Fellows Research

My project aims to evaluate the decisions made by municipal leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina and especially the factors that influence those choices.

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Building Limited States: Peace-building and the Rule of Law in at the Local Level in Bosnia and Herzegovina (43KB.pdf)

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Using information gathered from NGOs, government officials and academics in working on domestic violence, trafficking in persons, reproductive health, political empowerment and economic empowerment, this report makes observations on current gaps in advocacy and service provision within each of the five topic areas.

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Ukrainian Women’s Movement and Transnational Activism: A Civil Society Perspective (293KB.pdf)

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A television host asks his sociologist guest about the uncertain future. The expert retorts: “Ah, the future. We can foresee that with total accuracy. It’s the past that we have trouble predicting.”

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Sarah Jane Dixon, of Georgetown University, was a 2007-08 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow

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Kosova Immemorial: Monumental Representations of History and Identity in Kosovo (110KB)

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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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