IREX is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) [21] fellowship recipients. This year's fellows will be traveling to 16 countries across Eastern Europe and Eurasia to perform policy relevant field research. After they complete their fellowship, their research findings will be posted on the IREX online library [22].
Dale Correa
New York University
Project Title: "Remembering the Past and Reforming the Future: The Maturidi School and Pluralism in Central Asian Islam" [23]
Research Country: Uzbekistan
Daniela Dimitrova
Iowa State University
Project Title: "The Relationship between Media and Politics in Post-Communist Bulgaria" [24]
Research Country: Bulgaria
Zamira Djabarova
United Nations Development Fund for Women
Project Title: "Together on the Move: Organizing Among Tajik Migrants in Russia for Protection of Their Rights" [25]
Research Countries: Russia, Tajikistan
Jipar Duishembieva
University of Washington
Project Title: "Central Asian Intellectuals of Semirech'e Oblast of Russian Turkestan" [26]
Research Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Allison Evans
University of Pennsylvania
Project Title: "Political Protest in Weak Societies and Weak States: Social Control in Post-communist Russia" [27]
Research Country: Russia
Julie George
Queens College, City University of New York
Project Title: "Political Transformation, State Building, and Violence Resurgence in Georgia" [28]
Research Country: Georgia
Dana Johnson
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Project Title: "Rewriting the Balkans: memory, historiography and the making of a European citizenry" [29]
Research Country: Serbia
Sonja Luehrmann
University of British Columbia
Project Title: "Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism and the Soviet Past" [30]
Research Country: Russia
Alexander Lupis
Long Island University
Project Title: "Inter-Generational Transmission of Trauma in Croatia: Veterans' Families 20 Years After the Siege of Vukovar" [31]
Research Country: Croatia
Anna Ohanyan
Stonehill College
Project Title: "Regional Integration as a Conflict Management Strategy in the Balkans and South Caucasus" [32]
Research Countries: Armenia, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Svetlana Peshkova
University of New Hampshire
Project Title: "Women religious teachers and leaders in the Ferghana Valley: Change and Continuity" [33]
Research Country: Uzbekistan
Tsveta Petrova
Harvard University
Project Title: "Exporting Revolution: Why Do Some Eastern E.U. Democracies Support Democracy Abroad?" [33]
Research Country: Bulgaria
James Pickett
Princeton University
Project Title: "Islamic Scholars and Persian High Culture in Central Asia: 1747-1917" [34]
Research Countries: Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Alina Polyakova
University of California, Berkeley
Project Title: "Organizing Nationalism: How the Radical Right Succeeds and Fails in Ukraine" [35]
Research Country: Ukraine
Maple Razsa
Colby College
Project Title: "Migrant Activists as Insurgent Citizens: Diversity and Direct Democracy Within Occupy Slovenia" [36]
Research Country: Slovenia
Jonathan Stillo
The City University of New York
Project Title: "All My Problem Started with Tuberculosis: An Ethnographic Analysis of Treatment Failure in Romania" [37]
Research Country: Romania
Heather Tidrick
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Roma Integration and Institutional Practices with Roma in Postsocialist Hungary"
Research Country: Hungary
Milada Vachudova
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Project Title: "Democracy, Reform, and E.U. Enlargement in the Western Balkans: Can We Hope for "Sanaderization"? [38]
Research Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Serbia
Jennifer Webster
University of Washington
Project Title: "Pilgrimage and Shrines in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan" [39]
Research Countries: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Brandon Wilkening
Indiana University
Project Title: "The Influence of Electoral Rules on Party System Nationalization in Ukraine" [40]
Research Country: Ukraine