Short-Term Travel Grants Program

Grant Recipients 2001-2002

Go to grant recipients funded by:

US Department of State
National Endowment for the Humanities

Funded by US Department of State

Name: Lisa Alfredson
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: London School of Economics
City, State: London, England
Academic Field: Public Policy
Countries to Visit: Budapest, Hungary
Travel Dates: 5/1/2001 - 5/15/2001
Project Title: “ Management Challenges of International Foundations: The Case of the Soros Foundation Network in Hungary”

Project Abstract: The purpose of Dr. Alfredson’s project is to conduct exploratory research into the management challenges of international philanthropic foundations in the context of Central and Eastern Europe, taking the Soros Foundation in Hungary as a case study. The study involves qualitative assessment of the current relationship between management and service outputs in the Soros Foundation, looking specifically at its international Network Programs. It will involve a two-week visit to Budapest, where interviews with managers and staff of the Soros Foundation and local partner-organizations will be conducted and data will be collected. A scholarly publication will follow to address the current dearth of information among academic and practitioners alike, regarding international foundations generally and the management challenges they face in Eastern Europe in particular.

Name: Andrew Barnes
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Miami
City, State: Coral Gales, FL
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Sofia, Bulgaria
Travel Dates: 6/2/2001 - 6/23/2001
Project Title: “ Industry, Finance and the State: The Bulgarian Political Economy in Comparative Perspective”

Project Abstract: Dr. Barnes will conduct research on the transformation of ownership in Bulgarian industry and finance sectors since the fall of the old regime and will compare the results with his recent investigation of the industry and finance sectors in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia. He will conduct fieldwork for three weeks in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he will interview officials responsible for monitoring privatization, journalists who reported on the process, and scholars who have analyzed it.

Name: Johanna Bockman
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: Harvard University
City, State: Cambridge, MA
Academic Field: Sociology
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Budapest, Hungary
Travel Dates: 6/4/2001 - 7/16/2001
Project Title: “ The Americanization of Economic Science in Russia and Hungary”

Project Abstract: In this project, Dr. Bockman will show how American economic science was exported to Russia and Hungary, what happened to the knowledge and practices within these socialist contexts, and the political consequences of these processes. She will conduct an analysis of the processes and consequences of Americanization and an evaluation of its role in the dismantling of socialism. In Russia and Hungary she will visit archives and interview economists, Sovietologists, and administrators.

Name: Linda Cook
Title: Professor
Institution: Brown University
City, State: Providence, RI
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/29/2001 - 6/10/2001
Project Title: “ The Politics of Social Welfare in the Russian Federation”

Project Abstract: The goal of Dr. Cook’s research trip is to interview academic experts, policymakers, and practitioners involved in social policy reform. Her research will focus on efforts of the Russian Federation’s government to restructure the inherited welfare state, including broad efforts to reorient social spending from the universal and categorical patterns of the Soviet period to targeting and means-testing, and more specific initiatives in housing, pension, and poverty policy.

Name: Mark Field
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Harvard University
City, State: Cambridge, MA
Academic Field: Sociology
Countries to Visit: Riga, Latvia
Travel Dates: 5/28/2001 - 6/6/2001
Project Title: “ The Health and Health Care Crisis in the Former Soviet Union: Domestic and Foreign Implications”

Project Abstract: The purpose of Dr. Field’s travel is to respond to an invitation to make a presentation at the forthcoming meeting of the Federation for International Cooperation of Health Services and Systems Research Centers in Riga. In his presentation he will focus on some of the major issues in the transition from socialized medicine to a system based on insurance and market mechanisms and will examine domestic and international implications, including considerations of relevance to US foreign policy.

Name: Gregory Gleason
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of New Mexico
City, State: Albuquerque, NM
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Astana, Kazakhstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Travel Dates: 12/1/2001 - 1/1/2002
Project Title: “ Differential Responses to Structural Reform Programs in Central Asia”

Project Abstract: The goal of Dr. Gleason’s research is to measure the impact of structural reform programs in three countries of Central Asia: Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The project analyzes the reasons for different responses of the three countries to the structural reform packages promoted by the IMF and hypothesizes that the willingness to adopt certain aspects of the reform package is a function of the influence of domestic political constituencies.

Name: John Gould
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Harvard University
City, State: Cambridge, MA
Academic Field: Sociology
Countries to Visit: Zagreb, Croatia
Travel Dates: 5/28/2001 - 6/6/2001
Project Title: “ Croatia's "Illiberal Postprivatization Regimes and the Challenge of Building Liberalism in the Second Decade of Postcommunism”

Project Abstract: Dr. Gould will conduct a six-week research project investigating the political and economic ramifications of Croatia’s illiberal clientalized privatization program. This project is part of a comparative study of “illiberal post privatization regimes,” involving Slovakia, Ukraine, Croatia, and Yugoslavia. He will conduct interviews in Zagreb, Croatia and plans to present a conference paper at next fall’s meeting of APSA as a result of this research.

Name: Elena Iankova
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: Cornell University
City, State: Ithaca, NY
Academic Field: Business, International
Countries to Visit: Sofia, Bulgaria; Varna, Bulgaria; Sevlievo, Bulgaria; Bucharest, Romania; Budapest, Hungary
Travel Dates: 6/1/2001 - 6/30/2001
Project Title: “ International Flows, Domestic Policies, and Business Development in South Eastern Europe”

Project Abstract: Dr. Iankova’s project will examine the interaction of international political and economic influences (such as the policies and strategies of the European Union, the World Bank, the IMF, the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, and foreign corporations) and national and local government policies, as an important determinant of business performance and consolidation in South Eastern Europe. She will collect documentary and interview data in Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary, in collaboration with research units there.

Name: Jill Irvine
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Oklahoma
City, State: Norman, OK
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro; Zagreb, Croatia
Travel Dates: 6/2/2001 - 6/30/2001
Project Title: “ Women and War: Ethnic Mobilization and the Political Impact of Women in Serbia and Croatia, 1990-2000”

Project Abstract: Dr. Irvine will conduct research in Belgrade and Zagreb in June 2001 on one part of a book-length project on women, nationalism, and war in the former Yugoslavia. Specifically, during this trip she will gather data on the most recent elections in Serbia and Croatia from the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Belgrade and the Department of Political Science at the University of Zagreb. Dr. Irvine will also conduct interviews with women who are active in nationalist parties and organizations.

Name: Seung-Ho Joo
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Minnesota-Morris
City, State: Morris, MN
Academic Field: International Relations
Countries to Visit: Vladivostok, Russia; Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 8/15/2001 - 8/22/2001
Project Title: “ Russo-Korean Economic Cooperation and Northeast Asian Peace Regime”

Project Abstract: Dr. Joo will collect data and information on Russo-Korean economic relations and gain Russian perspectives regarding the creation of a lasting peace regime in Northeast Asia through multinational cooperation. He plans to achieve these goals through interviews in Moscow and Vladivostok with select academics, specialists, government officials, and diplomats involved in Russo-Korean relations and Russian external economic relations.

Name: Susan Linz
Title: Professor
Institution: Michigan State University
City, State: East Lansing, Michigan
Academic Field: Economics
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Rostov, Russia; Taganrog, Russia; Volgograd, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/8/2001 - 5/31/2001
Project Title: “Barter and Bribes: Restructuring or Rent-Seeking? An Analysis of Non-Market Transactions Among Russian Firms”

Project Abstract: Dr. Linz will gather data in Rostov, Taganrog, and Volgograd from a survey of 75-100 firms, in-depth interviews with top-level managers, and focus groups comprised of business leaders, local government officials, and university personnel to determine (1) whether barter transactions and the payment of bribes is by choice or forced upon the firm by external circumstances; (2) whether the nature and scope of the costs and benefits for barter/bribes to the firm match those incurred on society.

Name: Vojtech Mastny
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: National Security Archive
City, State: Washington, DC
Academic Field: International Relations
Countries to Visit: Bucharest, Romania; Warsaw, Poland; Budapest, Hungary
Travel Dates: 9/22/2001- 10/1/2001
Project Title: “ Archival Documentation and Oral History on the Warsaw Pact”

Project Abstract: Dr. Mastny will travel to Bucharest to discuss declassification of Romanian records on the Warsaw Pact and oral history interviews with witnesses of the time and to attend a conference in Bucharest entitled “Romania and the Warsaw Pact.” In addition, he will travel to Warsaw and Budapest to discuss declassification of Polish Warsaw Pact records and nullification of the 1991 agreement barring access to these records.

Name: Kelly McMann
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: Harvard University
City, State: Cambridge, MA
Academic Field: Political Science/Government
Countries to Visit: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Taraz, Kazakhstan; Astana, Kazakhstan
Travel Dates: 5/1/2001 - 6/25/2001
Project Title: “Coping Without Communism: Private Service Provision and State Transformation in Post-Soviet Central Asia”

Project Abstract: Through fieldwork and survey research in Central Asia, Dr. McMann will examine how citizens’ reliance on private services to resolve everyday problems influences state legitimacy and efficacy. She will conduct interviews and collect statistics and publications in Kazakhstan in order to unravel the connections among citizens’ expectations of government, assignment of blame for unresolved problems, reliance on non-state “service-providers,” and political loyalty.

Name: Mieke Meurs
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: American University
City, State: Washington, DC
Academic Field: Economics
Countries to Visit: Sofia, Bulgaria
Travel Dates: 6/12/2001 - 6/26/2001
Project Title: “Changing Household Economies in the Bulgarian Transition: Implications for the Future”

Project Abstract: Dr. Meurs’ project will examine changing household allocation of labor in rural Bulgaria in order to evaluate the potential impact of changes on future growth and development. He will coauthor a paper on this research and will establish a collaborative project evaluating the development implications of transition and the institutional factors which contribute to varying development outcomes.

Name: Lynn Nelson
Title: Professor
Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University
City, State: Richmond, VA
Academic Field: Sociology
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; Nizhnii Novogorod, Russia; Kazan, Russia; Ekaterinburg, Russia; Voronezh, Russia; Smolensk, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/3/2001 - 6/16/2001
Project Title: “Russia's New Federal District Structure and Institutional Change in Five Regions”

Project Abstract: Dr. Nelson will research the political and economic implications of Russia’s new federal district structure with an emphasis on the implications of this system for economic development, democratization, and the strengthening of civil society. He will conduct interviews with selected respondents in business, government, politics, and the media. Building on an ongoing stream of work in five regions (Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Smolensk, Voronezh, and the Republic of Tatarstan), his research will examine regional variations as well as the overall evolution of center-region relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Name: Jerry Pankhurst
Title: Professor
Institution: Wittenberg University
City, State: Springfield, OH
Academic Field: Sociology
Countries to Visit: Minsk, Belarus; Moscow, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/13/2001 - 6/9/2001
Project Title: “ The Political Potential of Eastern Orthodoxy as Civilization, Public Religion Church or Denomication”

Project Abstract: Dr. Pankhurst will travel to Russia and Belarus in order to interview church officials and other public figures and social scientists, and to collect and review documents (from religious organizations, political institutions, research institutions, and the media) concerning the role of Russian Orthodoxy in supporting or hindering the development of civil society. Four models of the nature of the connection between religion and politics are to be evaluated. Potential contributors for a collected volume on the issue of Eastern Orthodoxy and politics will be solicited, and data will be gathered for a research monograph on the subject.

Name: Edward Schatz
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: Harvard University
City, State: Cambridge, MA
Academic Field: Political Science/Government
Countries to Visit: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Astana, Kazakhstan; Aktobe, Kazakhstan; Kustanai, Kazakhstan; Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan; Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Travel Dates: 5/1/2001 - 6/30/2001
Project Title: “ Clans and the State in Contemporary Kazakhstan”

Project Abstract: Dr. Schatz will examine the dynamic of Kazakhstan’s clan politics in the comparative perspective of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and parallel instances from Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. In Kazakhstan, he will conduct interviews, consult with local experts, and gather local press materials relevant to the study.

Name: Andrei Simic
Title: Professor
Institution: University of Southern California
City, State: Los Angeles, CA
Academic Field: Anthropology
Countries to Visit: Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro
Travel Dates: Fall 2001
Project Title: “ The Wars of Secession Serbian Diaspora: Ethnic Identity and Social Adjustment among Refugess in Serbia”

Project Abstract: Dr. Simic will continue conducting library, archival, and field research that commenced in 1989 regarding the crisis in former Yugoslavia and the social and cultural ramifications of the interethnic civil wars resultant from the breakup of Yugoslavia. Dr. Simic will conduct research in Serbia with a focus on refugee populations there. This represents the continuation of fieldwork conducted in California and Arizona among Serbian refugees.

Name: Sherrill Stroschein
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: Boston University
City, State: Boston, MA
Academic Field: Political Science
Countries to Visit: Budapest, Hungary; Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro; Novi Sad, Serbia-Montenegro; Subotica, Serbia-Montenegro
Travel Dates: 6/11/2001 - 7/31/2001
Project Title: “ Hungarians and Ethnic Political Contention in Vojvodina, Serbia”

Project Abstract: Dr. Stroschein plans to add examples of political contention from the Hungarian-inhabited cities in the Vojvodina region to his book manuscript on ethnic Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine, in which he proposes that the first decade of democracy in Eastern Europe has led to routine political debates between ethnic groups.

Name: Barbara Wejnert
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Cornell University
City, State: Ithaca, NY
Academic Field: Sociology
Countries to Visit: Kiev, Ukraine; Kharkiv, Ukraine; Zielona Gora, Poland
Travel Dates: 5/5/2001 - 6/5/2001
Project Title: “ Democratic Transitions and Their Challenges to Gender: The Case of Ukraine”

Project Abstract: The main purpose of Dr. Wejnert’s project is to initiate a comparative research project in Ukraine, using survey methods to assess the impact of democratic transition on women’s as compared to men’s lives by applying theoretical concepts of objective and subjective assessment of the quality of life. The project will examine a) scholarly issue of processes of democratization; b) policy issue of transition to democracy and its challenges to gender; c) policy issue of sustainability of democracy; and d) policy, scholarly, and public concerns about the recent crises in liberal democracies.

Name: Jennifer Yoder
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Colby College
City, State: Waterville, ME
Academic Field: Political Science/Government
Countries to Visit: Warsaw, Poland; Worclaw, Poland; Prague, Czech Republic; Liberec, Czech Republic
Travel Dates: 7/1/2001 – 7/18/2001
Project Title: “Administrative Decentralization and Territorial Regionalization in Poland and Czech Republic”

Project Abstract: The goal of Dr. Yoder’s research is to identify motivations and outcomes of administrative and territorial reforms in Poland and Czech Republic. She will interview regional officials and gather information about the activities of the new regional assemblies.

Funded by National Endowment for Humanities

Name: Bryon Bass
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
City, State: Berkeley, CA
Academic Field: Anthropology
Countries to Visit: Korcula, Croatia; Vela Luka, Croatia; Lastova, Croatia
Travel Dates: 7/1/2001 – 9/1/2001
Project Title: “Bibliographic Research in Support of Systematic Archaeological Field Survey on the Island of Lastovo, Croatia”

Project Abstract: The goal of Dr. Bass’s research is to conduct a thorough bibliographic review of local archaeological literature pertinent to the Croatian island of Lastovo. The proposed work will be conducted in and focus on: archaeological library of the Archaeology Museum in Vela Luka, the archives held in the Archaeology Museum in Korcula, the manuscripts and regional journal collections of Professor Peter Lisicar (former library and personal research notes of a noted local academic, now held by Professor Dinko Radic), the Lastovski Museum, and the Archaeology museum in Split.

Name: Frances Bernstein
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Drew University
City, State: Madison, NJ
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 6/1/2001 - 7/15/2001
Project Title: “ The Dictatorship of Sex: Enlightenment, Health, and Deviance in Revolutionary Russia, 1918-1931”

Project Abstract: In order to complete the revisions to her manuscript, Dr. Bernstein will spend six weeks working at RTsKhlDNI, analyzing party cell meetings of several institutions engaged in sexual enlightenment. While in Moscow she will also review several full-length popular health films of the era, located in a number facilities in the city.

Name: Eliot Borenstein
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: New York University
City, State: New York, NY
Academic Field: Literature, Russian
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 6/1/2001 - 7/15/2001
Project Title: “ Russian Popular Culture after 1991”

Project Abstract: In order to complete the historical introduction to his book on Russian popular culture after 1991, Dr. Borenstein will travel to Moscow and interview editors at best-selling publishing houses and film and television producers. In addition, he will conduct research in the Russian State Library to examine recent periodicals.

Name: David Brandenberger
Title: Lecturer
Institution: Harvard University
City, State: Cambridge, MA
Academic Field: History, Eastern Europe and USSR
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/15/2001 - 7/20/2001
Project Title: “ National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture, Russocentrism and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity”

Project Abstract: Dr. Brandenberger will conduct archival research necessary for the completion of his book manuscript entitled National Bolshevism. His monograph-length study, already in peer review at a university press, investigates Russocentric ideology, propaganda, and identity politics in the USSR between 1931 and 1956.

Name: Clare Cavanagh
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Northwestern University
City, State: Evanston, IL
Academic Field: Literature, Russian
Countries to Visit: Warsaw, Poland; Poznan, Poland; Krakow, Poland
Travel Dates: 6/15/2001 - 6/30/2001
Project Title: “ Poetry and Power: Russia, Poland, and the West Czeslaw Milosz: A Critical Biography”

Project Abstract: Dr. Cavanagh will interview poets, critics, and scholars in order to complete research on her book’s Polish chapters, and in order to begin work on a biography of Czeslaw Milosz. The book, Poetry and Power, is a series of case studies exploring the permutations undergone by the Polish and Russian national myths of the poet-prophet as these myths came into contact, and conflict, with the Communist regimes that took power in Russia in 1917 and in the post-war Poland of 1944-48.

Name: Timothy Cheek
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: The University of Michigan
City, State: Ann Arbor, MI
Academic Field: Musicology
Countries to Visit: Brno, Czech Republic
Travel Dates: 9/29/2001 –10/13/2001
Project Title: “A Critical Study of the Czech Songs of Vitezslava Kapralova”

Project Abstract: Dr. Cheek will conduct research on thirty Czech art songs of female composer Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-40). He will visit the music archives of the Moravian Museum in Brno. Dr. Cheek will use his research results to write articles to submit to professional journals and to enhance the teaching of vocal literature, music history, and women’s studies.

Name: Katerina Clark
Title: Professor
Institution: Yale University
City, State: New Haven, CT
Academic Field: Literature
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 7/1/2001 - 7/28/2001
Project Title: “ Relations Between Cultural Bureaucrats and Intellectuals in Moscow and Anti-Fascist Intellectuals”

Project Abstract: Dr. Clark will be researching archival materials in Moscow on the relations in the 1930’s between Soviet cultural bureaucrats and individual intellectuals with anti-fascist intellectuals living in the Soviet Union, France, and the US.

Name: Jonathan Daly
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of Illinois - Chicago
City, State: Chicago, IL
Academic Field: History, Eastern Europe and USSR
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/12/2001 - 5/27/2001
Project Title: “ The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906-1917”

Project Abstract: Dr. Daly will collect data on social movements, the bureaucracy, and political activism in Russia during World War I. He will collect this data in Moscow in the archives of a bureau created by the emperor’s court in December 1914 (GARF, f. 97, op. 1-4) as an information source independent from other bureaucratic agencies. This research will help him to complete the first archivally based, comprehensive study of the security police during late Imperial Russia’s dramatic shift from an autocratic toward a constitutional order in 1906-1917.

Name: Owen Doonan
Title: Director of Sinop Province Regional Survey
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
City, State: Philadelphia, PA
Academic Field: Archaeology
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia
Travel Dates: 2001
Project Title: “ Beginnings of Black Sea Trade: Comparative Studies of Early Ceramics from Sinop, Turkey and Ukraine”

Project Abstract: Dr. Doonan’s research will compare ceramic assemblages from Iron Age and early Greek (9^th-4^th century BCE) contexts from Sinop (Turkey) and its hinterland with assemblages from South Ukrainian and Crimean sites by visiting collections in the State Historical Museum in Moscow and the Institute of Historical Material Culture in St. Petersburg. His research will attempt to establish the origins of a trade structure that dominated Black Sea trade for 2,000 years.

Name: David Frick
Title: Professor
Institution: University of California at Berkely
City, State: Berkeley, CA
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: Warsaw, Poland; Vilnius, Lithuania
Travel Dates: 6/23/2001 - 8/5/2001
Project Title: “ Vilnius, 1640: Neighborhoods and Networks in a Multi-Confessional City”

Project Abstract: Dr. Frick’s project seeks to uncover aspects of everyday interactions between peoples of different confessions and languages in Vilnius in the seventeenth century. He will spend six weeks in the archives of Vilnius and Warsaw, to conduct research necessary to complete the final stages of this project.

Name: Katherine Graney
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Skidmore College
City, State: Saratoga Springs, NY
Academic Field: Political Science/Government
Countries to Visit: Kazan, Russia; Chally, Russia; Naberezhnie Chelny, Russia; Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/15/2001 – 6/15/2001
Project Title: "Gender, Nationalism, and Islam: Gender Regimes in Post-Soviet Tatarstan”

Project Abstract: Dr. Graney will examine the relationship between the construction of gender, religious, state, and national identities in Tatarstan during the post-Soviet period. Dr Graney will conduct interviews with several prominent female political, social, and Islamic leaders in Tatarstan. She will also conduct some archival and library research.

Name: Sergei Kan
Title: Professor
Institution: Dartmouth College
City, State: Hanover, NH
Academic Field: Anthropology
Countries to Visit: St. Petersburg, Russia
Travel Dates: 8/24/2001 - 9/24/2001
Project Title: “ Lev Shternerbg (1861-1927), Russian Revolutionary Populist, Anthropologist, Jewish Activist”

Project Abstract: Dr. Kan will complete research on and write a book-length intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg, a leading turn-of-the-century Russian anthropologist. A month-long trip to St. Petersburg will enable him to complete the archival research for his book by examining Shternberg’s own papers, letters, and manuscripts, as well as those of several of his colleagues, which are preserved at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Name: David Kideckel
Title: Professor
Institution: Central Connecticut State University
City, State: New Britain, CT
Academic Field: Anthropology
Countries to Visit: Bucharest, Romania; Brasov, Romania; Fagaras, Romania
Travel Dates: 5/20/2001 - 6/2/2001
Project Title: “ Little America: The Role of US Individuals and Institutions in Romania's Fagaras Region”

Project Abstract: Dr. Kideckel will review archives at the Brasov County State Archives on the role of American individuals and US capital in the Fagaras region between 1880 and 1920. He will also interview selected regional families, chosen ahead of time via collaboration with colleagues at the Negru Voda Cultural Foundation, regarding the experience of members in emigration to the USA.

Name: Anna Krylova
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Southern Carolina
City, State: Columbia, SC
Academic Field: History, Eastern Europe and USSR
Countries to Visit: Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/5/2001 - 6/30/2001
Project Title: “ Soviet Modernity in Life and Fiction: The Generation of the ‘New Soviet People,’ 1930s”

Project Abstract: Dr. Krylova will visit primarily two archives located in Moscow, the Central Party Archive, and the Komsomolski Archive where she will research the internal workings of Komsomol’skaia pravda, its relationship to the central Party newspapers, and the personal papers of its four leading journalists who covered Soviet youth culture in the 1930s.

Name: Hiroaki Kuromiya
Title: Professor
Institution: Indiana University - Bloomington
City, State: Bloomington, IN
Academic Field: History, Eastern Europe and USSR
Countries to Visit: Kyiv, Ukraine
Travel Dates: 5/18/2001 - 6/15/2001
Project Title: “ The Trial of the ‘Union for the Liberation of Ukraine’ Reconsidered”

Project Abstract: Dr. Kuromiya’s project reexamines the records of the 1930 trial of the “Union for the Liberation of Ukraine” and explores its significance in Soviet history. It is also a comparative study of intelligence in democratic and “totalitarian” states. His research will be used to write a chapter of a book in progress on politics and imagination in Stalin’s Soviet Union.

Name: Abby Schrader
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Franklin & Marshall College
City, State: Lancaster, PA
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: St. Petersburg, Russia; Irkutsk, Russia; Novosibirsk, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/20/2001 - 7/15/2001
Project Title: “Settling Siberia: Conflicted Identity in the Colonial Process, 1822-1867”

Project Abstract: Dr. Schrader will analyze official debates contained in relevant archival finds located in the Russian State Historical Archive and will illuminate the interdependence between Russia and Siberia and how Siberia’s colonization was mediated through gendered, ethnic, and status-related discourses.

Name: John Swanson
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Utica College of Syracuse University
City, State: Utica, NY
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: Budapest, Hungary; Pecs, Hungary
Travel Dates: 5/20/2001 - 7/20/2001
Project Title: “ The Dual Identity of the Germans in Hungary, 1918-1944”

Project Abstract: Dr. Swanson will examine how the Hungarian-Germans combined their ethnic and civic identity—how they defined their sense of nationness as both German and Hungarian—in the twentieth century. Dr. Swanson will conduct interviews with German-speakers in Hungary. He will also collect documents in Budapest and southern Hungary in order to continue work on this project after his trip.

Name: Thomas Trice
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: Glenville State College
City, State: Glenville, West Virginia
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: St. Petersburg, Russia; Moscow, Russia
Travel Dates: 5/7/2001 - 6/29/2001
Project Title: “ The ‘Body Politic’: Death and the Politics of Representation in St. Petersburg, Russia 1841-1929”

Project Abstract: Examining legal, scientific, religious, and popular approaches to the commemoration and disposal of the dead in modern St. Petersburg, Dr. Trice will demonstrate how the funeral, and other rituals and institutions associated with death expanded Russia’s critical public sphere during an era of dramatic social, cultural, and political change.

Name: Cynthia Vakareliyska
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of Oregon
City, State: Eugene, OR
Academic Field: Linguistics/Language
Countries to Visit: Warsaw, Poland
Travel Dates: 8/15/2001 - 9/15/2001
Project Title: “ Multiple Language and Cultural Self-Identities of the German-Speaking Lutheran Minority in Mazovia, Poland”

Project Abstract: Dr. Vakareliyska will conduct a sociolinguistic study of the dialect, language choices, and cultural and ethnic self-perceptions of the bilingual German-speaking Lutheran minority in Mazovia, Poland, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Her research on this topic will form part of a monograph comparing the Mazovian group and their counterparts in nearby Suvalkija, Lithuania. The project will consist of archival research of church records and other documents and writings by Mazovian Germans, and interviews of descendants of this group.

Name: Nancy Wingfield
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Northern Illinois University
City, State: Dekalb, IL
Academic Field: History
Countries to Visit: Brno, Czech Republic
Travel Dates: 6/15/2001 - 8/1/2001
Project Title: “ Brunn, Graz, Linz: Politicization of Public Space in the Late Habsburg Monarchy”

Project Abstract: Dr. Wingfield will examine the cultural politics of nationalism in the Cisleithanian provincial capitals of Moravia, Styria, and Upper Austria from 1888 to 1918. This trip will be a follow-up to previous research she has conducted in Brno. Dr. Wingfield will use her research findings in a monograph that she is currently working on and will present some of her findings at a conference during the fall of 2001.

Name: Erika Wolf
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Rochester
City, State: Rochester, NY
Academic Field: Art History/Arts
Countries to Visit:Moscow, Russia; Dmirtorv, Russia; Petrozavodsk & Soloventskii Island, Russia; Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Travel Dates: 6/11/2001 - 7/14/2001
Project Title: “ USSR in Construction: From Avant-Garde to Socialist Realist Practice”

Project Abstract: Dr. Wolff will carry out field research necessary for the completion of a book that traces the contribution of avant-garde representational practices to the emergence of socialist realism through a study of the photographic magazine SSSR na stroike (USSR in Construction, 1930-1941, 1949). She will visit two of the industrial construction sites that were documented in the magazine and will work in a variety of archives, libraries, and museums both at these sites and in Moscow. She will also procure photographs that are needed for the publication of her book.