Graduate Student Associates 2007-08

Mikhail Akulov (History)
The peasant commune in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; peasant resistance during the Civil War; peasants and the organs of self-rule
email Mikhail

Gulnora Aminova (Inner Asian and Altaic Studies)
Women's role in the development of Sufi thought in 16th-century Central Asia
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Oliver Bevan (Government)
Political economy of post-communism and questions of justice with regard to post-communist reforms
email Oliver

Amy Brouillette (REECA)
Central and East European studies
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Debra Caplan (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)
Yiddish art theatre in the 1920s and 1930s; Jewish literature and culture throughout Eastern Europe
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Sonia Chinn (REECA)
Social history of Muslims in Central Asia and the Caucasus during the late Imperial and Soviet periods; Soviet nationalities policy; national identity
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Devon Dear (Inner Asian & Altaic Studies)
Early modern Central Asian history, particularly Qing Xinjiang; Central Asian intellectual history; metropole-periphery relations
email Devon

Ujala Dhaka (Social Anthropology)
Russian Orthodox Church; religious sovereignty, civil society, and democracy
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Andrei Doohovskoy (REECA)
Religious and ethnic issues, especially the interaction between Christianity and Islam in Central Asia
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Coco Downey (REECA)
Russian foreign policy (toward Central and East Asia, Eastern Europe, and United States); relations between US and Russia/Central Asia; post-Communist transition; languages
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Anders Engberg-Pederson (Comparative Literature)
Epistemology and narrative in 19th-century Russian literature
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Daniel Epstein (Government)
Political parties in post-communist countries and in Latin America; democratic transition and consolidation; electoral politics and systems
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Hale Eroglu Sager (Inner Asian and Altaic Studies)
Qing era Chinese history and nationalism with specific focues on Xinjiang
email Hale

Magnus Feldmann (Political Economy and Government)
Comparative politics and political economy of transition in Russia and Eastern Europe
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Ina Ganguli (Public Policy)
Labor market issues in Eastern Europe, including wage inequality, gender wage differentials, and immigration
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Sofiya Grachova (History)
The nationalization of local history narratives in Ukraine
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Sylvana Habdank-Kolaczkowska (REECA)
The history of minority groups in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia and how it manifests in contemporary dialogue
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Masha Hedberg (Government)
The institution-building process in Russia and the surrounding states, particularly Central Asia; the impact of corruption on socio-political and economic development
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Seth Hindin (History of Art and Architecture)
Visual culture of Medieval Eastern Europe; German-Slavic interaction in the Middle Ages; 19th- and 20th-century Czech historiography
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Jennifer Howk (Government)
Comparative politics of Communist and post-Communist countries, including constructivist political economy, state development and institutional change
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Simone Ispa-Landa (Sociology)
Gender and family sociology
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Christina Jarymowycz (REECA)
The democratization process in East European countries
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Hakyung Jung (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Historical development of North Russian dialects
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Orly Keiner (REECA)
Russian/Georgian tensions; Ukraine/Russia/EU; relations; surzhyk; and human rights issues such as trafficking
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Jakub (Kuba) Kabala (History)
Christianization, state formation, and trade in early medieval Slavdom; medieval Slavic traditions of hagiography and chronicle writing; Slavdom's relationships with the Holy Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and the Papacy

Natalie Koch (REECA)
Migration law and issues of forced migration in European post-communist space.
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Diana Kudayarova (History)
Economic and social history of the Soviet Union, 1953-91
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Victoria Levin (Kennedy School Public Policy)
Russian fiscal reforms; social protection in Russia and post-Soviet space; tax evasion
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Stanislav Markus (Government)
Corporate governance; convergence of economic institutions; state-business relations; property rights
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Kyle Marquardt (REECA)
Languages, ethnic identities, and politics in Eurasia; language politics
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Inna Mattei (Slavic)
Utopia and anti-utopia in cultural and political thought in Eastern and Central Europe; authoritarianism and authorship; narrative theories; cultural memory; local and global identity in contemporary culture; post-communist studies
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Marcy McCullaugh (Exchange Scholar, UC Berkeley Political Science)
Political economy of social sector reforms in Russia and Brazil; public health in Russia; civil society development in the former Soviet Union
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Yuka Minagawa (REECA)
Political and economic developments in the Black Sea region of the CIS; Russo-Ukrainian relations; CIS regional cooperation
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Dylan Myles-Primakoff
(REECA)
Linguistic and ethnic minorities; attitudes toward ethnicity; language policy; political autonomy
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Plamen Nikolov
(International Health Economics)
Economic development; microfinance in Central Asia; health status improvement in the former Soviet Union
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Mladen Nesic (REECA)
How Cold War experiences have affected attitudes toward economic development and reform in East European countries; enviornment protection in Eastern Europe
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Noor O'Neill (Social Anthropology)
Ideology, inequality, and change in the Kyrgyz Republic
email Noor

Ana Olenina (Comparative Literature)
Interrelated nuances of the post-Soviet and post-colonial experience
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Sabrina Peric (Social Anthropology)
The connection between reconstructed space and notions of community in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Maya Peterson (History)
Central Asia in the late 19th and 20th centuries; early Soviet history; environmental history
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Cristina Plamadeala (REECA)
The 1946-47 famine in Ukraine and Moldova; post-Soviet nationalism; the role of the Orthodox Church in the fall of communism in the USSR
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Jill Pokorney (REECA)
Final status of Kosovo and the impact on international law; state-building in Russia and the Balkans; status of post-Soviet and Yugoslav regions; cultural politics and nationalism in the Balkans; contemporary Russian politics
email Jill

Laura Pop (REECA)
Civil service, education, and health-care reforms; short and medium term effects of EU integration in Romania and Bulgaria; Chinese-Central Asian relations
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Maxim Pozdorovkin (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Siver Age of Russian literature
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Mikhail Pryadilnikov (Government)
Comparative State Building in Russia and the Middle East; Regional Aspects of administrative reform Russia, research on incentives to implementation of deregulation reform in Russian regions
email Mikhail

Molly Pucci (REECA)
Modern Soviet history and post-Soviet political transitions
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Sara Rhodin (REECA)
Nationalism in Russia and Eastern Europe; identity politics; Russian communities outside of Russia; the history of Russian foreign policy towards the Middle East
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Svetlana Rukhelman (Comparative Literature)
Narrative structure and devices in 19th- and 20th- century prose; the short story; humor/comedy in literature and film; new economic criticism

Alexander (Sasha) Senderovich (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Jewish literature and culture, particularly in Russian, East, and Central European contexts; film; problems of historical memory; Soviet and post-Soviet periods; emigration and exile; Yiddish literature and culture in the Soviet Union; monuments and public memory
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George Soroka (Government)
Voting behavior; nationalism and identity politics; environmental issues in the former Soviet Union
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Katherine Surmanski (REECA)
Cultural assumptions and the influence of culture on Russian relations with the West; the influence of the Russian historical narrative on foreign policy
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Eren Tasar (History)
Muslim life and Islamic identity in late Soviet Central Asia; Central Asian Muslims' memories of the Brezhnev years as a "golden time"
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Elina Treyger (Government)
Post-Soviet politics; rule of law development; law and order
email Elina

Noah Tucker (REECA)
Russian and Central Asian history, particularly nation-building and nationalities policies from the Russian imperial period to the present; contemporary international relations issues in the CIS
email Noah

Michael Tworek (History)
Renaissance and Reformation in Eastern Europe; cultural and intellectual exchanges between Italy and Poland

Emily Van Buskirk (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Russian and Czech prose of the 19th and 20th centuries
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Anya Vodopyanov (Government)
Democratization; economic development; state capacity and civil violence in post-Communist states
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Olga Voronina (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
20th-century Russian emigre literature, including Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Brodsky; the influence of Soviet ideology on Russian children'sliterature in the 1930s and 1940s
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Xiyue Wang (REECA)
Identity, ethnic relations, Russian/Soviet and Chinese nationalities policy in Central Asia; Islamic movements in Central Asia; northwestern China, and South Asia
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Jonathan Whitmore (REECA)
Identity politics in contemporary Russia; geopolitics of energy

Geoffrey Wright (REECA)
Philosophy, goals, & implementation of US foreign & security policy; Russian regional politics and foreign policy; political development of the South Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the Caspian Basin
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Almira Zakiyeva (REECA)
Development and democratization in Kazakhstan; international and domestic politics in Kazakhstan
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