We offer the Merle Fainsod Prize
to encourage students with a research interest in Russian or Eurasian
studies to accept admission at Harvard. It is a one-time cash award
of $2000 over and above any financial aid offer. Departmental admissions
committees nominate candidates for the prize.
Fainsod Prizes were awarded
to six incoming students for fall 2009:
Gregory Avinogenov, Ph.D. Candidate in History: Russian history and the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe.
Anna Aizman, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature: Modern Russian and Czech literatures; poststructuralist theories; poetry and theater.
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.
Joseph Livesey, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia: Comparative study of Ukraine and other post-Soviet republics.
Andrei Roman, Ph.D. Candidate in Government: Leftist ideology and democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe; the impact of EU integration on corruption and clientelism.