2004-2005

Nina Evtushenko

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Peride Zurikashvili

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Monika Baer

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Muza Dobrioglo Junior Fulbright Scholar

Ph.D. Candidate, Pyatigorsk State UniversityMuza Dobrioglo is working on her Ph.D. dissertation at Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University in Pyatigorsk in southern Russia. The grant will allow her to complete her Ph.D. dissertation on the development and formation of women's political consciousness in Russia. While at Rutgers she is concentrating on enriching her theoretical grounding and collecting comparative information on women's activity in the socio-political sphere, representation of women in the current political elite, women's governmental/non-governmental organizations and women's movements in the US.

Nina Evtushenko

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Iago Kachkachishvili Senior Open Society Institute Fellow

Professor and Head of Department of Sociology, Tbilsi State University, Tbilsi, GeorgiaIago Kachkachishvali has returned for the third semester of an ongoing iniatiatve sponsored by the Soros Open Society institute to assist Eurasian academic institutions to modernize and update their social sciences curricula. Dr. Kachkachishvili is chair of the Sociology Department at Tibilsi State University in the Republic of Georgia, and has been developing or assisting in developing courses on methodology, theory, and gender.

Oksana Kis Senior Fulbright Scholar

Co-Director of the non-governmental Lviv Research Center's "Women and Society" sectionOksana Kis studies and publishes on women's and gender issues on subjects of Ukrainian historical anthropology and social history. She is the co-editor of two special issues on Gender Studies in the independent cultural magazine "Ji" and edited the anthology "History, Culture, and Society: a Gender Approach," which is forthcoming.

Attila Melegh Senior Researcher, Demographic Research Institute, Budapest

Attila Melegh is a Hungarian critical sociologist of knowledge and a social historian.

George Gereby Central European University Senior Fulbright Scholar

Dr. Gereby taught a course on the genesis of Hungarian national symbolism in the later middle ages and its re-shaping in the 19th and 20th centuries. The course was cross listed with Hungarian. Dr. Gereby also pursued his research on medieval intellectual history while at Rutgers.

Anastassia Gnezditskaia Central European University Doctoral Research Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in Political Science in Budapest, Hungary

Ms. Gnezditskaia's research focus is on profit strategies pursued by Russian banks and the factors in a political - economic environment that condition them. Currently there is a division between what banks in Russia do: some are engaged in active lending to various enterprises, others keep their finance in central bank's and western banks' accounts. The factors that condition a certain bank behavior are determined by such factors as specifics of Russian federalism - uneven possibility for exploiting profit opportunities across the Russian regions, the state of regulatory authority and the structural factor - the overwhelming influence of petroleum and gas industries upon the banks. The end result is that the characteristics of the state regulation and peculiarities of the economic sectors cause the proliferation of certain type of banks - pocket banks - at the expense of others. These banks are usually owned by petroleum enterprises and have little involvement into financial intermediation. Her research will look into how the various types of banks - federal state banks, banks of mixed ownership, banks connected to enterprises producing for the final consumers, and regional pocket banks owned by one particular business group or enterprise - function under the given set of political and economic constraints, and how these constraints shape the banking system in Russia and its relationships with the enterprises and sectors.

Tamara Kiknadze Open Society Institute Fellow, Deputy Director, Center of Political Studies at Tbilisi State University, Republic of Georgia

Dr. Kiknadze along with several other scholars at Tbilisi State University in the Republic of Georgia, has worked with Rutgers scholars both in New Jersey and in Georgia to modernize the study of the social sciences in Georgia. The Open Society Georgia foundation has supported this initiative. She was awarded a grant from the Course Development Competition organized by the Open Society Georgia Foundation to develop a course on "Gender - Political and Social Studies."

Radoslaw Markowski Kosciuszko Senior FellowHead, Electoral Research Station of Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Vice-Chair, Department of Political Science, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland, and Instructor at the North American Department of the Institute of English and American Studies.

Dr. Markowski's worked on several international research projects, including "Accountability and Political Representation in New Democracies." He taught two classes, one together with the Center's Director, Dr. Jan Kubik on the political economy of post-communist transformations. During his stay at Rutgers he participated in several international conferences and delivered numerous talks at various American universities.

Eva Mathey Fulbright Junior Fellow, University of Debrecen, Hungary

Doctoral Research FellowEva Mathey's overall research interests include American history, Hungarian-American relations, American culture and politics, and American Democracy. She used the resources of Rutgers and the New Brunswick area to conduct research on her dissertation, which is broadly on American-Hungarian relations during the interwar period.

Alla Salnikova Carnegie Research Fellow, Professor of Historiography and Methods of Historical Research, Khazan State University, Kazan, Russia

Dr. Salnikova's research interests focused on Methods of Historical Writing, Historiography of Russian History and Cultural Studies of Russian History. Her research work here was jointly sponsored with the Center for Historical Analysis and involves collaboration with the Center for Women's and Gender Studies. It will result in a book on the culture of everyday life in a 20th century Russian provincial town.

Cezary Trutkowski Fulbright Senior Scholar, Assistant Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland

Research interests focus mainly in two areas. One - more practically oriented - deals with local government and local communities in Poland. Dr. Trutkowski is particularly interested here in citizen participation as a toll in the development of small towns. Second is his theoretical research on social representations in discourse analysis. The main purpose of Dr. Trutkowski's visit was to study mechanisms that determine the development of citizen participation in Poland. The research is to enable identification of the principal factors influencing the condition of citizen participation in local communities. The analysis covers both the sources of barriers to the development of civil society, and the main reasons for increased participation in four Polish communities. The project is divided into two phases: during the first phase fieldwork had been conducted in Poland in selected small towns (with a population up to 10 thousand). The research process was composed of the analysis of existing data, content analysis of local press, individual in-depth interviews with local opinion leaders, focus group interviews with residents and a poll on a representative sample N=450 of residents of each town. Second stage of the project consists of the analysis and interpretation of the accumulated results. This stage is to be partly implemented in USA.

Miroslaw Bieniecki Central European University Doctoral Research Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at Central European University, Warsaw, Poland

Mr. Bieniecki conducted field research for his thesis on the connection between the processes of development of nationalism, constructing social memory and redevelopment of borderland and transborder cooperation within the border regions of Poland and Ukraine and particularly on institutions which regulate the development and performances of Polish-Ukrainian border regions, the involvement of local governments and attitudes of the members of the local communities toward the cooperation with their neighbors. At the Rutgers he focused particularly on bibliographical research at the library and on theoretical frameworks with the assistance of Rutgers faculty. He was a regular participant in the weekly Workshop on Fellows’ Research in Progress.

Michal Buchowski Kosciuszko Fellow, Professor of Anthropology, University of Poznan, Poland

Dr. Buchowski's fellowship at Rutgers is jointly sponsored with the Program in Russian and East European Languages and Literatures and he taught courses while at Rutgers. Dr. Buchowski pursued anthropological research on modes of thought and systems of beliefs, as well as in Central European social and cultural transformations. His focus was the encounter of the free market and democracy with the realities of post-communist Poland at the grass-roots level in Poland, especially in rural communities with the premise that actors have to adapt to the new structural framework, but at the same time they modify the new system to fit their own patterns via permanent reinterpretation of the symbolic and pragmatic universes of capitalism. He traveled from Rutgers to a number of other colleges and universities to give research presentations and plans to turn his work into a monograph. He was part of the Workshop on Fellows’ Research in Progress.

Iago Kachkachshivili Open Society Institute Fellow

Professor and Deputy Head of Department of Sociology, Tbilsi State University, Tbilsi, GeorgiaDr. Kachkachishvali continued his work from the previous spring, 2001 semester at Rutgers to develop two graduate-level courses, the "Theory of Social Action" and "Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Sociological Research" to become part of the newly instituted Master’s Program in Sociology at the University of Tbilsi. This curriculum development is part of the ongoing modernization of the study of sociology in the former Soviet Union. During the spring he joined in the Workshop on Fellows’ Research in Progress and also applied for and received a grant, together with Rutgers, from the Open Society Institute to hold faculty curricula workshops in Tbilsi. See a more complete description below.

Magdalena Kusmierz Doctoral Candidate of Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland

Ms. Kusmierz visited Rutgers to make use of make use of the libraries of the Center, of the Labor Education Center, and of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies in order to study two questions, that of how Poland’s anticipated integration with EU and the ongoing process of integrating European Union standards would influence Polish trade unions' attitudes, activities and strategies vis a vis a Single Europe. Also, whether and what impact their attitudes can have on the process of Poland’s integration. Thus, in other words - whether integration with EU matters for Polish labor movement, and whether trade unions matter for Poland’s integration. She presented her research at several meetings in the Center and at Women’s Studies, and took courses at Women’s Studies and Labor Studies as well.

Andrzej Mirga Senior Center Fellow and Chair, Romani Advisory Council, Project on Ethnic Relations, Princeton

Andrzej Mirga was a key participant in the weekly Workshop on Fellows’ Work in Progress and helped to develop the Center’s contribution to the Global Citizen 2000 project. While at the center, he participated in numerous conferences, governmental and international symposia, and lectured to various audiences.

Juris Rozenvalds Fulbright Scholar Associate Professor and Head of Department of Political Science, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Dr. Rozenvalds visited Rutgers during spring term 2002 to conduct research on the political role of intellectuals in post-communist societies with special emphasis on their role in transformation of the relations between the main ethnic groups in Latvia. During his stay at Rutgers he made extensive use of library resources in order to prepare a course, "Introduction to Political Philosophy," for students of the University of Latvia (in Latvian). He was a regular participant in the Workshop on Fellows’ Research in Progress and participated in a Conference on the Baltic Art at the Zimmerli Museum. His stay at Rutgers was co-hosted by the Center for Global Security and the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy.