Regional Policy Symposium

2007 Regional Symposium Grants: The Former Soviet Republics of Central Asia and the Contemporary Silk Road

Junior Scholar Presentations

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• Alcoholism in Mongolia: Social norms or cultural beliefs?
  Sean Armstrong, Graduate Student, School of Public Health, University of Michigan

• Effects of Son Preference on Contraception, Abortion, and Fertility in Uzbekistan
  Jennifer Barrett, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Texas - Austin

• The Role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Chinese Foreign Policy and Strategy
  Toward Central Asia
  Jennifer Bulkeley, PhD Candidate, Department of Public Policy, Harvard University

• Kitchen Talk: Silk Road Women on History, Social Change, and Dumplings
  Helen Faller, Board Vice-President, Central Asian Cultural Exchange

• Buying Revolutions? US Elite Understandings of Post-Soviet Democratic ‘Revolution’ in
  Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Georgia
  Brian Grodsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Maryland - Baltimore

• Variation in the position of undocumented CIS guest workers in various Russian regions
  Matthew Light, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

• The Acquisition of Religious Knowledge and Variation in Practice in the Kyrgyz Republic
  David Montgomery, Visiting Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

• The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, OPIC, and the Retreat from Transparency
  Blake Puckett, PhD Candidate, School of Law, Indiana University – Bloomington

• Patron-Client Politics and Presidential Succession in Central Asia: The Examples of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
  Sean Roberts, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Central Asian Affairs, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies, Georgetown University

• Muslim Life in Central Asia, 1943-1985
  Eren Tasar, Graduate Student, Department of History, Harvard University

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