| Education: |
| Ph.D.: |
Department of Political Science, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana, 1998.
Dissertation: "The Politics of Aversion: Unemployment Policy,
Ideology and Symbolic Politics in Post-Soviet Russia" |
| M.A.: |
Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington,
1992. |
| B.A.: |
Economics (with Honors), Lewis & Clark College, 1988. |
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| Experience: |
- Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European &
Eurasian Studies
Stanford University, Stanford, California 1999 to present
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- Lecturer, Department of Political Science
San Jose State University January, 2002 to present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & Government
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington Full-time appointment
1998
Assistant Director, Russian & East European Institute
Indiana University, Bloomington 1995 - 1997.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, and Russian
& East European Institute
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1995-97
Associate Instructor, Department of Political Science
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1992-93, 1994-95
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| Professional Memberships: |
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Book Review Editor, Nationalities Papers, 1999 - 2002
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| Recent Publications: |
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- Chapter: "Social Contract versus the Market: Unemployment Policy
and Symbolic Politics in Post- Soviet Russia," in State-Building
in Russia: Laying the Foundations for the Post-Yeltsin Era, Gordon
B. Smith, editor, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
- Editor and Contributor: "Worker Health and Environment in the Donetsk
Coalmining Region: Results of the 1997-98 Young Investigator Program"
National Research Council (NAS), 1999.
Article: "Women and Employment Policy and in Russia," Demokratazatsiya,
Vol. III, No. 4, 1995.
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| Recent Conference Papers: |
- Paper, "Displaced Workers and Social Support: Budget Projections,
Payments and Realities in Russia," AAASS November 2000. Panel Organizer.
- Paper, "Social Welfare Issues in the Donetsk Coalmining Region," AAASS
1998. Panel Organizer.
Paper: "Problems of Employment in Post-Soviet Rural Russia," AAASS,
Seattle, 1997.
Conference Paper: "Employment Policy in Former Soviet States," Workshop:
Testing the Social Fabric: The Future of the Social Safety Net in
Europe, University of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs,
Seattle, January, 1997.
Conference Paper, "Symbolic Policy Responses to Unemployment in Post-Soviet
Russia," APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September, 1996. Panel
Organizer.
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| Recent Grants and Awards: |
National Academy of Science Research Grant for travel to Donetsk,
Ukraine, May, 1998
Young Investigator Program, National Research Council (National Academy
of Sciences), 1997
Mellon Foundation Research Travel Grant, Summer, 1997
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