Visitors 2009–10

Postdoctoral Fellows

Sener Akturk, Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley: “Redefining Ethnicity and Belonging: Persistence and Transformation in Regime of Ethnicity in the USSR and the Russian Federation, 1953–1997.”

Gulnora Aminova, Ph.D., Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University: “Life, Ideas, and Teaching of the 16th-Century Female Saint from Bukhara, Aghayi Buzurg (Great Lady).”

Mikhail Pryadilnikov, Ph.D., Government, Harvard University: “The State and Markets in Russia: Fostering Bureaucratic Compliance through Regulatory Reform.”

Julia Vaingurt, Assistant Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Chicago: “Wonderlands of the Russian Avant-Garde: Technology and Art in the 1920s.”

Fellows

Natalya Krasnoboka, Ph.D. Candidate in Social and Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium: “Lost in Transition? Towards an Understanding of Political and Media Transformations in Ukraine” (Fall 2009)

Sobirjon Kurbonov, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, State University Higher School of Economics, Russia: “The Development of Integration Processes under EurAsEC: Prospects and Issues.” (Fall 2009)

Maria Snegovaya, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, State University Higher School of Economics, Russia: “The Influence of Institutional and Sociocultural Factors on Economic Development in the Transition from an Industrial to a Postindustrial Phase.” (Fall 2009)

Visiting Scholars

Peter Collmer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich: “Administrative Culture in 18th-Century Poland.” (Fall 2009)

Yukiko Hama, Research Fellow, Tsuda College: “The Reinterpretation of Russia’s Eurasianism from the Viewpoint of International History.”

Urs Heftrich, Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures, University of Heidelberg: “Facing Two Faces of Totalitarianism: The Poetry of Vladimír Holan and his Contemporaries, 1938–1954.”

Bettina Kaibach, University Teacher, English Department and Slavic Department, University of Heidelberg: “Literary Representations of the Holocaust in Communist Eastern Europe: The Case of Jiří Weil.”

Ivan Katchanovski, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, State University of New York at Potsdam: “U.S. Television Coverage of Postcommunist Countries: A Comparative Perspective.” (Fall 2009)

Thomas Simons, Jr., Former Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan: Contemporary post-Soviet affairs; modern and contemporary Islam; South and Southwest Asia.