New Faces

The following individuals are new to the Davis Center for the 2009–10 academic year:

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)

Visiting Scholars

Peter Collmer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich: “Administrative Culture in 18th-Century Poland.” (Fall 2009)

Yukiko Hama, Research Fellow, Tsuda College: “The Reinterpretation of Russia’s Eurasianism from the Viewpoint of International History.”

Urs Heftrich, Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures, University of Heidelberg: “Facing Two Faces of Totalitarianism: The Poetry of Vladimír Holan and his Contemporaries, 1938–1954.”

Bettina Kaibach, University Teacher, English Department and Slavic Department, University of Heidelberg: “Literary Representations of the Holocaust in Communist Eastern Europe: The Case of Jiří Weil.”

Ivan Katchanovski, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, State University of New York at Potsdam: “U.S. Television Coverage of Postcommunist Countries: A Comparative Perspective.” (Fall 2009)

Center Associates

Mary A. Gembicki, Independent Scholar: Russian and Polish History, 1750–1830; nobility and noble institutions; post-Soviet religion; charity and public benevolence.

Andrea Graziosi, Professor of History, Università di Napoli Federico II: Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian history, Eastern European History, Political and Economic History, Historiography.

Benjamin Loring, Postdoctoral Fellow in Central Asian Affairs, Georgetown University: Russian/Soviet History, Central Asian History.

Vanessa Ruget, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Salem State University: Citizenship; migration; Kyrgyzstan.

Olga Zaslavsky, Instructor, University of Rhode Island: Literature and documents of exile; Contemporary Russian Theater.

Graduate Student Associates

Gregory Afinogenov, Ph.D. Candidate in History: Russian history and the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe.

Joshua Woongki Ahn, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies–REECA: Soviet Korean artists; Korean life in Central Asia; presence of Russia, the US and China in Central Asia; minority policies of the FSU nations; foreign policies of the FSU nations.

Anna Aizman, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature: Modern Russian and Czech literatures; poststructuralist theories; poetry and theater.

Kerry Eickholt, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies–REECA: Russia's foreign policy relationship with Central Asia and beyond; peasant death in Russian realist literature.

Tatiana Gershkovich, Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures: 20th-century literature; Nabokov; Bely; late-Soviet-era literature and its influence on society; publishing practices in Russia and the Soviet Union; absurdist and dissident literature and writing.

Thomas Hooker, Ph.D. Candidate in History: Friendship and the dialectic between individual and collective in Russian and Soviet history.

Irina Ikonsky, Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures: The rise of the literary canon in 19th-century Russian and American literature.

Christina Krushen, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies–REECA: Trends in Jewish women's education in Pale of Settlement.

Joseph Livesey, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies–REECA: Comparative study of Ukraine and other post-Soviet republics.

Samuel Ludwig, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies–REECA: 19th- and 20th-century Russian prose, late-19th- and 20th-century Russian classical music and musicians, the politics of culture in the Soviet Union, and changing cultures, traditions, and nationalism in the former Soviet Union.

Jeffrey Lugowe, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies–REECA: Labor migration and sexual minorities in the cases of Russia and Poland.

Oksana Mykhed, Ph.D. Candidate in History: History of the Russian Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th and 18th centuries; confessional relationships; popular movements and administration in the Ukrainian borderland.

Stephanie Plant, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies–REECA: Media analysis; advocacy for freedom of the press.

Andrei C. Roman, Ph.D. Candidate in Government: Leftist ideology and democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe; the impact of EU integration on corruption and clientelism.

Michael van Landingham, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies–REECA: Soviet history; Brezhnev-era interventions in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan.