Havighurst Postdoctoral Fellows
2009-10
Joshua First is a research fellow with the Havighurst Center for the 2009-10 academic year. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 2008. His dissertation, “Scenes of Belonging: Cinema and the Nationality Question in Soviet Ukraine during the Long 1960s,” explores questions of national identity and multiculturalism in the Soviet Union after Stalin. First has also published articles in Kritika, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and Kinokultura on popular cinema and audience politics in the Soviet Union. Joshua is now working on an article about ethnographic discourse in Ukrainian “Poetic Cinema” during the 1960s, and adapting his dissertation for publication as a monograph.
2008-09
Brigid O’Keeffe (Ph.D., 2008, New York University) received her Ph.D. in modern European history. Her dissertation, “Becoming Gypsy, Sovietizing the Self: 1917-1939,” examined how nationality policy facilitated Roma’s self-fashioning as conscious, integrated Soviet citizens in the first two decades of Bolshevik rule. Her interests include narrativity and selfhood; ethnicity, nation-building, and nationalism; citizenship and subjecthood; comparative empires; and the history of ethnography as a tool of empire. In Fall 2009, she joined the history department of CUNY-Brooklyn College as Assistant Professor.
2007-08
Neringa Klumbyte was a Havighurst Center was a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Studies. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the Universityof Pittsburgh in 2006. Her dissertation, Ethnography of Voting: Nostalgia, Subjectivity, and Popular Politics in Post-Socialist Lithuania, explored political subjectivities to explain voting behavior in the period of 2003-2004 in Lithuania. Dr. Klumbyte is now an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Miami University.
2006-07
Nathan Light is a Folklorist and Anthropologist with his PhD from Indiana
University, who studies verbal and performing arts, the politics of culture
and history, and the ways individual experience interacts with collective history
and culture. He has done field work among Uyghurs and Kyrgyz in northwest China
and Kyrgyzstan. He has also taught and studied in inland China, France, Germany,
Japan, Turkey and the Soviet Union. His dissertation study of the poetry and
performers of Uyghur Muqam song has resulted in an article on Turkic inscriptions
and was the basis for his project writing a critical history of eastern
Turkic literature while at the Havighurst Center.
2005-08
Michael
Rouland was a Havighurst Center Postdoctoral Fellow in
History. He received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University. Prior to coming
to Miami, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Central Asian and Islamic Studies
at Stanford University.
2005-2006
Costica Bradatan (2004-2006) joined the Havighurst Center as a postdoctoral
Fellow in Philosophy. He holds a PhD from the University of Durham. He taught philosophy and history of ideas
at the University of Bucharest, University of Durham, Central European
University, and Cornell University. He is the author of An Introduction to
the History of Romanian Philosophy in the XX-th Century and Isaac Bernstein's
Diary. In 2006, he took up a position as Assistant Professor of Humanities at Texas Tech.
Douglas Rogers (2004-2006) joined the Havighurst Center as a Postdoctoral
Fellow in Anthropology. He holds an M. Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology
from Oxford, an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies and an M.A. and Ph.D
in Anthropology from University of Michigan. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Yale.
2004-2005
Tamara Mikhailova (2003-2005) joined the Havighurst Center as a Research and
Teaching Fellow in GREAL. A native of St. Petersburg, she has written extensively
on a number of subjects, including a series of monographs on Russian art, and
co-designed a CD-ROM on Russian art and culture. She helped to organize and
lead the Summer 2004 Student Research Program in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
2003-2004
Susan A. Crate (2002-2004) received her B.A. in Environmental Science from
Warren Wilson College (1983), her M.A. in Folklore (1994) and her Ph.D. in
Ecology (2002) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since
her first trip to Russia in 1987, she has been conducting ongoing anthropological
and environmental research in eastern Siberia, including Tuva, Buriatia and
the Lake Baikal region, and, since 1992, the Viliui regions of the Sakha Republic.
Dr. Crate is now an Assistant Professor at George Mason University.
2002-2003
Janet Elise Johnson (2001-2002; 2002-2003) from Indiana University is a political
scientist and feminist theorist, specializing in Russia. Her dissertation explored
the issue of violence against women in post-communist Russia, examining the
criminal justice system's inadequate response and the small anti-violence movement
that has emerged. Recent publications include a new edited volume titled Living Gender after Communism.
Dr. Johnson took a position as Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College in New
York.
Scott Kenworthy (2001-2002; 2002-2003). has a B.A. from the University
of California, Santa Barbara, in English and Religious Studies (1990), and
an M.A. from U.C. Santa Barbara in Religious Studies (1993), MA from St. Vladimir's
Orthodox Theological Seminary (Crestwood, NY) in Theology (1996), and Ph.D.
in History at Brandeis University. His dissertation title is "The Revival
of Monasticism in Modern Russia: The Trinity-Sergius Lavra, 1825-1921." Dr. Kenworthy is now an Assistant Professor in Comparative Religion at Miami University.
Zara Torlone (2001-2005) received her
B.A. in Classical Philology, magna cum laude, from Moscow University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University. Her dissertation was on
"Eclogue & Elegy: The Intergeneric and Intertextual Dialogue between Vergil's Eclogues and Roman Love Elegy." Dr. Torlone is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Miami University.
2001-2002
Vitalii A. Meliantsev is professor of Economics and Head of the Department
of International Economics in the Institute of Asian and African Studies at
Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU), professor of Economics in the New
Economic School (NES), Moscow, scientific consultant, Institute for the Economy
in Transition, Moscow.
Sabina Hajiyeva has a degree in Architecture from the Azerbaijan Civil-Engineering
University where she subsequently served as faculty and chair of landscape
architecture. Her main subjects are improvement of city areas, landscape design
of towns, decisions of city transportation systems. Her publications include "Interinfluence
of Christian and Moslem cult constructions architecture of Medieval Azerbaijan."
Sanabar Baghirova graduated from Azerbaijan State Conservatory in 1973 earning
her Ph.D. from the Institute of Art Science in 1984. Since 1976 she has been
working at the Institute of Architecture and Art of Azerbaijan National Academy
of Sciences. She is senior scientific researcher at the Department of History
and Theory of Azerbaijan traditional music.
2000-2001
Stephen Deets, from University of Maryland, is a political scientist specializing
in the treatment of minorities in post-communist states. He has been program
officer for the National Academy of Sciences East European Program and has
just come to us from the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson Center’s
Program for Outstanding Young East European Scholars. Deets took a position as Assistant Professor at Babson College in Boston.
Paul Hagenloh, from the University of Texas, is an Historian specializing
in Stalinism. He received fellowships from the National Council for Eurasian
and East European Research and the Social Science Research Council. Hagenloh went on to accept a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama.
Stanislav Touronok, from Moscow State University in Russia, is teaching political
science methodology in the Faculty of Public Administration. He has written
extensively on Russia’s involvement in Chechnya, and is also doing research
on the growing influence of the internet on politics.
Galina Ptichnikova, is a professor at the Volgograd State Academy of Architecture and Building in southern Russia. She received her Ph.D. in Architecture from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1985. She served as a head of the architectural group at the City Planning Department in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) from 1987-1992.
Natia Jokhadze, from Tiblisi in Georgia, is an architect specializing in urban
planning. She was studying American
approaches to zoning and historical preservation. She has gone on to be Acting Director of the Georgian National Science Foundation.
