Visitors 2008-09

Postdoctoral Fellows

Denis Kozlov, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Dalhousie University: “The readers of Novyi Mir 1945–1970: twentieth-century experience and Soviet historical consciousness.”

Mie Nakachi, PhD in History, University of Chicago: “Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction and Demography in the Postwar Soviet Union, 1944–1968.”

Dassia Posner, Lecturer in the Theater Department, Boston College: “The Chaliapin family Diaspora.”

Benjamin Tromly, PhD in History, Harvard University: Soviet society and politics during the Khrushchev “Thaw”; the university in the USSR and Eastern Europe; student movements.

Emily Van Buskirk, PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University: “Literature in Search of Reality: Lydia Ginzburg’s Intermediary Prose.”

Fellows

Yulia Korosteleva, PhD Candidate, State University Higher School of Economics, Russia: “Russian Energy Integration: Strategies for the European and American Markets.”

Natalya Matytsyna, PhD Candidate, State University Higher School of Economics, Russia: Modern merger and acquisition strategies in the global energy market.

Regional Fellow

Masha Gessen, Freelance Journalist, Russia: Censorship in the era of the web.

Sakharov Fellows

Alexandra Polivanova, Project Manager, Swedish Embassy, Moscow: Overcoming a totalitarian past and totalitarian patterns in school curriculum in Russia.

Alena Roshko, Director of International Relations and Development, Za Prava Cheloveka: “Learning from the fundraising experience of US NGOs: implementation in Russia to ensure sustainability of Russian human rights organizations.”

Senior Fellows

Cathy Frierson, Professor of History, University of New Hampshire: “For the Sins of the Fathers: Children of Soviet ‘Enemies of the People.’”

Jacques Rupnik, Research Director, Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, France: “The other Europe twenty years on: trajectories of political change in East-Central Europe and the Balkans since 1989.”

Visiting Scholars

Mikhail Berg, Independent Researcher: The Russian underground: Soviet period through the present.

Martin Dimitrov, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College: Intellectual property rights laws in Russia and China.

Eleonory Gilburd, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley: “To See Paris and Die: Foreign Culture in the Soviet Union, 1955–1968.”

Shiro Hanya, Independent Researcher: Soviet nationalities policy; cultural exchanges during the Cold War era.

Gayane Novikova, Director, Center for Strategic Analysis Spectrum, Armenia: “The South Caucasus: Between Russia and the West.”

Darya Oreshkina, Research Scientist, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography: Electoral culture in contemporary Russia.

Thomas Remington, Professor of Political Science, Emory University: “Inequality, Governance, and Democracy."

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

Fredrik Sjoberg, PhD candidate, London School of Economics: “Money and Family in Central Asian Politics, 1989–2009.”

David Wolff, Professor of Eurasian History, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan: “A Terrible Patience: Stalin’s Global Vision in the Postwar Years, 1944–53.”