Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

Fellows and Research Topics 2008-2009

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: Dilshod Achilov
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Countries of Research: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Topic: Islam and Democracy: Can Islamic Institutions Promote Civil Liberties and Diminish Radicalism in the Muslim Central Asia?

B

Name: Nina Barzachka
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Countries of Research: Bulgaria
Topic: Two Mechanisms of Electoral Choice: Analysis of Western and Eastern Europe

Name: Michael Bobick
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: Cornell University
Countries of Research: Moldova
Topic: Sovereignty and Statehood in the Republic of Moldova

Name: Jane Burbank
Title: Professor
Affiliation: New York University
Countries of Research: Russia
Topic: Imperial Connections: Law and Belonging in the Province of Kazan, 1870-1917

D

Name: Robert Chris Davis
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford
Countries of Research: Macedonia and Romania
Topic: National Induction and Nationalizing Pasts: Aromanians and the Formation of the Romanian National State

Name: Carrie Diffenderfer
Title: MA Student
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Countries of Research: Moldova
Topic: Organization in Isolation: A Study of Participation in Transdnistrian Civil Society

Name: Elizabeth Dunn
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Colorado, Boulder
Countries of Research: Georgia
Topic: The Politics and Economics of Food Safety in the Republic of Georgia

E

Name: Nicholas Efremov-Kendall
Title: MA Student
Affiliation: Washington University, St. Louis
Countries of Research: Ukraine
Topic: Worlds Connected: Cimmerian-Scythian Nomadic-Sedentary Interaction in the Ukrainian Iron Age

Name: Christine Emeran
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: The New School University
Countries of Research: Ukraine
Topic: Political Action from Below: Youth Participation in Ukraine's Orange Revolution

F

Name: Daniella Fridl
Title: Head of Practice for Europe/Senior Political and Security Analyst
Affiliation: Riskline International
Countries of Research: Serbia
Topic: Negotiating Kosovo: The Role of the International Community as a Mediator

G

Name: Meg Gardinier
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: Cornell University
Countries of Research: Albania
Topic: Localizing Global Subjects: A Study of Educational Actors in the Process of Albanian Democratization

Name: Olga Gershenson
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts
Countries of Research: Russia
Topic: The Holocaust in Soviet and Russian Cinema

Name: Alexander Groce
Title: MA Student
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Countries of Research: Georgia
Topic: The Russian Language in Georgia: A Case Study of the Social Pressures Facing Russian-Speaking Minorities in the CIS

J

Name: Yuson Jung
Title: Research Associate
Affiliation: Center for East European/Eurasian Studies, University of Chicago
Countries of Research: Bulgaria
Topic: Globalization and Standardization: Revival of the Bulgarian Wine Industry

K

Name: Nadiya Kravets
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford
Countries of Research: Ukraine and Russia
Topic: Domestic Sources of Ukraine's Policy towards Russia (1991-2004)

Name: Larisa Kurtovic
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Countries of Research: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Topic: Think Future: Constructing Hope and Anti-Nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina

L

Name: Morgan Liu
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Countries of Research: Kyrgyzstan
Topic: Islam, Virtuous Society, and Societal Problems in Post-Soviet Central Asia

O

Name: Daniel O'Neill
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: Washington University, Saint Louis
Countries of Research: Kazakhstan
Topic: China's Support for Investment in Kazakhstan: Good Neighbor, Good Economics or Good Geopolitics?

P

Name: William Pavlovich
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: Binghamton University
Countries of Research: Serbia
Topic: Displaced Persons, the Resurgence of Nationalism, and Challenge to European Integration in Serbia

Name: Daniel Prior
Title: Assistant Professor/Executive Director
Affiliation: Miami University/Central Eurasian Studies Society
Countries of Research: Russia and Kyrgyzstan
Topic: History of the Northern Kirkhiz Chieftans, 1800-1935

R

Name: Azita Ranjbar
Title: MA Student
Affiliation: George Mason University
Countries of Research: Tajikistan
Topic: Women's Peace Building Initiatives in Post-War Tajikistan: Using Religious and Cultural Traditional Spaces to Build Sustainable Peace

Name: Ora John Reuter
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: Emory University
Countries of Research: Russia
Topic: Parties of Power and Commitment Problems: United Russia as a Dominant Party

S

Name: Lenka Siroky
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: Duke University
Countries of Research: Ukraine
Topic: The Radical Right in Ukraine

Name: Maria Sonevytsky
Title: PhD Student
Affiliation: Columbia University
Countries of Research: Ukraine
Topic: Civilizing Wilderness: Music, Tourism, and Contemporary Ukrainian Identity

T

Name: Frances Trix
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Indiana University
Countries of Research: Kosovo and Macedonia
Topic: Civil Society Associations of Displaced Muslims from Kosovo & Macedonia vs. International Organizations in Kosovo: Learning from the Local