2009 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. In 2010-2011 we provided dissertation write-up support to a group of eleven young scholars. These fellows cover the disciplines of anthropology, political science, history, and law.

The SSRC has provided dissertation write-up support to over 150 scholars in seven social science disciplines since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. With support from the U.S. Department of State’s Title VIII program, the Eurasia Program has additionally offered teaching development fellowships, pre-dissertation awards and post-doctoral fellowships. Click here for information on the past three cohorts of fellows.

	Pey-yi Chu, Assistant Professor of History, Pomona College Dissertation Title: Permafrost Country: Eastern Siberia and the Making of a Soviet Science Request Dissertation via Email Region: Russian Siberia and/or Far East
	Michael Dennis, Intelligence Specialist, Branch of Irregular Warfare, National Ground Intelligence Center Dissertation Title: Attitudes in Transition: War, Displacement and the Roots of Political Violence in Chechen Refugee Communities Download Dissertation (.pdf) Region: Caucasus
	Nicole Eaton, History, UC-Berkeley Dissertation Title: Revolutions on the Frontier: Königsberg-Kaliningrad, 1938-1950 Request Dissertation via Email Region: Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe
	Jeremy Friedman, Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy Dissertation Title: “Reviving Revolution: the Sino-Soviet Split, the ‘Third World,’ and the Fate of the Left” Request Dissertation via Email Regions: Russia and China
	Jordan Gans-Morse, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Northwestern University Dissertation Title: Building Property Rights: Capitalists and Demand for Law in Post-Soviet Russia Request Dissertation via Email Region: Russia
	Kathryn Graber, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Indiana University Departments of Anthropology and Central Eurasian Studies Dissertation Title: Knowledge and Authority in Shift: A Linguistic Ethnography of Multilingual News Media in the Buryat Territories of Russia Request Dissertation via Email Region: Russian Siberia and/or Far East
	Yedida Kanfer, Research Scholar, Kennan Institute Dissertation Title: Łódź: Industry, Religion, and Nationalism in Russian Poland, 1880-1914 Request Dissertation via Email Region: Russia and Poland
	Zhanara Nauruzbayeva, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harriman Institute, Columbia University Dissertation Title: Refurbishing Soviet Status: Visual Artists and Marketization in Kazakhstan Request Dissertation via Email Region: Central Asia
	Maya Peterson, Carson Fellow, The Rachel Carson Center Dissertation Title: Technologies of Rule: Empire, Water, and the Modernization of Central Asia, 1867-1941 Request Dissertation via Email Region: Central Asia
	Tsveta Petrova, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harriman Institute, Columbia University Dissertation Title: From Recipients to Donors: New Europe Supports Democratization in the Neighborhood Request Dissertation via Email Region: Ukraine, Belarus, and the Eastern European members of the EU
	Rachel Wellhausen, Assistant Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin Dissertation Title: When Governments Break Contracts: Foreign investor-government relations in emerging economies Request Dissertation via Email Region: Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania

All alumni are strongly encouraged to notify the Council of their activities and achievements (Eurasia@ssrc.org).