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Borderline Russian: Regional Boundaries and the Remapping of the Russian Federation (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 My dissertation examines the relationship between territorial-political institutions and state centralization in Russia’s regions. Education, Research Support	State-breaking/State-making: Returning Refugees, NGOs, and the Political Geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 My research is an ethnographic study of the intersection of two internationally-mediated processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina: state-building, in its legal, institutional, geopolitical and... Education, Research Support
New Democratic Institutions and Corruption in Post-Communist Countries (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 Thus, my dissertation has come to focus on the taxability of economic activity, i.e. the ease with which the state may extract profits from economic agents, as a key determinant of support for... Education, Research Support	One Homeland or Two?: Territorialization of Identity and the Repatriation Decision Among the Mongolian-Kazakh Diaspora (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 My dissertation explores the dynamics of homeland formation and reformation among a multi-generational diaspora within the context of the now decade-old independent state of Kazakhstan and the... Education, Research Support
A Multi-media Documentation of Bulgarian Folk Music (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 The topic of my research is Bulgaria’s folk music, one of the most particular and specific expressions of that nation’s culture and heritage. Education, Research Support	Grassroots & Globalization: Bringing the Võro-Language Movement into Southeastern Estonian Schools (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 My project is designed to understand better how the politics of language intersect with policy appropriation. Education, Research Support
Young Women at Risk: Sexuality at a Time of Transition in Ukraine (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 First, the study will provide an ethnographic description of life of young women (age 18-28) living in a small city in Ukraine which will add to the growing anthropological literature on Ukraine... Education, Research Support	The International Dimension of Democratization in Croatia (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 Understanding the determinant and implications of post-communist political change in the Yugoslav successor states also promises to make a contribution to both East European area studies and... Education, Research Support
Discourses of Gender and Power in Post-Soviet Ukraine (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 In Ukraine, 13 years after declaring Ukrainian the official language and 11 years after declaring independence, Ukrainian and Russian coexist in an uneven balance. Education, Research Support	Neither Private nor Public: Women's Domestic Spaces in Socialist Slovenia (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 I focus on women’s experiences of lived, domestic spaces in one area of the socialist Yugoslavia, from 1950 to 1990. Education, Research Support