Potential of the Advertising Industry in Georgia to Sustain an Independent Media (260 KB pdf)

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In post-civil war international administrations in Bosnia, Cambodia, East Timor, and Kosovo, scholars and international officials expected that there would be sufficient authority and resources to build strong state institutions in areas such as the police, military, elections, and revenue. However, only a few efforts left strong institutions, while many efforts failed and contributed to violence and underdevelopment.

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RADIN Research Summary.pdf

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Given its history of high levels of corruption, the progress that the Republic of Georgia has made in its anti-corruption reforms since the Rose Revolution of 2003 is especially noteworthy. This research project seeks to explain how the Georgian administration was able to effect successful anti-corruption reforms in the country, especially since similar reforms have faced difficulties elsewhere.

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NASUTI Research Summary.pdf

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Post-conflict societies like Bosnia-Herzegovina, with their turbulent political, social, and economic conditions, tend to have high levels of sex trafficking. Because border patrol officers are usually the first officials to come into contact with sex trafficking victims, many of these officers in Bosnia have received training on sex trafficking issues, but little is known about the effectiveness of such training.

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MUFTIC Research Summary.pdf

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Non-payment of utility bills, evasion of payment through a variety of corruption schemes and fraud, and unauthorized reallocation of the costs of consumed utilities are widespread in Ukraine among the public and businesses, often with the involvement of local and central government officials. This research examines the relationships between the public, government, and the private sector around the provision of public utilities in Ukraine.

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Leipnik Research Summary.pdf

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This research investigates the conditions under which Russian firms rely on criminal violence and corruption to protect property rights, and the conditions under which they abandon illegal practices in favor of law and formal institutions. The study draws on interviews with Russian firms, lawyers, and private security agencies in Moscow and Barnaul as well as a survey of enterprises across eight Russian cities.

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GANS MORSE Research Summary.pdf

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This Short-Term Travel Grant was used as a planning trip to finalize research arrangements with partner scholars and research institutions for my 20-year-history of the 1991 law “On the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression” in Russia. The icing on the cake, desired but not anticipated, would be conducting some interviews and examining private archives. I was able to achieve all of my research objectives and to confirm that my preliminary hypotheses about the major phases of the law’s record were correct.

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Is Russia's Rule of Law Expanding? A Case Study in Restorative Justice (276 KB pdf)

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My research as an IREX U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist Fellow in Tajikistan, undertaken in July and August 2011, attempts to identify the underlying forces contributing to the changing trends in women’s dress in Tajikistan in order to contribute to the U.S. Embassy’s analysis of prospects for the country’s future.

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Tajikistan's Competing Social and Political Forces: The Politics of Traditional Versus Western Women's Dress (308 KB pdf)

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The objectives of this case study were to give background information about some historic and current aspects of fundraising practices in universities in the USA and Russia; to study and describe the structure of fundraising system at University of Wisconsin Eau Claire in the light of the strategic plan of the university development; to define key stakeholders and their roles in the structure of fundraising system of University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire; to describe some elements of the best practices in the university history of fundraising donations and make conclusions

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Case Study: Fundraising at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

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This research project examines various aspects of urban society and culture among Jews in large cities across the Russian empire such as Lodz, Odessa and Warsaw as well as medium sized centers such as Bialystok and Vilna between the years 1861-1914. In addition to looking at the process of urbanization, this study also focuses on the many new cultural organizations and public institutions that arose during the time period.

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Jewish Culture and Society in Imperial Russian Cities (489 KB pdf)

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