2011-2012 Short-Term Travel Grant (STG) Fellows

Education, Research Support, Eurasia, Europe, Short-Term Travel Grants (STG)

July 14, 2011

IREX is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 Short-Term Travel Grant fellowship recipients. This year's fellows will be traveling to 12 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.

Nailya Almagambetova

Northern Illinois University

Project Title: "Kazakhstan's Primary Health Care: Where do the Reforms Lead Us?"

Research Country: Kazakhstan

Olga Bever

The University of Arizona

Project Title: "Multilingualism and Language Policy in Post-Soviet Ukraine: English, Ukrainian and Russian in
Linguistic Landscapes"

Research Country: Ukraine

Douglas Blum

Providence College

Project Title: "The Social Process of Cultural Globalization"

Research Country: Kazakhstan

Sarah Cameron

Yale University

Project Title: "The Hungry Steppe: Soviet Kazakhstan and the Kazakh Famine, 1921-1934"

Research Country: Kazakhstan

Monica Cionabanu

Plattsburgh State University of New York

Project Title: "Issues of Restitution in Post-Communist Romania"

Research Country: Romania

Matthew Ciscel

Central Connecticut University

Project Title: "Foreign Language Learning Attitudes and Practices in Moldova"

Research Country: Moldova

Cathy Frierson

University of New Hampshire

Project Title: "The Twenty-Year Record of 1991 Law on Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression in the Russian Federation"

Research Country: Russia

Emily Greble

The City College of New York

Project Title: "Islam and the European Nation-State: Muslims between Mosque and State in Yugoslavia, 1908-
1949"

Research Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Idil Izmirli

George Mason University

Project Title: "Different Voices of Islam in Ukraine and their Implications on Regional and International Security"

Research Country: Ukraine

Azamat Junisbai

Pitzer College

Project Title: "Perceptions of Economic Inequality in Contemporary Central Asia"

Research Country: Kyrgyzstan

Asbed Kotchikian

Bentley University

Project Title: "Is the Party Over? Limits and Opportunities of Civil Society in Armenia and Georgia"

Research Countries: Armenia, Georgia

Carol Lilly

University of Nebraska Kearney

Project Title: "Grave Desecrations and the Nationalization of Cemeteries in the Former Yugoslavia, 1945-1995"

Research Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

Morgan Liu

Ohio State University

Project Title: "What Now for Uzbeks in a Kyrgyz Republic: Are Islamic Conceptions Shaping Communal Aspirations after Massive Interethnic Violence?"

Research Country: Kyrgyzstan

Martha Merrill

Kent State University

Project Title: "Higher Education in Osh - A Descriptive Analysis of Current Conditions"

Research Country: Kyrgyzstan

Mariya Omelicheva

University of Kansas

Project Title: "Western and Central Asian Perspectives on Democracy and Democratization: Comparing the
Models of Democracy Promoted by the West and Central Asian States"

Research Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan