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Previously Funded Projects in Russia

Samuel Hirst
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Final Report: Allied against the West: Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Capitalism in Russia and Turkey, 1917 - 1937

Lara Weibgen
Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
Final Report:  The Aesthetics Of Mereness: Moscow Conceptualism 1975–1989

Robert O. Beahrs
Doctoral Candidate, University of California - Berkeley
Final Report: Voices on the Russian Periphery: Cultural Revival, Festival Circuits, and the Political Imagination of “Eurasia”

Natalie Belsky
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
Final Report: Journey to Survival in the East: Soviet Jewish Life in Evacuation during the Second World War

Dr. Laurie Stoff
Assistant Professor of History, Louisiana Tech University
Final Report: “The Red Cross under The Golden Eagle: A Case Study in Women’s Wartime Nursing and Civil-Governmental Conflict in Russia During the First World War.”

Jipar Duishembieva
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington
Final Report: “Central Asian Students in the Medreses of the Russian Empire (late Nineteenth- and Early – Twentieth Century).”

Sergei Antonov
Pre-doctoral Candidate, Columbia University
Final Report: Civil Law and the Culture of Debt in Moscow Province During Great Reforms, 1850-1870
Robert Duncan
Pre-doctoral Candidate, University of Washington, Seattle
Final Report: Stemming the Demographic Crisis: Alcohol Abuse and Public Health in Belgorod, Russia

Joanna Matuszak
Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, Indiana University - Bloomington
Final Report: Performance Art in the Period of Democratic Changes in the 1990s in Russia

Ora John Reuter
Pre-doctoral Candidate, Emory University
Final Report: The Origins of Dominant Parties: Commitment Problems and the Rise of United Russia

Natalia Roudakova
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Final Report: Journalism and the Public in Illiberal Russia

Caress Schenk
Pre-doctoral Candidate, Miami University
Final Report: Gastarbeiter Ghettos: Migrant Housing in Russia

Auri Berg
University of Toronto
Final Report: Nikita Khrushchev and the Fate of the Russian Peasantry:  1950-1959

Andrea C. Mazzarino
Brown University
Final Report: Reproductive trajectories of professional women in St. Petersburg, Russia

Yulia Uryadova
University of Arkansas
Final Report: At the Crossroads of Revolution: The Fergana Valley and the Russian and Iranian Constitutional Revolutions, 1900-1914