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CREES Research, Internship, and Fellowship Program, Recent Awardees

  

CRIF Program grants are awarded to students in REES-related undergraduate and graduate degree programs at the University of Michigan for summer or semester-long research projects or internships at institutions and businesses in Eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union.

2009

  • Aleksandar Boskovic, PhD Slavic Languages and Literatures (for research on the role of contemporary museum exhibitions in forging Russian nationalism in St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • Charles Cacciola, JD Law (for an internship with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in Kyiv, Ukraine)
  • Angela Commito, PhD Classical Art & Archaeology (to join an archaeological field survey team at the Vani Regional Survey in Vani, Georgia)
  • Jessica Fisher, MA REES/MPP Public Policy (for an internship at the U.S. Department of State Bureau of European & Eurasian Affairs in the Office of European Security & Political Affairs in Washington, DC)
  • Krista Goff, PhD History (to conduct archival research on post-Stalinist nationality policies relating to minorities in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in Moscow, Russia)
  • Dmytri Hryciw, BFA Art & Design (for a photography project in Ukraine)
  • Heather LaRue McGee, PhD Public Policy/Political Science (to collect data for her dissertation on water resource conflict in Osh, Batken, & Jalalabad, Kyrgyzstan
  • Marianna Oykhman, BA Political Science (to research Jewish emigration and Zionism in the Soviet Union in Jerusalem, Israel)
  • Rachel Schroeder, PhD sociology (to research social memory relating to the Soviet Gulag in Perm, Russia)
  • Perry Sherouse, PhD Anthropology (to study Georgian language in Tbilisi, Georgia)
  • Ninel Shestakovich, MS Environmental Science (to analyze the vulnerability to climate change of grassland ecosystems in southern Mongolia)
  • Milena Tercheva, MA REES (to participate in the conference “Europe Meets Russia: A Forum for Young Leaders” in Berlin, Germany)
  • Heather Tidrick, PhD Social Work & Anthropology (to research “Roma integration” and institutions in Pécs, Hungary)

2008

  • Luciana Aenasoaie, PhD Anthropology & History (Romania)
  • Casey Barrier, PhD Anthropology (Romania)
  • Lembit Beecher, PhD Music Composition (Estonia)
  • Iza Yue Ding, BA REES/Political Science (Poland)
  • Krista Goff, PhD History (Azerbaijan, Russia)
  • Igor Grossman, PhD Psychology (Russia)
  • Alexandra Hoffman, PhD Comparative Literature (Ukraine)
  • Thomas Hooker, BA Russian/History (Russia)
  • Shannon Kellman, BA REES (Russia & region)
  • Heather LaRue McGee, PhD Public Policy/Political Science (Kyrgyzstan)
  • Steven Olsen, BA French/Russian (Russia)
  • Elana Resnick, PhD Anthropology (Bulgaria)
  • Monica Sendor, BS REES/Psychology (Bulgaria)
  • Kathryn Siuniak, BSE Chemical Engineering (Hungary)