IREX
International Research & Exchanges Board

Grant Recipients - June 1999

IREX is pleased to announce the grantees from the June 1999 Short Term Travel Grant (STG) competition. The STG program is funded by the Department of State (Title VIII) and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is administered by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX).

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Name:

Dr. Brook Blades

Title:

Research Associate

Institution:

University of Maryland

Field:

Archaeology

Country:

Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia

Dates:

9/23/99 - 10/6/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To examine settlement strategies and social interaction during the early Upper Paleolithic in Moravia and Silesia.

 

Name:

Dr. Zeljko Boskovic

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

University of Connecticut

Field:

Linguistics

Country:

Bulgaria

Dates:

10/6/99 - 10/11/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To present a paper on question formation in Slavic and Balkan languages, which front all question words in multiple questions, at the 3rd Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages.

 

Name:

Dr. Jane Bubank

Title:

Professor

Institution:

University of Michigan

Field:

History

Country:

United States

Dates:

10/28/99 - 11/25/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To bring Mustafa Imamovic to the United States to participate in the seminar "Empire, States, and Political Imagination" which examines compartively empires over a long historical period and several geographical areas.

 

Name:

Dr. Ellen Carnaghan

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Saint Louis University

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Russia

Dates:

2/1/00 - 2/28/00

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To examine state strength and understand how new states can build the power to rule.

 

Name:

Dr. Nancy Condee

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

University of Pittsburgh

Field:

Cinema

Country:

Russia

Dates:

6/1/99 - 6/19/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To conduct research to complete an article on the crisis in contemporary Russian cinema, commissioned publication in the volume "Russia at the End of the Twentieth Century."

 

Name:

Dr. Mary Schaeffer Conroy

Title:

Professor

Institution:

University of Colorado

Field:

History

Country:

Russia

Dates:

3/1/00 - 3/31/00

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To conduct research on the Soviet pharmaceutical industry during the "Great Patriotic War" and the immediate post-war period to 1947.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Catherine Evtuhov

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Georgetown University

Field:

History

Country:

Russia

Dates:

3/1/00 - 4/30/00

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To conduct research for a book titled "Daily Life and Provincial Culture in Nineteenth-Century Russia."

 

Name:

Dr. Victoria Fischer

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Elon College

Field:

Music

Country:

Hungary

Dates:

2/10/00 - 2/26/00

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To conduct archival research on the texts of original folksongs used by Bartok in his folksong settings for piano.

 

Name:

Dr. Steven Franks

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Indiana University

Field:

Linguistics

Country:

Bulgaria

Dates:

9/22/99 - 9/30/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To present research on "South Slavic Cities" at the "Third Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages."

 

Name:

Dr. Eva Jane Fridman

Title:

Adjunct Professor

Field:

Anthropology

Country:

Mongolia, Russia

Dates:

7/26/99 - 9/22/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To conduct research on Buryat-Mongolian shamans' healing practices in Mongolia; to research the role of memory and narrative among Buryat shamans in Buryatia, Russia; and to present a paper on Buryat Shamanism at the 5th Conference of the International Society for Shamanistic Research in Ulaanbaatar.

 

Name:

Dr. Boris Gasparov

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Columbia University

Field:

Linguistics/Literature

Country:

Russia

Dates:

3/1/00 - 4/30/00

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To conduct research to complete a book entitled "Pushkin: a European Romantic in Alexandrine Russia."

 

Name:

Dr. Rebecca Gates-Coon

Title:

Senior Reference Specialist

Institution:

Library of Congress

Field:

History

Country:

Czech Republic

Dates:

11/6/99 - 11/27/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To conduct archival research on the "Five Princesses" (women from landed families of Bohemia and Moravia) who were prominent in the late eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy.

 

Name:

Dr. Brooks Green

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

University of Central Arkansas

Field:

Geography

Country:

Russia

Dates:

9/19/99 - 10/2/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To conduct research in the Ryazan region to determine the trends in population decline, dates of abandonment, and reason for being uninhabited.

 

Name:

Dr. Jeffrey Hahn

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Villanova University, Political Science

Country:

Russia

Dates:

4/2/00 - 4/11/00

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To collect materials and conduct interviews on development of political institutions in the regions of Russia's Far East and compare this information with that in the regions of Central Russia since 1990.

 

Name:

Dr. Fredrik Heibert

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania, Archaeology

Country:

United States

Dates:

11/1/99 - 11/31/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To bring Natalia I. Shishlina to the United States to conduct a collaborative study of the steppe nomadic and oasis agricultural cultures of Central Eurasia.

 

Name:

Dr. Vicki Hesli

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

University of Iowa, Political Science

Country:

Russia

Dates:

10/4/99 - 10/18/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To finalize survey questions and sample design for a public opinion poll to be conducted in the month following the December 1999 elections to the Russian State Duma.

 

Name:

Dr. John-Paul Himka

Title:

Professor

Institution:

University of Alberta, History

Country:

Ukraine

Dates:

8/22/99 - 9/1/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To present a paper entitled "On the Left Side of God: 'Peoples' in Ukrainian Icons of the Last Judgement" at the Fourth International Congress of Ukrainian Studes in Odessa.

 

Name:

Dr. John Hoffecker

Title:

Research Associate

Institution:

University of Colorado, Archaeology

Country:

Russia

Dates:

11/12/99 - 11/22/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To present a paper at a conference organized by the Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences which concerns the archaeological remains associated with early modern humans in Eastern Europe.

 

Name:

Dr. Tomasz Inglot

Title:

Independent Researcher

Institution:

Minnesota State University

Field:

Political Science

Country:

United States

Dates:

9/1/99 - 9/15/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To bring Vladimir Mikhalev to the United States to attempt to develop a new theoretical model for the comparative examination of public policy-making during political and economic transition in Russia and East-Central Europe.

 

Name:

Dr. Ann Ingram

Title:

Independent Researcher

Field:

Folk Art/Folklore

Country:

Ukraine

Dates:

8/24/99 - 9/18/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To collect data on funerary and memorial rituals and beliefs about the dead through interviews and photographic documentation of grave markers and cemetery geography.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Laura Janda

Title:

Professor

Institution:

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Field:

Linguistics

Country:

Russia

Dates:

9/15/99 - 9/25/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To present "A cognitive model of the Russian accusative case" at the Cognitive Modeling International Conference in Moscow and deliver lectures at the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Pamela Kachurin

Title:

Research Associate

Institution:

Harvard University

Field:

History

Country:

Russia

Dates:

11/13/99 - 12/4/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To examine the role of the visual arts in the Comintern's agenda between 1919 and 1928

 

Name:

Dr. Mehran Kamrava

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

California State University, Northridge

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Azerbaijan

Dates:

1/6/00 - 1/29/00

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To examine the various means and methods through which the Azerbaijani state has sought to institutionalize and consolidate itself in relation to society.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Samuel Kassow

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Trinity College

Field:

History

Country:

Poland

Dates:

10/13/99 - 11/4/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To conduct archival research for a book on the massive underground archive project run by Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Mark Konecny

Title:

Adjunct Professor

Institution:

University of Southern California

Field:

Russian Literature

Country:

Russia

Dates:

11/1/99 - 12/7/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To analyze parody and its influence on the futurist esthetic; how futurist parody incorporates self-parody and mystification to create a new art form; and how the problem of hoax, parody, and imitation demands a reinterpretation of the Russian avant-garde.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Albert Leong

Title:

Professor

Institution:

University of Oregon

Field:

Russian Literature

Country:

Russia

Dates:

8/13/99 - 8/29/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To conduct archival research and interviews in connection with book project "Captive Muses: Artists-Prisoners in Soviet Kolyma, 1932-1953."

 

 

Name:

Dr. Gordon Marino

Title:

Library Director

Institution:

Hong/Kierkegaard Library

Field:

Philosophy

Country:

Hungary

Dates:

10/14/99 - 10/28/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To lecture at the opening of the Kierkegaard Cabinet in Budapest and advise the Director of the Cabinet on the structure and development of the Cabinet.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Christopher Marsh

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Baylor University

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Russia

Dates:

12/13/99 - 12/23/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To observe and conduct research on the 1999 Duma elections in Smolensk Oblast'.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Robert Moser

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

University of Texas

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Russia

Dates:

12/3/99 - 12/20/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To research party formation and electoral politics in Russia

 

 

Name:

Dr. David Nalle

Title:

Editor

Institution:

Central Asia Monitor

Field:

Central Asia Area Studies

Country:

Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Dates:

9/20/99 - 10/5/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To gather materials for a special issue of Central Asis Monitor and to gather information for a course on the Ferghana Valley to be given at American University's continuing education institute.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Cynthia Paces

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

The College of New Jersey

Field:

History

Country:

Belarus

Dates:

9/28/99 - 10/4/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To present a paper entitled "Gender and the Battle for Old Town Square" at the "Writing Women's History and History of Gender in Countries of Transition"

 

 

Name:

Dr. Magdalena Paleczny-Zapp

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Augsburg College

Field:

Economics

Country:

Poland, Slovenia

Dates:

3/16/99 - 4/22/00

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To continue research on projects entitled "Comparative Studies of the Methods of Privatization in Poland and Slovenia" and the "Role of Women in Economies in Transition" as well as on "The Opportunity Cost of Joining NATO and the European Union"

 

 

Name:

Dr. Irene Portis-Winner

Title:

Professor Emeritus

Institution:

Massachusetts College of Art

Field:

Anthropology

Country:

Estonia

Dates:

10/18/99 - 10/25/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To conduct research at the University of Tartu to support a publication dealing with the history and theories of the "Moscow-Tartu school" of semiotics.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Judson Rosengrant

Title:

Independent Researcher

Field:

Literature

Country:

Russia

Dates:

9/1/99 - 10/15/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To examine Lydia Ginzburg's archive at the Russian National Library in order to finish editing and English edition of Ginzburg's memoiristic notebooks published in Russian.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Claire Rosenson

Title:

Independent Researcher

Institution:

Sabre Foundation

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Poland

Dates:

10/4/99 - 10/18/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To conduct interviews in support of research on Jewish identity construction in contemporary Poland.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Andrew Schwartz

Title:

Independent Researcher

Institution:

New York University

Field:

Political Science

Country:

Czech Republic, Hungary

Dates:

7/8/99 - 7/22/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To analyze the causes and the evolution of privatization strategies in Central and Eastern Europe.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Irmhild Sperrle

Title:

Postdoctoral Researcher

Field:

Russian Literature

Country:

Russia

Dates:

9/15/99 - 9/29/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To conduct archival research for forthcoming book "The Organic Worldview of Nikolai Leskov."

 

 

Name:

Dr. Robert Sternberg

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Yale University

Field:

Psychology

Country:

Russia

Dates:

3/9/00 - 3/23/00

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To lecture at Moscow State University on adaptive functioning in rapidly changing environments; plan collaborative research on congnitive adaptation in Russia today and in the future; and to plan a project on the psychological bases of genocide.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Randi Storch

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

State University of New York

Field:

History

Country:

Russia

Dates:

7/1/99 - 7/15/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To study archival files related to communist organizing among women, ethnic groups, and trade unionists.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Colleen Thouez

Title:

Postdoctoral Researcher

Field:

International Relations

Country:

Hungary

Dates:

9/12/99 - 9/26/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To analyze European Union enlargement from the perspective of migration-related convergence criteria.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Kamil Turowski

Title:

Director of Photography

Field:

Applied and Fine Arts

Country:

Poland

Dates:

10/31/99 - 12/20/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To conduct photographic research for an album featuring the images of peoples and places that document the devastation of Eastern European life during and after the communist era.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Lisa Wilder

Title:

Assistant Professor

Institution:

Bowling Green State University

Field:

Economics

Country:

Estonia

Dates:

7/12/99 - 7/23/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To present research "Gender Differences in Earnings in Estonia" at the Tenth Annual Conference of Political Economists in Tallinn and to meet with Estonian economists to discuss recent economic changes and future research collaborations.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Nancy Wingfield

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Northern Illinois University

Field:

History

Country:

Belarus

Dates:

9/27/99 - 10/4/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To present a paper titled "Gendering Public Space: Commerations of the Battle of Zborov" at the Gender Studies Conference in Minsk, Belarus.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Larry Wolff

Title:

Professor

Institution:

Boston College

Field:

History

Country:

Poland

Dates:

4/8/99 - 4/23/99

Funder:

Department of State (Title VIII)

Topic:

To explore the connection between social modernity and literary modernism in fin-de-siecle Cracow.

 

 

Name:

Dr. Isabel Wunsche

Title:

Instructor

Institution:

California Institute of Technology

Field:

Art History

Country:

Russia

Dates:

9/6/99 - 9/27/99

Funder:

National Endowment for the Humanities

Topic:

To conduct research on M.V. Matiushin and the Organic School of the Russian avant-garde in preparation of a book publication.


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