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Gender, Law and Transition in Albania: Assessing the Impact of Albania's Domestic Violence Prevention Law (Research Brief) February 15, 2011 In Albania, the problem of domestic violence is both underreported yet anecdotally widespread and deeply ingrained in some traditional views on family and honor. Education, Research Support, Gender	Hidden in Plain Sight: An Oral History of Modern-Day Slavery from Russian and Eastern Europe (Research Brief) December 30, 2010 This study traces the history of human trafficking from the former Soviet Union through the life stories and lived experiences of the victims of trafficking and their rescuers. Education, Research Support, Gender
Linking Substance Abuse among Roma Youth in Slovakia and the Czech Republic to Discrimination and Marginalization (Research Brief) December 20, 2010 My research examined the links between poverty, marginalization, discrimination and substance abuse among Roma minority living in rural settlements or city ghettos segregated from the majority... Education, Research Support, Youth	Russian Children's Literature After Communism (Research Brief) December 20, 2010 My research examines the enormous and transformative changes in the children’s literature industry since the fall of the Soviet Union, with special attention to the representation of... Education, Research Support, Youth
The Bolsheviks' Muslim: Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev's Islamic Communism and Revolution in the Soviet East (Research Brief) December 20, 2010 The long-term objective for this project is to write a political and intellectual biography of Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (1892-1940), his milieu, time, and role in the Soviet Union’s nation-... Education, Research Support	Unofficial American Diplomacy and Poland's Transformation to Democracy, 1981-1989 (Research Brief) December 20, 2010 The purpose of my research project was to investigate informal contacts between American diplomats and Polish dissidents from the declaration of martial law in Poland in December 1981, when the... Education, Research Support
Virtual Democracy: Polit.ru in Moscow (Research Brief) December 20, 2010 The goal of this research was to assess the degree to which Internet journalism continues to serve as a platform for views expressing criticism and opposition of government positions in... Education, Research Support, Media Development	Repercussions of Changing Levels of Democratic Support in the Aftermath of the Orange and Rose Revolutions (Research Brief) November 15, 2010 The motivation for the project is the question of whether support for democracy has survived in the aftermath of the Orange and Rose Revolutions. Education, Research Support
Islam in the Czech & Slovak Republics: An Invisible Minority Becomes Visible (Research Brief) November 15, 2010 For this research, I interviewed Muslims in Prague, Brno, Teplice, and Bratislava to better understand Muslim assimilation, immigration, conversion, tourism, and education in the Czech and... Education, Research Support	The People's Will and the City's Freedom: Modernity, Urbanization and Radical Violence in Reform-Era Russia (Research Brief) November 15, 2010 My research suggests that radical populist violence cannot be understood apart from its environment: the rapidly changing and expanding cities in which the populists associated with one another... Education, Research Support