IREX is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 Short-Term Travel Grant [20] fellowship recipients. This year's fellows will be traveling to 12 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 [21].
Nailya Almagambetova
Northern Illinois University
Project Title: "Kazakhstan's Primary Health Care: Where do the Reforms Lead Us? [22]"
Research Country: Kazakhstan
Olga Bever
The University of Arizona
Project Title: "Multilingualism and Language Policy in Post-Soviet Ukraine: English, Ukrainian and Russian in Linguistic Landscapes [23]"
Research Country: Ukraine
Douglas Blum
Providence College
Project Title: "The Social Process of Cultural Globalization [24]"
Research Country: Kazakhstan
Sarah Cameron
Yale University
Project Title: "The Hungry Steppe: Soviet Kazakhstan and the Kazakh Famine, 1921-1934 [25]"
Research Country: Kazakhstan
Monica Ciobanu
Plattsburgh State University of New York
Project Title: "Issues of Restitution in Post-Communist Romania [26]"
Research Country: Romania
Matthew Ciscel
Central Connecticut University
Project Title: "Foreign Language Learning Attitudes and Practices in Moldova [27]"
Research Country: Moldova
Cathy Frierson
University of New Hampshire
Project Title: "Is Russia's Rule of Law Expanding? A Case Study in Restorative Justice [28]"
Research Country: Russia
Emily Greble
The City College of New York
Project Title: "Islam and the European Nation-State: Muslims between Mosque and State in Yugoslavia, 1908-1949 [29]"
Research Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Idil Izmirli
George Mason University
Project Title: "Competing Narratives of Islam in Post-Soviet Ukraine Against the Background of Global Islamic Movements [30]"
Research Country: Ukraine
Azamat Junisbai
Pitzer College
Project Title: "Perceptions of Economic Inequality in Contemporary Central Asia [31]"
Research Country: Kyrgyzstan
Asbed Kotchikian
Bentley University
Project Title: "Is the Party Over? Limits and Opportunities of Civil Society in Armenia and Georgia [32]"
Research Countries: Armenia, Georgia
Carol Lilly
University of Nebraska Kearney
Project Title: "Nationalization of Cemeteries in Yugoslavia: 1945-1995 [33]"
Research Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia
Morgan Liu
Ohio State University
Project Title: "What's Next for Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan?" [34]
Research Country: Kyrgyzstan
Martha Merrill
Kent State University
Project Title: "Higher Education in Osh - An Analysis of Current Conditions" [35]
Research Country: Kyrgyzstan
Mariya Omelicheva
University of Kansas
Project Title: "Western and Central Asian Perspectives on Democracy and Democratization" [36]
Research Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Janet Powers
Gettysburg College
Project Title: "Women Rebuilding Social Capital in Rural Bosnia" [37]
Research Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Scott Radnitz
University of Washington
Project Title: "National Narratives and Ethnic Relations in Georgia" [38]
Research Country: Georgia
Nancy Rosenberger
Oregon State University
Project Title: "Women's Small-Scale Entrepreneurship in Food Processing: Tajikistan" [39]
Research Country: Tajikistan
Raymond Rosenfeld
Eastern Michigan University
Project Title: "Applying a Civic Culture Framework to Local Policy Making" [40]
Research Countries: Latvia, Ukraine