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East European Studies Programs Fellows and Grantees
The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the results of competitions in the East European Studies Program, which provides fellowships and grants to scholars pursuing research in the social sciences and the humanities pertaining to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia. Language-Training Grants were also made to three institutions for language-training programs in summer 2008 and to one institution for advanced-mastery language training in summers 2007 and 2008. This program is supported by funding from the U.S. Department of State under the Research and Training for Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union Act of 1983, Title VIII. In the most recent competition, four postdoctoral fellowships and seven dissertation fellowships were awarded. Read more about these fellowship programs. Please note: affilations shown are as of time of award. Please click on fellows' names for current information.
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East European Studies Program Conference Grants |
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Patrice C. McMahon| Abstract
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln - Building Coalitions to Build States: The Lessons of the Balkans
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Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies |
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Madigan Andrea Fichter| Abstract
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, New York University - Cultures of Dissent: Hippies, Leftists, and Nationalists in Romania and Yugoslavia, 1965-1975
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Daniel Perez| Abstract
Doctoral Candidate, History Department, Stanford University - Between Tito and Stalin: Albanian Communists and the Assertion of National Sovereignty, 1944-1948
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Jack J. Hutchens| Abstract
Doctoral Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - From Iwaszkiewicz to Witkowski: Transgressing Nation and Gender in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction
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Mira Rosenthal| Abstract
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington - Translation and Its Double Vision: The Poetry Translations of Czeslaw Milosz
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Jennifer L. Marlow| Abstract
Doctoral Student, Department of History, Michigan State University - Nannies and Housemaids: Female Aid and the Family in Nazi Occupied Poland
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Michael Benjamin Thorne| Abstract
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington - The Anxiety of Proximity: The “Gypsy Question” in Romanian Society, 1934-1944 and Beyond
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Katharina Matro| Abstract
Doctoral Candidate, History Department, Stanford University - From Prussian Estate to Polish Farm: The Transformation of Rural Communities in Poland’s New Western Territories, 1944-1956
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Alexandra Rohde Tipei| Abstract
Doctoral Student, History, Indiana University, Bloomington - For Your Civilization and Ours: Greece, Romania, Poland, and the Making of French Universalism
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East European Studies Program Heritage Speakers |
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Danko Sipka| Abstract
Professor, International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University - Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Heritage Speakers in Four Major U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Resources for the Attainment of Full Professional Linguistic Proficiency
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Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research in East European Studies |
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Edin Hajdarpasic| Abstract
Assistant Professor, History, Loyola University Chicago - Whose Bosnia?: Political Activism, Imagination, and Nation-Formation in the Ottoman and Habsburg Balkans, 1840-1914
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Thomas Ort| Abstract
Assistant Professor, History, North Carolina State University - Men without Qualities: Karel Capek and His Generation, 1911-1938
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Michael Liddon Meng| Abstract
Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Davidson College - Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Sites in Postwar Germany and Poland
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East European Studies Program Language Grants to Individuals for Summer Study |
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Dana Johnson| Abstract
Graduate Student, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
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Mary N. Taylor| Abstract
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, City University of New York, Hunter College - Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
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Lisa M. Le Fevre| Abstract
Graduate Student, International and Transcultural Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University - Elementary Bulgarian
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Avram J. Lyon| Abstract
Graduate Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles - Advanced Czech
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East European Studies Program Travel Grants |
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Georgeta Stoian Connor| Abstract
Doctoral Candidate, Geography, University of Georgia - Rural Romania: Between Communist Collectivization and Integration into the European Union
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Alice Lovejoy| Abstract
Postdoctoral Fellow, Film and Media Studies, Colgate University - Establishing Shots: Czechoslovak Army Film, 1951-1956
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Andrew Stefan Dombrowski| Abstract
Graduate Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Linguistics, University of Chicago - Baltic Influence on Slavic Spread: The Case of North Russian
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Maria Rethelyi| Abstract
Visiting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, St. Lawrence University - Imagined Histories, Invented Identities
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Abby L. Drwecki| Abstract
Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington - Body Projects and Women's Empowerment in Poland: The Intersections of Post-Socialism and Individuation
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Lauren Rhodes| Abstract
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, University of Washington - A Private Performance Turned Public: An Ethnography of Black Bodies in Latvia
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Grant Garstka| Abstract
Ph.D. Candidate, Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder - Big Changes in a Small City: Post-Socialist Urban Change in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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