Title VIII Fellows 2007-2008
Published on: Nov 30, 2007

 PREDISSERTATION TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS

  • Lyuba Grinberg, New York University (Department of History): From Islam to Christianity and Back: Religious Conversions in the Golden Horde
  • Wendell Schwab, Indiana University at Bloomington (Department of Anthropology): Islamic Morality in Kazakhstan

DISSERTATION WRITE-UP FELLOWSHIPS

  • Melissa Cakars, Indiana University at Bloomington (Department of History): Being Buriat: Sovietization in Siberia
  • Rebecca Chamberlain-Creanga, London School of Economics and Political Science (Department of Anthropology): Identity and Industrial Change on a Contested Borderland, Moldova-Transnistria
  • Jesse Ferris, Princeton University (Department of Near Eastern Studies): Egypt, the Soviet Union, and the Civil War in Yemen, 1962-1967
  • Azamat Junisbai, Indiana University at Bloomington (Department of Sociology): Norms of Social Justice and Welfare State Attitudes in Post-Soviet Central Asia
  • Sonja Luehrmann, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Departments of Anthropology and History): The Forms and Methods of Transcendence: Atheism and Post-Soviet Religiosity in the Mari Republic
  • Benjamin Zajicek, University of Chicago (Department of History): Psychiatry and Mental Illness in the Soviet Union, 1941-1953
  • Jennifer Barrett (Declined Award due to Alternate Funding) University of Texas at Austin , (Department of Sociology): Doctors, Clerics, Healers & Neighbors: Religion and Maternal and Child Health in Uzbekistan

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

  • Laura Henry, Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Legal Studies, Bowdoin College: Protest or Passivity in the Era of Liberalization? Russians Respond to Social Service Reform
  • Sarah Phillips, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University at Bloomington: Mobile Citizens: Disability, Citizenship, and Civil Society in Postsocialist Ukraine

TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS

  • Cynthia Buckley, Associate Professor, Departments of Sociology and Slavic and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin: Introduction to Central Asian Societies
  • Lynn Sargeant, Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, Fullerton: The Ethnic Empire: From Imperial Russia to Post-Soviet Eurasia
 
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