Fellowship Awards for 2003-04

The Davis Center has awarded four post-doctoral fellowships, one regional fellowship, one senior fellowship, and one dissertation completion fellowship.

Postdoctoral fellowships have been awarded to:

Steven Barnes (Ph.D. in History, Stanford) for “Soviet Society Confined: The Gulag and Modern Detention;”

Martin Dimitrov (Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford) for “Selling the State: The Privatization of the Government Bureaucracies and the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Post-Socialist Economies;”

William Pridemore (Ph.D. in Criminology, SUNY-Albany) for “The Changing Nature of Violence During the Russian Transition;” and

Aida Vidan (Ph.D. in Slavic Languages & Literatures, Harvard) for “Thematic Database of Traditional Ballads and Lyric Songs Held in the Millman Parry Collection of Oral Literature,” and “Mythological Elements in Oral Traditional Songs from the Balkans.”

A regional fellowship has been awarded to Yakov Gordin (Editor-in-Chief of the Russian literary journal Zvezda) for “The Caucasus Phenomenon in the Cultural and Social Consciousness of Russian Society.”

A senior fellowship has been awarded to Linda Cook (Professor of Political Science, Brown University) for “Post-Communist Welfare States: The Politics of Shrinking Public Social Provision in Russia, Poland, and Belarus.”

Dissertation completion fellowships have been awarded to Giovanna Siedina (Slavic Languages & Literature) for "The Reception of Horace in the Courses of Poetics at the Kiev Mohyla Academy: 1600-1750," and Cristina Vatulescu (Comparative Literature) for “Police Aesthetics: Culture and Repression in 20th-Century Eastern Europe.” An honorary fellowship was awarded to Yuson Jung (Anthropology), who received a fellowship from the Center for European Studies. Her research topic is “Consumer Lament: Consumption, Grumbles, and Normality of Everyday Life in Post-Socialist Bulgaria.”