Fellows Research

This dissertation project reconstructs the experiences of Orthodox Christian populations living in the region of Macedonia from 1912 through 1919 – a period during which the area was contested in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 and in World War I.

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Balkan Wars Between the Lines: A Social History, 1912-1919 (44KB.pdf)

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My research examines the larger question of whether and how it is possible for communities with different collective memories to live in reconciliation in the wake of violent conflict.

Specifically, I use the case study of the Republic of Macedonia and examine the social and political processes through which Macedonians and Albanians construe their memories of the 2001 conflict between government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA).

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Collective Memory and Reconciliation in the Republic of Macedonia (39KB.pdf)

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Capitalizing on the prolonged transition in Serbia, which, unlike the other post-communist European countries, experienced civil war and political instability throughout the 1990s, I examined the impact of the transitional political and institutional context on the changes in planning legislation and its application in urban development projects.

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Understanding Societal Transition through Urban Lens (128KB.pdf)

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Critical and popular response in three former Yugoslav successor states to Ahmed Imamović's Go West (Bosnia, 2005), In Dragan Marinković's Take a Deep Breath (Serbia, 2004), and Dalibor Matanić's Fine Dead Girls (Croatia, 2002)

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Kevin Moss, of Middlebury College, was a 2007-08 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow

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Three Gay Films from Former Yugoslavia (88KB.pdf)

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My research explores social recovery, survival, and international intervention in the aftermath of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

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The Politics of Trauma: Memory, Mourning, and Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia (120KB.pdf)

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This research focuses on the works of contemporary Montenegrin women and men writers and filmmakers and on the question of their different representation of female characters in the light of Montenegro’s recently declared independence.

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Unpacking Independence: The Question of Women’s Cultural and Social Independence in the Recently Declared Independent Montenegro

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My research examines the influence of increasing Romanian global integration on political identity and notions of citizenship of a range of working and professional people, as expressed in their political activism and consumption practices.

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David A Kideckel, of Central Connecticut State University, was a 2007-08 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow

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Activism, Citizenship, and Belonging in Globalizing Romania (69KB.pdf)

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My research traces the influence of religious literacy on the development of ethnic identity among the Tatars, the largest Muslim minority in Europe, before the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 up to the present. It examines the production and reception of Islamic textbooks, from popular medieval Sufi books to the writings of modernist Muslims.

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Islamic Education, Religious Revival, and the Contest over Tatar Identity, 1800 to the Present (46KB.pdf)

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This project examines how Jews and non-Jews both understood and attempted to assert their varying notions of “belonging” in several important and potentially contentious spaces in Ukraine during the mid-1940s: the neighborhood, the workplace, academic and cultural institutions, and the arena of wartime justice.

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“Ukraine without Jews”? Contesting Belonging in Soviet Ukraine, 1943-1948 (36KB.pdf)

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This dissertation project explores some of the ways in which Muslim women of Bosnia and Herzegovina negotiate and renegotiate their space and sense of belonging within post-war secular state.

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Muslim Women’s Identities in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina (70KB.pdf)

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