2004-2005 Title VIII Fellows
Published on: Jun 18, 2006

Predissertation Training

  • Patryk Babiracki
    History, Johns Hopkins University
    "Soviet Union's Empire Culture"
  • Wilson Bell
    History, University of Toronto
    "Reeducation in the Gulag: Methods and Limitations of Soviet Social Engineering "
  • Danielle Berman
    Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    "Learning from Success: An Ethnographic Study of Russian Agriculture's Struggling Minority- the Private Farmer"
  • Anna Bernstein
    Anthropology, New York University
    "Siberian Shamanism and Buddhism in Modern Memory"
  • Christine Evans
    History, University of California- Berkeley
    "The History of Soviet Television"
  • Erica Johnson
    Political Science, University of Washington
    "Language Training and Preliminary Research in Uzbekistan"
  • Tristra Newyear
    Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
    "Predissertation Exploration of Russian Archival Materials Related to Buriat and Mongolian Theater"
  • Karie-Lynn Pieczynski Tayfun
    Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    "Preliminary Field-Site Investigation of the Gagauz Yeri"
  • Brandon Wilkening
    Political Science, Indiana University
    "Center-Periphery Relations in Kazakhstan"

Dissertation Write-up

  • Joseph Allen
    Sociology, University of Texas- Austin
    "Communities in Transition: the Influence of State Policy and International Investment in Central Asia's Mountain Zones"
  • Madina Goldberg (Declined Award)
    History, University of Michigan
    "Russian Empire-Tatar Theater- The Politics of Making Memory in Imperial Kazan (1905-1921)"
  • Irina Liczek
    Political Science, New School University
    "Gender Politics in Central Asia at the crossroads: Integrating International Obligations with Renascent Islamic Orientations"
  • Lidia Oukaderova
    Comparative Literature, University of Texas- Austin
    "Money and Symbolic Economies in Russia, 1917-1935"
  • Serguei Oushakine
    Anthropology, Columbia University
    "Russia Between Family, Nation and State"
  • Jennifer Smith
    History, MIT
    "Ground Control: Soviet Agricultural Reform in the Center and Periphery, 1950-1972"
  • Jennifer Utrata
    Sociology, University of California- Berkeley
    "Single Mothers and Social Change in Post-Soviet Russia"

Postdoctoral Research

  • Jessica Allina-Pisano
    Political Science, Colgate University
    "Politics and Property Rights under Neoliberalism: Land Reform in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine"
  • Stephen Bittner
    History, Sonoma State University
    "Moscow's Left Bank: Soviet Intellectuals and the Thaw, 1953-1968"

Teaching Fellowships

  • Sascha Goluboff
    Cultural Anthropology, Washington and Lee University
    "Conflicts in Eurasia: Globalization, New States, and Soviet Legacies"
  • Nathaniel Knight
    History, Seton Hall University
    "Where East Meets West: The Eurasian Frontier in Russian History"
 
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