Cynthia Buckley

Cynthia Buckley joined the SSRC in August 2010 as a program director, after serving on several selection committees and advisory boards at the Council. She coordinates SSRC’s programming efforts in Eurasia, including an existing program on developing social science approaches to the study of health in Russia funded by the Ford Foundation, our U.S. State Department Title VIII fellowship program, and new initiatives in the areas of entrepreneurship, migration, and research ethics. A sociologist with a PhD from the University of Michigan, Buckley is presently on leave from the University of Texas, Austin where she recently directed the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and chaired the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies. Her research focuses on the ways in which institutional, social, and cultural forces influence demographic decision making. She is a current member of the editorial boards of Central Asian Survey and Sociological Research, and her recent publications include Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia, coedited with Blair Ruble (Johns Hopkins Press, 2008). She is the primary investigator of a multiyear NSF-funded research project called “People, Power and Conflict in the Eurasian Migration System,” which was recently transferred to the Council.