Visiting Scholars 2011-12

MICHAEL HERZEN (September 2011 - August 2012)
Moving from 18th century Russian history – my dissertation decades ago under Martin Malia, Nicholas Riasanovsky, Hugh McLean, and Reggie Zelnick was on "Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov, the St. Petersburg Years" – to the mid 19th, it is time to look at Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, my great-great grandfather, more closely, in preparation for a (long overdue) biography. With the 200th anniversary of his birth, April 6, 1812, fast approaching, his legacy is provoking renewed interest, despite the demise of world-renowned scholars such as Isaiah Berlin, Martin Malia. Amazingly, new primary documents keep surfacing, including some shedding light on his finances that can profoundly influence our view of the man and his contemporaries.

TAMARA MARTSENYUK (March 2012 – June 2012)
Tamara Martsenyuk is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (Kyiv, Ukraine). Her courses include "Introduction to Gender Studies", "Sociological Analysis of the Forms of Deviant Behavior", "Masculinity and Men's Studies", "Gender and Politics", "Social Problems in Ukraine and in the World", "Gender Relations in Ukraine: Sociological Analysis" etc. In January-May 2011 Tamara was Carnegie Program fellow at the SUNY Stony Brook (USA) conducting research on men's organizations and men's movement in USA. Her research interest focuses on the social structure of society and, particularly, on gender relations. Besides studying in Ukraine and getting a PhD in Social Structure and Social Relations, Tamara has experience studying and conducting research in Sweden, USA, Norway, Hungary, Germany, Estonia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland etc. She is the author of 30 academic publications as well as a number of articles in popular publications. In addition to gender equality implementation in Ukrainian society, her other research and activist interest surround the promotion of diversity, overcoming xenophobia and racism. Her recent conference presentations include one titled "Queer Issues in Ukraine: National Peculiarities of the LGBT Community and the Homophobia Phenomenon" that has been presented at 16th Annual ASN World Convention "Charting the Nation between State and Society" (April 14-16, 2011, New York City). In 2010 she participated in the "Diversity Initiative" project of the International Organization of Migration in Ukraine on curriculum development and textbook writing on multicultural society. Tamara is an expert for the EU Project "Women and Children's Rights in Ukraine Communication Component", member of the International Sociological Association and Sociological Association of Ukraine, Gender Expert Platform (Ukraine), and the international human rights movement Amnesty International.

KLAUS SEGBERS (January 2012 – February 2012)
Klaus Segbers is Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universitat of Berlin and formerly a CREEES visiting scholar in Winter 2008. Professor Segbers conducts research on a range of topics involving contemporary Europe: Germany's foreign relations with Eastern European countries, the impact of EU enlargement, and area studies as practiced in academic settings.

MASHA KOWELL (June 2011 – June 2012)
Masha Kowell is a Ph.D. Candidate in art history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on her dissertation, “Agit-plakat: Soviet Posters of the Thaw (1956-1967).” During the fall 2010, she conducted her archival research in Moscow. Kowell’s work offers the first analysis of the volatile environment of poster production from the Khrushchev period through 1967. Set within the broader context of related poster publications of the time, this dissertation focuses on the poster workshop Agit-plakat. It argues that Agit-plakat offered a pioneering post-Stalinist venue for more formally, iconographically, and semantically diversified experimentation in Soviet propaganda arts. Indeed, characterized by a collaboration of artists and poets and a democratic editorial board, the organization emerged as an official participant in de-Stalinization.

In April 2010, Kowell co-curated the exhibition “Laughing Matters: Soviet Propaganda in the Khrushchev’s Thaw, 1956-1964” at the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. The exhibition presented for the first time an important collection f the Thaw-era Soviet posters. She also co-organized a symposium “The Thaw: Visual Culture and Beyond.” Subsequently, the exhibition traveled to Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA in the fall of 2010 and opened at the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at USC in January 2011. Her most recent publications include an article in Chemical Heritage Journal (January 2011). Entitled “Soviet Science” and co-authored with Liliana Milkova, the article addresses visual propaganda of chemical industry produced under Khrushchev. Kowell continues her film-review contributions to the film studies journal KinoKultura.

AKBAR ISMANJANOV (September 2010 - 2012)
Akbar Ismanjanov is an assistant professor of civil law at Kyrgyz-Uzbek University in Osh, Kyrgyzstan with a Ph.D in information law from the Tashkent State Juridical Institute in Uzbekistan, awarded in 2006. For the past seven years in the university’s Customs Department, he has specialized in information law and intellectual property. In addition to his position at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek University, Ismanjanov teaches at the Osh branch of the Russian State Social University, where he has been a tenured professor since 2007. Following his aim to educate the public and especially minorities of their rights to information, Ismanjanov is currently writing a textbook on information law intended for use in Central Asia. He is the author of 24 academic publications and his conference presentations include one entitled “Preliminary Protection of Results of the Academic Work as an Intellectual Property,” which he presented at Rutgers University as an Open Society Institute Faculty Development fellow in 2008. He has written two books: Internet Business Customs and International IT-Law, and received an official certificate from the U.S. Congress for his methodology in protecting intellectual property. He has won numerous academic awards and fellowships including the 2010 Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship Program and the Open Society Institute’s Faculty Development Program, which he undertook at Stanford University from 2006 to 2009.

NATALIA KOULINKA (August 2010 - 2012)
Natalia Koulinka joins CREEES as a Visiting Scholar from August 2010 until 2012. She is the recipient of a Scholar Rescue Fund fellowship grant from the Institute of International Education, and supported by more than a dozen Centers, Departments, and Programs in the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. Koulinka was born and raised in Oshmiany in the Republic of Belarus. She graduated from the Belarusian State University in Minsk with both undergraduate and graduate degrees. From 1992-1996, she helped create and run the "Women's Newspaper," the only independent women's paper in Belarus which soon became popular in Russia too. As the paper's editor-in-chief, she focused on women in business and politics. Since 2006, she has been the news editor for the radio station Unistar in Minsk. In addition to her work as a journalist, Koulinka was an associate professor at Belarusian State University 2001-08. She is also the co-editor of the book, Krasnim po Belomu ("Red on White"), which is a collection of texts by murdered Belarus journalist, Veronika Cherkasova. In 2008-09, Koulinka was the Lyle and Corinne Nelson International Fellow, John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists at Stanford University. During her fellowship year at CREEES, she will work on the research project topic, "A Social History of the Soviet School of Journalism."

IVO MIJNSSEN (September 2010 - October 2011)
Ivo Mijnssen is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of History in Basel, Switzerland. He received his MA from the University of Basel and his BA from Brown University. At Stanford, he will do archival research for his dissertation on “hero cities” in the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev era. He investigates what role these cities played as points on the mental map of the USSR and in constructions of a shared identity. Mijnssen’s research focuses on World War II, or the “Great Patriotic War,” and its continued relevance for Soviet and post-Soviet society in Russia. He has published various articles on the politics of history in contemporary Russia, in books and journals, among them “An Old Myth for a New Society,” in the collected volume Identities and Politics During the Putin Presidency: The Foundations of Russia’s Stability, Philipp Casula and Jeronim Perovic, eds., (Ibidem-Verlag, 2009).

RYAN GINGERAS (2010 - 2011)
Ryan Gingeras joined the National Security Affairs Department in June 2010. He previously was an assistant professor of history at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus and Lafayette College. Trained as a historian of the late Ottoman Empire, his teaching and research interests span the Middle East, the Caucasus and the Balkans. In addition to speaking both German and Turkish fluently, he also possesses working knowledge of Albanian, Macedonian and Spanish.

In 2009, Ryan Gingeras published his first book, Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity and the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press). Sorrowful Shores presents a micro-historical study of northwestern Anatolia during the transition between the Ottoman Empire and the beginning of the Turkish Republic. Ryan has also published extensively on the Circassian diaspora of Turkey, intercommunal violence in Ottoman Macedonia and Turkish organized crime. He is currently working on a full-length manuscript exploring the history of drug trafficking and organized crime in the Middle East between 1930 and 1980.

Born in New York City, Ryan Gingeras was raised in San Diego, California. After receiving his B.A. in History at the University of California, San Diego, he went on to complete his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto.

NONNA GORILOVSKAYA (July 2011 - January 2012)
Nonna Gorilovskaya is a Ph.D. in politics student at the University of Edinburgh. Her research examines the international community's response to Eurasia's de facto states. Nonna is a researcher for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the editor-at-large at Moment Magazine. She received her B.A. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley and holds an M.Phil. in Russian and East European Studies from St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.

Previous Visiting Scholars

	Scott Littlefield finished writing his doctoral thesis, "The Identity Politics of Energy Policy: Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union, 2000-2008" from the University of Cambridge and continued work on post-Soviet Russian nationalism. Scott received his BA in economics and English from the University of Michigan in 2003 and an MA in international policy studies from Stanford in 2005. His research interests include natural resource politics (especially energy), nationalism, Russian foreign and defense policy, and economic development/innovation. Since 2008, Scott has co-compiled and edited the bi-weekly Russian Nationalism Bulletin. He also works with the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation.
	Anna Navakov is Professor of Art History at Saint Mary's College of California. From 2008-2010 she was scholar-in-residence with the Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley. Professor Novakov holds two degrees from the University of California and a doctorate from New York University in the History of Art and Art Education. Her scholarly interests range from the fin de siècle to the postmodernist time period.
	Tanja Jovovic is an assistant professor of Russian language, literature, and civilization at the University of Montenegro in Podgorica, Montenegro. She particpated in the Junior Faculty Development Program (U.S. Department of State) as a visiting scholar at CREEES. Her scholarly interest primarily is focused on Russian symbolism and avant-garde.
	Boris Kuznetsov is a professor of the University - Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and a Lead Researcher at the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies at the same University. He is visiting CREEES to give lectures on Russian Economy in accordance with the exchange program between Stanford University and Higher School of Economics.
	Igor Makarov is an assistant professor of Environmental Economics at the State University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and a researcher of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the same university. As a visiting scholar at CREEES, Makarov devotes his time to a professional development internship on environmental economics. His visit to Stanford is a part of an exchange program between Stanford University and Higher School of Economics.
	Alexey Buzdalin is Associate Professor of Economics at the University Higher School of Economics in the School of World Economy and Global Politics within the Department of International Finance. He completed graduate and post-graduate work in Economics and Mathematics at Moscow State University. He is an expert in international banking and credit institutions.
	Alexander Kulik is Acting Chairman of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, Head of the Division of Slavic Languages and Literatures in the Department of Central and Eastern European Cultures, Head of the Program of Russian and Slavic Studies, Vice Chair of the Chais Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Deputy Director of two Centers for Jewish Studies founded by the Hebrew University at Moscow and St. Petersburg State Universities.
	Andriy Meleshevych was the 2010-11 Stanford Chopivsky Fellow in Ukrainian Studies.   He is Professor of Law and Politics and Dean of the School of Law at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine.  The primary focus of his research, which combines quantitative and qualitative methodologies, is the institutional design of political systems in Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries.
	Zsuzsa Hetényi is Professor in the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University ELTE, Budapest and literary translator. Her main fields of research interest are the Russian prose of the 20th century, dual identity, emigration and bilinguism in literature.
	Olena Bogdanova was the Chopivsky Fellow in Ukrainian Studies for 2009-10. While in residency at CREEES from January to April 2010, she worked on the project "From Choosing What to Believe in, to Cooperation and Initiative: the Under-Explored Path." An expert in the sociology of religion, civic activism and community development in Ukraine, Bogdanova holds a PhD in Sociology from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
	Kateryna Dysa was the Chopivsky Scholar for 2008-09. She is a faculty member in the History Department and the Center for Polish and European Studies at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy". Her book Witches and Others: Witchcraft Trials in the Ukrainian Palatinates of Rzeczpospolita in the 17th - 18th Centuries was published in 2008.
	Amelia Glaser is Assistant Professor of Russian Literature at the University of California at San Diego. She is the editor and award-winning translator of "Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets" (U. Of Pennsylvania, 2005).
	Akbar Ismanjanov is a visiting fellow through the Open Society Institute Network Scholarship Program. He teaches Civil Law subjects at Kyrgyz-Uzbek University in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. His research focus on information, telecommunications and internet law
	Volodymyr Kulyk, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, spent winter quarter at Stanford to teach a course on “Politics of Identity in Eastern Europe.”
	Alma Kunanbaeva teaches "Nomads of Eurasia: Culture in Transition" and "Folklore, Mythology, and Islam in Central Asia" in the Stanford Anthropology Department in 2009 and teaches Kazakh and Uzbek with the Stanford Special Languages Program in 2008-09. She curates and hosts the CREEES Central Asian Film Series in 2009, while continuing her community work as the director of the Silk Road House in Berkeley.
	Pavlo Kutuyev is Professor of Sociology at Mykhaylo Drahomanov National Pedagogic University in Kiev and was the Chopivsky Fellow in Spring 2008. He is currently working on a project in comparative history and sociology entitled "Comparative-Historical Perspectives on Ukrainian State Building." His research focuses on state-making and developmental state-building.
	Elemér Hankiss is research director at the Institute of Political Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a senior scientist of the Gallup Organization and Gallup-Europe. While a visiting scholar at Stanford in March-August 2010, Hankiss worked on the manuscript of a book, the working title of which is: “Life Goals and Life Strategies in a World of Economic, Political, and Cultural Crisis.”
	Iryna Lukyanenko was the 2006 Chopivsky Fellow at CREEES . She is Chief of the Department of Finance, and Deputy Dean of the Department of Economics at University of Kyiv Mohylla Academy.
	Eugene Mazo was Visiting Researcher at CREEES for winter and spring 2007. Gene holds a J.D. from Stanford, an M.A. in Russian Studies from Harvard, and is completing his doctoral thesis working with Archie Brown and Oxford University.
	Abdul Ghaffar Mughal is a Visiting Scholar at CREEES this year. An economist specializing in Central Asia and South Asia, His geographical area of interest is the emerging economies, particularly in the Muslim world. He has just completed a major UNDP/IOM sponsored research project on remittances and living standards in Tajikistan.Dr. Mughal teaches at California State University at Hayward
	Klaus Segbers is Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universitat of Berlin and CREEES visiting scholar in Winter 2008. Professor Segbers conducts research on a range of topics involving contemporary Europe: Germany's foreign relations with Eastern European countries, the impact of EU enlargement, and area studies as practiced in academic settings.
	Volha Shatalava is affiliated with the History Faculty and Department of Ethnology and Art History at the Belarusian State University. She was a a visiting NCEEER Carnegie scholar at CREEES for Fall 2007. She continues to work on her research project "Belarusian and Ukrainian Post-Soviet Nations: Two Versions of Nation-Building."
	Anton Shynkaruk is affiliated with the Rivne Institute of Slavonic Studies in Kiev and was the NCEEER Carnegie scholar at CREEES for Winter 2008. His research analyzes crisis communications in the modern foreign policy of Ukraine.
	Ana Siljak is an assistant professor in the History Department at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her recent book, Angel of Vengeance: The “Girl Assassin,” the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia’s Revolutionary World (St. Martin’s Press, 2008) was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Her current research project is entitled “Looking East: Slavophilism and the Russian Silver Age.”
	Florin Sperlea is a historian from Romania and CREEES visiting scholar for 2007-08. He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History and studies East European military history during the Soviet era.
	Svetlana Suveica is Associate Professor of Romanian History at the State University of Moldova, Chisinau, where she has been on the faculty since 1996 and teaches courses on Romanian politics and history. Since 2004, Prof. Suveica has also lectured at the American Studies Center in Moldova. While Fulbright research fellow in residence at CREEES in October 2009 to June 2010, Suveica researched the significance of the Bessarabian question at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the the contribution of A. N. Krupenski, the former Marshal of the Bessarabian nobility, to the negotiations.
	Alexey Timofeychev is a doctoral student at the Institute for Political and Sociological Studies in Warsaw, where he is writing on elite politics in Russia's regions, with a focus on Kaliningrad. He was an NCEEER Carnegie Fellow at CREEES for Winter 2007.
	Şuhnaz Yilmaz is Associate Professor of International Relations at Koc University, Istanbul. While at Stanford from September 2009 - June 2010, she conducted research on the project "Struggle for Natural Resources: Politics of Oil and Water in Eurasia and the Middle East." Her areas of interest and expertise include foreign policy analysis, Turkish foreign policy, Turkish-American Relations, Eurasian Politics, Energy Politics, Mediterranean cooperation and security, European Union Foreign and Security Policy, and international development.
	Izaly Zemtsovsky, an ethnomusicologist and folklorist who specializes in the cultures of Eurasia, has retired from teaching but continues to stay active in writing and research. He will facilitate the "Sounds of Eurasia" performance series at Stanford University in 2008-09.