Past Visiting Scholars
2019-20
Yanli He
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Sichuan, China
PROJECT TITLE: Socialist Realism as World Literature and The New Face of Soviet Art: Boris Groys and the Total Art of Stalinism
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2019 to September 2020
Song Ha Joo
HOME INSTITUTION: Zhejiang University, China
PROJECT TITLE: Anti-Immigration and Electoral Politics: the case of Russia and Kazakhstan in the 2010s
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2019 to June 2020
Dmytro Koval
HOME INSTITUTION: National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Ukraine
PROJECT TITLE: The Eleventh Dimension of the International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: Collective Memory and Social Systems
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: October 2019 to June 2020
Wiktor Marzec
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Warsaw, Poland
PROJECT TITLE: Rebellion and Reaction in the Post-Imperial Borderlands 1905-1921
DATES IN RESIDENCE: October 2019 to January 2020
Sergiu Musteata
HOME INSTITUTION: „Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University of Moldova
PROJECT TITLE: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and the USSR during Cold War: Soviet Moldavia in the RFE/RL Broadcast Programs
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2020 to June 2020
Klaus Segbers
HOME INSTITUTION: Free University of Berlin
PROJECT TITLE: Populism as a Two-Level Game: Cases in Eastern Europe
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2020 to February 2020
2018-19
Maurice Casey
HOME INSTITUTION: Jesus College, University of Oxford
PROJECT TITLE: The Irish Radical World: Gender and Solidarity, 1916-1939
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: November 2018 to February 2019
Iryna Odrekhivska
HOME INSTITUTION: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
PROJECT TITLE: Translating Ukraine: Languages, Cultures and Society under the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1772-1918)
FELLOWSHIP: Wayne Vucinich Fellowship
DATES IN RESIDENCE: April 2019 to June 2019
Martin Previšić
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Zagreb, Croatia
PROJECT TITLE: Soviet Communism and the Yugoslav Question, 1940-1945
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: February 2019 to September 2019
Aigi Rahi-Tamm
HOME INSTITUTION: Institute of History and Archeology, University of Tartu, Estonia
PROJECT TITLE: Normalizing the Extraordinary Soviet Estonian Society, 1940s-60s
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: March 2019 to June 2019
2017-18
Ivan Asseev
HOME INSTITUTION: European University at St. Petersburg
FELLOWSHIP: Visiting Student Researcher
DATES IN RESIDENCE: April 2018 to June 2018
Vitaliy Bovar
HOME INSTITUTION: European University at St. Petersburg
FELLOWSHIP: Visiting Student Researcher
DATES IN RESIDENCE: April 2018 to June 2018
Tymofii Brik
HOME INSTITUTION: Kyiv School of Economics
FELLOWSHIP: Wayne Vucinich Fellowship
DATES IN RESIDENCE: April 2018 to June 2018
Wim Coudenys
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Leuven
PROJECT TITLE: The Belgian Connection: A.M. Garting and European-Russian Intelligence Collaboration, 1893-1917
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright and Flemish Fund for Scientific Research
DATES IN RESIDENCE: August 2017 to November 2017
Andrei Gorzo
HOME INSTITUTION: National University of Theatre and Film “I. L. Caragiale”
PROJECT TITLE: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Found Footage Films
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: August 2017 to January 2018
Jasmina Husanović
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
PROJECT TITLE: Re-Configuring the Trauma Market: Cultural Interventions into Conflict and Social Justice
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2017 to June 2018
Anna A. Mazurkiewicz
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Gdansk, Poland
PROJECT TITLE: The National Committee for a Free… - American uses of political exiles during the Cold War
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: August 2017 to January 2018
Anna Osypchuk (Visiting Professor)
HOME INSTITUTION: National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2018 to March 2018
COURSE(S) TAUGHT: Identity, Memory and Cultural Politics in Post-Soviet Societies (REES 310)
Georgii Sherstnev
HOME INSTITUTION: European University at St. Petersburg
FELLOWSHIP: Visiting Student Researcher
DATES IN RESIDENCE: April 2018 to June 2018
Inga Zaksauskiene
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Vilnius, Lithuania
PROJECT TITLE: Mission Radio Hope: Western Radio Broadcasts to the Soviet Baltic Republics
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: October 2017 to March 2018
2016-17
Anna Khvorostiankina (Visiting Professor)
HOME INSTITUTION: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
DATES IN RESIDENCE: March 2017 to June 2017
Veronika Lapina
PROJECT TITLE: Queer Nomads: In-Country Mobility of Sexual Becomings in Russia
FELLOWSHIP: Wayne Vucinich Fellow
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2017 to March 2017
Sergiu Musteaţă
HOME INSTITUTION: Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University, Moldova
FELLOWSHIP: Carnegie Research Fellowship Program
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2016 to January 2017
David L. Ransel (Scholar in Residence)
HOME INSTITUTION: Indiana University, Robert F. Byrnes Professor Emeritus
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2016 to September 2019
Nona Shahnazarian
HOME INSTITUTION: The National Academy of Sciences in Yerevan, Armenia
PROJECT TITLE: Mutual Accusations of Ethnic Cleansing in the Azeri-Armenian Conflict: Memory Wars and Emerging State Ideologies
FELLOWSHIP: Carnegie Research Fellowship Program
DATES IN RESIDENCE: December 2016 to May 2017
Ana Siljak
HOME INSTITUTION: Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
PROJECT TITLE: The Art of Life: Religion and Aesthetics in the Russian Silver Age, 1890-1917
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2016 to June 2017
2015-16
Tomas Balkelis
HOME INSTITUTION: Vilnius University, Lithuania
PROJECT TITLE: Violence, Nationalism and Revolution in the Baltic States, 1918-1920
FELLOWSHIP: Baltic-American Freedom Foundation
DATES IN RESIDENCE: December 2015 to November 2016
Igor Casu
HOME INSTITUTION: Moldova State University
PROJECT TITLE: A Moldavian Holodomor? The Mass Famine in Soviet Moldavia, 1946-1947
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2016 to July 2016
Gábor Egry
HOME INSTITUTION: Institute of Political History - Budapest, Hungary
PROJECT TITLE: Negotiating post-imperial transitions, 1918-1925. A comparative study of local and regional transitions from Austria-Hungary to the successor states
FELLOWSHIP: Hungarian National Research Fund
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2016 to April 2016
Ekaterina V. Klimenko
HOME INSTITUTION: Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture
PROJECT TITLE: “Migrant Integration” in Post-Soviet Russia: Knowledge, Discourse, Policy
FELLOWSHIP: CREEES, Wayne Vucinich Fellow, 2016
DATES IN RESIDENCE: April 2016 to June 2016
Dariya Orlova
HOME INSTITUTION: National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
DATES IN RESIDENCE: April 2016 to June 2016
COURSE(S) TAUGHT: Media, Democratization and Political Transformations in Post-Sovieties
Daniel Orlovsky
HOME INSTITUTION: Southern Methodist University
PROJECT TITLE: Russian Revolution Centennial/The Provisional Government: Meaning and Practice of power in 1917
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2016 to July 2016
Klaus Segbers
HOME INSTITUTION: Freie Universitaet Berlin
PROJECT TITLE: The Return of Violence: Challenges for European Security
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2016 to March 2016
Aurimas Švedas
HOME INSTITUTION: Vilnius University, Lithuania
PROJECT TITLE: Red Knights: The KGB between Myth and Reality
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2016 to June 2016
2014-15
Krassimira Daskalova
HOME INSTITUTION: Sofia University
PROJECT TITLE: A Woman Politician in the Cold War Balkans: From Biography to History
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: June 2014 to October 2014
Andrew Herscher
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Michigan
PROJECT TITLE: Freedom in the Abstract: The Socialist Monument in and after Yugoslavia
FELLOWSHIP: LSA Humanities Award Fellow
DATES IN RESIDENCE: October 2014 to December 2014
Svitlana Khutka
HOME INSTITUTION: National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
PROJECT TITLE: Civic Political Apathy/Involvement, Governance and Values in Transition Countries
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: February 2014 to October 2015
Ian Lanzillotti
HOME INSTITUTION: The Ohio State University
PROJECT TITLE: Land, Community and the State in the North Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria, 1763-1991
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright-Hays
DATES IN RESIDENCE: May 2015
Sreten Ugričić
HOME INSTITUTION: National Library of Serbia
PROJECT TITLE: Meady-rade: Examples, Arguments, Definitions, Distinctions
FELLOWSHIP: Scholar Rescue Fund
DATES IN RESIDENCE: July 2013 to July 2015
Alma Vardari-Kesler
HOME INSTITUTION: Tel-Aviv University
PROJECT TITLE: Statehood without Sovereignty: Risky Negotiations in Post-independence Kosovo
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: August 2014 to July 2015
2013-14
Philipp Casula
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Zurich
PROJECT TITLE: Two Tales of War? Imagery of Afghanistan and Chechnya in Soviet and Russian Media
FELLOWSHIP: Swiss National Science Foundation
DATES IN RESIDENCE: March 2014 to June 2014
Alicja Curanović
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Warsaw
PROJECT TITLE: Dangerous Liaisons? Religion in Contemporary Russian Politics
FELLOWSHIP: Kosciuszko Foundation
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2013 to December 2013
Fabio De Leonardis
PROJECT TITLE: "Halk, Watan, Turkmenbashy!" Explaining Niyazov's Personality Cult in Turkmenistan: A Comparative Perspective
FELLOWSHIP: CREEES, Wayne Vucinich Fellow
DATES IN RESIDENCE: March 2014 to June 2014
Anna Dolidze
HOME INSTITUTION: Western University, Canada
DATES IN RESIDENCE: July 2013
José M. Faraldo
HOME INSTITUTION: Complutense University
PROJECT TITLE: History of Communist Secret Police in Eastern Europe
FELLOWSHIP: Del Amo Foundation
DATES IN RESIDENCE: June 2014
Stefan Guth
PROJECT TITLE: "A City of New Beginnings..." Staging Atomic-Powered Communism on the Southern Soviet Periphery
FELLOWSHIP: National Science Foundation
DATES IN RESIDENCE: April 2013 to March 2014
Jörn Happel
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Basel
PROJECT TITLE: German diplomat Gustav Hilder (1886-1965)
FELLOWSHIP: Swiss National Science Foundation
DATES IN RESIDENCE: May 2014 to June 2014
Magnus Ilmjärv
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Tallinn
PROJECT TITLE: History of Baltic States, 1922-1940
FELLOWSHIP: Fulbright
DATES IN RESIDENCE: January 2014 to May 2014
Jeronim Perovic
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Zurich
PROJECT TITLE: Russia in Global Energy History
DATES IN RESIDENCE: July 2013
2012-13
Tamara Martsenyuk
HOME INSTITUTION: National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
PROJECT TITLE: Women's Top-Level Political Participation in Ukraine: Challenges and Opportunities
FELLOWSHIP: Chopivsky Fellow
DATES IN RESIDENCE: April 2012 to June 2012
Xu Wenhong
HOME INSTITUTION: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
PROJECT TITLE: Russian Capital Movement in the post-Soviet Space
FELLOWSHIP: China Scholarship Council
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2012 to November 2012
