Visitors 2007-08

Fellows

Mikhail Berg, Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD, Russian literature, Helsinki University), independent researcher working on a study on the Russian underground from Soviet times to the present (academic year 2007-08).

Cynthia Hooper, Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD, History, Princeton University), assistant professor at College of the Holy Cross, for research on collaboration and coercion in Soviet power (academic year 2007-2008).

Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard) for work on the visual culture of late Russian avant-garde (academic year 2007-2008).

Margarita Pavlova, Senior Fellow (PhD, Russian literature, Institute of Russian Literature), senior scholar at the Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, was awarded a senior fellowship for research on the idea of  “new religious consciousness” and its realization in the neo-Christian commune of the Merezhkovsky circle (spring 2008).

Valentina Apresjan, Regional Fellow (PhD, Linguistics, University of Southern California), senior researcher at the Institute of Russian Language, Moscow, was awarded a regional fellowship for a project on Russian emotions from a linguistic perspective (fall 2007).

Sakharov Fellows

Evgenia (Jane) Lezina (MA, Political Science, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences) is enrolled in the Political Systems and Institutional Change Program at the Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies in Italy, working on her dissertation, “Strategies of Overcoming a Totalitarian System,” and is gathering material for civics, political culture, and civil society courses in Russia (spring 2008).

Eliza Musaeva (PhD, Psychology, Moscow Pedagogical University) human rights researcher at Memorial in Ingushetia and Chechnya, and expert for the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights in Vienna, in her comparative analysis of the War on Terror in the Russian Federation and other countries, studies preventive counterterrorism measures outside the Russian Federation, the mechanisms of a state’s observance of human rights, and domestic and international standards (spring 2008).

Elena Skryakova (MA, History, Perm Pedagogical University) studies the history of dissent and dissent subculture of the 1960s and 1970s; and the future of human rights in Russia (fall 2007).

Oxana Zamolodskaya (Social Philosophy, Russian State University for the Humanities) is pursuing a comparative study of the rights of disabled children and their access to higher education in the US and Russia (fall 2007).

Visiting Scholars

Svetlana Arkina (PhD, Economics, University of Paris I-Sorbonne) recently completed her PhD and will work on the project “Investment Tax Incentives in Russia and the United States: Historical and Comparative Aspects."

Martin Dimitrov (PhD, Government, Stanford University) is assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College.  As a visiting scholar during spring semester, he will work on intellectual property rights laws in Russia and China.

David Engerman (PhD, History, University of California, UC Berkeley) is associate professor of history at Brandeis University.  As a visiting scholar, he will work on a project on America’s Russia experts and the making of the Cold War.

Timothy Frye (PhD, Political Science, Columbia University) is professor of political science at Columbia University.  He will conduct research on property rights in Russia.

Paul Josephson (PhD, History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is associate professor of history at Colby College.  While at the Davis Center he will be working on the project “Stalin, Soviet Engineering, and Technology in Eastern Europe, 1945-1964.”

Thomas Remington (PhD, Political Science, Yale University) is professor of political science at Emory University.  As a visiting scholar, he will be working on a project called “Inequality, Governance, and Democracy."