US Scholar Opportunities

Program Results for Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

Research briefs are organized by scholar’s last name and are available for download in Adobe PDF.

2009-2010

Research Topic: Assymetric Federalism and Property Rights in Russia
Name: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Affiliation: Miami University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Nation-Building and Geopolitical Traditions in Post-independence Kazakhstan
Name: Natalie Koch
Affiliation: University of Colorado, Boulder
Research Country(ies):Kazakhstan

2008-2009

Research Topic: Can Islamic Institutions Promote Civil Liberties and Diminish Radicalism in the Muslim Central Asia?
Name: Dilshod Achilov
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: Two Mechanisms of Electoral Choice: Analysis of Western and Eastern Europe
Name: Nina Barzachka
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

Research Topic: Sovereignty and Statehood in the Republic of Moldova
Name: Michael Bobick
Affiliation: Cornell University
Research Country(ies): Moldova

Research Topic: Imperial Connections: Law and Belonging in the Province of Kazan, 1870-1917
Name: Jane Burbank
Affiliation: New York University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: National Induction and Nationalizing Pasts: Aromanians and the Formation of the Romanian National State
Name: Robert Chris Davis
Affiliation: St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford
Research Country(ies): Macedonia and Romania

Research Topic: Organization in Isolation: A Study of Participation in Transdnistrian Civil Society
Name: Carrie Diffenderfer
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Research Country(ies): Moldova

Research Topic: The Politics and Economics of Food Safety in the Republic of Georgia
Name: Elizabeth Dunn
Affiliation: University of Colorado, Boulder
Research Country(ies): Georgia

Research Topic: Worlds Connected: Cimmerian-Scythian Nomadic-Sedentary Interaction in the Ukrainian Iron Age
Name: Nicholas Efremov-Kendall
Affiliation:Washington University, St. Louis
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: Political Action from Below: Youth Participation in Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Name: Christine Emeran
Affiliation: The New School University
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: Negotiating Kosovo: The Role of the International Community as a Mediator
Name: Daniella Fridl
Affiliation: Riskline International
Research Country(ies): Serbia

Research Topic: Localizing Global Subjects: A Study of Educational Actors in the Process of Albanian Democratization
Name: Meg Gardinier
Affiliation: Cornell University
Research Country(ies): Albania

Research Topic: The Holocaust in Soviet and Russian Cinema
Name: Olga Gershenson
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Russian Language in Georgia: A Case Study of the Social Pressures Facing Russian-Speaking Minorities in the CIS
Name: Alexander Groce
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Research Country(ies): Georgia

Research Topic: Globalization and Standardization: Revival of the Bulgarian Wine Industry
Name: Yuson Jung
Affiliation: Center for East European/Eurasian Studies, University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

Research Topic: Domestic Sources of Ukraine's Policy towards Russia (1991-2004)
Name: Nadiya Kravets
Affiliation: St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford
Research Country(ies): Ukraine, Russia

Research Topic: Think Future: Constructing Hope and Anti-Nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Name: Larisa Kurtovic
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: Islam, Virtuous Society, and Societal Problems in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Name: Morgan Liu
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Research Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: China's Support for Investment in Kazakhstan: Good Neighbor, Good Economics or Good Geopolitics?
Name: Daniel O'Neill
Affiliation: Washington University, Saint Louis
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan

Research Topic: Displaced Persons, the Resurgence of Nationalism, and Challenge to European Integration in Serbia
Name: William Pavlovich
Affiliation: Binghamton University
Research Country(ies): Serbia

Research Topic: History of the Northern Kirkhiz Chieftans, 1800-1935
Name: Daniel Prior
Affiliation: Miami University/Central Eurasian Studies Society
Research Country(ies): Russia, Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: Women's Peace Building Initiatives in Post-War Tajikistan: Using Religious and Cultural Traditional Spaces to Build Sustainable Peace
Name: Azita Ranjbar
Affiliation: George Mason University
Research Country(ies): Tajikistan

Research Topic: Parties of Power and Commitment Problems: United Russia as a Dominant Party
Name: Ora John Reuter
Affiliation: Emory University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Civilizing Wilderness: Music, Tourism, and Contemporary Ukrainian Identity
Name: Maria Sonevytsky
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: Civil Society Associations of Displaced Muslims from Kosovo & Macedonia vs. International Organizations in Kosovo: Learning from the Local
Name: Frances Trix
Affiliation: Indiana University
Research Country(ies): Kosovo, Macedonia

2007-2008

Research Topic: Altering the Media Landscape: The Impact of Electronic Media on Armenia’s Democratic Transition
Name: Eleeza Agopian
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Research Country(ies): Armenia

Research Topic: Contested Curriculum: Moldovan Teachers’ Responses to New History Textbooks
Name: Elizabeth A. Anderson
Affiliation: Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
Research Country(ies): Moldova

Research Topic: Law and the Culture of Debt, Credit, and Insolvency in Imperial Russia, 1832-1917
Name: Sergei Alexandrovich Antonov
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Making an Ancient Nation: Kazakh Historical Writing in the Late Soviet Era
Name: Christopher Baker
Affiliation: Indiana University at Bloomington
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan

Research Topic: Stalin's Search for a Usable Past: Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror in the USSR, 1929-1939
Name: David Brandenberger
Affiliation: University of Richmond
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Local Government and Nonprofit Service Organizations in the Russian Far East
Name: Svetlana Cherepanova
Affiliation: Syracuse University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Representation of Ethnic Conflict in the Albanian Press of Kosovo
Name: Eda Derhemi
Affiliation: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Research Country(ies): Kosovo, Albania

Research Topic: Kosova Immemorial: Monumental Representations of History and Identity in Kosovo
Name: Sarah Jane Dixon
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Research Country(ies): Kosovo

Research Topic: Reconstructing Bridges: Ukrainian Women’s Movement and Transnational Activism
Name: Jessica Forrest
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: Building Limited States: Peace-building and the Rule of Law at the Local Level in Bosnia and Herzegoniva
Name: John Hulsey
Affiliation: Indiana University
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: Muslim Women’s Identities in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
Name: Emira Ibrahimpasic
Affiliation: University of New Mexico
Research Country(ies): Bosnia and Herzegovina

Research Topic: Developing Disaster: The Perception of Natural Disaster Risk in Tajikistan
Name: Zohra Ismail
Affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington
Research Country(ies): Tajikistan

Research Topic: Internet-Stimulated Charitable Activity: Attraction, Maintenance and Engagement of NGO Members
Name: Svetlana V. Ivanitskaya
Affiliation: Central Michigan University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: "Ukraine without Jews?" Contesting Belonging in Soviet Ukraine, 1943-1948
Name: Elena Jene Jakel
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Institutionalizing “Germanness” in Russia and Kazakhstan
Name: Nathan Paul Jones
Affiliation: City University of New York
Research Country(ies): Russia, Kazakhstan

Research Topic: Islamic Education, Religious Revival, and the Contest Over Tatar Identity, 1800 to the Present
Name: Agnes Helene Neylufer Kefeli
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Activism, Citizenship and Belonging in Globalizing Romania
Name: David A Kideckel
Affiliation: Central Connecticut State University
Research Country(ies): Romania

Research Topic: Unpacking Independence: The Question of Women's Cultural and Social Independence in the Recently Declared Independent Montenegro
Name: Ljudmila Labudovic
Affiliation: University of Colorado-Bolder
Research Country(ies): Serbia and Montenegro

Research Topic: The Politics of Trauma: Memory, Mourning, and Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia
Name: Peter Locke
Affiliation: Princeton University
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: Three Gay Films from Former Yugoslavia
Name: Kevin Moss
Affiliation: Middlebury College
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia

Research Topic: Strengthening Civil Society in Azerbaijan: Role of Regional Libraries as Community Information Centers
Name: Muzhgan I. Nazarova
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Country(ies): Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia

Research Topic: Understanding Societal Transition through Urban Lens
Name: Zorica Nedovic-Budic
Affiliation: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Research Country(ies): Serbia

Research Topic: Collective Memory and Reconciliation in the Republic of Macedonia
Name: Vasiliki Neofotistos
Affiliation: State University of New York-Buffalo
Research Country(ies): Macedonia

Research Topic: Courting Democracy: The Hague Tribunal’s Impact in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Name: Lara J. Nettelfield
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Bosnia and Herzegovina

Research Topic: Balkan Wars Between the Lines: A Social History, 1912 - 1919
Name: Stefan Papaioannou
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria, Macedonia

Research Topic: International Islam and Religious Identity in Central Asia
Name: James Pickett
Affiliation: Brookings Institute
Research Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

Research Topic: Mullahs, Intellectuals, Politicians and the Struggle for Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Volga-Ural Muslim Society
Name: Danielle M Ross
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: To Remember in a World of Silence and Forgetting: The Perm-36 Gulag Museum and the Dynamics of Social
Name: Rachel Schroeder
Affiliation: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Monitoring Human Disturbance from Increased Ecotourism on Wild Bird Populations in Central Balkan National Park, Bulgaria
Name: Kathryn A. Spear
Affiliation: University of Georgia
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

Research Topic: Cultural Circuits in Southeast Europe: Grupi “Lira” of Korçë, Albania
Name: Nicholas Tochka
Affiliation: State University of New York-Stony Brook
Research Country(ies): Albania

Research Topic: Violent Death after Communism
Name: Elina Treyger
Affiliation: Harvard University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Georgia

Research Topic: Who’s Got the Power? The Politics of Building Institutions for Electricity Markets in Post-soviet Russia
Name: Susanne Wengle
Affiliation: University of California-Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Group Allegiance and State Institutions in Kyrgyz Identity
Name: Schaun Jacob Wheeler
Affiliation: University of Connecticut
Research Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: Courts and Culture: The Effects of Norms on the Development of Human Rights in the Post-Soviet World
Name: Sophia Wilson
Affiliation: University of Washington
Research Country(ies): Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan

Research Topic: Azerbaijan's Changing Public Schools: Teaching Citizenship in a Post-Soviet World
Name: Jennifer Solveig Wistrand
Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis
Research Country(ies): Azerbaijan

2006-2007

Research Topic: In Principle, Yes...Radio Yerevan: The Collective Dissident
Name: Vartan Akchyan
Affiliation: Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University
Research Country(ies): Armenia, Russia

Research Topic: Soviet Politics on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (1943-1975)
Name: Jennifer Amos
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Impact of Baptist Missionary Activity on Cultural Persistence and Ethnic Identity among the Eastern Khanty
Name: Olga Balalaeva
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Gulag and Society in Western Siberia, 1930-1960
Name: Wilson Bell
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Externalization of Political Change: Executives and Foreign Economic Policy in Post-Soviet States
Name: Samuel Charap
Affiliation: Oxford University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

Research Topic: Analysis of the Situation Surrounding the Children in Russia's Orphanages
Name: Tavon Cooke
Affiliation: European University of St. Petersburg
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Discovering the Carpathians: Episodes in Imagining and Reshaping Alpine Borderland Regions
Name: Patrice Dabrowski
Affiliation: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Policing the Post-Soviet Frontier: Militaries and Paramilitaries After the Fall of Communism
Name: Jesse Driscoll
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Country(ies): Tajikistan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: For the Love of God: Faith-Based Nonprofit Service Providers in the Context of Religious Violence
Name: Shawn Flanigan
Affiliation: University of Albany
Research Country(ies): Bosnia and Herzegovina

Research Topic: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally? Understanding the Participation of Post-Soviet States in International Environmental Agreements
Name: Amy Forster-Rothbart
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Research Topic: The Conformists: Creativity and Decadence in the East European Cinema, 1945-1989
Name: Evgenija Garbolevsky
Affiliation: Brandeis University
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

Research Topic: Mongolian-Kazakh Oralmander: Regimes of Citizenship and Nation-Building in Kazakhstan
Name: Anna Genina
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan

Research Topic: Imperial Policy and National Identities: Habsburg Administration and Local Response in Bosnia and Dalmatia, 1878-1918
Name: Anthony Glocke
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia

Research Topic: Democracy Nationalism and Political Culture: The Social Construction of Political Meaning in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Name: Daniel Scott Hammer
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: Libraries in the Information Economy of Croatia
Name: Robert Hayes
Affiliation: University of California at Los Angeles
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: Cultures of Politics and Urban Revolution in Late Imperial Kiev
Name: Faith Hillis
Affiliation: Yale University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Ukraine

Research Topic: Suburbanizing Sofia: Context and Characteristics of Post-Communist Spatial Growth, Issues, and Opportunities
Name: Sonia Hirt
Affiliation: Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro

Research Topic: Life at the Crossroads of Social Change: Roma Women in Post-Communist Croatia
Name: Nila Hofman
Affiliation: DePaul University
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: On Debt and Disorder: Market Exchange, Intimacy, and Health in the New Bosnian States
Name: Larisa Jasarevic
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: The Development of Visual Art in Transitional Albania
Name: Sofia Kalo
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Country(ies): Albania

Research Topic: The Great Bustard (Otis Tarda) in Kazakhstan From Population Biology to Land-Use Planning
Name: Aimee Kessler
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan, Russia

Research Topic: Oil in the Context of the Development of a Civil Society –Promise or Peril
Name: Carolyn Kissane
Affiliation: New York University
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan

Research Topic: Proletarian Tourism and Vacations in the USSR
Name: Diane Koenker
Affiliation: University of Illinois
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Dead Letter Law: Violence and Trafficking in the Republic of Moldova
Name: Lori Mann
Affiliation: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Research Country(ies): Moldova

Research Topic: Explaining Semi-Presidentialism in Post-Communist Europe: Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova in Comparative Perspective
Name: Eugene Mazo
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Ukraine, Moldova

Research Topic: Ethno-territoriality, Local Governing Institutions and Actors and the (Re) production of 'Ethnic Conflict' in Bosnia.
Name: Adam Moore
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: The Bektashi Ecumenical Experience: Heterodox Islam, National Identity, and Modernity in Post-Communist Albania
Name: Mentor Mustafa
Affiliation: Boston University
Research Country(ies): Albania

Research Topic: Exclusion and Violence in Post-Conflict States: Does International Assistance Sustain War-Time Resource Distributive Structures? (With Case Studies of Tajikistan & Sierra-Leone)
Name: Sumie Nakaya
Affiliation: The City University of New York
Research Country(ies): Tajikistan

Research Topic: Music, Cultural Policy, and the New Georgian Transnationalism
Name: Lauren Ninoshvili
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Georgia

Research Topic: Commercial Farming and Subsistence in the Wine Sector of Rural Georgia
Name: Carroll Patterson
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Research Country(ies): Georgia

Research Topic: Policing the Binary-Patrolling the Nation: Roman Dmowski and the Polish Right on the Eve of the Holocaust
Name: Meghann Pytka
Affiliation: Northwestern University
Research Country(ies): Poland, Russia, Ukraine

Research Topic: Ottoman and Russian Migration Management Policies in the Black Sea Region, 1768-1829
Name: Andrew Robarts
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Bulgaria

Research Topic: Family, Violence and Health in the Kyrgyz Republic
Name: Patricia Ryan
Affiliation: University of Texas
Research Country(ies): Kyrgyz Republic

Research Topic: Soldiers of the World: Soviet War Correspondents, Russian Nationalism and Masculinity from the Second World War to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Name: Elena Shulman
Affiliation: Texas Tech University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Social Mobility in Imperial Russia: Petitions and Changing Estates Before 1917
Name: Alison Smith
Affiliation: Colorado State University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Gendered Market Subjectivity in Post-socialist Croatia
Name: Katherine Sredl
Affiliation: University of Illinois U-C
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: Tracing the Development of the Science of Music in Central Asia
Name: William Sumits
Affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle
Research Country(ies): Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Research Topic: Gorbachev: A Biography
Name: William Taubman
Affiliation: Amherst College
Research Country(ies): Russia, Georgia.

Research Topic: Financial Development and Economic Growth in Bulgaria
Name: Neven Valev
Affiliation: Georgia State University
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

Research Topic: Government in the Sunshine: Whether the U.S. Model of Public Access to Governmental Records, a/k/a Freedom of Information Could Take Root in a Post-Communist Democracy – the Case of Poland
Name: Anne Wagner-Findeisen
Affiliation: Power Authority of the State of New York
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Lost in Transition: Barriers to Educational Participation in Tajikistan
Name: Christopher Whitsel
Affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Research Country(ies): Tajikistan

Research Topic: Elite Transformation in the Bulgarian Transition

Name: Emilia Zankina
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

2005-2006

Research Topic: Visions of Empire: Soviet Union, Poland and the Refashioning of a Soviet Identity
Name: Patryk Babiracki
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Subjects of the Tsar, Brothers of the Sultan: The Ferghana Valley Between Russian Colonialism and Pan-Islamism
Name: Lale Can
Affiliation: New York University
Research Country(ies): Turkey

Research Topic: Jadidism: Russia's "Euro-Islam" Between Multi-Scalular Threats
Name: Matthew Derrick
Affiliation: University of Oregon
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Religion and Rebellion: The Cultural Practices of Christian and Muslim Notables in Ottoman Bulgaris, 1750-1839
Name: Tolga Esmer
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Turkey, Bulgaria

Research Topic: Cinema, Nationality, and the Politics of Entertainment in Soviet Ukraine, 1962-1975
Name: Joshua Firs
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies):Russia, Ukraine

Research Topic: Narratives of Affiliation: EU Enlargement and National Sovereignty in Life Stories of Urban and Rural Poles
Name: Marysia Galbraith
Affiliation: University of Alabama
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Europeanizing Labor, Rethinking Belonging: Romanian-German Relations in Postsocialist Romania
Name: Emanuela Grama
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Romania

Research Topic: The Crumbling of Stalinism in the "Capital of the Gulag": Political and Economic Transition in Magadan, 1953-1956
Name: Jeffrey Hardy
Affiliation: Brigham Young University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Balkan Futures: Producing Commercial and State Images of Bulgaria's Future
Name: Benjamin Hodges
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

Research Topic: Integration or Autonomy? The Dynamics of Crimean Tatar Repatriation to Ukraine and Its Impact on Regional Security in Central Eurasia
Name: Idil Izmirli
Affiliation: George Mason University
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: Soviet Refugees in Postwar Europe and the Cold War, 1945-1961
Name: Andrew Janco
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Mitigating Civil Conflict in the Ferghana Valley, Central Asia: The Effects of Local Level Social Constraints
Name: Kevin Jones
Affiliation: Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), University of Maryland at College Park
Research Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: The Political Prisoner in the Twentieth Century: Honor and Resistance Across Seven Regimes in Poland
Name: Padraic Kenney
Affiliation: University of Colorado
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Confronting Domestic Violence in Russian Communities: A Needs Assessment for the Health Care Sector
Name: Elizabeth King
Affiliation: Yale University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Religious Revivals and the Transition from State-Socialism
Name: Karrie Koesel
Affiliation: Cornell University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Regional Migration Policies, Freedom of Movement, and Citizenship in the Russian Federation
Name: Matthew Light
Affiliation: Yale University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: State-Building, Rural Development, and Social Change in Soviet Kerghizia, 1921-1941
Name: Benjamin Loring
Affiliation: Brandeis University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

Research Topic: Making "Gypsies" Soviet: Nationality Policy, Social Practice, and the Roma of the Soviet Union, 1917-1939
Name: Brigid O'Keeffe
Affiliation: New York University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Creating the Boundary: The Russian Far East and Korea, 1860-1920's
Name: Alyssa Park
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Socialist Societies Consumed: The Culture of the Market and Everyday Life in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Name: Patrick Patterson
Affiliation: Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California at San Diego
Research Country(ies): Serbia and Montenegro, Hungary

Research Topic: Empowerment Through Civil and Social Action: Discrimination Against Sex Workers in Georgia
Name: Ingrida Platais
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Georgia

Research Topic: Empire of Cities: Fascist Urbanism and the Urban Transformation of Tirana, Albania
Name: Besnik Pula
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Albania

Research Topic: Identity Through History: The Kenesary Kasymov Revolt and the Shaping of Modern Kazak National Identity
Name: Steven Sabol
Affiliation: The University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan

Research Topic: Brotherly Friction: The Political, Economic, and Cultural Development of Soviet-Cuban Relations, 1959-1968.
Name: Oscar Sanchez
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Armenian and ‘Tatar’ (Azerbaijani) Subjects of the Russian Empire: The ‘Hardening’ of Cultural and Political Boundaries in the South Caucasus, 1800-1905
Name: Leslie Sargent
Affiliation: University of California at Santa Barbara
Research Country(ies): Azerbaijan

Research Topic: Religion and Democratization in Comparative Perspective: Evidence from Armenia and Georgia
Name: Ani Sarkissian
Affiliation: University of California - Los Angeles
Research Country(ies): Armenia, Georgia

Research Topic: Smuggling Across the Soviet Borders: Contraband Trade and the Soviet Struggle against It, 1918-1933
Name: Andrey Shlyakhter
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Russia, Ukraine

Research Topic: Regime Change and Survival in the Post-Communist "Gray Zone": The Rise of Electoral Revolutions
Name: Klara Sogindolska
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Research Country(ies): Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine

Research Topic: The State of Money: How the Erosion of Monetary Sovereignty Affects State-Society Relations in Bulgaria
Name: Karen Young
Affiliation: The City University of New York
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

2004-2005

Research Topic: Making War Memories, Forging Socialist Yugoslavia
Name: Max Bergholz
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Research Country(ies): Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia

Research Topic: Learning from Success: An Ethnographic Study of Russian Agriculture's Struggling Minority: the Private Farmer
Name: Danielle Berman
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Lev Bakst and His Literary Heritage
Name: John Bowlt
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: In Moscow's Image? Constructing Soviet Identities in Kaliningrad Province: State and Society, 1945-1969
Name: David Bridges
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Identity of Religion: Practice, Belief and Nationality in Post-Soviet Buryatia
Name: Justine Buck
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Songs of Antonin Dvorak: Czech Culture, Style, and Performance
Name: Timothy Cheek
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic

Research Topic: Institutional Change and Innovation in Kyrgyz Agriculture: Understanding Variation in Farm Performance
Name: Kelley Cormier
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Research Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: Notorious Subjects, Invisible Citizens: Albanian Migrants in Turkey
Name: Ryan Gingeras
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Research Country(ies): Macedonia

Research Topic: Wartime Sarajevo (1941-1945): Communities, Identities, Experiences
Name: Emily Greble
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia

Research Topic: Wife Abuse in Tajikistan
Name: Robin Haarr
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Research Country(ies): Tajikistan

Research Topic: Sacred Places or Soviet Places? Contending with Religious Spaces in Urban Landscape, 1917-1941

Name: Desiree Hopkins
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Women and Election Law: Civil Society Development in the Balkans
Name: Kirsten Jelic
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Research Country(ies): Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: The Cultural Politics of Scale and the Rescaling of Place and Identity in the Estonian-Russian Borderlands
Name: Robert Kaiser
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Research Country(ies): Russia, Estonia

Research Topic: Equality from the Top Down? Discourses of Gender Equality and Czech Societal Transformation
Name: Karen Kapusta-Pofahl
Affiliation: University of Minnesota
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic

Research Topic: The Traffic in Gagauz Moldovan Women to Turkey: Experience and Impact in Moldova
Name: Leyla Keough
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Country(ies): Moldova

Research Topic: Filming Riazan: The History of Cinefication in a Russian Province
Name: Thomas Lahusen
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: An Anthropological Study of Religious Knowledge and Transmission Among the Uzbek-Kyrgyzstanis
Name: David Montgomery
Affiliation: Boston University
Research Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

Research Topic: A Tormented Land: The Italian Exodus from Istria after World War II, A Case Study of Pola
Name: Mirjana Morosini-Dominick
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: Carrying On: Russian Rural Women, Tradition, and Transgression
Name: Laura Olson
Affiliation: University of Colorado
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Mapping HIV Prevention in Poland: Contested Citizenship and the Struggle for Health after Socialism
Name: Jill Owczarzak
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Teaching Literature in the New Russian School: The Modernization Initiative
Name: Nadya Peterson
Affiliation: Hunter College, City University of New York
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Kavkaztsy: Islam and Empire in the Caucasus, 1845-1864
Name: Dana Sherry
Affiliation: University of California - Davis
Research Country(ies): Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia

Research Topic: The Prosodic System of Northwest Russian Dialects
Name: Maria Shrager
Affiliation: Indiana University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Biocultural Impacts of State Expansionism: Provincial Roman Political Economy and the Conservation of Serbian Cultural Resources
Name: Charles Speal
Affiliation: State University of New York at Albany
Research Country(ies): Serbia and Montenegro

Research Topic: St. Petersburg Fin de Siecle
Name: Mark Steinberg
Affiliation: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Reorientation of Polish Defense and Security Policy with regard to Germany, 1989-1999: A European or an Atlantic Option?
Name: R. Stefan Szwed
Affiliation: Oxford University
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Multiple Lives: Jozef Tiso and His Histories, 1887-2004
Name: James Ward
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Country(ies): Slovakia

2003-2004

Research Topic: The History of Human Rights in Turkey: The Changes in Discourse and Practices within Cycles of Politics
Name: Zehra Arat
Affiliation: SUNY - Purchase College, Social Science Division
Research Country(ies): Turkey

Research Topic: Between Private and State Interests: The Role of Energy in Ukrainian-Russian Relations (1991-2003)
Name: Margarita Balmaceda
Affiliation: Seton Hall University, School of Diplomacy and International Relations
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: The Liberation of Latvia: Media and Nonviolence
Name: Janis Cakars
Affiliation: Indiana University, School of Journalism
Research Country(ies): Latvia

Research Topic: Tobacco Smuggling in Poland: Trends, Magnitude, and Consequences
Name: Christina Ciecierski
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Islam, Identity and Conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Name: Kathleen Collins
Affiliation: University of Notre Dame
Research Country(ies): Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: Selling Power: Russian Arms Transfers in the Post-Cold War Era
Name: Tobias Dougherty
Affiliation: St. Antony's College
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Romani Women, a Neglected Population: Race, Class, Gender, and Policy in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Name: Jennifer Erickson
Affiliation: University of Oregon
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: Nationality, Ethnicity, and Capitalist Enterprise in the Russian Empire
Name: Robert Geraci
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Research Country(ies): Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan

Research Topic: Apples, Milk, and Waste: Understanding the Environmental Implications of Hungary's Entry into the European Union
Name: Zsuzsa Gille
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Country(ies): Hungary

Research Topic: Fade from Red: Screening the Ex-Enemy During the Nineties
Name: Helena Goscilo
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Muslim Shrines of Tajikistan: Mapping the Religious Landscape
Name: Jo-Ann Gross
Affiliation: The College of New Jersey
Research Country(ies): Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Research Topic: The Politics of War and Trade between the Nomadic Khazar Empire and the Islamic Caliphate (7th - 10th centuries AD)
Name: Irina Harris
Affiliation: Boston University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Media and Nation in Twentieth-Century Slovakia
Name: Owen Johnson
Affiliation: Indiana University, School of Journalism
Research Country(ies): Slovakia, Czech Republic

Research Topic: The Development of the Women’s Movement in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan
Name: Irina Liczek
Affiliation: New School University
Research Country(ies): Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
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Research Topic: Ethnic Entanglements: Sarajevo's Cultural Legacies in Discourse and Practice
Name: Fran Markowitz
Affiliation: Ben-Gurion University
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: A Search for Embeddedness: "Pan-Turkism" and the Russian Roots of Turkish Nationalism
Name: James Meyer
Affiliation: Brown University
Research Country(ies): Azerbaijan

Research Topic: Self-Interest or Symbolic Attitudes? The Case of EU Membership in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Name: Lisa Pohlman
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic, Slovakia

Research Topic: Recent Changes in Mongolian Political Culture
Name: Paula Sabloff, Senior Research Scientist
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Research Country(ies): Mongolia

Research Topic: Technologies of Power: The Impact of New Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Political Governance, Innovation and Economic Development in Post-Communist Countries in Transition: Case Study – Armenia
Name: Audrey Selian
Affiliation: Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Research Country(ies): Armenia

Research Topic: Developing Civil Engagement: Environmental NGOs and Participatory Democracy in Local Czech Politics
Name: Michael Smith
Affiliation: Sarah Lawrence College
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic

Research Topic: Agricultural Reform in Southern Siberia, 1954-1963
Name: Jennifer Smith
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Political Relations between the Soviet State and Students in Institutions of Higher Education, 1947-1965
Name: Benjamin Tromly
Affiliation: Harvard University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Re-Territorialized Armenian
Name: Hrag Varjabedian
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Research Country(ies): Armenia

Research Topic: Stability versus State-Society Consolidation
Name: Jonathan Zartman
Affiliation: University of Denver
Research Country(ies): Tajikistan

2002-2003

Research Topic: Western Donors in the Former Soviet Union
Name: Saadat Aksartova
Affiliation: Princeton University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: Social Construction of Reality in the Context of Intercultural Communication and its Implications for Practice of Public Diplomacy - Investigation of Beliefs about Americans and their Government among Polish High School Students Who View Movies and TV Programs
Name: Piotr Dworak
Affiliation: Boston University
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Prague People's Court 1947: Two Women and a Nation's Past
Name: Benjamin Frommer
Affiliation: Northwestern University
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic

Research Topic: The United States Foreign Policy in Azerbaijan and Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act
Name: Mahnaz Ganji
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Springfield
Research Country(ies): Azerbaijan

Research Topic: Tatar Theatre - Russian Empire: The Politics of Memory Making in Imperial Kazan
Name: Madina Goldberg
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Citizen Youth: University Reform and the Making of Serbia's Political Future
Name: Jessica Greenberg
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Serbia

Research Topic: Iranian Elderly: Finding Meaning in a Transforming World
Name: Mary Hegland
Affiliation: Santa Clara University
Research Country(ies): Iran, Turkey, Tajikistan

Research Topic: Women and Work: How the Growth of Informal Employment Changed Economic Life in the Ukrainian City of Komsomolsk
Name: Leontina Hormel
Affiliation: University of Oregon
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: From Post-Soviet Poverty to Sustainable Development: The Role of Local NGOs in Promoting Development and Alleviating Poverty in Armenia
Name: Armine Ishkanian
Affiliation: University of California – Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Armenia

Research Topic: The Origins of the Russian-Chechen Conflict: Russia, Dagestan, Chechnya 1996-1999
Name: Miriam Lanskoy
Affiliation: Boston University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Corruption in Interwar Yugoslavia, 1918-1941
Name: Jovana Lazic
Affiliation: Yale University
Research Country(ies): Serbia

Research Topic: Reflections in a Broken Mirror: the Person and Persona of Nina
Petrovskaya
Name: Catherine LeGouis
Affiliation: Mount Holyoke College
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Modeling Dialogue, Modeling Selves: "Psychological Realism" in Post-Soviet Theater and Social Life
Name: Alaina Lemon
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Elite Intellectuals, Political Discourse and Public Opinion in Post-Communist Societies
Name: Ekaterina Levintova
Affiliation: Western Michigan University
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Sources of State Weakness and Collapse: Mahalla-State Relations In Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
Name: Lawrence Markowitz
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Research Country(ies): Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

Research Topic: Chronicling an Endangered Way of Life: A Comparative Photographic Study of European Peasant Folk Traditions
Name: Kathleen McLaughlin
Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
Research Country(ies): Romania

Research Topic: Murder Most Russian: Premeditated Death and Modernity in Tsarist Russia
Name: Louise McReynolds
Affiliation: University of Hawaii
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Nasi Spanci - Croatian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Name: Vjeran Pavlakovic
Affiliation: University of Washington - Seattle
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: Globalization from Below: Croatian Social Movements in Transition
Name: Maple Rasza
Affiliation: Harvard University
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: Remembering the Marshal: Landscape, Memory and National Identity in the Republic of Croatia
Name: Jude Rost
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: Picturesque Textuality: Literature and Landscape Design in Russia, 1762-1914
Name: Andreas Schonle
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: "Spending the Hopes of Our Children": The Military-Industrial Complex in Comparative Local Perspective, 1945-1962
Name: Anita Seth
Affiliation: Yale University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Advertising and Identity Development in Croatia
Name: Katherine Sredl
Affiliation: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: Russia, China and Energy in Central and East Asia
Name: Charles Ziegler
Affiliation: University of Louisville
Research Country(ies): Russia, Kazakhstan

2001-2002

Research Topic: Neither Private nor Public: Women's Domestic Spaces in Socialist Slovenia
Name: Veronica Aplenc
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Folklore and Folklife
Research Country(ies): Slovenia

Research Topic: Discourses of gender and power in post-Soviet Ukraine
Name: Laada Bilaniuk
Affiliation: University of Washington
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: The International Dimension of Democratization in Croatia
Name: Mieczyslaw Boduszynski
Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: Young Women at Risk: Sexuality at a Time of Transition in Ukraine
Name: Martha Bojko
Affiliation: University of Connecticut, Anthropology
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: Grassroots and Globalization: The Survival of the Voro Language
Name: Kara Brown
Affiliation: Indiana University, Education Policy
Research Country(ies): Estonia

Research Topic: Language Politics and Turkmen National Identity Construction, 1880s-2000
Name: Victoria Clement
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Research Country(ies): Turkmenistan, Russia

Research Topic: A Multimedia Documentation of Bulgarian Folk Music
Name: Regina D’Amico
Affiliation: President and CEO, Patchwork Productions, Inc.
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

Research Topic: The Evolution of Slavic Aspect
Name: Stephen Dickey
Affiliation: University of Virginia, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Research Country(ies): Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia

Research Topic: One Homeland or Two?: Territorialization of Identity and the Repatriation Decision Among the Mongolian-Kazakh Diaspora
Name: Alexander Diener
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan

Research Topic: New Democratic Institutions and Corruption in Post-Communist Countries
Name: Scott Gehlbach
Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: State-breaking/State-making: Returning Refugees, NGOs, and the Political Geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Name: Andrew Gilbert
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: Borderline Russian: Regional Boundaries and the Remapping of the Russian Federation
Name: James Goode
Affiliation: University of Oxford, St. Antony's College
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Russian Orthodox Church During the Time of Troubles in the Early Seventeenth Century
Name: Isaiah Gruber
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes During the Early Phase of Transition: The Case of Kyrgyzstan
Name: Billur Gungoren
Affiliation: Columbia University, Social Policy Analysis
Research Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan

Research Topic: Manifestations of Russian Literary Orientalism
Name: John Hope
Affiliation: University of Michigan, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Race, Modernity, and the Making of Russia's Europe in Harbin, 1898-1924
Name: Chia Yin Hsu
Affiliation: New York University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Towards an Art History of Socialist Realism: Aleksandr Deineka as Case Study
Name: Christina Kiaer
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Construction, Arrangement, Revival: Slovenian Vocal Music Practices and National Perception
Name: Maria Klemenc
Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Slovenia

Research Topic: Why are So Many Czech Women Dying of Breast Cancer? A Cultural Approach to Understanding Illness, Detection, and Treatment in the Czech Republic
Name: Denise Kozikowski
Affiliation: University of California at Los Angeles, Folklore and Mythology
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic

Research Topic: Elite Intellectuals, Political Discourse and Public Opinion in Post-Communist Societies
Name: Ekaterina Levintova
Affiliation: Western Michigan University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Creating a Cultural Identity: Religion and National Memory in Early Modern Bohemia
Name: Howard Louthan
Affiliation: University of Notre Dame
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic

Research Topic: Njegos's Montenegro and the Great Powers: 1830-1851
Name: Natasha Margulis
Affiliation: University of Cincinnati
Research Country(ies): Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Montenegro, Serbia

Research Topic: Everyday Coping in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Ethnic Influences and Political Implications
Name: Kelly McMann
Affiliation: Harvard University, Davis Center
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan

Research Topic: Exhibitions and Prohibitions of Local Power and Identity: Rusyn Radio and the Politics of Accomodation and Resistance in Eastern Slovakia
Name: Robert Metil
Affiliation: Adjunct Faculty, Chatham College
Research Country(ies): Slovakia

Research Topic: A Cultural Psychological Study of the Narratives of the Ex-Politically Persecuted People of Albania: Toward a National Narrative
Name: Susan Murati
Affiliation: Alliant University, California
Research Country(ies): Albania

Research Topic: All the Tsars' Men: Minorities and the Russian Imperial Army, 1874-1905
Name: Dana Ohren
Affiliation: Indiana University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Imaginary Past: Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great in Russian Nationalist Historical Mythologies
Name: Kevin Platt
Affiliation: Pomona College
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Empire by Invitation: Russian Political Patronage, Frontier Diplomacy and Imperial Rivalries in the Caucasus, 1774-1825
Name: Sean Pollock
Affiliation: Harvard University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Georgia

Research Topic: Soviet Society at War: Social Identity and the State during the Great Fatherland War, 1941-1945
Name: Jeffrey Rossman
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Clowns and Combines: The Musical Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov and Ivan Pyr'ev (1934-1950)
Name: Rimgaila Salys
Affiliation: University of Colorado at Boulder
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Three Generations of Czech Women Writing
Name: Elena Sokol
Affiliation: The College of Wooster
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic

Research Topic: "A People with Two Souls": The Dual Identity of the Germans in Hungary, 1918-1944
Name: John Swanson
Affiliation: Utica College of Syracuse University
Research Country(ies): Hungary

Research Topic: The Golden Age of the Russian Guitar: The repertoire, performance practice, and social function of the Russian seven-string guitar music, 1800-1850.
Name: Oleg Timofeyev
Affiliation: University of Iowa
Research Country(ies): Russia

2000-2001

Research Topic: The Jews of Russia and the Problem of Assimilation, 1880-1917
Name: Eugene Avrutin
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: 'Women on the Market': Sex Trafficking, Migration, and the Production of a New Post-Bipolar Political Geography in Europe
Name: Jacqueline Berman
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Capital Punishment and the Quest for Personal Rights in Early 20th century Russia
Name: David Burke
Affiliation: University of California - Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Russia, Ukraine

Research Topic: Liberalism and the Weakness of a Public Orientation in Post-Communist Poland
Name: Michael Carpenter
Affiliation: University of California-Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: The Rhetorics of Identity in Moldova: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Children's Cultural Programs
Name: Jennifer Cash
Affiliation: Indiana University
Research Country(ies): Moldova

Research Topic: War by Numbers: Computers, Nuclear Weapons, and the Arms Race
Name: Anne Fitzpatrick
Affiliation: George Washington University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Ukraine

Research Topic: History of Russian Journalism in Exile
Name: Lazar Fleishman
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Country(ies): Latvia

Research Topic: The Transmission of Knowledge in Central Eurasia: Makhdum-i A'zam within the Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order
Name: Victoria Gardner
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Uzbekistan

Research Topic: Russian Jews in the Twentieth Century
Name: Anna Geifman
Affiliation: Boston University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Hungary and the USSR: a New Analysis of Soviet Decision Making Based on Communist Bloc Archival Sources
Name: Johanna Granville
Affiliation: Clemson University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Social and Political History of the Polish Jewry in 1944-1949
Name: Jan Gross
Affiliation: New York University
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Broken into Pieces from Moscow to Kirov: The Bureaucracy for Russia's Schools.
Name: Larry Holmes
Affiliation: University of South Alabama
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia
Name: Larisa Honey
Affiliation: City University of New York
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Women's NGO Coalition Formation in Ukraine
Name: Alexandra Hrycak
Affiliation: Reed College
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: Native Mother: Nature and Wilderness in Modern Russia
Name: William Husband
Affiliation: Oregon State University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Intra-Oblast Migration Patterns and the Formation of a Post-Soviet Urban Hierarchy: The Role of Urban Planners in Siberia
Name: Seema Iyer
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Inter-ethnic Cooperation in Trieste/Trst under Fascism
Name: Rashi Jackman
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Slovenia

Research Topic: What's Going on in the Provinces? An Investigation of Local Government, Political Opinion, and Grassroots Organizations in Georgia Regions.
Name: Stephen Jones
Affiliation: Mt. Holyoke College
Research Country(ies): Georgia

Research Topic: Making Crime and Sex Soviet: Women, Deviance, and the Development of Soviet Criminology, 1921-1931
Name: Sharon Kowalsky
Affiliation: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Grades, Games, and Socially Useful Labor: Soviet Childhood as a Cultural Institution, 1918-1958
Name: Ann Livschiz
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Transitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Comparing the Consequences of Dealing with the Past in Poland and Germany
Name: Matt Murphy
Affiliation: University of California-San Diego
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Ethnic Identity in the Post-Socialist World Order: The Creation of Difference Between Ethnic Macedonians and Ethnic Albanians in Skopye, Macedonia
Name: Vasiliki Neofotistos
Affiliation: Harvard University
Research Country(ies): Macedonia

Research Topic: Codifying Yugoslavia: The Origins and Ideology of King Aleksandar's Dictatorship, 1926-1934
Name: Christian Nielsen
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia

Research Topic: Environmental Change and Post-Communist Transformation in the Czech Republic
Name: Petr Pavlinek
Affiliation: University of Nebraska - Omaha
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic

Research Topic: The Failure of State-Building Among the South Slavs, from 1918 to the Present
Name: Sabrina Ramet
Affiliation: University of Washington
Research Country(ies): Croatia

Research Topic: Ottoman Foreign Policy Toward Russia, 1908-1922: Identity, Ideology, and Geopolitics
Name: Michael Reynolds
Affiliation: Princeton University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Social Policy Reform in Eastern Europe
Name: Andrew Roberts
Affiliation: Princeton University
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic, Slovakia

Research Topic: Conversion to Old Belief: Critiques of Modernity and Individualism in Postsocialist Russia
Name: Douglas Rogers
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: From Narod to Natsional'nost': Soviet Power and the Creation of Kazakh National Identity, 1918-1936
Name: Michael Rouland
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Research Country(ies): Kazakhstan, Russia

Research Topic: Staraia Ladoga and the Origins of Early Medieval Rus' Urbanization
Name: Heidi Sherman
Affiliation: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Pacifying a Marvelous Land: Gender, Terror and Settlement in the Soviet Far East, 1937-1939
Name: Elena Shulman
Affiliation: University of California-Riverside
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Politics of Music in the GDP and Poland: Composers and the Party, 1948-1956
Name: David Tompkins
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: A Case Study of Soviet Terror: Identity, Culture, and Violence in Khar'kov, 1880-1941
Name: Robert Thurston
Affiliation: Miami University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Ukraine

Research Topic: Establishing Textual Authority in 17th Century Poland-Lithuania
Name: Michelle Viise
Affiliation: University of California-Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Regional Consciousness and Social Stability in Late Imperial Russia: Civic Organizations in Nizhnii Novgorod and Saratov, 1870-1914
Name: Lisa Walker
Affiliation: University of California-Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Rejecting the State: Independence and Secession in Georgia and Azerbaijan
Name: Cory Welt
Affiliation: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Research Country(ies): Georgia, Azerbaijan

Research Topic: Between Religious Toleration and Freedom of Conscience: Russian Discourses of Belief, Confessional Status, and Civic Inclusion, 1762-1914
Name: Paul Werth
Affiliation: University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Language Choice, Change, and Viability: The Case of Tatar in Tatarstan
Name: Suzanne Wertheim
Affiliation: University of California-Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Russia

1999-2000

Research Topic: Pipelines and Foreign Policies: Russia's Energy Policy Towards Central East Europe
Name: Margarita Balmaceda
Affiliation: University of Toledo
Research Country(ies): Russia, Hungary

Research Topic: Rentering the Margins: The Gulag in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan, 1920s-1950s
Name: Steven Barnes
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Kazakhstan

Research Topic: Finine Martyrdom and Revolutionary Mythmaking
Name: Sally Boniece
Affiliation: Frostburg State University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Social Capital and Post-Soviet Society: Networks, Trust and Survival in the Russian Federation
Name: Sarah Busse
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Cultural Ecology of a Post-Socialist Society: The Case of the Vilyui Sakha
Name: Susan Crate
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Laying Claim to History in the Cities of Europe's 'Eastern Borderlands': Refashioning the Urban Heritage of Gdansk, Riga, L'viv, and Vilnius
Name: John Czaplicka
Affiliation: New York University
Research Country(ies): Poland, Latvia, Lithuania

Research Topic: Theater in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 War
Name: Davor Diklich
Affiliation: Hampshire College
Research Country(ies): Bosnia & Herzegovina

Research Topic: Nation-Building after Socialism: Sovereignty Politics in Tatarstan, Russia
Name: Helen Faller
Affiliation: The University of Michigan
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Atheism and Irreligion among Educated Russians in the Nineteenth Century
Name: Victoria Frede
Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Church, Religion, and Society in Modern Russia, 1850-1940.
Name: Gregory Freeze
Affiliation: Brandeis University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Culture of Anxiety Among Miners in Post-Socialist Romania
Name: Jack Friedman
Affiliation: Duke University
Research Country(ies): Romania

Research Topic: Personal Networks in the Global Economy: Kin-based Economic Strategies of Polish Households
Name: Maria Galbraith
Affiliation: University of Alabama - New College
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Non-Normative Distribution of Macedonian Relativizers
Name: Kim Gareiss
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Macedonia

Research Topic: Civil Society and the Chemical Ether in Bureaucratic and Scientific Work of D.I. Mendeleev, 1861-1905
Name: Michael Gordin
Affiliation: Harvard University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Standardization of the Serbian Lexicon in Vuk S. Karadzic's Dictionaries
Name: Charles Greer
Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley
Research Country(ies): Yugoslavia

Research Topic: Property Relations and Consumption in Soviet Russia, 1935-1953
Name: P. Charles Hachten
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Soviet Operations in the Kurils and U.S.-Soviet Collaboration against Japan, February-September 1945
Name: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Affiliation: University of California at Santa Barbara
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Last Judgement in Ukrainian Culture: Towards a "Mental Archaeology"
Name: John-Paul Himka
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Broadcasting Beyond the Iron Curtain: the Restructuring of Television in the Context of Democratic Consolidation in Bulgaria
Name: Assia Ivantcheva
Affiliation: American University
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria

Research Topic: The Lianozovo Group and Moscow Constructivist Poetry
Name: Gerald Janecek
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Kriashen Apostasy: Popular Religion, Education, and the Contest over Tatar Identity, 1854-1917
Name: Agnes Kefeli
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Women in Central Ukraine: Personal Narratives of Leadership and Community Activism in Cherkasy Oblast
Name: Martha Kichorowska-Kebalo
Affiliation: City University of New York
Research Country(ies): Ukraine

Research Topic: Health, Culture, and Politics in Post-Socialist Romania
Name: David Kideckel
Affiliation: Central Connecticut State University
Research Country(ies): Romania

Research Topic: Environmental Security in Southeast Europe: The Black Sea Basin
Name: Boian Koulov
Affiliation: George Mason University
Research Country(ies): Bulgaria, Romania

Research Topic: The Piano Sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya
Name: Marian Lee
Affiliation: Peabody Conservatory of Music
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: The Politics and Sociology of Information in the Soviet Union, 1918-1953
Name: Terry Martin
Affiliation: Harvard University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Ukraine

Research Topic: The Politics of Decentraliztion in Post-Soviet Central Asia.
Name: Eric McGlinchey
Affiliation: Princeton University
Research Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

Research Topic: Transnational Influences on Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: Weighing the Role of Transnational Material Resources and Ideas in the Development of NGOs
Name: Lisa McIntosh-Sundstrom
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Post-Soviet Style 'Grassroots': The Formation of Tunkinskiy National Park, Buryatia, Russia
Name: Katherine Metzo
Affiliation: Indiana University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Transforming Families in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic
Name: Rebecca Nash
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic

Research Topic: Eternal Plots in the Works of Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy: From the Inferno to Resurrection.
Name: Nina Perlina
Affiliation: Indiana University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Soviet Russian Culture and the Mass Media Explosion, 1950s-1970s
Name: Kristin Roth-Ey
Affiliation: Princeton University
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Law Practice in Post-Socialist Romania
Name: Kandis Scott
Affiliation: University of Santa Clara Law School
Research Country(ies): Romania

Research Topic: Vagaries of Marxism and Modernity: The Fin-de-Siecle Generation of Angst and Revolution in Poland, 1918-1956
Name: Marci Shore
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: Alcoholism and Mortality in Poland and Eastern Europe: The Social Consequences of Democratization
Name: Mark Zimny
Affiliation: Yale University
Research Country(ies): Poland

Research Topic: ‘Educated by the Bible': The Radical Reformation among Ukrainian Peasants in Late Imperial Russia
Name: Sergei Zhuk
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Research Country(ies): Russia, Ukraine

1998-1999

Research Topic: Patronage and Political Organization in Post-Socialist Russia
Name: Andrew D. Buck
Research Country(ies): Russia

Research Topic: Ethnographic Study of the Public Activism of Women's NGOs in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
Name: Elissa L. Helms
Research Country(ies): Bosnia and Herzegovina

Research Topic: Czechoslovak Land Reform Between the Two World Wars
Name: Daniel Miller
Research Country(ies): Czech Republic