Current Title VIII Scholars
Frances Bernstein
Research Scholar Program
Associate Professor of History Drew University
Research Project Title: Empire of Broken Men: Disability and Medicine at the End of World War Two, 1945-1953
Host Country: Russia
Michelle DeFreese
Southeast European Language Training Program
Kosovo Project Assistant
University of Geneva
Language Study: Albanian
Host Country: Albania
Jonathan Eaton
Southeast European Language Training Program
MA Student in Anthropology
University of Toronto
Language Study: Albanian
Host Country: Albania
Jacob Fleming
Research Scholar Program
Ph.D. Student
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Project Title: Meanings, Values, Walnuts: How Harvesters, Foresters, and Conservationalists Understand and Access Kyrgyzstan's Walnut-Fruit Forest
Host Country: Kyrgyzstan
Neissa Gallahar
Southeast European Language Training Program
Indiana Wesleyan University
Language Study: Croatian
Host Country: Croatia
Edward Geist
Research Scholar Program
Ph.D. Candidate
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Research Project Title: Two Worlds of Civil Defense: State, Society, and Nuclear Survival in the USA and USSR, 1945-1991
Host Country: Ukraine
Daniel Giblin
Research Scholar Program
Graduate Student
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Project Title: Digging for Victory: Mobilization of Civilian Labor for the Battle of Kursk
Host Country: Russia
Alexander Groce
Southeast European Language Training Program
Graduate Student
Harvard University
Language Study: Croatian
Host Country: Croatia
Gary Guadagnolo
Combined Research and Language Training Program
Graduate Student
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Research
Project Title: Socialist in Form, National in Content: Islam, Anti-Colonialism, and the Tatar Communist Party Organization, 1920-1940
Host Country: Russia
Samuel Hirst
Research Scholar Program
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Pennsylvania
Research Project Title: Allied against the West: Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Capitalism in Russia and Turkey, 1917 - 1937
Host Country: Russia
Jeremiah Johnson
Combined Research and Language Training Program
Graduate Student
University of Michigan
Research Project Title: Literacies Unveiled: Citizenship, Nationality, Gender and the Campaigns to Eradicate Illiteracy in the Soviet South Caucasus, 1922-1936
Host Country: Georgia
Deborah Jones
Combined Research and Language Training Program
Pre-candidate and graduate student instructor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research Project Title: How It Gets Done in Odessa: Promises, Plans, and Predictions in Uncertain Times
Host Country: Ukraine
Robin Kemkes
Combined Research and Language Training Program
Instructor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Research Project Title: Forest Use for Sustainable Rusal Development in Upper Svaneti, Georgia
Host Country: Georgia
Mikhail Myagkov
Research Scholar Program
University of Oregon
Research Project Title: 2012 Presidential Election in Russia: a step toward democracy or déjà vu a-la-Putin?
Host Country: Russia
James Pickett
Combined Research and Language Training Program
Doctoral Candidate
Princeton University
Research Project Title: The Persianate Sphere in the Age of Empires: Islamic Scholars and Networks of Exchange 1747-1917
Host Country: Tajikistan
Kimberly Powers
Combined Research and Language Training Program
Graduate Student Instructor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research Project Title: Constructing Legal Categories, Inscribing Cultural Differences: A History of Family Law and Practice in Central Asia
Host Country: Kazakhstan
Michelle Reeves
Combined Research and Language Training Program
University of Texas at Austin
Research Project Title: The Evolution of Soviet Perceptions of Latin America during the Cold War
Host Country: Russia
Elise Thorsen
Combined Research and Language Training Program
Teaching Fellow
University of Pittsburgh
Research Project Title: Producing the Contours of Political Space: Russian Civic Poetry and Borders in the Interwar Soviet Union
Host Country: Russia
Melissa Witcombe
Southeast European Language Training Program
Graduate Student
Indiana University
Language Study: Serbian
Host Country: Serbia
