Fellows, 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)