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Scholar(s) Project Title Countries
Hilary Appel The Politics of East European Tax Reform Serbia, Ukraine, Russia
Mikhail Alexseev Migration and Inter-Minority Xenophobia in the Russian Federation Russia
Jessica Allina-Pisano The Last Barbed Wire Fence in Europe: State Power and Economy in a Divided Village of Transcarpathia, 1945-2005 Russia, Ukraine
Kathryn H. Anderson, Charles M. Becker Demographic and Economic Change in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic, 1993-Present Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Keith Brown Evaluating Intervention: Knowledge Production and Democracy Promotion in the Western Balkans Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Cynthia Buckley HIV/AIDS Transmission in the Southern Caucasus: Socio-Cultural Insights into Measurement, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
Melissa L. Caldwell Rebuilding Communities and Saving Souls: The Political Economy of Salvation and Faith-Based Benevolence in Post-Soviet Russia Russia
John S. Earle, J. David Brown, and Almos Telegdy The Consequences of Privatization and Foreign Ownership: Comparative Studies of Firm Performance, Employment, Wages, and Spillover Effects Romania, Russia, Ukraine
E. Thomas Ewing Boys and Girls at School: Gender and Education in Modern Russia Russia
Cathy A. Frierson, Semon Smuilovich Vilenskii For the Sins of Their Fathers and Mothers: Children of the Soviet Terror and Post-Stalinist Society Russia
Timothy Frye Russia and the Rule of Law Under Putin Russia
Henry Hale, Timothy Colton Succession Politics and Public Opinion in
Russia 2007-2008
Russia
Julie Hemment Not for Profit? Youth Voluntarism and the Restructuring of Social Assistance Programs in Provincial Russia Russia
Sarah L. Henderson The Emergence of Local Governance: State-Society Relations in Russia's Regions Russia
Kathryn Hendley Mobilizing Law in Russia Russia
Sonia Hirt Iron Curtains: the Proliferation of Walled-off Spaces in
Belgrade and Sofia in the Post-Communist Era
Bulgaria, Serbia
Robert M. Jenkins, L. Kendall Palmer Education Reform Processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia: International Organizations, Local Politics, and Minority Rights Bosnia, Croatia
Austin Jersild Stalin's Ghost in China: Soviet Reform, American
Consumerism, and Chinese Nativism, 1945-1960
Russia
Tamar Khitarishvili Investigating the Incentives for Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of Georgia Georgia
Diane P. Koenker Proletarian Tourism and Vacations in the USSR Russia
Jan Kubik, Bela Greskovits The Logic of Civil Society: Contentious Politics in New Democracies: The Hungarian Case Hungary
Ronald Linden Balkan Triangle: The Impact of Possible Turkish Accession on United States Relations with Bulgaria and Romania Bulgaria, Romania
Nancy Lubin, Arustan Joldasov Central Asians Take Stock, Part II: Public Opinion in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, 1993 & 2006 Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Gary Marker Mazepa and the Preachers Russia, Ukraine
Lawrence P. Markowitz Prebendal Politics and State Collapse: Rural Elites and Patronage Groups in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Eric McGlinchey Islam and Social Mobilization in Central Asia Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan
James Meyer Turkic Worlds: Community Representation and Collective
Identity in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1870-1914
Russia, Georgia
Paul A. Michaels On the Trail of Dr. Lamaze: A Transnational History of Childbirth Education, 1930-80 Russia, Ukraine
Peter Ordeshook, Mikhail Myagkov Voting, Party Development, and Electoral Fraud in Russia and Ukraine Russia, Ukraine
Patrick Patterson Socialist Societies Consumed: The Culture of the Market and Everyday Life in Eastern Europe and the Balkans Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia
Klara Sabirianova Peter Public Sector Pay and Bribery: Measuring Corruption in Post-Soviet Republics and Southeastern Europe Russia
Karen Petrone The Memory of World War I and the Culture of Soviet Militarism, 1914-1945 Russia
Grigore Pop-Eleches Facing West and Feeling Poorer: The International Demonstration Effect in Post-Communist Eastern Europe Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania
Cynthia A. Ruder Red Waterway: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space Russia
Edward Schatz, Gulnara Rakhimova Dadabaeva America as Actor and Image in Central Asia Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
David Shneer Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust Russia, Ukraine
Kathleen Smith 1956: Moscow's Silenced Spring Russia
Michael Urban, Victor Sergeyev Culture of Power: An Ethnographic Analysis of Political Elite Integration in Russia Russia
Neven Valev Financial Development and Economic Growth in Bulgaria Bulgaria
Katherine Verdery Unmaking and Remaking Property in Romania: Collectivization, 1949-1962 Romania
Stephen K. Wegren, David J. O'Brien The Development of Rural Land Relations in Russia's Regions Russia
Susan Woodward State-Building in the Balkans: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of International Interventions and Assistance Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia
Jane Zavisca Housing Divides: The Causes and Consequences of Housing
Inequality in Russia
Russia
William Zimmerman Russian Foreign Policy Elite Perspectives, 2008:
Identity, Interests and Preferences
Russia

      

Ed A. Hewett Policy Fellowships
Scholar(s)
Project Title
Countries
Kelly Cormier From Coping Strategies to Norms: Contracting Practices in the Kazakh Fruit and Vegetable Sector Kazakhstan
Vjeran Pavlakovic Red Stars, Black Shirts: The Clash of Political
Symbols and Memory in Contemporary Croatia
Croatia
 

Short-Term Travel Grants for Research in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans
Scholar(s)
Project Title
Countries
Mohammad Babadoost Establishing Research/Extension Programs for
Improving Crop Production in the Caucasus Region
Azerbaijan
Vakhtang Chikovani Ethnography of the Former Iron Curtain: The
Georgia-Turkey Border
Georgia
Alan DeYoung Constructing Futures in a Transitional Period: How Kyrgyz
University Students Enter and Understand Higher Education Possibilities
for the World of Work
Kyrgyzstan
Jon Holtzman The Changing Politics of Eating Among Herders in
Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Jane Knox-Voina Kazakh Cinema: Nation Building Along the Silk Road Kazakhstan
George Mitrevski Research Guide to Libraries, Institutes and Archives in
the Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia
Mary Neuburger The Smell of Smoke and Roses: Inhaling Modernity in
Bulgaria, 1878-1989
Bulgaria
Margaret Paxson The Story of Memory in a Kabardian Village Russia
Irina Tomescu-Dubrow Democratization and the Risk of Increasing Ethnic
Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of the Roma Minority in Romania and
Moldova
Romania, Moldova

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