Davis Center Selects Winners of Prizes and Fellowships

The Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian Studies has selected the recipients of five postdoctoral fellowships for academic year 1996-97. The fellowship winners are:

Virginie Coulloudon (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales): Conflict of the Two Worlds. Bolshevik's Pragmatic Utopia vs. Kolchak's Mystic Fatalism; David Kerans (Stanford University): Mind and Labor on the Farm in the Black-Earth Russia, 1880-1930; Laurie Manchester (Columbia University): Secular Ascetics: The Collective Mentality of Orthodox Clergymen's Sons in 19th Century Russia; Andreas Schönle (University of Michigan): Picturesque Textuality: Literature and Landscape Designing in Russia, 1762-1914; and Gwendolyn Stewart (Harvard University): The First Russian Presidency.

Graduate Student Research Travel Grants

The Davis Center awarded 18 travel grants, supported by the Abby and George O'Neill Travel Fund, for academic year 1996-97. Those receiving grants will be conducting field research in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. The recipients are:

Yevgenia Albats (Government): Institutional changes in Russia; Katia Dianina (Department of Comparative Literature): Cultural dialogue between cinema and politics in the 1930s; Justyna Fife (Slavic Languages and Literatures): The Russian Romantic album and album verse; Rachel Halpern (Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia [REECA]: The Cult of World War II in Russia; Asaph Jagendorf (REECA): Party policy towards churches in Ukraine in the 1920s or 1936-37 and the reaction of believers; Rachel Jellinek (REECA): Teenage perceptions of alcohol abuse in Russian society, and topics for alcohol abuse prevention education; Barbara Keys (History): Soviet sports diplomacy 1933-41; Jarmo Kotilaine (History): Archival research on Russian trade in the Baltic; Jennifer Kotilaine (Music): Folk music in present day Lithuania;

Eric Lohr (History): The Internal Enemy and Russia's National Crisis during World War I; Pauline Jones Luong (Government): December 1995 parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan; Rebecca McCaughrin (REECA): Sample survey on relationship between public policy and public attitudes towards crime; Paul Mitchinson (History): Music and politics in early Bolshevik period, 1917-1928; Krzysztof Owerkowicz (REECA): Czech and Russian Decadence; Sean Pollock (History): National identity formation in Uzbekistan since 1991, with focus on scholarly and political formulations (honorary recipient); Lidia Stepanowska (Slavic Languages and Literatures): Dissertation research on Ukrainian poet Bohdan Ihor Antonych; Arturas Tereskinas (History): The politics and poetics of territorial identity in the 17th century Grand Duchy of Lithuania; and Aida Vidan (Slavic Languages and Literatures): Manuscripts containing women's folk songs in the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore in Zagreb, Croatia.

Harvard Central Asian Forum Collaborative Research Grants

The Central Asian Forum, funded by the Ford Foundation, awarded two grants for summer collaborative research in Central Asia for projects that involve Harvard students and faculty in cooperation with Central Asian partners and which contribute to the understanding and resolution of problems currently facing Central Asia. The recipients are:

Sean Pollock (History): "The Trials and Tribulations of the Soviet Timur: Historiography, Ethnogenesis and the Scholarly Origins of Uzbekistan's National Hero"; and Salmaan Keshavjee (Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies): ethnographic fieldwork, historial research and social analysis on the biomedical sector of the health care system in post-Soviet Tajikistan.

Merle Fainsod Prizes

Fainsod Prizes, awarded annually in recognition of Merle Fainsod's contribution to the field of Russian and Soviet Studies, were granted for 1996-97 to four incoming Ph.D. students:

Michael D. Gordin (History of Science), Alexey Onatski (Economics), Ethan Ostrow (Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Sean Pollock (History).