Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

Fellows and Research Topics 2007-2008

Last name beginning with:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M
N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Name: Eleeza Agopian
Title: Master's Student
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Countries of research: Armenia
Project Title: Altering the Media Landscape: The Impact of Electronic Media on Armenia’s Democratic Transition

Name: Elizabeth A. Anderson
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
Countries of research: Moldova
Project Title: Contested Curriculum: Moldovan Teachers’ Responses to New History Textbooks

Name: Sergei Alexandrovich Antonov
Title: PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Columbia University
Countries of research: Russia
Project Title: Law and the Culture of Debt, Credit, and Insolvency in Imperial Russia, 1832-1917

B

Name: Christopher Baker
Title: Predoctoral Student
Affiliation: Indiana University at Bloomington
Countries of research: Kazakhstan
Project Title: Making an Ancient Nation: Kazakh Historical Writing in the Late Soviet Era
Name: David Brandenberger
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Richmond
Countries of research: RUSSIA
Project Title: Stalin's Search for a Usable Past: Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror in the USSR, 1929-1939

C

Name: Svetlana Cherepanova
Title: Graduate Student
Affiliation: Syracuse University
Countries of research: Russia
Project Title: Local Government and Nonprofit Service Organizations in the Russian Far East

D

Name: Eda Derhemi
Title: Research Scholar
Affiliation: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Countries of research: Kosovo and Albania
Project Title: The Representation of Ethnic Conflict in the Albanian Press of Kosovo

Name: Sarah Jane Dixon
Title: Master's Student
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Countries of research: Kosovo
Project Title: Kosova Immemorial: Monumental Representations of History and Identity in Kosovo

F

Name: Jessica Forrest
Title: Master's Student
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Countries of research: Ukraine
Project Title: Reconstructing Bridges: Ukrainian Women’s Movement and Transnational Activism

H

Name: John Hulsey
Title: Associate Instructor
Affiliation: Indiana University
Countries of research: Bosnia & Herzegovina
Project Title: Building Limited States: Peace-building and the Rule of Law at the Local Level in Bosnia and Herzegoniva

I

Name: Emira Ibrahimpasic
Title: Doctoral Student
Affiliation: University of New Mexico
Countries of research: Bosnia & Herzegovina
Project Title: Muslim Women’s Identities in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina

Name: Zohra Ismail
Title: Predoctoral Student
Affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington
Countries of research: Tajikistan
Project Title: Developing Disaster: The Perception of Natural Disaster Risk in Tajikistan

Name: Svetlana V. Ivanitskaya
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Central Michigan University
Countries of research: Russia
Project Title: Internet-Stimulated Charitable Activity: Attraction, Maintenance and Engagement of NGO Members

J

Name: Elena Jene Jakel
Title: PhD Candidate
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Countries of research: Russia
Project Title: "Ukraine without Jews?" Contesting Belonging in Soviet Ukraine, 1943-1948

Name: Nathan Paul Jones
Title: Master's Student
Affiliation: City University of New York
Countries of research: Russia and Kazakhstan
Project Title: Institutionalizing “Germanness” in Russia and Kazakhstan

K

Name: Agnes Helene Neylufer Kefeli
Title: Lecturer
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Countries of research: Russia
Project Title: Islamic Education, Religious Revival, and the Contest Over Tatar Identity, 1800 to the Present

Name: David A Kideckel
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Central Connecticut State University
Countries of research: Romania
Project Title: Activism, Citizenship and Belonging in Globalizing Romania

L

Name: Ljudmila Labudovic
Title: Predoctoral Student
Affiliation: University of Colorado-Bolder
Countries of research: Serbia & Montenegro
Project Title: Unpacking Independence: The Question of Women's Cultural and Social Independence in the Recently Declared Independent Montenegro

Name: Peter Locke
Title: PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Princeton University
Countries of research: Bosnia & Herzegovina
Project Title: The Politics of Trauma: Memory, Mourning, and Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia

M

Name: Kevin Moss
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Middlebury College
Countries of research: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia
Project Title: Three Gay Films from Former Yugoslavia

N

Name: Muzhgan I. Nazarova
Title: PhD Candidate
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Countries of research: Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society in Azerbaijan: Role of Regional Libraries as Community Information Centers

Name: Zorica Nedovic-Budic
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Countries of research: Serbia
Project Title: Understanding Societal Transition through Urban Lens

Name: Vasiliki Neofotistos
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: State University of New York-Buffalo
Countries of research: Macedonia
Project Title: Collective Memory and Reconciliation in the Republic of Macedonia

Name: Lara J. Nettelfield
Title: Instructor
Affiliation: Columbia University
Countries of research: Bosnia & Herzegovina
Project Title: Courting Democracy: The Hague Tribunal’s Impact in Bosnia-Herzegovina

P

Name: Stefan Papaioannou
Title: Doctoral Student
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Countries of research: Bulgaria and Macedonia
Project Title: Balkan Wars Between the Lines: A Social History, 1912 - 1919

Name: James Pickett
Title: Research Assistant
Affiliation: Brookings Institute
Countries of research: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
Project Title: International Islam and Religious Identity in Central Asia

R

Name: Danielle M Ross
Title: PhD Candidate
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Countries of research: Russia
Project Title: Mullahs, Intellectuals, Politicians and the Struggle for Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Volga-Ural Muslim Society

S

Name: Rachel Schroeder
Title: Predoctoral Student
Affiliation: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Countries of research: Russia
Project Title: To Remember in a World of Silence and Forgetting: The Perm-36 Gulag Museum and the Dynamics of Social

Name: Kathryn A. Spear
Title: Graduate Assistant
Affiliation: University of Georgia
Countries of research: Bulgaria
Project Title: Monitoring Human Disturbance from Increased Ecotourism on Wild Bird Populations in Central Balkan National Park, Bulgaria

T

Name: Nicholas Tochka
Title: Master's Student
Affiliation: State University of New York-Stony Brook
Countries of research: Albania
Project Title: Cultural Circuits in Southeast Europe: Grupi “Lira” of Korçë, Albania

Name: Elina Treyger
Title: Predoctoral Student
Affiliation: Harvard University
Countries of research: Russia and Georgia
Project Title: Violent Death after Communism

W

Name: Susanne Wengle
Title: Predoctoral Student
Affiliation: University of California-Berkeley
Countries of research: Russia
Project Title: Who’s Got the Power? The Politics of Building Institutions for Electricity Markets in Post-soviet Russia

Name: Schaun Jacob Wheeler
Title: Predoctoral Student
Affiliation: University of Connecticut
Countries of research: Kyrgyzstan
Project Title: Group Allegiance and State Institutions in Kyrgyz Identity

Name: Sophia Wilson
Title: PhD candidate
Affiliation: University of Washington
Countries of research: Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan
Project Title: Courts and Culture: The Effects of Norms on the Development of Human Rights in the Post-Soviet World

Name: Jennifer Solveig Wistrand
Title: PhD candidate
Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis
Countries of research: Azerbaijan
Project Title: Azerbaijan's Changing Public Schools: Teaching Citizenship in a Post-Soviet World