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Eurasia Program Fellowships

With funding from the Department of State Title VIII Program, the SSRC Eurasia Program is pleased to offer fellowship opportunities for graduate students in Eurasian studies whose work displays both high quality scholarship and policy relevance. In 2013 we provided Pre-Dissertation Awards for preliminary fieldwork to six scholars, from the fields of history, political science, and sociology. The Pre-Dissertation Fellows will travel to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine. Ten fellows were selected to receive Dissertation Development Awards for dissertation write-up in 2013-2014. This year’s fellows represent six disciplines and have varied thematic and regional interests, from Prehistoric Kazakhstan to present-day Moscow.

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, the Eurasia Program has additionally offered teaching development fellowships and post-doctoral fellowships.

For detailed profiles of the 2013 fellows, including project descriptions and bios, please visit our Engaging Eurasia forum.

Recipients

Nadina Lauren Anderson
University of Arizona, Sociology
Trust and Civil Society in Ukraine: Discovering Migration Mechanisms
Natalie Belsky
University of Chicago, Department of History
Encounters in the East: Evacuees in the Soviet Hinterland during the Second World War
Maria Blackwood
Harvard University, History
Nationality, Authority, and Power in Soviet Kazakhstan
Sara G Brinegar
University of Wisconsin, Madison, History
Baku at all Costs: The Politics of Oil in the New Soviet State
Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal
Yale University, Political Science
Political Economy of Development in Low-Sovereignty Central Asian States
Dale June Correa
New York University, Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
Testifying Beyond Experience: Regionalism, Authority, and Remembered Pasts in the Eurasian Islamic Legal Tradition
Laura A Dean
University of Kansas, Political Science
Beyond the Natasha Effect: Determinants of Human Trafficking Policy Variation in the Post-Soviet Region
Jeffrey E Eden
Harvard University, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Slavery, Islam and Empire in Central Asia
Margaret C Hanson
Ohio State University, Political Science
The Politics of Property in Post-Soviet Russia: Land, Votes, and ... Building Capitalism?
MayaLisa Holzman
University of Wisconsin, Madison, History
The Front Within: The Soviet Partisan Movement, the Komsomol, and the Ideological War on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
Michelle Maydanchik
University of Chicago, Art History
Creative Disruption: Performance Art in Post-Soviet Moscow
Jared McBride
University of California Los Angeles, History
"A Sea of Blood and Tears": Ethnicity, Identity, and Survival in Nazi Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-1944
Kimberly Ann Powers
University of Michigan, Interdepartmental Program in Anthro and History
The Power of State Documents: Bureaucracy and the Transformation of Family and Gender Relations in 19th Century Kazakhstan
Tekla M Schmaus
Indiana University Bloomington, Anthropology
The Environment and Social Change in Prehistoric Central Eurasian Societies
Jonathan H Sicotte
Georgetown University, History Department
Oil and Stability in Revolutionary and Soviet Baku, 1917-1923
Meagan Todd
University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography
Localized Geopolitics of Mosque Construction in Moscow, Russia