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Globalization and Standardization: Revival of the Bulgarian Wine Industry (Research Brief) September 7, 2009 My research focused on the transformation of the Bulgarian wine industry and its cultural implication to understand agricultural developments and transnational governance. Education, Research Support	Civilizing Wildness: Musical Practices as Political and Economic Resources in Contemporary Ukraine (Research Brief) July 1, 2009 My research focused on the intersections of musical culture with political and economic campaigns in two populations in the Ukrainian borderlands: the Hutsuls of the Western Ukrainian Carpathian... Education, Research Support
Civil Society Associations of Displaced Muslims from Kosovo & Macedonia vs. International Organizations in Kosovo: Learning from the Local (Research Brief) June 13, 2009 My research was a contrastive study of local and international organizations that worked with displaced Muslims from the central Balkans in the last half of the 20th century. Return or... Education, Research Support	Internet-Stimulated Charitable Activity: Attraction, Maintenance and Engagement of NGO Members (Research Brief) December 8, 2008 The goal of the research was to analyze the use of the Internet by the Russian registered Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) to attract, maintain, engage and reward their members. Education, Research Support
Developing Disaster: The Perceptions of Natural Disaster Risk in Tajikistan (Research Brief) November 11, 2008 [Tajikistan] is undergoing processes at the local community level in its mountainous regions that have a great deal of significance for politics, economics, religion, and natural resource... Education, Research Support	Strengthening Civil Society in Azerbaijan: Role of Regional Libraries as Community Information Centers (Research Brief) November 3, 2008 This project attempted to define the role of Regional Community Information Centers (RCIC) as instruments in empowering and engaging citizens in strengthening civil society in Azerbaijan. Education, Research Support
Institutionalizing “Germanness” in Russia and Kazakhstan (Research Brief) October 3, 2008 My research contributes to understanding ethnic identity and practice among minorities of former Soviet states through an analysis of the execution and impact of state-sponsored projects... Education, Research Support	Power and Politics: The Political Economy of Market Making in Russia’s Electricity Sector (Research Brief) July 22, 2008 My research project examines the politics of electricity sector liberalization and privatization of the last fifteen years, with the aim to explain spatial and temporal differences in... Education, Research Support
The Post-Soviet Geography of Violent Death (Research Brief) July 22, 2008 The main aim of my research is to offer a partial explanation for the geography of violent death (i.e. deaths from purposeful injury and homicide) in the ex-Soviet states after the fall of... Education, Research Support	Cultural Circuits in Southeast Europe: Kori “Lira” of Korça, Albania (Research Brief) July 22, 2008 I conducted archival research on the early transnational connections of the musical group Kori Lira, using this group as a case study to investigate more general issues of musical change and... Education, Research Support