Title VIII Fellows

With funding from the Department of State Title VIII Program, the SSRC Eurasia Program is pleased to offer multiple fellowship opportunities for Eurasian studies scholars. Our 2012-2013 cohort is made up of 20 fellows: 6 Pre-Dissertation, 10 Dissertation Development, and 4 Post-Doctoral Research Fellows. These fellows cover the disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, political science, and sociology.

The SSRC has provided support to almost 400 scholars since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 with support from the U.S. Department of State’s Title VIII program. On this page you can find more information about this year’s fellows. You can also access detailed information on the 2009 SSRC Eurasia Fellows, detailed alumni profiles, and a searchable database of SSRC Eurasia Program Alumni.

Pre-Dissertation Award Fellows

	Brinton Ahlin, Anthropology, New York University Project Title: Impact of Hospitality on Post-Soviet Economic and Political Formations in Tajikistan Location of Research: Tajikistan
	Julian Gantt, Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center Project Title: Islamic Pious Endowments in Azerbaijan: A Case Study in the Transformation of Property Relations and Ethical Communities Location of Research: Azerbaijan
	Irina Levin, Anthropology, New York University Project Title: The Long Journey Home: Citizenship, Property, and Legal Culture in the Caucasus Location of Research: Georgia
	Hannah Reiss, Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles Project Title: Social Contexts of Treatment and Care: Tuberculosis in New Tajikistan Location of Research: Tajikistan
	Igor Rubinov, Anthropology, Princeton University Project Title: Post-Soviet Migration: Remaking National Identities, Financing National Economies Location of Research: Tajikistan
	David Szakonyi, Political Science, Columbia University Project Title: Owning Up: State Interventions in the Economies of Post-Soviet Autocracies Location of Research: Russia and Kazakhstan

Dissertation Development Award Fellows

	Tatiana Chudakova, Anthropology, University of Chicago Project Title: Recovering Health: Tibetan Medicine and Biomcosmopolitics in Russia
	Krista Goff, History, University of Michigan Project Title: What Makes a People? Nationality Policies and Soviet Structures, 1945-1968
	Masha Kirasirova, History, New York University Project Title: The Eastern International: Soviet-Arab Exchanges from the Interwar Period to the Cold War
	Nicole Butkovich Kraus, Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison Project Title: Constructing Xenophobia: Geography, Gender, and Generation of Nation
	Anna Lowry, Political Science, Indiana University Project Title: Between Developmentalism and Patrimonialism: Exploring the Causes of Nationalization in Russia
	Hassan Malik, History, Harvard University Project Title: Bankers and Bolsheviks: ‘Emerging Market’ Investors in Russia, 1880-1903
	Anne O'Donnell, History, Princeton University Project Title: A Noah's Ark: Moving to Moscow, Material Life, and Information in Revolutionary Russia, 1916-1924
	Alina Polyakova, Sociology, University of California Berkeley Project Title: Organizing Radicalism in Civil Society: Why Radical Right Parties Succeed or Fail in Post-Communist New Democracies
	Benjamin Raiklin, History, University of Wisconsin - Madison Project Title: Towards a ‘Cult” of the World War II Newsreel, Documentary, and Cameraman: The Development and Meaning(s) of Stalinist Documentary Filmmaking Practices
	Magdalena Stawkowski, Anthropology, University of Colorado - Boulder Project Title: Radioactive Knowledge: State Control of Scientific Information in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

Post-Doctoral Research Award Fellows

	Ina Ganguli, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stockholm Institute of Economics Project Title: Science and Innovation Across Borders: Consequences of the Russian Brain Drain
	Ora John Reuter, Skalny Center Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Rochester Project Title: Elite Mobility and Authoritarian Institutions in Post-Soviet Russia
	Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock, Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University Project Title: A Sacred Space is Never Empty: Scientific Atheism, Socialist Rituals, and the Soviet Way of Life (1954-1991)
	Mustafa Tuna, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University Project Title: Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity in the Volga-Ural Heartland