The Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian Studies awarded research travel grants, totaling $30,600 and funded by the Abby and George O'Neill Fellowship and Travel Fund, to 13 graduate students in support of their research in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Those students, their research topics, and their destinations are as follows:

Graduate Student Awards

Justyna Beinek, Slavic Department, "Archival Research on Album and Album Verse in the Culture of Russian and Polish Romanticism" (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw);

Edyta Bojanowska, Slavic Department, "Archival Research on Short Story Cycles -- A Study of the Genre on the Basis of Mostly 19th Century Russian Works" (Moscow, St. Petersburg);

Liliana Botcheva, Government Department, "The Influence of the EU on Environmental Policies in Eastern Europe: The Interactive Effect of Domestic Factors and EU on the Likelihood of Environmental Reform" (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Poland);

Alexander Dillon, History Department, "Archival Study of Rural Cooperative Societies in Southern Ukraine (New Russia), 1890-1919" (Kiev, Odessa)

Giorgio DiMauro, Slavic Department, "Museum and Archival Research on the Influence of Russian Orthodox Iconography on Literary Works of the 19th Century" (Moscow, St. Petersburg);

Ben Dunlap, REECA, "Finding Motives for the Separatism in Tiumen Oblast in Russia: Economic, Political, Ethnic Factors" (Khanty-Masiisk, Salekhard, Tiumen);

Gregory Feifer, REECA, "A Study of the Political Control of the ZIL and AZLK Automobile Plants in Moscow and the GAZ Auto Enterprise in Nizhnii Novgorod" (Moscow, Nizhnii Novgorod);

Michael Gordin, History of Science Department, "Archival Study of the Chemist D.I. Mendeleev's Social, Political, and Cultural Activities in Metrology and Anti-Spiritualism" (St. Petersburg);

Dmitry Gorenburgov, Government Department, "Variations in Levels of Ethnic Mobilization in Ethnic Republics of the Russian Federation" (Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Khakassia, Moscow, Tartarstan);

Andrew Herscher, Graduate School of Design, "An Analysis of the Problem of Function in Modernist Architecture, Focusing on the Writing of the Czech Critic, Karl Teige" (Prague);

Taras Koznarsky, Slavic Department, "Archival Research on Ukrainian-Russian Literary Relations" (Chernihiv, Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg);

Yekaterina Litvak, REECA, "Security Cooperation and Collective Peacekeeping in the Former U.S.S.R." (Chisinau, Dushanbe, Erevan, Moscow, Sukhumi);

Oxana Shevel, Government Department, "Study of Policies Toward Immigrants (Refugees, Economic Migrants, and Citizenship and Migrant Integration Policies) in the Czech Republic and Ukraine" (Czech Republic, Ukraine).

Honorary Awards

Four graduate students who received other sources of funding were named Honorary Recipients of the Davis Center travel grants:

Dominika Baran, REECA, "Russian Influences in Today's Uzbek as a Result of Language Contact under Soviet Rule" (Uzbekistan);

Kenneth Benoit, Government Department, "Electoral Systems and the Development of Political Parties in Hungary: The Genesis and Development of Parties and Electoral Institutions" (Budapest);

Michael Hall, IAAS, "A Study of Language-Planning Issues" (Dushanbe, Khorog);

Joshua Tucker, Government Department, "Effect of Economic Conditions on Election Results in Post-Communist Countries of the Former Soviet Union and East-Central Asia" (Poland).

Undergraduate Awards

The Davis Center awarded two students the Merle and Marshall Goldman Travel Grant in support of their undergraduate theses:

Sasha Radin, Slavic Department, "Daniil Kharms" (St. Petersburg);

Flora Tartakovsky, History Department, "The 'Doctors' Plot' of 1953" (Moscow).

Honorary Awards

One undergraduate student who received another source of funding was named an honorary recipient of the Merle and Marshall Goldman Travel Grant:

Julia Raiskin, Social Anthropology Department, "From Jailers to Saviors: The Changing Faces of Psychiatry in the Former Soviet Union" (Moscow).

Postdoctoral Fellows

The Davis Center awards postdoctoral fellowships for research in the humanities and social sciences on Russia and the Soviet successor states. In 1997-98, the Davis Center postdoctoral fellows include:

Golfo Alexopoulos, History Department, "Marking Outcasts and Making Citizens in Soviet Russia, 1926-29,"

James Cracraft, History Department, "The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture,"

Henry Hale, Government Department, "Independence and Integration: Eurasian Nationalism in Comparative Perspective,"

Stephen Holmes, Government Department, "The Under-Enforcement of Basic Rights under Conditions of Economic Insolvency and State Decay,"

Terry Martin, History Department, "What did Comrade Stalin Know and How Did He Know It? The Nkvd and the Politics of Information in the Stalinist Era, 1929-53,"

J. Alexander Ogden, Slavic Department, "The Peasant Poet and the Russian Soul: The Authority of the Folk Voice in Russian Cultural Discourse,"

Kevin M.F. Platt, Slavic Department, "Tyrants and Poets: Authoritarianism and Authorship in the Russian Historical Consciousness,"

Valerie Sperling, Political Science Department, "Engendering Transition: The Women's Movement in Contemporary Russia,"

Raymond Taras, Political Science, "Framing a Minority Rights Regime for Central And Eastern Europe: Is Compliance Important?"

Fainsod Prize

In recognition of Merle Fainsod's contribution to the field of Russian and Soviet studies, the prize is awarded to outstanding Ph.D. applicants who are planning to do research on Russian, Soviet, or post-Soviet topics. The 1997-98 Fainsod Prize has been awarded by two dapartments to the following incoming students:

Kira Foerster, Government Department

Rachel Whitehouse Slayman, Slavic Department