Visiting Scholars

CREEES 2008-09 Chopivsky Scholar - Kateryna Dysa

The Program in Ukrainian Studies welcomes Kateryna Dysa for Winter 2009. The Chopivsky Fellow is supported by a generous grant from the Chopivsky Family Foundation, and brings a scholar from the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" to Stanford for one academic quarter for research.

Kateryna Dysa has been a lecturer in the History Department at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" since 2005. She completed her PhD in Comparative History at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) in 2004 where she developed her scholarly interests in social history, the history of everyday life, and the historical anthropology of the early modern period. Her current research project investigates marginal groups and control of morals in Ukrainian towns and cities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is the author of the monograph "Witches and Others: Witchcraft Trials in the Ukrainian Palatinates of Rzeczpospolita in the 17th - 18th Centuries," which will be published in 2008. Kateryna Dysa is the recipient of numerous fellowships and scholarship and joins CREEES in Winter 2009 to pursue her research of Ukrainian social life in the 17th - 18th centuries.

Previous Visiting Scholars

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.