Short-Term Travel Grants Program
Grant Recipients - February 2000
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).
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
| Mikhail Alexseev |
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| 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." |
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| Anne Bellows |
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| 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." |
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| 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?" |
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| 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." |
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| Georgi Derluguian |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| Vyacheslav Gerovitch |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| Dana Heller |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| Adeeb Khalid |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| Dale Lightfoot |
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| 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." |
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| 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?" |
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| Vojtech Mastny |
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| 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." |
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| Mary Neuburger |
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| 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." |
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| Maryjane Osa |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| Michele Rivkin-Fish |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| Bradley Schaffner |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| Charles Timberlake |
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| 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." |
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| Stanley Vanagunas |
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| 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?" |
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| Stephen Wegren |
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| 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." |
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| 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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