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SOCIETY OF FELLOWS 2024–25 DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSHIP 

Applications are once again invited for the Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship. 

We expect to offer one fellowship for the 2024–2025 academic year, with stipends beginning in Summer 2024. Research during the SoF Fellowship may be carried out at the University or elsewhere. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and aim for conferral of the degree no later than August 2025. 

The award consists of $35,000 plus health insurance and UVA fees.

Eligibility: The competition is open to all present and past SoF Junior Fellows pursuing the Ph.D. who will have completed all degree requirements except the dissertation by the application deadline.

Deadline: Friday, February 16, 2024

Applicants should submit by the deadline of February 16th:

1. A single Word file titled ‘SoF Diss Proposal YOUR NAME,’ which includes:

a) a  proposal  of no more than three double-spaced pages that speaks to a learned non-specialist

b) a one-page  timeline  for the completion of the dissertation and the defense

c) [optional] up to three additional pages of images, musical scores, or other similar supporting non-text materials 

d) a  bibliography  of no more than two pages

e) a  curriculum vitae  

2. A single word file titled ‘SoF Diss Sample YOUR NAME,’ which includes:

A  completed chapter  of the dissertation (that is neither the introduction, nor the conclusion, nor the literature review)  or a published paper .

3. A  transcript  labeled ‘SoF Diss Transcript YOUR NAME.’ 

In addition, the following supporting materials should be submitted by individual faculty no later than the deadline of February 16:

4.  Two letters of recommendation

5. A  statement  from the Director of Graduate Studies or the Department Chair attesting to the viability of the proposed timeline for completion and defense.

Applications and recommendation letters should be sent electronically to Charles T. Mathewes, Secretary of the Society of Fellows at [email protected] no later than February 16.

A committee of SoF Senior Fellows will review applications following these  criteria :

• The potential of the project to advance the field and to make an original and significant contribution to knowledge.
• The quality of the proposal with regard to its methodology, scope, theoretical framework, and grounding in the relevant scholarly literature.
• The feasibility of the project and the likelihood that the applicant will execute the work within the proposed timeframe.
• The scholarly record and career trajectory of the applicant.

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In collaboration with the Office of Graduate & Postdoctoral Affairs and the University of Virginia’s Society of Fellows, the Graduate School awards grants of up to $5,000 to doctoral students in the arts, humanities and social sciences to support preliminary dissertation research during the summer months.  These grants fund research travel to archives, collections and field sites that will enable the student to determine the feasibility of prospective dissertation projects, survey available sources and clarify the research focus, thus better positioning the student to apply for support from external funding agencies to support the advanced stage of research and writing. Applications are accepted from January 15 through March 1, and awards are announced during the first week of April. 

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Arts & Sciences offers two exchange fellowship programs that provide an incremental year of financial support to advanced doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences.  The exchange fellow will have full library privileges, a faculty advisor and access to all academic services at the host institution, including courses.  Each fellowship provides a full year of living support and remission of tuition, fees and the University’s single-student health insurance premium.  Recipients are eligible to defer one year of support offered upon admission into their sixth year of study. Although advancement to candidacy is not required at the time of the application deadline, the exchange fellow must have completed all requirements for candidacy prior to the start of the fellowship. 

Applications are accepted from January 15 through March 1, and awards will be announced in late March.

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ENS is located in rue d'Ulm at the heart of the Latin Quarter, and it has one of the best libraries in Paris.  The ENS Fellow will receive from ENS a private, single-student dormitory-style room (i.e., no en suite bathroom or kitchen facilities) and access to ENS recreational facilities and to the ENS cafeteria at subsidized student prices.  To complement this in-kind support, the ENS Fellow will receive a stipend of $14,000 from the Graduate School.  The ENS Fellow must be fluent in French and arrive at ENS on or around September 18, 2023, and depart no later than July 07, 2024.

If you have additional questions, please contact  Professor Ari Blatt ( [email protected] ).

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TU Dortmund is a major research university located in Germany's greening industrial Ruhr Valley, existing in a consortium with the nearby University of Duisberg-Essen and University of Bochum. Together they boast outstanding faculty across all major fields of scholarly and scientific inquiry, with special strengths in American Studies, Cultural Studies, and History, among others.

The Dortmund Fellow will design and teach two two-hour courses per semester at Dortmund’s  Institute for American Studies  under the guidance of the Institute’s director.  The courses may deal with American literary, cultural and historical topics from a transatlantic perspective and/or as comparative (German-American or European-American) phenomena. Courses are taught in English.  Knowledge of the German language is helpful, but not required.

The fellow will receive teaching wages from Dortmund in the amount of €13,000 (approximately $14,800 at present exchange rates) and a fellowship stipend of $14,000 from the Graduate School.  The fellow will be expected to arrive at Dortmund on or around October 1 and depart no later than July 30.

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The National Fellowship supports outstanding scholars at leading institutions of higher education, including UVA , who are completing dissertations in United States politics, with an emphasis on historical and institutional analyses of politics, public policy, and foreign relations. National Fellows receive:

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2023–24 DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSHIP 

Applications are once again invited for the Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship. 

We expect to offer one fellowship for the 2023–2024 academic year, with stipends beginning in Summer 2023. Research during the SoF Fellowship may be carried out at the University or elsewhere. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and aim for conferral of the degree no later than August 2024. 

The award consists of $30,000 plus health insurance and UVA fees.

Eligibility: The competition is open to all present and past SoF Junior Fellows pursuing the Ph.D. who will have completed all degree requirements except the dissertation by the application deadline.

Deadline: Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Applicants should submit by the deadline of February 15:

1. A single Word file titled ‘SoF Diss Proposal YOUR NAME,’ which includes:

a) a  proposal  of no more than three double-spaced pages that speaks to a learned non-specialist

b) a one-page  timeline  for the completion of the dissertation and the defense

c) [optional] up to three additional pages of images, musical scores, or other similar supporting non-text materials 

d) a  bibliography  of no more than two pages

e) a  curriculum vitae

2. A single word file titled ‘SoF Diss Sample YOUR NAME,’ which includes:

A  completed chapter  of the dissertation (that is neither the introduction, nor the conclusion, nor the literature review)  or a published paper .

3. A  transcript  labeled ‘SoF Diss Transcript YOUR NAME.’ 

In addition, the following supporting materials should be submitted by individual faculty no later than the deadline of February 15:

4.  Two letters of recommendation

5. A  statement  from the Director of Graduate Studies or the Department Chair attesting to the viability of the proposed timeline for completion and defense.

Applications and recommendation letters should be sent electronically to John F. Miller, Secretary of the Society of Fellows at  [email protected] no later than February 15.

A committee of SOF Senior Fellows will review applications following these  criteria :

• The potential of the project to advance the field and to make an original and significant contribution to knowledge.

• The quality of the proposal with regard to its methodology, scope, theoretical framework, and grounding in the relevant scholarly literature.

• The feasibility of the project and the likelihood that the applicant will execute the work within the proposed timeframe.

• The scholarly record and career trajectory of the applicant.

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The Woodson Institute’s Residential Fellowship Program has attracted outstanding scholars in the humanities and social sciences who work on a wide array of topics in African-American and African Studies, as well as related fields. These two-year fellowships—offered at the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels—are designed to facilitate the writing of dissertations or manuscripts and provide successful applicants the opportunity to discuss and exchange works-in-progress both with each other and the larger intellectual community of the University. Preference is given to applicants whose research is substantially completed, thus providing them the maximum amount of time to complete their manuscripts within the fellowship term.

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For advanced PhD students completing dissertation projects, the program exposes pre-doctoral fellows to other emerging scholars from Universities across the nation, offering the space, guidance, and intellectual exchange necessary to complete one's research and successfully defend one's dissertation.

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Post-doctoral fellows take up residence in the Minor Hall Annex to compose their book manuscripts. These newly minted PhDs also have the opportunity to develop their teaching portfolios by instructing one course per year in the Department of Africana Studies. 

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Nurturing and maintaining strong relations with the academic community is a top priority at Google. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising PhD candidates of all backgrounds who seek to influence the future of technology. Google’s mission is to foster inclusive research communities and encourage people of diverse backgrounds to apply. 

Universities may nominate up to four eligible students.  An internal selection committee will determine the University's 4 nominees.  Students may apply by submitting all application materials  including at least two letters of reference  by the internal deadline of Wednesday, May 1, 2024.

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• Students must have completed graduate coursework in their PhD by the beginning of the academic year in which the fellowship begins (Fall 2024). 
• Students must remain enrolled full-time in the PhD program for the duration of the Fellowship or forfeit the award.
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• Leadership student essay (350-word limit) to: Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes or contributed to group efforts over time. (A leadership role can mean more than just a title. It can mean being a mentor to others, acting as the person in charge of a specific task, or taking the lead role in organizing an event or project. Think about what you accomplished and what you learned from the experience. What were your responsibilities? Did you lead a team? How did your experience change your perspective on leading others? Did you help to resolve an important dispute at your school, church, in your community or an organization? And your leadership role doesn’t necessarily have to be limited to school activities. For example, do you help out or take care of your family?)
• Transcripts of current and previous academic records (Official preferred; unofficial accepted)

Application portal for the upload of materials will be available by Tuesday, April 9.

Applications are evaluated on the strength of the research proposal, research impact, student academic achievements, and leadership potential. Research proposals are evaluated for innovative concepts that are relevant to Google’s research areas, as well as aspects of robustness and potential impact to the field. Proposals should include the direction and any plans of where your work is going in addition to a comprehensive description of the research you are pursuing. In the United States, Canada, and Europe, essay responses are evaluated in addition to application materials to determine an overall recommendation.

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Civil engineering Ph.D. student Courtney Hill has been awarded the Ford Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship. The fellowship is a nationally competitive award that seeks to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

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• follow the instructions for dissertation completion fellowships and apply by February 9, 2024, at 11:59 p.m.

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The Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship provides one semester of full funding during either the Fall or Spring semester. Support will consist of a stipend equal to a 50% GPTI appointment paid out in monthly increments. Up to five dissertation hours of tuition, mandatory fees, and coverage under the student gold health plan are also included. All CU Boulder doctoral students with demonstrable research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and/or African diaspora studies are eligible to apply.

Meet Our Current CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellow

Call for Applications: Opens February 15, 2024, and Closes April 1, 2024.

Deadline: April 1, 2024. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

Award: A stipend equal to a 50% GPTI appointment paid out in monthly increments. Up to five dissertation hours of tuition, mandatory fees, and coverage under the student gold health plan are also included.

Eligibility

Doctoral students from any campus-wide department or college who have advanced to candidacy (D status) and whose work demonstrably and significantly contributes to African studies, African American studies, and/or the African diaspora studies. Any eligible student may submit an application with the exception of recipients of other major fellowships in the current or next academic year.

Selection Criteria

The selection committee will base their decisions on the following criteria:

1. The quality of the applicant's research project.

2. The quality of the applicant’s CV (presentations, publications, awards, creative work, etc.).

3. Probability of completing the dissertation within the award period (the higher, the better).

4. Other teaching-free fellowships the applicant has already received (the fewer, the better).

Application Procedures

Applicants must submit #s 1-7 in a single .pdf by the deadline April 1, 2024 to the CAAAS Director, Reiland Rabaka, at [email protected] . Item #8 should be submitted directly by its author. Make “CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Application” the email subject line when submitting application materials. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

1. Cover Letter (Please indicate which degree program you are currently in, note where you are in your program requirements, and why this fellowship would be timely.)

3. A copy of CU Boulder transcript (official or unofficial)

4. Proof of admission to Ph.D. candidacy (e.g., letter of admission to candidacy)

5. A synopsis of the dissertation (750 words maximum)

6. A timeline of the dissertation completion (one page)

7. A list of other research grants (internal or external) to which the applicant has applied and all other forms of financial support you have received since you have become ABD— specifically any internal and external fellowships you received or will be expected to receive to aid you in your dissertation research and writing.

8. Letter of support including an evaluation statement of the dissertation and the likelihood it will be completed within the fellowship period. This should be written by a dissertation advisor or another key member of the dissertation committee and be submitted directly by its author to [email protected] . (750 words maximum)

Expectations

1. Recipients will be asked to submit a letter notifying the CAAAS upon completion of their dissertation. In addition, by May 1, please email [email protected] a 300-600 word summary (double spaced, 12-point font) of how the fellowship year aided in furthering your dissertation research.

2. Acknowledgment of the Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) is required on all promotional/published materials for projects funded by the CAAAS. Use this language for credit: “This project was supported, in part, by a grant from the Center for African & African American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.”

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Christy Monet (Brandly), September 2023 – August 2024 Dr. Monet Brandly is a political scientist and Slavicist specializing in intellectual history as viewed from the perspectives of the history of political thought and literary studies. She conducts research and teaches in the fields of political theory, literature, and history, with a focus on Russophone political thought and its engagements with empire, liberalism, and American culture over the last two centuries. She earned her Ph.D. in both Political Science and Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago in 2023. She also holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, as well as a B.A. in Political Science from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her current book project on the family novel in Imperial Russia explores the ways in which the development of liberal thought in 19th-century Russia created space for the reimagining of both the form of the family and its role in the political—a reimagining in stark contrast to the eventual removal of the family from the political in Western liberal thought. This research is based, in part, on research undertaken in both Moscow and St. Petersburg in the archives of the Russian State Library and the Pushkin House, respectively. Her doctoral dissertation and current book project have been supported by an Alfa Fellowship, a University of Chicago Harper Dissertation-Year Fellowship, an Institute for Humane Studies Publication Accelerator Grant, and a Princeton University Press Book Proposal Grant. This is her first post-doctoral academic appointment, although she previously worked for the Moscow-based publishing house Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (NLO) as an editorial assistant and translator during her graduate studies.

Mina Magda, September 2023 – August 2024 Dr. Magda is a scholar of Russian literature, visual art, and performance spanning the long nineteenth century and early Soviet period. Her interdisciplinary research centers politics of racial representation, gendered labor, and colonial culture. Becoming Modern: Negrophilia, Russophilia, and the Making of Modernist Paris, her current book project, examines the aesthetic interplay among modernists of the Russian and Black diasporas in Paris—namely, Josephine Baker and the Ballets Russes—the visual technologies of race-making that framed their careers, and their shared imbrication in the histories of celebrity and coloniality. She demonstrates how the comparison between Baker and the Ballets Russes helps us think of racial formation as a network of political, aesthetic, and commercial negotiations through which we can examine the limits and relational contingencies of racial self-determination, and ask at what cost conceptions of modern subjecthood were afforded. Magda received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University in 2023 and holds an MA in Russian and Slavic Studies from New York University. Her doctoral dissertation was supported by fellowships at the Houghton Library and Beinecke Library and the MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship.

Anastasiia Vlasenko, September 2022-August 2023 Dr. Vlasenko is a postdoctoral fellow who studies electoral politics and democratization with specialization in politics of Ukraine and Russia. Her monograph project, ‘The Electoral Effects of Decentralization: Evidence from Ukraine’ investigates how decentralization reform affects electoral mobilization and diversity in a weakly institutionalized democracy. Vlasenko is particularly interested in transitional period reforms, propaganda, legislative politics, and forecasting. Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics.  She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Florida State University in 2022, M.A. in Political Science from Florida State University in 2018, M.A. in International Relations from New York University in 2016, and M.Sc. in European Affairs from Lund University in 2013, and B.A. in Political Science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2011. In 2020-2021, she worked at Hertie School in Berlin as a visiting researcher. In 2014-2016, Vlasenko was a Fulbright scholar at New York University. At Florida State University, she taught courses on comparative politics and post-Soviet studies.

Margarita Kuleva, December 2022-November 2023 Dr. Kuleva is a sociologist of culture, interested in exploring social inequalities in the art world and cultural industries in Russia and the UK. Primarily, she works as an ethnographer to discover the ‘behind the scenes’ of cultural institutions to give greater visibility to the invisible workers of culture. Kuleva received her PhD in art sociology from the National Research University Higher School of Economics in collaboration with Bielefeld University in 2019. The dissertation entailed a comparative study of the careers and professional identities of young cultural workers in visual art sectors in Moscow, St Petersburg and London. Based on more than 70 in-depth interviews, it was one of the first systematic studies of post-Soviet creative labour. Some findings from these studies were recently presented in journal publications including  Cultural Studies  (2018) and  International Journal of Cultural Studies  (2019), as well as  European Journal of Cultural Studies  (2022). Her current research project,  The Right to Be Creative , focuses on hidden political struggles at contemporary Russian cultural institutions. Dr. Kuleva previously worked at National Research University Higher School of Economics as an Associate Professor and held the position of Chair of the Department of Design and Contemporary Art in St Petersburg. In 2019-2020, Kuleva was a fellow of the Center for Art, Design and Social Research (Boston, Massachusetts). As a researcher, artist, and curator, she has collaborated with a number of Russian and international cultural institutions, including Manifesta Biennale, Pushkin House in London, Boston Center for the Arts, Garage MoCA, Goethe Institute, Helsinki Art Museum, Street Art Museum, Ural Industrial Biennale and New Holland St. Petersburg.

Past Post-Doctoral Fellows

Nikolay Erofeev, March 2022-May 2022

Dr. Erofeev is an architectural historian whose work focuses on socialist architecture and urban planning. His monograph project, ‘Architecture and housing in the Comecon’ looks at architecture and urbanisation patterns produced by global socialism. Combining in-depth scrutiny of the design of the built environment with an analysis of the everyday processes of subject-making that shaped the socialist project in Mongolia, the project aims to provide a new understanding of the urban and domestic spaces produced in the Global South. Erofeev received his D.Phil (PhD) in History from the University of Oxford in 2020 where he was a Hill Foundation Scholar and his specialist degree (M.A.) in the History of Art from the Moscow State University in 2014. His doctoral project discussed the design and production of prefabricated mass housing in the Soviet Union and argued the architectural story of this understudied ‘bureaucratic modernism’ represents a much more creative and influential development in the history of modern architecture as a whole. Erofeev had academic appointments at Manchester Metropolitan University where he was teaching Master of Architecture dissertations. Erofeev is currently conducting research at the University of Basel as a postdoctoral fellow supported by the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship.

Jennifer Flaherty, September 2020-August 2021

Dr. Flaherty is a postdoctoral fellow specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth- century Russian literature, culture and intellectual history, with current research interests in Hegel’s influence on Russian thought as well as labor theory. Her book project on representations of peasants investigates how the stylistic innovations of nineteenth-century Russian literature express the tensions of modernity that lie at the heart of its agrarian myth. She received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley in 2019, her M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago in 2010, and her B.A. in Philosophy from Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She’s had academic appointments as a visiting assistant professor in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William of Mary, and as a lecturer at in the Slavic department at UC Berkeley. Flaherty has conducted research as an American Councils Fellow in Moscow and with Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. Her doctoral dissertation received support from UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for Humanities. She has a forthcoming article in The Russian Review and has published in Tolstoy Studies Journal and PMLA.

Nataliia Laas, September 2022-August 2023 Dr. Laas specializes in political economy, consumer society, gender, the history of the social sciences, and environmental history in the Soviet Union. She currently works on a book manuscript, provisionally titled A Soviet Consumer Republic: Economic Citizenship and the Economy of Waste in the Post-WWII Soviet Union. This project departs from the standard economy-of-shortages narrative and offers a different dimension, an “economy of waste,” to describe Soviet consumption. It argues that after World War II and especially with the onset of Cold War competition with the West, in addition to periodic shortages the Soviet state regularly confronted a new challenge: glutted markets, overproducing factories, and excess commodities. Unlike shortages that were often vindicated by the official Bolshevik ideology as the people’s sacrifice on the road to the country’s industrialization and economic growth, excess and waste were endemic to the malfunctioning of a command economy but far more difficult for authorities to explain and justify. By focusing on the emergence of socialist market research and consumer studies, the book explores how the economy of waste reshaped relationships between the state and its citizens. Laas received her PhD in History from Brandeis University in 2022. Her doctoral dissertation was supported by a Harriman Institute Carnegie Research Grant and a Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship from Brandeis, among others.

Emily Laskin, September 2022-August 2023

Dr. Laskin specializes in the literature of Central Asia, working extensively in Russian and Persian. Her current book project,  No Man’s Land: The Geopoetics of Modern Central Asia , focuses on the literature of the so-called Great Game, the Russo-British rivalry for influence in Central Asia, putting Russian and British imperial writing on Central Asia in dialogue with contemporaneous Persian literature published across the region, from Kabul, to Bukhara, to Istanbul. Laskin’s recent work on the literature of the Great Game appears in  Novel: A Forum on Fiction , and she is an editor of the forthcoming volume  Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature . She received her Ph.D. in 2021 in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and also holds an M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from Columbia University. Her doctoral dissertation was supported by a Mellon/ACLS fellowship and a Berkeley Dean’s Fund grant for archival research in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Vladimir Ryzhkovskyi, November 2020-October 2021

Dr. Ryzhkovskyi studied Russian, Soviet and East European history in Ukraine, Russia, and the US, where he recently earned a PhD from Georgetown University. By foregrounding the link between empire, culture, and knowledge, Ryzhkovskyi’s research probes the place of Russia and the Soviet Union within global history, particularly in relation to forms of Western imperialism and colonialism. His current book project, Soviet Occidentalism: Medieval Studies and the Restructuring of Imperial Knowledge in Twentieth-Century Russia, explores the twentieth-century history of medieval studies in late imperial and Soviet Russia as a model for demonstrating the crucial importance of Soviet appropriation of Western culture and knowledge in the post-revolutionary reconstituting and maintaining the empire following 1917. In addition to pursuing the imperial and postcolonial theme in the history of Soviet modernity, Ryzhkovskyi has published articles and essays on the history of late imperial and Soviet education, the history of late Soviet intelligentsia, and Soviet philosophy. A volume of unpublished writings by the Soviet historian and philosopher Boris Porshnev, co-edited with Artemy Magun, is forthcoming from the European University Press in 2021.

Delgerjargal Uvsh, November 2020-October 2021

Dr. Uvsh received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2020. She conducts research and teaches primarily in the field of comparative politics, with a focus on post-Soviet politics, the political economy of natural-resource dependence, institutional and regime change, and research methods. Using Russia as a critical case, Delgerjargal’s book project, “Reversal of the Resource Curse? Negative Revenue Shocks and Development in Russia and Beyond,” develops a theory of when and how declines in natural-resource revenue (negative revenue shocks) incentivize political elites to support private business activity and reverse the “resource curse.” Delgerjargal expanded her interest in the relationship between natural resources and institutional changes in a forthcoming book chapter, where she explores the short-term effects of negative revenue shocks on political regimes. Another extension, published in Land Use Policy , analyzes novel satellite data on forest-cover change in western Russian regions and shows that the dynamics of forest growth and deforestation have been different in the first versus the second decade of Russia’s transition. You can read more about Delgerjargal’s work at www.delgerjargaluvsh.com .

Sasha de Vogel, September 2021-August 2022

Dr. de Vogel studies the politics of authoritarian regimes and collective action, particularly in Russia and the post-Soviet region. Her research examines when and why autocratic regimes promise concessions to protestors, how these promises affect mobilization and their impact on policies. Her research underscores that reneging, or deliberately failing to implement concessions as promised, is a fundamental strategic dimension of concessions. Her book project focuses on protest campaigns against the Moscow City government about policy-related grievances in the mid-2010s. During this period, more protest campaigns were promised a concession than experienced a detention, yet these concessions rarely resolved protesters’ grievances. Other research interests include comparative politics, authoritarian institutions, repression, authoritarian responsiveness and urban politics. Sasha received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2021, and also holds an MA in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Regional Studies and a BA in Slavic Studies from Columbia University. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation/Harriman Institute, among others.