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

