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International Research & Exchanges Board

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Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

Fellows and Research Topics 1999-2000

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Dr. Margarita Balmaceda, Assistant Professor
University of Toledo, Political Science
Russia (Moscow), Hungary (Budapest)
Pipelines and Foreign Policies: Russia's Energy Policy Towards Central East Europe

Mr. Steven Barnes, Graduate Student
Stanford University, History
Russia (Moscow), Kazakhstan (Almaty, Karaganda)
Rentering the Margins: The Gulag in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan, 1920s-1950s

Ms. Sally Boniece, Assistant Professor
Frostburg State University, Women's Studies
Russia (Moscow, Tambov)
Finine Martyrdom and Revolutionary Mythmaking

Ms. Sarah Busse, Graduate Student
University of Chicago, Sociology
Russia (Moscow, Novosibirsk)
Social Capital and Post-Soviet Society: Networks, Trust and Survival in the Russian Federation

C

Ms. Susan Crate, Graduate Student
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Anthropology
Russia (Yakutsk, Elgai, Tobokhoi)
The Cultural Ecology of a Post-Socialist Society: The Case of the Vilyui Sakha

Dr. John Czaplicka, Research Fellow
New York University, Art/Cultural History
Poland (Gdansk), Latvia (Riga), Lithuania (Vilnius)
Laying Claim to History in the Cities of Europe's 'Eastern Borderlands': Refashioning the Urban Heritage of Gdansk, Riga, L'viv, and Vilnius

D

Dr. Davor Diklich, Visting Assistant Professor
Hampshire College, Theater
Bosnia-Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Zenica, Tuzla)
Theater in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 War

F

Ms. Helen Faller, Graduate Student
The University of Michigan, Anthropology
Russia (Kazan)
Nation-Building after Socialism: Sovereignty Politics in Tatarstan, Russia

Ms. Victoria Frede, Graduate Student
University of California at Berkeley, History
Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow)
Atheism and Irreligion among Educated Russians in the Nineteenth Century

Dr. Gregory Freeze, Professor
Brandeis University, History
Russia (St. Petersburg, Vladimir)
Church, Religion, and Society in Modern Russia, 1850-1940.

Mr. Jack Friedman, Graduate Student
Duke University, Anthropology
Romania
The Culture of Anxiety Among Miners in Post-Socialist Romania

G

Dr. Maria Galbraith, Instructor
University of Alabama - New College, Anthropology
Poland (Krakow)
Personal Networks in the Global Economy: Kin-based Economic Strategies of Polish Households

Ms. Kim Gareiss, Graduate Student
University of Chicago, Linguistics
Macedonia (Skopje)
Non-Normative Distribution of Macedonian Relativizers

Mr. Michael Gordin, Graduate Student
Harvard University, History of Science
Russia (St. Petersburg)
Civil Society and the Chemical Ether in Bureaucratic and Scientific Work of D.I. Mendeleev, 1861-1905

Mr. Charles Greer, Graduate Student
University of California at Berkeley, Linguistics
Yugoslavia (Belgrade, Novi Sad)
Standardization of the Serbian Lexicon in Vuk S. Karadzic's Dictionaries

H

Mr. P. Charles Hachten, Graduate Student
University of Chicago, History
Russia (Moscow, Yaroslavl, Voronezh)
Property Relations and Consumption in Soviet Russia, 1935-1953

Dr. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Professor
University of California at Santa Barbara, History
Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg)
The Soviet Operations in the Kurils and U.S.-Soviet Collaboration against Japan, February-September 1945

Dr. John-Paul Himka, Professor
University of Alberta, History and Classics
Poland (Krakow)
The Last Judgement in Ukrainian Culture: Towards a "Mental Archaeology"

I

Ms. Assia Ivantcheva, Graduate Student
American University, International Relations
Bulgaria (Sofia)
Broadcasting Beyond the Iron Curtain: the Restructuring of Television in the Context of Democratic Consolidation in Bulgaria

J

Dr. Gerald Janecek, Professor
University of Kentucky, Literature
Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg)
The Lianozovo Group and Moscow Constructivist Poetry

K

Ms. Agnes Kefeli, Graduate Student
Arizona State University, History
Russia (Kazan, St. Petersburg)
The Kriashen Apostasy: Popular Religion, Education, and the Contest over Tatar Identity, 1854-1917

Ms. Martha Kichorowska-Kebalo, Graduate Student
City University of New York Graduate Center, Anthropology
Ukraine (Kyiv, Lviv, Cherkasy, Chyhyryn, Uman, Kharkiv)
Women in Central Ukraine: Personal Narratives of Leadership and Community Activism in Cherkasy Oblast

Dr. David Kideckel, Professor
Central Connecticut State University, Anthropology
Romania (Petrosani, Fagaras)
Health, Culture, and Politics in Post-Socialist Romania

Dr. Boian Koulov, Assistant Professor
George Mason University, Geography
Bulgaria (Sofia), Romania (Constanta)
Environmental Security in Southeast Europe: The Black Sea Basin

L

Ms. Marian Lee, Graduate Student
Peabody Conservatory of Music, Music
Russia (St. Petersburg)
The Piano Sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya

M

Dr. Terry Martin, Associate Professor
Harvard University, History
Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), Ukraine (Kyiv)
The Politics and Sociology of Information in the Soviet Union, 1918-1953

Mr. Eric McGlinchey, Graduate Student
Princeton University, Political Science
Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek, Osh), Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Fergana)
The Politics of Decentraliztion in Post-Soviet Central Asia.

Ms. Lisa McIntosh-Sundstrom, Graduate Student
Stanford University, Political Science
Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Velikii Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don)
Transnational Influences on Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: Weighing the Role of Transnational Material Resources and Ideas in the Development of NGOs

Ms. Katherine Metzo, Graduate Student
Indiana University, Anthropology
Russia (Moscow, Ulan-Ude, Kyren, Irkutsk)
Post-Soviet Style 'Grassroots': The Formation of Tunkinskiy National Park, Buryatia, Russia

N

Ms. Rebecca Nash, Graduate Student
University of Virginia, Anthropology
Czech Republic (Prague)
Transforming Families in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic

P

Dr. Nina Perlina, Professor
Indiana University, Literature
Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow)
Eternal Plots in the Works of Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy: From the Inferno to Resurrection.

R

Ms. Kristin Roth-Ey, Graduate Student
Princeton University, History
Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg)
Soviet Russian Culture and the Mass Media Explosion, 1950s-1970s

S

Dr. Kandis Scott, Professor
University of Santa Clara Law School, Law
Romania (Timisoara)
Law Practice in Post-Socialist Romania

Ms. Marci Shore, Graduate Student
Stanford University, History
Poland (Warsaw)
Vagaries of Marxism and Modernity: The Fin-de-Siecle Generation of Angst and Revolution in Poland, 1918-1956

Z

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Mr. Sergei Zhuk

Mr. Mark Zimny, Graduate Student
Yale University, Sociology
Poland (Warsaw)
Alcoholism and Mortality in Poland and Eastern Europe: The Social Consequences of Democratization

Mr. Sergei Zhuk, Graduate Student
Johns Hopkins University, History
Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Odessa, Kherson)
'Educated by the Bible': The Radical Reformation among Ukrainian Peasants in Late Imperial Russia