2011-2012 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) Fellows
July 13, 2011
IREX is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellowship recipients. This year's fellows will be traveling to 16 countries across Eastern Europe and Eurasia to perform policy relevant field research. After they complete their fellowship, their research findings will be posted on the IREX online library.
Dale Correa
New York University
Project Title: "Testifying Beyond Experience: A Diachronic Study of Tawatur in Islamic Legal Theory and Theology, 10th-14th centuries CE"
Research Country: Uzbekistan
Daniela Dimitrova
Iowa State University
Project Title: "Wagging the Dog? The Relationship between Media and Politics in Post-Communist Bulgaria (1989-2011)"
Research Country: Bulgaria
Zamira Djabarova
United Nations Development Fund for Women
Project Title: "Promoting Safer Migration towards Peace and Security in Tajikistan"
Research Countries: Russia, Tajikistan
Jipar Duishembieva
University of Washington
Project Title: "Central Asian Intellectuals of Semirech'e Oblast of Russian Turkestan, 1905-1924"
Research Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Allison Evans
University of Pennsylvania
Project Title: "Political Protest in Weak Societies and Weak States: Social Control in Post-communist Russia"
Research Country: Russia
Julie George
Queens College, City University of New York
Project Title: "Tragedy of Reform: Political Transformation, State Building, and Violence Resurgence in Georgia"
Research Country: Georgia
Dana Johnson
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Project Title: "Rewriting the Balkans: memory, historiography and the making of a European citizenry"
Research Country: Serbia
Jeremy Johnson
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Literacies Unveiled: Citizenship, Nationality, Gender and the Campaigns to Eradicate Illiteracy in the Soviet South Caucasus, 1922-1936"
Research Countries: Armenia, Georgia
Sonja Luehrmann
University of British Columbia
Project Title: "Soviet Memory and Gendered Moral Agency in Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism"
Research Country: Russia
Alexander Lupis
Long Island University
Project Title: "Assessing the Intergenerational Transmission of Psychological Trauma in Croatia"
Research Country: Croatia
Anna Ohanyan
Stonehill College
Project Title: "Networked Peace: Economic Regionalism in Conflict Areas"
Research Countries: Armenia, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Svetlana Peshkova
University of New Hampshire
Project Title: "Women religious teachers and leaders in the Ferghana Valley: Change and Continuity"
Research Country: Uzbekistan
Tsveta Petrova
Harvard University
Project Title: "From Recipients to Donors: New Europe Supports Democracy Abroad"
Research Country: Bulgaria
James Pickett
Princeton University
Project Title: "The Persianate Sphere during the Age of Empires: Islamic Scholars and Networks of Exchange in Central Asia 1747-1917"
Research Countries: Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Alina Polyakova
University of California, Berkeley
Project Title: "Right-Wing Politics and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Explaining Success and Failure of the Right"
Research Country: Ukraine
Maple Razsa
Colby College
Project Title: "From Common Passport-Holders, through Illegal Migrants, to Insurgent Citizens: Migrant Activism among Former Yugoslavs in Slovenia"
Research Country: Slovenia
Jonathan Stillo
The City University of New York
Project Title: "Returning to the Magic Mountain: An Ethnographic Exploration of Tuberculosis Treatment Failure after Sanatorium Discharge in Romania"
Research Country: Romania
Heather Tidrick
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Roma Integration and Institutional Practices with Roma in Postsocialist Hungary"
Research Country: Hungary
Milada Vachudova
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Project Title: "Democratization in the Western Balkans: Political Contestation and the Leverage of the European Union"
Research Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Serbia
Jennifer Webster
University of Washington
Project Title: "Pilgrimage, Saints, and Shrines: Towards a Sacred Topography of Central Asia"
Research Countries: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Brandon Wilkening
Indiana University
Project Title: "Electoral Law Change and the Nationalization of the Ukrainian Party System"
Research Country: Ukraine
