2005-2006 Title VIII Fellows
Published on: Jun 18, 2006

Predissertation Training Fellowships

  • Meredith Gill
    Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota- Twin Falls
    "Networks of Emergent Democracy: Russia in/and the Global"
  • Kathryn Graber
    Anthropology, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
    "Language Maintenance and Change in Buryatia"
  • Eric Johnson
    International and Transcultural Studies of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
    "Urban and Rural Outcomes of High-Stakes Testing in Kyrgyzstan"
  • Yedida Kanfer
    History, Yale University
    "Language, Nationality and Identity in Stalinist Russia"
  • Lori Khatchadourian
    Classical Studies, Interdisciplinary Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
    "The Archaeology of a Dynasty: Armenia in the First Millenium, B.C."
  • Sarah Wilson
    Political Science, Ohio State University
    "Dividing Russia's Land: Institutional Determinants of Economic Reform"

Dissertation Write-Up Fellowships

  • Alan Barenberg
    History, University of Chicago
    "From Prisoners to Miners: the Gulag and its Legacy in Vorkuta, 1940-1965"
  • Vincent Bohlinger
    Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin- Madison
    "Compromising Kino: the Development of Socialist Realist Film Style in the Soviet Union, 1928-1934"
  • James Daughtry
    Ethnomusicology, University of California- Los Angeles
    "Nations Decay but Song Remains: Russian-Language Guitar Poetry in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras"
  • Nicholas Ganson
    History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    "Famine of Victors: Soviet Society and State during the Postwar Hunger, 1946-1947"
  • Brian Grodsky (Declined Award)
    Political Science, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
    "Exploring Determinants of Transitional Justice: Human Rights Accountability in Post-Communist States"
  • Anita Seth (Declined Award)
    History, Yale University
    ""Spending the Hopes of Children": the Military-Industrial Complex in Comparative Local Perspective, 1941-64"

Postdoctoral Fellowships

  • Scott Gehlbach
    Assistant Professor
    Political Science, University of Wisconsin- Madison
    "Taxability, Protection, and the State"
  • David Shneer
    Assistant Professor; Director of the Center for Judaic Studies
    History, University of Denver
    "Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, the Holocaust, and World War II in the Soviet Union"
  • Barbara Skinner
    Assistant Professor
    History, Indiana State University in Terre Haute
    "Faith and Identity in Russia's Western Borderlands: the Suppression of the Uniates, 1772-1875"

Teaching Fellowships

  • Michael Brose
    History, University of Wyoming
    "Modern Silk Roads: China and Central Asia Reconnected"
  • Kathryn Brown
    Assistant Professor
    History, University of Maryland
    "Soviet History on Trial"
  • Alexander Diener
    Assistant Professor
    Geography, Pepperdine University
    "Islamic Asia: Ethnic History and Modern Politics"
  • William Pyle
    Assistant Professor
    Economics, Middlebury College
    "Legal Institutions and Post-Soviet Economic Development"
 
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