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Ethnic Entanglements: Sarajevo's Cultural Legacies in Discourse and Practice (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 My research in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) asks how the processes of state and nation building occurring in the wake of the violent destruction of what was once Yugoslavia express... Education, Research Support	Making History: How Shaping the Past Will Determine the Future in the Former Soviet Union (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 This project focuses on the production and dissemination of history in the republics of the former Soviet Union and the role that “history”--as opposed to simply the past--plays in... Education, Research Support
Tajikistan, Economy, and Water (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 Due to the lack of proper management and capital availability, however, most of Tajikistan’s population does not have regular access to water nor can it rely on the safety of its drinking... Education, Research Support	Gender Politics in Central Asia at Crossroads: Integrating International Obligations with Renascent Islamic Orientations (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 My study is multi-disciplinary and gives a historical perspective of the cultural parameters circumscribing women’s status in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. Education, Research Support
Gender, Inequality, and the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Latvia (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 Does gender inequality in post-communist states foster a climate in which women are at greater risk of contracting a sexually-transmitted disease? If so, how is this inequality manifested and... Education, Research Support	Reforms in Legal Education in the Republics of the Former Soviet Union (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 My project was to study reform in legal education in the former Soviet Union. Education, Research Support
Straddling Nation and Europe: Identity in Hungarian Foreign Policy (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 On this research trip, I mainly focused on issues surrounding the Hungarian Status Law. The original law, which was passed in June 2001, provided special rights and benefits to ethnic Hungarians... Education, Research Support	Exodus and Integration: German Migration and Its Implications for Development in Kazakhstan (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 Its purpose was to enable a preliminary analysis of the state of the German minority (approximately 300,000 individuals in a country of less than 15 million) in the aftermath of a mass exodus... Education, Research Support
Globalization, Identity Change, and the Role of Agency in the Caspian Region (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 My research project explores cultural globalization’s effects on national identity in the former USSR, by addressing two sets of questions. Education, Research Support	The Politics of War and Trade between the Nomadic Khazar Empire and the Islamic Caliphate, 7th—10th Centuries A.D. (Research Brief) September 30, 2004 This research project concerns the politics of war and trade between the nomadic Khazars and the Islamic Caliphate (7th –10th centuries AD), and its impact on the emergence, development,... Education, Research Support