Graduate Research Travel Grant Awards for 2006

The Davis Center made 27 awards for research travel in summer 2006 and academic year 2006-07. Below is a list of grant recipients, their department or program, research topic, and destination.

Gulnora Aminova (Inner Asian/Altaic Studies)
“The role of women in the development of Sufi thought and institutions in 16th-century Central Asia,” Tashkent and Bukhara.

Antonia Atanassova (Economics)
“Corruption in the Bulgarian health care system,” Bulgaria.

Ujala Dhaka (Anthropology)
Intensive Russian language study, St. Petersburg.

Hakyung Jung (Slavic)
“Historical development of historical short forms of the past active (-vshi) and past passive participles (-no/-to) in northwest Russian dialects,” Moscow and Ladva.

Matthew McCluskey (REECA)
Research on Uzbek culture and law, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Boris Milman (REECA)
“The relationship between Red Army soldiers and the Soviet regime during World War II,” Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Benjamin Paloff (Slavic)
“Investigation of metaphysical discourses in popular periodicals, Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1918–1939,” Kraków and Prague.

Olga Rostapshova (Public Policy)
“The impact of Russian deregulation reform on administrative barriers to small business development,” Moscow.

Eren Tasar (History)
“Muslim life in Soviet Central Asia,” Tashkent, Samarkand, Bishkek and Dushanbe.

The Maurice Lazarus Fund award recipients:

Diana Kudayarova (History)
“Professional identity of the Soviet middle class, 1941–1964,” Ekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk, Russia.

Kyongjoon Kwon (Slavic)
“Early development of animacy in Novgorod,” Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Stanislav Markus (Government)
“Property rights development in post-communist economies: firm-level insitutionalization of property rights,” Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk and Tyumen’.

Denis Tenenboym (Slavic)
“Visual ‘quotations’ for Mandelstam’s ‘Ode to Stalin,’” Moscow and Voronezh.

Jonathan Whitmore (REECA)
“Historical representation and ‘official view’ of the culture of Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia and its effect on contemporary indigenous conceptualizations of national identity among Finno-Ugric minorities in Karelian and Udmurt republics,” Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg and Izhevsk.

The Optimus Fund award recipients:

Alex Spektor (Slavic)
Dissertation research on Witold Gombrowicz, Kraków, Poland.

Benjamin Paloff
research project cosponsored by the Abby and George O’Neill Fund (see above).

The Padma Desai Research Prize:

Sabrina Peric (Anthropology)
“Aspects of social and economic reconstruction in the marketplace: an anthropological approach to Mostar,” Bosnia and Herzegovina.

REECA Alumni Fund Grants:

Jessica Brozyna (REECA)
“Art and religion in Russia under Putin: case study of the ‘Caution! Religion!’ exhibition in Moscow,” Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Catherine Drew (REECA)
“US–Kyrgyzstani military relations,” Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Honorary Travel Grants:

Nina Aron (REECA)
“Human trafficking and women’s rights,” Kiev, Ukraine.

Simone Ispa-Landa (Sociology)
“Family life in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia,” Moscow and Cheboksary.

Christian Packard (REECA)
“Intellectualism and unusually high rates of higher education among the traditionally Buddhist Buriats,” Ulan-Ude, Buriat Republic.

Contact: Donna Griesenbeck, griesenb@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.1194.