Short-Term Travel Grants Program

Grant Recipients - June 2000

Go to grant recipients funded by:

• US Department of State
• National Endowment for the Humanities

Funded by the US State Department

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Name: Don Albrecht
Title: Professor
Institution: Texas A&M University
City, State: College Station, TX
Academic Field: Sociology
Countries to Visit: Kyiv, Ukraine; Lviv, Ukraine; Odessa, Ukraine
Travel Dates: 6/1/01 - 6/22/01
Project Title: "Agricultural Transformation in Ukraine: Implications for Families and Communities"
Project Abstract: Dr. Albrecht will be obtaining and analyzing data on three specific sociological issues related to Ukrainian agriculture. Theses three issues are the well being of various segments of the farm population, a comparison of the productivity of private farms with that of state and collective farms and an examination between the relative productivity of agriculture in an area and the social and economic conditions of the nonagricultural rural population in that area.
 
Name: James Alexander
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Northeastern State University
City, State: Talequah, OK
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Syktyvkar, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/20/00 - 10/4/00
Project Title: "Ethnic Minorities as a Force for Russia's Cohesion: The Case of the Finno-Ugric People"
Project Abstract: Currently, Dr. Alexander is examining ethnicity and nationhood, specifically minority links, as the operational variable for understanding the continued coherence of the Russian Federation. He will be using his Short-Term Travel Grant to travel to the Komi Republic of Russia to begin the investigatory process for his study, prior to extensive fieldwork.
 
Name: Alexia Bloch
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of British Columbia
City, State: Vancouver, BC
Academic Field: Anthropology
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Travel Dates: 8/15/00 - 9/15/00
Project Title: "From Istanbul to the Arctic: Women ‘Shuttle Traders’ and the Transformation of Consumption in Contemporary Russia"
Project Abstract: Dr. Bloch will be examining the ways in which Russian women traders are integral in the creation of new forms of consciousness in a globalizing economy. She will use her Short-Term Travel Grant for the first stage of her research by visiting Moscow and Krasnoyarsk, two urban cetners where traders sell merchandise brought from shuttle-trading capitals, to observe and interview traders in these cities.
 
Name: Cynthia Buckley
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of Texas - Austin
City, State: Austin, TX
Academic Field: Sociology
Countries to Visit: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Travel Dates: 11/28/00 - 12/5/00
Project Title: "Transitory Trends? Comparing Reproductive Patterns in Central Asia"
Project Abstract: Dr. Buckley will visit Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to gather information on fertility trends and public health, make research contacts for future work among regional demographers, and gain a more contextualized understanding of current social trends relating to family structure and reproduction.
 
Name: Gaye Christoffersen
Title: Independent Researcher
Institution: California State University - Monteray Bay
City, State: Seaside, CA
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Vladivostok, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/10/00-9/20/00
Project Title: "China and Russia in the Construction of a Northwest Asian Energy Community"
Project Abstract: Dr. Christoffersen will be presenting her paper "China and Russia in the Construction of a Northwest Asian Energy Community" at the conference "Regional Interactions in the Next Millenium: Russia, China and Japan in Northeast Asia" at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Etnology of the Peoples of the Far East Far Eastern Branch Russian Academy of Sciences.
 
Name: Stephen Crowley
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Oberlin College
City, State: Oberlin, OH
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Igalo, Montenegro - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Travel Dates: 8/6/00 - 8/26/00
Project Title: "Explaining Labor Weakness in (Former) Yugoslavia: The group 17 Summer Institute on Labor Market Policy"
Project Abstract: Dr. Crowley will be attending the Group 17 Labor Market Policy Summer Institute in Igalo, Montenegro. He will seek to explain the inactivity of labor unions in post-Communist Europe.
 
Name: Hafizullah Emadi
Title: Independent Researcher
City, State: Seattle, Washington
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Khorog, Tajikistan
Travel Dates: 9/10/00 - 10/10/00
Project Title: "The Question of State Building in the Former Soviet Successor State of Tajikistan"
Project Abstract: Dr. Emadi will examine how the successor state in Tajikistan is organized and what the leadership might do to fuse the state with civil society as well as establish and maintain stability in the region. He will be analyzing primary data and documents concerning economic and political developments in Tajikistan since it achieved its independence from the Soviet Union.
 
Name: Francine Friedman
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Ball State University
City, State: Muncie, IN
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Travel Dates: 8/1/00 - 7/31/01
Project Title: "The Role of the Bosnian Jewish Community in the Yugoslav Wars of Dissolution"
Project Abstract: The purpose of Dr. Friedman’s research project is to investigate the role of the Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the recent Yugoslav wars of dissolution. She will be researching primary and secondary resources available to her in the Sarajevo Jewish community library concerning the activities of this religious group during the war.
 
Name: Mehrdad Haghayeghi
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Southwest Missouri State University
City, State: Springfield, MO
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Khujand, Tajikistan; Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Osh, Kyrgyzstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Andijan, Uzbekistan; Namangan, Uzbekistan
Travel Dates: 8/1/00 - 8/15/00
Project Title: "Changing Dynamics of Islamic Politics in Central Asia"
Project Abstract: The aim of Dr. Haghayeghi’s project is to assess the changing dynamics of Islamic politics in Central Asia since 1995. Dr. Haghayehi will be assessing the changing scope of Islamic ideology, government policy toward Islam, organizational capabilities of Islamic forces, and the external influences, particularly the power-sharing success of the United Tajik Opposition and the situation in Afghanistan.

Name: Aida Hozic
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Cornell University
City, State: Ithaca, NY
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Tuzla, Bosnia and
Herzegovina; Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Travel Dates: 9/20/00 - 10/20/00
Project Title: "Media, Violence and the Politics of Military Intervention"
Project Abstract: In her trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Hozic will conduct research on the attempt of crisis areas, Sarajevo in particular, to control their portrayal in global media. She will try to document the way in which the Bosnian government and Sarajevo elite as well as their Serb and Croat counterparts tried to influence the representation of the Bosnian conflict in world media by viewing war-time television coverage archived at Radio Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina by interviewing journalists and media activists and collecting background facts about media infrastructure in Sarajevo.
 
Name: Armine Ishkanian
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: University of California - San Diego
City, State: La Jolla, CA
Academic Field: Anthropology
Countries to Visit: Yerevan, Armenia
Travel Dates: 9/25/00 - 10/12/00
Project Title: "Uncivil Society: The Challenges Facing Armenia's NGOs"
Project Abstract: Dr. Ishkanian will conduct interviews with the coordinators from the non-governmental organizations HCA and AAWU and the Women’s Republican Council Leader; present a paper at the conference New Visions, New Horizons; and conduct research to turn her dissertation into a book, write articles for publication in scholarly journals and develop course curriculum.
 
Name: Carol Lilly
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of Nebraska - Kearney
City, State: Kearney, NE
Academic Field: History, Eastern Europe and USSR
Countries to Visit: Zagreb, Croatia; Belgrade, Serbia - Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
Travel Dates: 11/15/00 - 12/1/00
Project Title: "Women and Nationalism in Yugoslavia: 1918-1945"
Project Abstract: During her trip to Croatia and Serbia, Dr. Lilly will gather periodical and archival materials needed for a historical chapter on women and nationalism in Yugoslavia from 1918-1945. The chapter will examine the various ways in which women from Serbia and Croatia responded to ethnic mobilization and warfare during the interwar period and Second World War. She will be studying archival collections in Zagreb and Belgrade.
 
Name: Susan Linz
Title: Professor
Institution: Michigan State University
City, State: East Lansing, MI
Academic Field: Economics
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Saratov, Russia; Taganrog, Russia
Travel Dates: 2/1/01 - 3/1/01
Project Title: "Investing in Russian Firms: Who Protects Property and How Secure are Property Rights?"
Project Abstract: Dr. Linz’s study will be evaluating the extent to which Russia has created conditions where individuals have the opportunity and incentive to engage in private enterprise. The study will also investigate the obstacles imposed by under-developed legal and financial institutions and an over-developed propensity for corrupt bureaucratic behavior. She will be surveying 150-200 retail firms in three regions of Russia Moscow, Saratov and Rostov/Taganrog.
 
Name: Joel Moses
Title: Professor
Institution: Iowa State University
City, State: Ames, Iowa
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: St. Petersburg, Russia; Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/5/00 - 11/3/00
Project Title: "Russian Religions and Russian Elections, 1999-2000"
Project Abstract: Dr. Moses will conduct research on the campaigns and outcomes of the electoral cycle in 1999-2000, and will compare differences between pluralistic and monolithic regions over the past decade most clearly highlighted at the time of elections. He will be studying local Russian newspapers and other related campaign materials available at the European University of St. Petersburg and the Russian National Library and collaborating with colleagues from the European University and International Institute of Humanitarian and Political Studies in Moscow.
     
Name: Jonathan Olsen
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Wisconisn - Parkside
City, State: Kenosha, WI
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Prague, Czech Republic
Travel Dates: 11/6/00 - 11/19/00
Project Title: "Communist Successor Parties: The Case of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia"
Project Abstract: Dr. Olsen will be investigating the political comeback of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia. He will be obtaining data from public opinion polling firms in Prague to investigate the socio-structural background of the party, studying official party documents, and conducting interviews with party leaders.
 
Name: Robert Rand
Title: Independent Researcher
City, State: Tarrytown, New York
Academic Field: Law
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/13/00 - 10/4/00
Project Title: "The Russian Zashchitnik: Issues Confronting the Criminal Defense Lawyer in Moscow"
Project Abstract: Dr. Rand will be examining how the collapse of the Soviet Union and attendant efforts at legal reform have affected the work of the Russian criminal defense lawyer. The focus of the study will be the Moscow defense bar, and in particular a defense lawyer’s access to the criminal defendant. He will be interviewing defense lawyers in Moscow.
 
Name: Marcia Ristaino
Title: China Specialist
Institution: Library of Congress
City, State: Washington, DC
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/30/00 - 10/9/00
Project Title: "Present Paper ‘Russian Women as Icons in Republican Era Shanghai’ at the Conference "East Asia - St. Petersburg - Europe: Intercivilization Contacts and Perspectives on Economic Cooperation""
Project Abstract: Dr. Ristaino will present a paper on "Russia Women as Icons in Republican Era Shanghai" at the conference "East Asia – Saint Petersburg – Europe: Intercivilization Contacts and Perspectives on Economic Cooperation" sponsored by the Department of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University.
 
Name: Alexander Roubinchtein
Title: Economist
Institution: Washington State Government
City, State: Olympia, WA
Academic Field: Economics
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Novosibirsk, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/1/00 - 10/1/00
Project Title: "Economic Development and Economic Security (What People of Russia Gained and What They Lost)"
Project Abstract: The purpose of Dr. Roubinchtein’s research trip to Russia is to evaluate the kind of personal interests behind the current economic development in Russia and the kind of economic outputs that can be rationally expected based on these interests. He will be meeting with economists at the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow and will be discussing different aspects of economic policy at the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering in Novosibirsk.
   
Name: Scott Smith
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor
Institution: Reed College
City, State: Portland, OR
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 11/15/00 - 12/20/00
Project Title: "The Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1922"
Project Abstract: Dr. Smith will be using his Short-Term Travel Grant to expand upon his dissertation and write a book dealing with the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries in which he will attempt to define and defend a moderate, socialist middle ground in the shifting terrain of the Civil War. He will be conducting archival research in Moscow.
 
Name: Gerald Teague
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: University of Maryland
City, State: College Park, MD
Academic Field: Psychology
Countries to Visit: Kyiv, Ukraine
Travel Dates: 9/1/00 - 10/1/00
Project Title: "Analysis of Mental Health Factors in Kyiv, Ukraine"
Project Abstract: Dr. Teague will be assessing mental health issues, resources and training opportunities in Kyiv, Ukraine. He will be interviewing 12-15 individuals including physicians, pastors, educators and mental health practitioners and collecting data from government, university and clinic sources. After identifying specific psychological and relationship problems prevalent in Ukraine he will make efforts to organize a conference for the exchange of research information between American and Ukrainian mental health practitioners.
 
Name: Bruce Truitt
Title: Independent Researcher
Institution: Texas State Auditor's Office
City, State: Austin, TX
Academic Field: Public Administration
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia
Travel Dates: 10/1/00 - 11/1/00
Project Title: "Have the Cultures, Values and Behaviors of Russian Enterprises Changed Since the Soviet Collapse?"
Project Abstract: Dr. Truitt will be conducting research to determine if Russian enterprises are more democratic and market-oriented than before the collapse of the Soviet Union. He will be readministering standardized surveys from 1990-1991 to 200 randomly selected Russian and US managers. Dr. Truitt will be compiling comparison data on management cultures, values and behaviors in Russian and American enterprises focusing on relative levels of teamwork, compromise, initiative and other specific democratic and free-market principles and compiling data on respondent demographics, firm performance and firm plans, policies, and procedures.
 
Name: Jason Wittenberg
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: Harvard University
City, State: Cambridge, MA
Academic Field: Political Science/Government
Countries to Visit: Budapest, Hungary; Nyiregyhaza, Hungary; Debrecen, Hungary
Travel Dates: 12/10/00 - 1/17/01
Project Title: "Did Communism Matter? Explaining the Political Continuity and Discontinuity"
Project Abstract: Dr. Wittenberg will be finishing work on converting his dissertation into a book. The manuscript, tentatively titled, Did Communism Matter? Explaining the Political Continuity and Discontinuity, addresses why certain geographic regions exhibit partisan stability through wars, migration, disruptive economic development, and social upheaval over time.

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Name: Patricia Parker Boerner
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
City, State: Indiana, PA
Academic Field: Arts
Countries to Visit: Zagreb, Croatia; Etno Selo, Croatia
Travel Dates: 11/5/00 - 11/24/00
Project Title: "Hand-Worked Textile Traditions and Contemporary Fabric Art of Women in Croatia"
Project Abstract: Dr. Parker Boerner will visit Croatia to research and document the hand-worked textile traditions and contemporary fabric art of the women there. She will be meeting and interviewing artisans, photographing their works and documenting their traditions.

Name: Peter Brown
Title: Professor
Institution: Rhode Island College
City, State: Providence, RI
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Tartu, Estonia
Travel Dates: 7/29/00 - 8/6/00
Project Title: "1. Researching in RGADA Moscow: to Provisioning the Muscovite Army on Campaign During the Early Years (1654-55) of the Thirteen Years' War, 1654-1667 2. Research Presentation in Estonia: Environment, Ethnicity and the Evolution of Authority and Organization"
Abstract: At the RGADA archive in Moscow, Russia Dr. Brown will read approximately 150 seventeenth-century paleographic documents concerning the logistics of supplying the Muscovite Russian army during the beginning phase of its involvement in a major Eastern European war, the Thirteen Years’ War. He will also travel to the University of Tartu, Estonia, where he will attend from August 6 to August 13 the Congressnus Nonus Internationalis Fennow-Ugristarum. In Tartu, he will deliver a paper at the congress, examine journals at the University of Tartu and consult with local and international scholars on topics concerning his research.
 
Name: Jo Conrad
Title: Instructor
Institution: University of California - Davis
City, State: Davis, CA
Academic Field: Anthropology/Folklife
Countries to Visit: Sofia, Bulgaria; Edirne, Turkey; Istanbul, Turkey
Travel Dates: 7/1/01 - 8/1/01
Project Title: "A Question of Identity: Bulgarian Turks since 1989"
Abstract: Dr. Conrad’s project seeks to investigate the shifting and intersecting place of nation, ethnicity, and religion, not only in the construction and maintenance of identity, but also in the real-life political and social pressures and ramifications of such identities. In particular, the project focuses on the everyday consequences of the ambivalent identity status of contemporary Bulgarian Turks, both within Bulgaria and Turkey.
 
Name: Timothy Cooley
Title: Instructor
Institution: University of California – Santa Barbara
City, State: Santa Barbara, California
Academic Field: Musicology
Countries to Visit: Budapest, Hungary
Travel Dates: 8/22/00 - 8/29/00
Project Title: "Music and Changing Identity in a Southern Polish Border Region"
Project Abstract: The research of Dr. Cooley focuses on the ways music is used to construct and maintain societies and specifically identities within societies. Dr. Cooley’s geographic focus is and has been since 1989 the border region of southern Poland in the Tatra Mountains. Dr. Cooley will present research showing that the music of Polish Highlanders has continued to be endowed with symbolic meaning at the International Musicological Society Intercongressional Symposium "The Past in the Present" in Budapest, Hungary.
 
Name: Kui Dong
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Dartmouth College
City, State: Hanover, NH
Academic Field: Musicology (Music Composition & Theory)
Countries to Visit: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Travel Dates: 9/1/00 - 10/1/00
Project Title: "Participation in the 2000 International Modern Symphonic Music Festival of Uzbekistan"
Project Abstract: At the International Modern Symphonic Music Festival of Uzbekistan Dr. Dong will lecture on "Compositional Thoughts on Fusion of Eastern and Western Culture" and will participate in round-table discussions on the subject "National Traditions and Modern Composer’s Creation." She also plans to collect local folk instruments and record the sound environment of Tashkent for a later study of its folklore.
 
Name: Donald Freeman
Title: Professor
Institution: University of Southern California
City, State: Los Angeles, CA
Academic Field: Literature, English
Countries to Visit: Kyiv, Ukraine; Uzhgorod, Ukraine; Cherkassy, Ukraine
Travel Dates: 9/17/00 - 10/6/00
Project Title: "Conceptual Metaphor and Literary Analysis"
Project Abstract: Dr. Freeman will be participating in LINGUAPAX VIII, an international conference supported by UNESCO in Kyiv, Ukraine where he will be contributing his paper "Conceptual Metaphor and Literary Analysis." He will also be presenting a paper, "Conceptual Blending: The Case of Shakespeare’s Othello" at a conference of Ukrainian linguistic scholars in Uzhgorod. Finally, Dr. Freeman will be delivering three lectures on Shakespearean metaphor at both Cherkassy State University and Kyiv State Linguistic University.
 
Name: Rebecca Gates-Coon
Title: Senior Reference Specialist
Institution: Ball State University
City, State: Muncie, IN
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Litomerice, Czech Republic; Prague, Czech Republic
Travel Dates: 11/4/00 - 11/26/00
Project Title: "The "Five Princesses', 1760-1815: Lives and Legacies in the Habsburg Monarchy"
Project Abstract: Dr. Gates-Coon will be traveling to the regional archives of the Czech Republic in Litomerice, Zitenice branch, to study correspondence of Princess Eleonore Liechtenstein (1754-1812), a member of a group of five preeminent women of late eighteenth-century Vienna. Dr. Gates-Coon will be analyzing the activities of these "Five Princesses" from 1768 through 1815.
 
Name: Andre Goddu
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Stonehill College
City, State: Easton, MA
Academic Field: History of Science
Countries to Visit: Cracow, Poland; Wroclaw, Poland
Travel Dates: 6/15/01 - 7/6/01
Project Title: "Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition"
Project Abstract: The aim of Dr. Goddu’s project is to provide an examination – accessible to teachers of history and philosophy – of a major change in our view of the universe and its relation to the main philosophical tradition of the sixteenth century. Dr. Goddu will examine manuscripts and incunabula of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries found in archives in Poland.
 
Name: Gennady Gorelik
Title: Research Fellow
Institution: Boston University
City, State: Boston, MA
Academic Field: History of Science
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Izhevsk, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/2/00 - 10/2/00
Project Title: "Social Biography of the Soviet and Anti-Soviet Physicist Lev Landau"
Project Abstract: Dr. Gorelik will be lecturing, studying archives and conducting interviews in Russia to assist him with his project "Soviet Life of Lev Landau and His Friends." He will be talking on Landau at the Institute for History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow and at the Udmurt University, Izhevsk; interviewing physicist Ella Ryndina, Lev Landau’s niece, and other colleagues and students of Landau in Moscow; and using archives at the Kapitza Institute of Physical Problems where Landau worked for two decades.
 
Name: Mike Keen
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Indiana University South Bend
City, State: South Bend, IN
Academic Field: Sociology
Countries to Visit: Torun, Poland
Travel Dates: 5/14/01 - 5/18/01
Project Title: "Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe: Transformation at the Dawn of a New Millenium"
Project Abstract: Dr. Keen will be collaborating with sociologists in Poland to investigate the impact the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe has had on sociology since 1989. Dr. Keen and his colleagues will be compiling an updated bibliography of important reference materials in the field of sociology in this region. The results of this research will be made available to scholars throughout the US in an edited collection, Central and Eastern Europe Transformed: Sociology at the Dawn of a New Millenium.
 
Name: Elaine King
Title: Professor
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
City, State: Pittsburgh, PA
Academic Field: Art History/Arts
Countries to Visit: Prague, Czech Republic; Warsaw, Poland
Travel Dates: 9/14/00 - 10/1/00
Project Title: "No Stereotypes: Inside Czech & Central European Culture"
Project Abstract: Dr. King will be traveling to Prague to jury an exhibition titled the "Triennial of Graphics in Prague" and to be a keynote speaker at a symposium in September 2001. Prior to this, she will use her Short-Term Travel Grant to speak with colleagues in Prague and to interview curators and .
 
Name: Pamela Kladzyk
Title: Faculty Member
Institution: Parsons School of Design
City, State: New York, NY
Academic Field: Architecture
Countries to Visit: Lublin, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; Cracow, Poland
Travel Dates: 9/9/00 - 10/9/00
Project Title: "Shared Traditions of Space and Lightning: Wooden Sacral Architecture of Easter and Southern Poland"
Project Abstract: Dr. Kladzyk will analyze approximately 12-16 interior and exterior spaces as well as lighting design of selected churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, way-side shrines and Gypsy forms in easter and southern Poland. She will also visit the Catholic Univeristy of Lublin and will access the photographic archives at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Her goal is to see how shared environment and technology, along with religious faith, drive the creations of space used by entire religious communities, as well as spaces used by men, women, and religious leaders.
 
Name: Roman Koropeckyj
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of California - Los Angeles
City, State: Los Angeles, CA
Academic Field: Literature
Countries to Visit: Warsaw, Poland; Vilnius, Lithuania; Kaunas, Lithuania; Burgas,
Bulgaria; Nauharadok, Belarus; St. Petersburg, Russia; Moscow, Russia; Odessa, Ukraine; Crimea, Ukraine; Istanbul, Turkey
Travel Dates: 9/1/00 - 10/1/00
Project Title: "In the East European and Eurasian Footsteps of Adam Mickiewicz"
Project Abstract: In order to write an English-language biography of Poland’s national poet, Adam Mickiewicz, Dr. Koropeckyj will visit the East European and Eurasian locales of Mickiewicz’s life. The Short-Term Travel Grant will allow Dr. Koropeckyj to travel to the Poznan area in Poland where Mickiewicz sojourned during part of the 1830 uprising.
 
Name: Richard Kremer
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Dartmouth College
City, State: Hanover, NH
Academic Field: History of Science
Countries to Visit: St. Petersburg, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/9/00 - 9/16/00
Project Title: "Codicology of Three Regiomontanua Autograph Manuscripts in St. Petersburg"
Project Abstract: Dr. Kremer will be conducting codicological studies of the three Regiomontanus manuscripts housed in the archives of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. His research will result in the writing of a monograph on the Defense of Theon and the cosmological controversy it reveals.
 
Name: Laurence Libin
Title: Research Curator
Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
City, State: New York, NY
Academic Field: History of Music
Countries to Visit: Prague, Czech Republic
Travel Dates: 9/20/00 - 9/30/00
Project Title: "Eighteenth-Century Musical Instruments Decorating Czech Organ Cases"
Project Abstract: Dr. Libin will be visiting Prague to examine the decoration of two eighteenth-century organ cases in the Jesuit churches St. Nicholas in Mala Strana and St. Mary the church of Strahov abbey. He will be closely inspecting the case’s decoration of angels playing what appear to be real, rather than sculpted, musical instruments of the period. The results of his study will be disseminated through an English-language publication in professional literature.
 
Name: Michael Makin
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of Michigan
City, State: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Academic Field: Literature, Russian
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia; Vytegra, Russia; Kirov,
Russia; Petrozavodski, Russia
Travel Dates: 8/5/00 - 8/30/00
Project Title: "Poet, Text, Time -- The Extraordinary, yet Exemplary Case of Nikolai Klyuev"
Project Abstract: In order to complete a book on Nikolai Klyuev, Dr. Makin will be visiting Russia to interview several leading scholars and authors who are also writing on the poet. The book Poet, Text, Time – The Extraordinary, yet Exemplary Case of Nikolai Klyuev takes account of the extensive and growing scholarship on Klyuev, and pays particular attention to the ideological polemics which shape some of the scholarly writings on him.
 
Name: Terrance Martin
Title: Associate Curator
Institution: Illinois State Museum, Research and Collections Center
City, State: Springfield, IL
Academic Field: Anthropology
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Tula, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/13/00 - 10/14/00
Project Title: "Archaeological Perspective on Medieval Period Animal Exploitation in the Tula Region"
Project Abstract: To establish the history of human occupation in the southern part of the broad-leaved forests and the forest steppes of the Central Russia plain, Dr. Martin will conduct archaeological investigations in the Upper Don Basin and the Moscow region by the Kulikovo Field National Estate-Museum of Military History and Nature (KFNM) and the State Historical Museum in Moscow. Dr. Martin will be analyzing animal remains from recently excavated sites in this project area and consult with project specialists at the KFNM in Tula on the preparation of technical reports and publications intended for international audiences.
 
Name: Alexander Mihailovic
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Hofstra University
City, State: Hempstead, NY
Academic Field: Literature, Russian
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 1/5/01 - 1/25/01
Project Title: "Paul Robeson and Russia"
Project Abstract: Dr. Mihailovic will be conducting archival research in Moscow towards a book-length study about the African-American activist and singer Paul Robeson (1898-1976), tentatively titled Paul Robeson and Russia. In this project he investigates Robeson’s interest in and involvement with Russian culture from the thirties to the early seventies. Dr. Mihailovic will use his Short-Term Travel Grant to answer questions that have arisen in connection with Robeson’s response to Stalinist anti-semitism, which will be treated in a separate chapter of his monograph.
 
Name: Laila Miletic-Vejzovic
Title: Librarian
Institution: Washington State University
City, State: Pullman, WA
Academic Field: Library and Information Sciences
Countries to Visit: Zagreb, Croatia; Rovinj, Croatia
Travel Dates: 11/18/00 - 12/20/00
Project Title: "Integration of Metadata in Digital Images: An Example in Dublin Core"
Project Abstract: Dr. Miletic-Vejzovic will be presenting a paper and conducting three workshops at the 4^th Seminar, "Archives, Libraries, Museums: Possibilities of Co-operation within the Environment of the Global Information Infrastructure," in Rovinj, Croatia. She will also be working on a collaborative project to develop and implement a Digital Initiatives Program at the National and University Library (NUL) in Zagreb, Croatia.
 
Name: Ljerka Rasmussen
Title: Adjunct Faculty
Institution: Middle Tennessee State University
City, State: Murfreesboro, TN
Academic Field: Music
Countries to Visit: Budapest, Hungary
Travel Dates: 8/23/00 - 8/29/00
Project Title: "International Musicological Society Symposim Panel: Music in the Context of Recent Rapid Social and Political Change in Central-Eastern Europe"
Project Abstract: Dr. Rasmussen will be participating in a round table entitled "Music in the Context of Recent Rapid Social and Political Change in Albania, the Territories of the Former Yugoslavia, and Central and Eastern Europe as a Whole" which will be a part of the symposium of the International Musicological Society in Budapest, Hungary. This round table will provide a forum for scholars to address the role of music in political transformations from the perspectives of music history, ethnomusicology, sociology, music education, folklore, and cultural studies.
 
Name: Roy Rosengrant
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
City, State: Portland, Oregon
Academic Field: Literature, Russian
Countries to Visit: St. Petersburg, Russia; Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 9/15/00 - 11/14/00
Project Title: "Participation in a Translation Conference at St. Petersburg University"
Project Abstract: Dr. Rosengrant will be chairing a panel on literary translation at the Second Annual International Conference on Translation Studies, to be held at St. Petersburg University. The panel that Dr. Rosengrant will be chairing is "Problems of Literary Translation." He will also be conducting two workshops in translation stylistics.
 
Name: Michael Shank
Title: Professor
Institution: University of Wisconsin
City, State: Madison, WI
Academic Field: History of Science
Countries to Visit: St. Petersburg, Russia
Travel Dates: 8/8/00 - 8/23/00
Project Title: "Cosmological Controversy Before Copernicus: Establishing the Text of Regiomontanus's "Defense of Theon Against George of Trebizond" in St. Petersburg"
Project Abstract: Dr. Shank will be reviewing the original manuscript of Regiomontanus’s "Defense of Theon against George of Trebisond" at the Library of the Academy of Science in St. Petersburg. He will be completing a transcription of the entire manuscript to establish a reliable basis for analysis and interpretation of fifteenth-century astronomy.
 
Name: Cynthia Simmons
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Boston College
City, State: Chestnut Hill, MA
Academic Field: Area Studies, East European (Incl USSR)
Countries to Visit: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Zagreb, Croatia; Ljubljana,
Slovenia
Travel Dates: 9/1/00 - 10/1/00
Project Title: "Urbicide and the Myth of Sarajevo"
Project Abstract: Dr. Simmons will be returning to three of the successor states of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia to gather more recent documents and conduct interviews on her topic. She will be researching and writing a book-length critical study of two opposing forces in the Balkans that have figured most recently in the Yugoslav wars.
 
Name: Elaine Smollin
Title: Research Associate
Institution: Bard College
City, State: Annandale, NY
Academic Field: Archaeology
Countries to Visit: Klaipada, Lithuania; Kaliningrad, Russia; Suwalki Region, Poland
Travel Dates: 7/1/00 - 8/1/00
Project Title: "An Archaeology of Change in Lithuania Minor"
Project Abstract: Dr. Smollin will be examining the effect of the multi-ethnic legacy of Lithuania Minor on today’s development of the region through the collection of data concerning migration into and out of the region. She will photograph historical sites of current archaeological excavations and sites that are examples of historical and modern settlements. The results are to be published in The Journal of Baltic Studies and Lituanas.
 
Name: Michael Szporer
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of Maryland
City, State: College Park, MD
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: Gdansk, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; Krakow, Poland
Travel Dates: 8/12/00 - 9/6/00
Project Title: "Solidarity's Films -- 20th Congress of Solidarity Union"
Project Abstract: Dr. Szporer will be visiting Solidarity Union headquarters and museum archives in Gdansk to conduct research for a project entitled Solidarity’s Films – Man of Iron, Man of Marble and Interrogation. He will also be attending the 20^th Anniversary Solidarity Congress.