Nadina Anderson
Discipline: Sociology
University: University of Arizona
Project: Trust and Civil Society in Ukraine: Discovering Migration Mechanisms
Location of Research: Ukraine
2013 Fellows
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.
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.
Pre-Dissertation Fellows
Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal
Discipline: Political Science
University: Yale University
Project: Political Economy of Development in Low-Sovereignty Central Asian States
Location of Research: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Jeffrey Eden
Discipline: Central Asian History and Islamic Studies
University: Harvard University
Project: Slavery, Islam and Empire in Central Asia
Location of Research: Kazakhstan
Margaret Hanson
Discipline: Political Science
University: Ohio State University
Project: The Politics of Property in Post-Soviet Russia: Land, Votes, and ... Building Capitalism?
Location of Research: Russia
Jonathan Sicotte
Discipline: History
University: Georgetown University
Project: Oil and Stability in Revolutionary and Soviet Baku, 1917-1923
Location of Research: Azerbaijan
Maria Blackwood
Discipline: History
University: Harvard University
Project: Nationality, Authority, and Power in Soviet Kazakhstan
Location of Research: Kazakhstan
Dissertation Development Fellows
Natalie Belsky
University at Time of Fellowship: University of Chicago
Dissertation: Encounters in the East: Evacuees in the Soviet Hinterland During the Second World War
Sara Brinegar
University at Time of Fellowship: University of Wisconsin- Madison
Dissertation: Baku at all Costs: The Politics of Oil in the New Soviet State
Dale Correa
University at Time of Fellowship: New York University
Dissertation: Testifying Beyond Experience: Regionalism, Authority, and Remembered Pasts in the Eurasian Islamic Legal Tradition
Laura Dean
University at Time of Fellowship: University of Kansas
Dissertation: Beyond the Natasha Effect: Determinants of Human Trafficking Policy Variation in the Post-Soviet Region
Michelle Maydanchik
University at Time of Fellowship: University of Chicago
Dissertation: Creative Disruption: Performance Art in Post-Soviet Moscow
Jared McBride
University at Time of Fellowship: University of California- Los Angeles
Dissertation: "A Sea of Blood and Tears": Ethnicity, Identity, and Survival in Nazi Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-1944
Kimberly Powers
University at Time of Fellowship: University of Michigan
Dissertation: The Power of State Documents: Bureaucracy and the Transformation of Family and Gender Relations in 19th Century Kazakhstan
Tekla Schmaus
University at Time of Fellowship: Indiana University at Bloomington
Dissertation: The Environment and Social Change in Prehistoric Central Eurasian Societies
Meagan Todd
University at Time of Fellowship: University of Colorado-Boulder
Dissertation: Localized Geopolitics of Mosque Construction in Moscow, Russia
MayaLisa Holzman
University at Time of Fellowship: University of Wisconsin- Madison
Dissertation: The Front Within: The Soviet Partisan Movement, the Komsomol, and the Ideological War on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944