IREX is pleased to announce the 2012-2013 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) [5]fellowship recipients. This year's fellows will be traveling to 11 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. [6]
Marie Berry
UCLA
Project Title: “War, Women, and Political Empowerment in Bosnia, Rwanda and Beyond”
Research Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jekatyerina Dunajeva
University of Oregon
Project Title: “Negotiating Cultural Identity: A Comparative Study of Roma (Gypsy) Youth in Schools”
Research Countries: Hungary, Russia
Scott Feinstein
University of Florida
Project Title: “Secession, Stability, and Violence: Separatist Conflict in the Former Soviet Union”
Research Country: Russia
Deborah Jones
University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
Project Title: “Former Collective Farmers’ Practical Navigation of Agricultural Land Reforms in Ukraine”
Research Country: Ukraine
Robert Kopak
Michigan State University
Project Title: “Kazakhstan’s Memorial Landscapes in Transition [7]”
Research Country: Kazakhstan
Andrew Kornbluth
U.C. Berkeley
Project Title: "Ideological Continuity in Serbian State Institutions under Nazi Occupation"
Research Country: Serbia
Orysia Kulick
Stanford University
Project Title: “Men of Power: Ukraine’s Post-Stalin Elite”
Research Countries: Ukraine, Russia
Dragana Lassiter
University of North Carolina
Project Title: “Ethics and Politics of Stem Cell Research in Serbia”
Research Country: Serbia
Israel Marques
Columbia University
Project Title: “Firm's Preferences for State-led Social Policy in the Developing World”
Research Country: Russia
Brenna Miller
The Ohio State University
Project Title: “The Secularization of the Bosnian Muslim Identity in Tito's Yugoslavia"
Research Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia
Timothy Nunan
University of Oxford-Corpus Christi College
Project Title: “Soviet Economic Development Policy in Afghanistan [8]”
Research Countries: Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan
Garine Palandjian
Lehigh University
Project Title: “Educating Peace: A Case Study of Peace Education Curricula in Armenia [9]”
Research Country: Armenia
Elena Ion
U.C. Berkeley
Project Title: “Urban Governance, Public Funding, and Recession in Postsocialist Bucharest [10]”
Research Country: Romania
Erin Weeks-Earp
Columbia University- Teachers College
Project Title: “Pathways into Teaching: Policy, Practice, and Evidence in Russia [11]”
Research Country: Russia