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Grant Recipients - February 2000

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IREX is pleased to announce the recipients of the February 2000 round of the Short-Term Travel Grant Program. There are a total of 32 grants being awarded out of 170 eligible applications received. Four grants are being funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and 28 by the US Department of State (Title VIII).

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Name:

Mikhail Alexseev

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Appalachian State University

Field:

Political Science/Government

Country:

Russia

Dates:

8/1/00-8/20/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East: Event Data for Preventive Monitoring of Ethnopolitical Activism, 1994-1999."

 

Name:

Anne Bellows

Title:

Post-doctoral Associate

Institution:

Rutgers University

Field:

Geography

Country:

Czech Republic, Poland

Dates:

7/3/00-7/22/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Urban Allotment Gardening in Poland: Question of Authority and Scale in Land Use, Ownership, and Management."

 

Name:

Zinny Bond

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Ohio University

Field:

Linguistics/Language Phonetics

Country:

Latvia

Dates:

12/1/00-2/1/01

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

"Has contact with Russian affected Latvian pronunciation?"

 

Name:

Keith Brown

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Brown University

Field:

Anthropology

Country:

Macedonia

Dates:

7/26/00-8/30/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Between Memory and Forgetting: Krushevo's Ilinden 2000 Celebrations as National Ritual and Political Transition."

 

Name:

Georgi Derluguian

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Northwestern University

Field:

Sociology

Country:

Russia

Dates:

6/1/00-7/1/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Politics and Society in Chechnya During 1997-1999 According to the Refugees."

 

Name:

Jennifer Dickinson

Title:

Post-doctoral Researcher

Institution:

University of Alberta

Field:

Anthropology

Country:

Ukraine

Dates:

6/1/00-7/30/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Beyond "Buy-Sell": Economic Transformation through the Eyes of Market Traders in Southwestern Ukraine."

 

Name:

Vyacheslav Gerovitch

Title:

Post-doctoral Researcher

Institution:

Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology

Field:

History of Science

Country:

Russia

Dates:

5/1/00-6/1/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Soviet Cybernetics: A Political and Cultural History, 1955-1964."

 

Name:

Michael Gorham

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

University of Florida

Field:

Linguistics, Historical

Country:

Russia

Dates:

5/18/00-6/8/00

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

"Speaking in Tongues: Language Culture and Politicsof Voice in Early Soviet Russia."

 

Name:

Johanna Granville

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Clemson University

Field:

History, Eastern Europe and USSR

Country:

Hungary

Dates:

5/1/00-6/1/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"The Soviet Intervention in Hungary: A New Analysis Based on Documents from Communist Bloc Archives."

 

Name:

Michel Guillot

Title:

Post-doctoral Researcher

Institution:

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Field:

Demography

Country:

Kyrgyzstan

Dates:

6/5/00-7/30/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Ethnic Differentials in Mortality in Central Asia: The Case of Kyrgyzstan."

 

Name:

Dana Heller

Title:

Associate Professor/Director of Humanities

Institution:

Old Dominion University

Field:

Culture

Country:

Russia

Dates:

7/15/00-8/28/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Field of Miracles: How the New Russian Television Reconfigures the US."

 

Name:

Julie Hessler

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

University of Oregon

Field:

History, Eastern Europe and USSR

Country:

Russia

Dates:

5/20/00-6/8/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Soviet Trade: A Social History."

 

 

Name:

Hilde Hoogenboom

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Stetson University

Field:

Literature, 19th Century

Country:

Russia

Dates:

7/1/00-8/1/00

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

"Russia's Korinna: Biographies of Elizaveta Kul'man and Representations of Female Poetic Genius."

 

Name:

Adeeb Khalid

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Carleton College

Field:

History

Country:

Russia

Dates:

7/1/00-7/30/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"The Making of Soviet Central Asia, 1918-1929."

 

 

Name:

Christina Kramer

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

University of Toronto

Field:

Linguistics, Social

Country:

Albania, Macedonia

Dates:

7/24/00-8/4/00

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

"Macedonians in Albania: The Language and Customs of Macedonians in the Southern Albania Village of Vrbnik."

 

Name:

Dale Lightfoot

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Oklahoma State University

Field:

Geography

Country:

Uzbekistan

Dates:

6/15/00-6/30/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"An Interview-Based Approach to Mapping Groundwater Development in Samarkand Oblast, Uzbekistan."

 

Name:

Susan Linz

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Michigan State University

Field:

Economics

Country:

Russia

Dates:

6/1/00-7/1/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"What Motivates Russians to Work?"

 

Name:

Vojtech Mastny

Title:

Post-doctoral Researcher

Institution:

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Field:

International Relations

Country:

Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary

Dates:

7/1/00-8/31/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Archival Documentation of the History of the Warsaw Pact."

 

Name:

Mary Neuburger

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

University of Texas at Austin

Field:

History, Eastern Europe and USSR

Country:

Bulgaria

Dates:

6/15/00-8/1/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria."

 

Name:

Maryjane Osa

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

University of South Carolina

Field:

Political Science/Government

Country:

Poland

Dates:

6/4/00-6/20/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"The Grass is Greener: Mobilizing Rural Constituencies in Poland."

 

Name:

Joel Ostrow

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Benedictine University

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Russia

Dates:

7/1/00-8/1/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Institutional Design and Legislative Behavior in Post-Communist Legislatures."

 

Name:

Michele Rivkin-Fish

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

University of Kentucky

Field:

Anthropology

Country:

Russia

Dates:

3/15/00-6/25/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Gifts, Bribes, and Official Payments: The Moral Economy of Healing in Post-Socialist Russia."

 

Name:

Steven Roper

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Pace University

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Romania

Dates:

6/1/00-7/1/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Presidential Power and Parliamentary Effectiveness: The Moldovan and Romanian Premier-Presidential Regimes."

 

Name:

Bradley Schaffner

Title:

Librarian

Institution:

University of Kansas

Field:

Library and Information Sciences

Country:

Estonia

Dates:

7/24/00-7/30/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"The Acquisition and Preservation of Slavic Resources."

 

Name:

Paul Shoup

Title:

Professor Emeritus

Institution:

University of Virginia

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Dates:

6/1/00-6/30/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Bosnia & Herzegovina after Dayton."

 

Name:

Roman Solchanyk

Title:

Consultant

Institution:

RAND Corporation

Field:

Political Science/Government

Country:

Ukraine

Dates:

5/28/00-6/10/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Ukraine and Russia: After Yeltsin."

 

Name:

Carol Stevens

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Colgate University

Field:

History, Eastern Europe and USSR

Country:

Russia

Dates:

6/3/00-7/2/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Russia's Wars of Emergence, 1460-1730."

 

Name:

John Swanson

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Utica College of Syracuse University

Field:

History, Eastern Europe and USSR

Country:

Hungary

Dates:

6/1/00-6/30/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"'A People With Two Souls:' The Germans of Interwar Hungary, 1918-1939."

 

Name:

Charles Timberlake

Title:

Department Chair/Professor

Institution:

University of Missouri

Field:

History, Eastern Europe and USSR

Country:

Russia

Dates:

9/10/00-11/10/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Communist, Religious, and Economic Policies Toward the Russian Village, 1917-1933."

 

Name:

Stanley Vanagunas

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Arkansas State University

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Lithuania

Dates:

5/10/00-6/1/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Formation of Voluntary Associations in Lithuania: Is Democracy Consolidating?"

 

Name:

Stephen Wegren

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Southern Methodist University

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Russia

Dates:

7/1/00-8/20/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Winners and Losers in Russian Agrarian Reform."

 

Name:

Erika Weinthal

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Tel Aviv University

Field:

Political Science/Government

Country:

Kazakhstan

Dates:

6/1/00-6/30/00

Funder:

US Department of State

Topic:

"Energizing the State: Energy Sector Development Strategies and the Future of Central Asian Statehood."


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