Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Stephen Aris
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
saris@gwu.edu

The Other Sides of Afghanistan: A Regional Perspective on Security Issues in Afghanistan

April 2013 – July 2013

Paul Coyer
Ph.D. Candidate at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom
coyer@gwu.edu

Paul Coyer is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, writing on the role played by the Congress in the early development of Sino-American relations, 1969-1980. The working title of his dissertation is "Congress, China and the Cold War."

January 2010 – August 2013

Pal Arne Davidsen
Ambassador Robert D. Stuart Fellow
Foreign Affairs Adviser, Progress Party, Norway
paldavidsen@gwu.edu

Natural resource management and security

Pal Arne Davidsen is a foreign affairs adviser for the Progress Party in the Norwegian parliament. He has held various political positions on the local, regional and national levels in Norway. Previously, Davidsen worked as a research associate at the African Water Issues Unit at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has co-authored books and reports on natural resource management and security policies. He holds an MA in comparative politics from the University of Bergen (Norway) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa).

January 2013 – June 2013

Mami Hamamoto
Research Fellow, the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo, Japan
hamamoto@gwu.edu

Research topic: Tatar merchants and their relationship with the government of the Russian Empire

Mami Hamamoto specializes in the history of Russian Muslims, especially Tatars. She received her Ph.D. (2006) at Kyoto University (Japan) and audited classes at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow from 1999 to 2001. Her publications include: M. Hamamoto, N. Naganawa, D. Usmanova (eds.), Volgo-Ural'skii region v imperskom prostranstve. XVIII-XX vv. (The Volga-Ural region in the imperial space of the 18th to 20th centuries), Moscow: Vostochnaia Literatura, 2011; Seinaru roshia no isuramu: 17-18 seiki tatarujin no seikyou kaishu, (Islam in holy Russia: the Tatar conversion to the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17-18th centuries, in Japanese], Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2009; and Kyousei no isuramu: Roshia no seikyoto to musurimu [Islam for harmonious coexistence: Christian- Muslim relations in Russia, in Japanese), Tokyo: Yamakawa Press, 2011.

September 2011 – September 2013

Sinae Hyun
Mellon Fellow in Contemporary History
Ph.D. Student, University of Wisconsin
siena714@gwu.edu

Indigenizing the Cold War: Civic Actions of the Thai Border Patrol Police and Postcolonial Nation-building in Southeast Asia

Sinae Hyun is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born and raised on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, she came to the U.S. to pursue graduate studies focusing on Southeast Asian and Cold War history. Her research attempts to bring Thai local history into the larger context of indigenizing Cold War developments by investigating the interconnectedness between the postcolonial nation-building process and the U.S.' intervention into local politics in Southeast Asia.

September 2012 – June 2013

Safovudin Jaborov
Chair of Economic Theory, Faculty of Economics at Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University, Dushanbe
Central Asia Fellow
sjaborov@gwu.edu

Employment security and radicalization of youth in Central Asia

April 2013 – August 2013

Aitolkyn Kourmanova
Director, Central Asia Management Group
Central Asia Fellow
akourmanova@gwu.edu

Sowing the Seeds of Instability: Lack of Cooperation in Central Asia as a Challenge to Future Security

April 2013 – August 2013

Oleg Kozlovsky
Fulbright Scholar
Ph.D. Student, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
kozlovsky@gwu.edu

The Influence of Democratic Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe on Russia's Domestic Politics

Oleg Kozlovsky is a Fulbright Visiting Researcher working on his dissertation, which examines the influence of Ukraine's Orange Revolution on Russian political life. His academic interests include non-violent political resistance movements, democratic revolutions, as well as use of new media for advancing freedom and democracy. Oleg is known in Russia as a civil rights activist, change agent, and blogger.

September 2012 – May 2013

Hong Sub Lee
Associate Professor, Korea National Defense University
hongsublee@gwu.edu

Prospects for Russian Democratization

August 2012 – July 2013

Yanan Li
Ph.D. Candidate, School of International Studies, Peking University

Yanan Li is a Ph.D. candidate in diplomacy at the School of International Studies at Peking University in China. She is currently conducting research on China's foreign policy toward Southeast Asia during the late Cold War. Her areas of interest also include China's foreign relations and Chinese foreign policy decision-making. She received her MA in Diplomacy and BA in International Politics from the School of International Studies at Peking University.

October 2012 – July 2013

Katharina Matro
Mellon Fellow in Contemporary History
Ph.D. Student, Stanford University
kmatro@gwu.edu

From Prussian Estate to Polish Farm: The Transformation of Rural Communities in Poland's New Territories, 1944-1956

Katharina Matro is a Ph.D. Candidate in Eastern European History at Stanford University. The title of her current research project is "Making Prussia Polish: The Transformation of Rural Communities in Poland's New Western Territories, 1944-1960." Her dissertation project examines the transformation of rural communities in the territories accorded to Poland after World War II. In her work, she asks how war, forced migration, and regime change transformed life in the estate villages of the former Prussian nobility.

September 2012 – June 2013

Niklas Nilsson
Fulbright Scholar
Ph.D. Student, Uppsala University
nnilsson@gwu.edu

US relations with Georgia, 2003-2010

Niklas Nilsson is a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at IERES. He is a Doctoral Candidate at Uppsala University and Sodertorn University, where he focuses on the foreign policy implications of democratic rule-making, studied through the relationship between the U.S. and Georgia. Other research interests include international relations and security in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and Caspian energy politics. He is also associate editor of the Central Asia - Caucasus Analyst, a biweekly online journal jointly published by SAIS at Johns Hopkins University and the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm.

September 2012 – May 2013

Jean-Francois Ratelle
Ph.D. Student, University of Ottawa
ratelle@gwu.edu

Mapping and Theorizing Identity Variations in Intrastate Wars

Jean-Francois Ratelle completed his Ph.D at the University of Ottawa in 2012. His main research interests include the micro-dynamics of violence, civil wars, terrorism, Islamic radicalization, the North Caucasus, and the Balkans. His Ph.D. dissertation deals with the recent upsurge of insurgent violence in the North Caucasus. The author engaged in ethnographic-based research that focused on the pathways toward insurgent participation in Dagestan and in the North Caucasus. He conducted 13 months of ethnographical research in Russia, including 6 months in the North Caucasus (Dagestan, Chechnya, and Kabardino-Balkaria).

September 2012 – August 2014

Albert Schmidt
University of Bridgeport, United States
albsch@gwu.edu

Town planning and architecture of provincial Russia; history of English law firms in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Albert Schmidt is Professor Emeritus in Law from Quinnipiac College of Law and Professor Emeritus in History from the University of Bridgeport. He received his BA from DePauw University and his MAand PhD are from the University of Pennsylvania. He conducted post-doctoral research at the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University and continued at Moscow University on Intercultural Exchange in 1962. He also studied at New York University School of Law.

Aglaya Snetkov
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
asnetkov@gwu.edu

The Evolution of Russian Security Policy under Putin and Medvedev and The Other Sides of Afghanistan: A Regional Perspective on Security Issues in Afghanistan

April 2013 – July 2013

Iryna Yeleyko
William and Helen Petrach Fellow
Associate Professor, Faculty of International Relations, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
iyeleyko@gwu.edu

The impact of policy on labor migration in North America

Iryna Yeleyko's Ph.D. dissertation in economics examined "Employment Policy in Ukraine's Transition Economic System." Her research interests include: processes of international migration and the European and Ukrainian labor markets. Her recent publications include, "International labor migration: positive or negative phenomenon for Ukraine?" (2007), "The influence of religion on economic relations in society" (2009), and "Labor migration in EU countries" (2010). At IERES, her project will examine the impact of policy on labor migration in North America.

February – June 2013

Sufian Zhemukhov
zhemukho@gwu.edu

"Diasporas, Genocide, and International Law: Russia and the Circassian Community in the Context of the Global World"

Sufian Zhemukhov is a Heyward Isham Visiting Scholar in Russian and East European Studies, working on a project entitled Diasporas, Genocide, and International Law: Russia and the Circassian Community in the Context of Global World.He defended his PhD at the Institute of Ethnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997, and has worked in Nalchik as director of the Teacher Training Institute (2000-2004), and editor-in-chief of the newspapers Kabardino-Balkarskaia Pravda (2006-2007) and Voice of Kabarda (since 2011). He recently published an article on modern Circassian nationalism in Nationalities Papers.

May 2011 – December 2013