O'Neill Graduate Research Travel Grants for 2003-04

Abby and George O'Neill Graduate Research Travel Grants have been awarded to 22 Harvard students. The recipients, their departments or schools, research topics, and destinations are as follows:

Gulnora Aminova (IAAS): “Sufi Women in Central Asian Religious, Socio-Economic and Political Affairs,” Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Andreea Balan (Economics): “The Impact of Educational Reform on Equity and Corruption; Ethnic Divisions and Public Goods,” Timisoara, Drobeta, Cluj & Sibiu, Romania.

Jacob Emery (Slavic): “Coinage and Heredity in Medieval Russia,” Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia.

Dan Epstein (Government): “Political Parties and Clientelism in Russia,” Amur, Astrakhan, Bryansk, Chelyabinsk, Karelia & Novosibirsk, Russia.

George Solomon Fitzherbert (IAAS): “New Economies and Changing Cultures in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan,” Tien Shan region, Kyrgyzstan; Kazakhstan & Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan.

Anna Gessen (Slavic): “The Late Russian Medieval Period Through Memoirs,” Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia.

Hakyung Jung (Slavic): “The Morphological Change of the Russian Gerund” Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia.

Eleni Lampadarios (REECA): “Russian Citizenship and its Application Towards Meskhetian Turks,” Moscow & Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

Marcy McCullaugh (REECA): "The Problem of HIV/AIDS in Russia,” St. Petersburg, Moscow & Samara, Russia.

John Ondrovcik (History): “The Evolution of Violence in Rural Russia, 1918-21,” Moscow, Russia.

Catherine Osgood (REECA): “The Current Situation in Chechnya and U.S. Policy Toward the Conflict,” Moscow & Nazran, Russia; Baku, Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bartosz Ostrowski (REECA): “The EU-Russian ‘Strategic Partnership’ in Light of Current EU Enlargement in the East,” Moscow, Russia.

Benjamin Paloff (Slavic): “Mandelshtam, Platonov, et al., and Attitudes towards Time in Narrative,” Moscow, Russia; Krakow, Poland.

Rebecca Reich (Slavic): “Recontextualizing the Abuses of Soviet Psychiatry in the Literary Tradition,” Moscow, Russia.

Giovanna Siedina (Slavic): “The Reception of Horace in the Courses of Poetics at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy,” Kiev & Lviv, Ukraine

Lenka Siroky (REECA): “Czech and Polish Dissidents after 1989,” Prague & Brno, Czech Republic, Warsaw & Kraków, Poland

Alex Spektor (Slavic): “Polish Prose Writers of the 20th century,” Kraków, Poland.

Benjamin Tromley (History): “The Formation of Elites in Moscow Institutes of Higher Learning, 1947-65,” Moscow, Russia.

Gleb Tsipursky (REECA): “Whistle-Blowing: Soviet Citizens Sending Letters About Local Corruption to the Central Authorities,” Moscow, Russia.

Emily Van Buskirk (Slavic): “Lydia Ginzburg's Life and Fictions, Through Interviews and Archival Research,” St. Petersburg, Russia.

Lisa Vining (REECA): “Role of the Latvian Volunteer SS Legion in WWII,” Riga, Latvia.

Gergana Yankova (Government): “Corruption in the Legislature in Russia,” Moscow, Russia.