Affiliate News

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Davis Center Research Associate Rochelle G. Ruthchild gave a plenary talk at the conference "The Legal Status of Women: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow," held at the Herzen University and the Nevskii Institute in St. Petersburg, from March 21-23. The conference commemorated the centennial of the 1908 First All-Russian Women's Congress, the largest women's public gathering before the February 1917 revolution. Dr. Ruthchild's talk was entitled: "The 1908 Congress: Its Significance Then and Now." The language of the conference was Russian.

Center Associate Linda J. Cook's book Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe has been published by Cornell University Press (2007).

Professor Emeritus Richard Pipes has received the National Humanities Medal for 2007 "for peerless scholarship on Russia and Eastern Europe and for a life in service to freedom’s cause..."

Center Associate Maxim D. Shrayer's Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature received a 2007 National Jewish Book Award for Eastern European Studies and was a finalist in the Anthologies and Collections category.

Davis Center Associate Bat Batjargal's research on gendered networking and entrepreneurs is featured in the February 8, 2007 Harvard Gazette. He was also recently intervied by Businessweek Magazine.

Read the November 3, 2006 Harvard Gazette article about Territories of Terror, and exhibit about art and the Russian Gulag, curated by Faculty Associate, Svetlana Boym

Former Post-Doctoral Fellow Jeffrey Rossman (1998-99) published his book Worker Resistance Under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor, with Harvard University Press in November 2005 as part of the Davis Center book Series. He is currently Associate Professor of History at University of Virginia.

Center Associate Patricia Herlihy has been named as the first Louise Doherty Wyant Professor at Emmanuel College in Boston.

Terry Martin Offered Tenure at Harvard
Congratulations to faculty associate Terry Martin, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences, who was recently offered tenure at Harvard. View article about tenure offer in Harvard Crimson.

Armenian Alphabet Conference Named One of Gazette's Top Stories for 2005
Executive Committee member James Russell's conference, "Armenia's Remarkable Alphabet," co-sponsored by the Davis Center, was rated among the top twenty stories for 2005. Read article.>>

Senior Fellow Awarded at American Political Science Association
Senior Fellow David Woodruff's publication "Boom, Gloom, Doom: Balance Sheets, Monetary Fragmentation, and Financial Crisis in Argentina and Russia," will share the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper given at the 2003 Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association>>. 

Center Associate Wins National Book Critic's Award and Pulitzer Prize
Center Associate William Taubman, the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, has received the National Book Critic's Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his biography Krushchev: The Man and his Era.>>

REECA Student Visits Chechnya, Writes Op-Ed Piece for Boston Globe
Catherine Osgood, a 2nd-year student in the REECA master's program, visited Chechnya while on an O'Neill research travel grant this summer. In this op-ed piece for the Boston Globe, she describes a situation of fear, destruction, and lawlessness, and pleads for the US to make human rights in this war-torn region a priority at the upcoming Bush-Putin summit.>>

John LeDonne Joins Editorial Board of International History Review
Historian John LeDonne, a longtime affiliate of the Center, was recently invited to join the editorial board of the International History Review. LeDonne will teach two courses in imperial Russian history at Harvard in the spring of 2004. His book, The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire 1650-1831 was published in September 2003 by Oxford University Press.

Marshall Poe Publishes Book
Former Center affiliate Marshall Poe announces his book, The Russian Moment in World History, a 150-page interpretation of the course of Russian history. Marshall is currently on the editorial staff at The Atlantic Monthly.

Christoph Neidhart Publishes Russia's Carnival
Former visiting scholar Christoph Neidhart published the book he wrote during his most recent stay at the Davis Center. Russia's Carnival: The Smells, Sights, and Sounds of Transition was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2002.

Sheila Puffer and Daniel McCarthy Honored
Center Associates Sheila Puffer and Daniel McCarthy, both of Northeastern University's College of Business Administration, were identified as the top individual contributors of scholarly management articles on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from 1986 to 2000.

Alexandre Strokanov Publishes The Elections to the State Duma in December 1999 - Russia's Choice at the End of the Twentieth Century
Analyzing documents related to the Third State Duma on December 19, 1999, and Presidential elections of March 26, 2000, this book provides the reader with new data that helps in understanding the importance of the elections for the future of the Russian political landscape. The study approaches the elections from many angles, including their legal base, the major participants and forms of participation, and it provides many details on the course of elections, their results and interpretation. It outlines the development of a multi-party system in Russia and the activities of political parties, electoral blocs and other political organizations. It explores the specifics of Russian political culture and its impact on the results. Finally, the book suggests some possibilities in the future developments of Russian political life.

Strokanov is an associate professor of history at Lyndon State College in Lyndonville, Vermont. He graduated from Perm State University and taught there from 1979 to 1984. He later worked in different positions in Moscow. Since 1993, he has been teaching in the United States, and in 2000 and 2002 he was included in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers."

Vladimir Wozniuk Publishes Book on Russian Religious Thought
Dr. Vladimir Wozniuk of Branford, CT, government professor and the director of international studies at Western New England College, recently published a book on Russian religious thought, "The Heart of Reality: Essays on Beauty, Love and Ethics by V.S. Soloviev." The book, edited and translated by Wozniuk, is published by University of Notre Dame Press. Wozniuk has been a professor of government at the college since 1990. He is the author/co-editor of several books and many articles on Russian political and religious thought.

Fellowships, Fainsod Prizes, and Travel Grants for 2003-04
The Davis Center has awarded five post-doctoral fellowships, one regional fellowship, one senior fellowship, and one dissertation fellowship for 2003-04. View full list of fellowships for 2003-04.

Six Fainsod prizes were awarded to top graduate students entering in fall 2003. View Fainsod prizes for 2003-04.

Abby & George O'Neill Graduate Research Travel Grants were awarded to 22 students. View graduate travel grants for 2003-04.

Goldman Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants were awarded to nine Harvard students. View undergraduate travel grants for 2003-04.

Julie Buckler Offered Tenure at Harvard
Congratulations to faculty associate Julie Buckler, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, who was recently offered tenure at Harvard. Her most recent book was written with support from the Davis Center through the John F. Cogan Junior Faculty Research Leave program. Mapping St. Petersburg: Urban Text and Topography in Imperial Russia is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. View article about tenure offer in Harvard Crimson.

In Memoriam: Abram Bergson, 1914-2003
Professor Abram Bergson, economist and former director of the Russian Research Center, died on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 in Cambridge at the age of 89.

View obituary in Harvard Gazette.
View obituary in Harvard Crimson.

Brian Boeck to Teach at Loyola Marymount University
Brian Boeck AM '94, PhD '02 has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Russian and Global History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles starting in fall 2003.

Rawi Abdelal Receives 2002 Marshall Shulman Book Prize
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, the prize honors an outstanding monograph on the international behavior of the countries of the former communist bloc. Rawi Abdelal's book, National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective, was published by Cornell University Press in 2001. View citation abstract.>>

Terry Martin Receives 2002 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
The Vucinich Prize honors a distinguished English-language monograph in Russian, Eurasian, or East
European Studies in any discipline of the humanities. Terry Martin's book, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939, was published by Cornell University Press in 2001. View citation abstract.>>

Roberta Manning Profiled in The Boston Globe Magazine
Center Associate Roberta Manning of Boston College heads a program to declassify Soviet central government archives. This interview ran in The Boston Globe Magazine on October 6.>>