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Towards an Art History of Socialist Realism: Aleksandr Deineka as Case Study (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 My research project aims to produce a new, post-Cold War model of art history that will be adequate to comprehending Socialist Realism as part of the history of modernist art, rather than as its... Education, Research Support	Race, Modernity, and the Making of Russia's Europe in Harbin, 1898-1924 (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 My research topic concerns the formation of Russian identity in the Russian Far East from 1895 to 1924. Education, Research Support
Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes During the Early Phase of Transition: The Case of Kyrgyzstan (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 My dissertation aimed to understand whether gender is an important factor in labor market outcomes and to what extent gender shapes labor market outcomes in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Education, Research Support	The Russian Orthodox Church during the Time of Troubles in the Early Seventeenth Century (Research Brief) September 30, 2002 The permeation of Church institutions in nearly every sphere and region is certainly one reason why it emerged, in the absence of governmental authority, as the principal force directing the... Education, Research Support
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