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Inhaling Modernity: Tobacco Production and Consumption in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Bulgaria (Research Brief) August 30, 2009 This book project will explore the complicated and transnational picture of tobacco production, commerce and consumption in Bulgaria since from the mid-nineteenth century until the collapse of... Education, Research Support	Post-communist Gates: The Causes and Meanings of Walled-off Residential Spaces in Sofia, Bulgaria (Research Brief) August 30, 2009 The purpose of this research was to investigate the social causes and cultural meanings of a relatively new trend in East European urbanism—the proliferation of walled-off or gated... Education, Research Support
Screening Trafficking in Women: Prudent or Perilous (Research Brief) August 30, 2009 My research studies how effective anti-trafficking films/videos/documentaries are and how (and if) they create the viewer as action-oriented citizen or how (and if) they produce only voyeurists... Education, Research Support	Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1949 (Research Brief) August 30, 2009 This project studies the Greek minority of Bulgaria in the first half of the twentieth century, tracing the contradictory policies of nationalization that the Bulgarian state formulated against... Education, Research Support
Hermes’ Heirs: The Balkan Transition to Modernity and Nation-States through the Eyes of Three Generations Merchants (1780s-1890s) (Research Brief) August 30, 2009 Recent tragic events in the Balkan area stimulated copious research interest on nationalism and modernity but little attention has been paid to amphibian social groups that both supported and... Education, Research Support	2009 Regional Policy Symposium: Prospects and Challenges for the First Post-Communist Generation: Young People Today in Eurasia and Eastern Europe April 6, 2009 On April 1 - 3, 2009, IREX, in collaboration with the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC), hosted its Ninth Annual Regional Policy Symposium in... Higher Education Development, Education, Research Support
Between the Lines: Contested Boundaries and the Fate of the Jews and other Minorities in Southeastern Europe during WWII (Research Brief) August 30, 2008 .......my research explores how territorial considerations affected the timing and execution of policy vis-à-vis the Jews and other minorities in areas not under German occupation during... Education, Research Support	Monitoring human disturbance from increased ecotourism on wild bird populations in Central Balkan National Park, Bulgaria (Research Brief) July 22, 2008 Through my research, I will implement a monitoring system for wild bird populations that the Bulgarian people can use to monitor the short- and long-term effects of ecotourism initiatives on... Education, Research Support
Balkan Wars Between the Lines: A Social History, 1912-1919 (Research Brief) July 22, 2008 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... Education, Research Support	Suburbanizing Sofia: Context and Characteristics of Post-Communist Spatial Growth, Issues, and Opportunities (Research Brief) May 30, 2008 The purpose of this project was to examine the nature of peri-urban development that has occurred in the outskirts of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia since the end of communism in 1989.... Education, Research Support