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
Social Science Research Council