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International Radical Networks: The Case of the Comintern (Research Brief) May 31, 2011 The overarching question addressed by this project remains a concern of US foreign policy: How do radical, transnational organizations recruit and retain adherents? Education, Research Support	Performing Tradition in the Public Arena: Laura Papo Bohoreta and Sephardic Women in Interwar Bosnia (Research Brief) May 31, 2011 A work of cultural history situated in the inter-war period, also known as first Yugoslav period, my project specifically interrogates questions of Sephardic women’s experiences that were... Education, Research Support, Gender
Gender Symposium Research Summaries (2011) May 27, 2011 A collection of IREX fellow research on gender issues within Eastern Europe and Eurasian countries. The fellows were part of the Regional Policy Symposium Program, which provides American... Education, Research Support, Gender	Deploying the Discourse of Motherhood: Parents of Children with Disabilities and Advances in Civic Lobbying and Third Sector Politics in the New Russia (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 This study finds that international exchange, including a US government funded program on parenting children with disabilities in the mid-1990s, as well as mentorship from Finnish disability... Education, Research Support, Gender
Women Living Islam in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 This project sheds light on the ways in which increased religious belief and practice serve as a stabilizing force. For women in particular, Islam has come to provide a space of protection and... Education, Research Support, Gender	Traumatic Masculinities: The Gendered Geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 Traumatic masculinities refer to the changing gender roles, decreased ability for men to be breadwinners, and processes of demasculinization that Georgian IDPs (internally displaced people) are... Education, Research Support, Gender
Islamic Revival in the Post-Soviet Space: the Case of Tatar Muslim Women in the Central Russian Republic of Tatarstan (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 Focusing specifically on women’s negotiation of ethnic and religious identities, this research analyzes the relationship between ethnic and religious revival in Tatarstan and examines... Education, Research Support, Gender	Russian Law Enforcement’s Implementation of Anti-Trafficking Laws (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 In December 2003, Russia passed laws criminalizing human trafficking. This project traces the process by which law enforcement agents have adapted to and implemented these new laws by exploring... Education, Research Support, Gender
Under a Red Veil? Soviet Interventions Towards the “Emancipation” of Afghan Women, c. 1980-1988 (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 This presentation draws on research conducted into the files of the Committee for Soviet Women (CSW) as well as the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) in order to investigate how the Soviet Union... Education, Research Support, Gender	Parodic Male Societies in Russian Culture (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 This project is an analysis of prominent semi-dissident Russian male societies, whose main features are self-mockery, parody, a certain level debauchery (drinking, eating, smoking, laziness, etc... Education, Research Support, Gender