David L. Ransel, DirectorVol. 26, No. 3

FeaturesDirector’s Notebook 1

REEI Distinguished AlumniAwards 6

Faculty Profile 7

A Hoosier in Warsaw 8

Tahoe-Baikal Exchange 2002 9

NewsGraduations 2

Nicolas Spulber Honored 3

Visiting Faculty 3

2001-2002 Armstrong Awards 4

New Faculty 4

REEI Welcomes New AcademicAdvisor 5

Tenure-Track Position Opening 5

Russian Language Tafsir 5

2002-2003 Language Hours 5

Welcome New MA Students 10

Student News 11

AAASS Conference 13

Faculty News 15

Alumni News 19

Mark Betka, EditorOctober 2002

REEIficationNEWS FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN INSTITUTE

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Director’s NotebookBy David Ransel

The fall semester at REEI got off to an excellent start at our annual recep-tion in mid September (see the related article on page 4). I was delighted tobe able to introduce five new members of our regular, continuing faculty.Halina Goldberg has joined the IU School of Music as a tenure-track assis-tant professor. Halina was a visitor here a few years ago and has now re-turned to the regular position that was held for many years by Malcolm Brown.Malcolm built up a large archive of music from Russia and Eastern Europe aswell as an indelible place for IU in the Slavic studies world as the place tostudy Russian and East European musicology. Halina believes strongly incollaboration between disciplines in our area of study and will be a greatasset to our larger program. Indeed, she organized an excellent interdiscipli-nary conference on Chopin when she was a visitor here. A volume from thatconference is scheduled to appear shortly.

We also greeted two new historians. Marci Shore joined the Departmentof History this fall. Marci’s dissertation is on Polish history. She also trans-lates literary works from Czech and Polish, and she knows Russian well andhas done research in Russian archives. She adds a key element to our EastEuropean history program. Matthias Lehmann is the second new member ofthe Department of History. Hired through our Jewish Studies program,Matthias is a specialist on the history of the Jews of the Ottoman Empire. Hewill teach a course each year on Ottoman history. These two young special-ists join our three other East European historians (Maria Bucur who teachesRomania and the Balkans, Toivo Raun who covers the Baltic republics, andOwen Johnson who specializes on the former Austrian empire) and visitingprofessors in Hungarian history (through our Hungarian chair professorship)to give Indiana University the best and most extensive coverage of EastEuropean history in the nation. We now have six East European historians oncampus to cover this large and densely populated region from Finland and theBaltics to the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

Two additional new faculty members come to us this year. Jeffrey Holdemanis the new language coordinator for the Department of Slavic Languages andLiteratures. In his short time here, he has brought a fresh spirit to our Russianclasses and to extracurricular practice sessions for the students such as theRussian tea, which has never been more lively. In the field of geography, wehave added on a regular basis Roman Zlotin, a leading biogeographer andspecialist on the ecology of northern Russia and Central Asia. Roman hasbeen teaching for us as a visitor in recent years. This year he joins our facultyas a continuing senior lecturer, strengthening our program in social and envi-

INSTITUTE STAFFDavid L. Ransel, DirectorDenise Gardiner, Assistant Director/Outreach CoordinatorJessica Hamilton, Administrative

SecretaryLisa Giullian, Advisor/Assistant

Director for Student ServicesGRADUATE ASSISTANTS

Alex Dunlop, Outreach AssistantMark Betka, Publications EditorEmily Ray, Assistant to Slavic

BibliographerJacquelyn Henderson, World Wide

Web Administrator

CONTACT INFORMATIONRussian and East European InstituteBallantine Hall 565Indiana UniversityBloomington, IN 47405-6615Phone: (812) 855-7309Fax: (812) 855-6411Email: reei@indiana.eduwww.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI1988 Alexander Rabinowitch1988 Charles Gati1995 Gale Stokes2000 Helena Goscilo2002 Howard I. Aronson2002 William Hopkins

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE1988 Theofanis Stavrou1988 Robert F. Byrnes1989 Karen Niggle1996 Robert W. Campbell1997 Charles Jelavich1997 Janet Rabinowitch2000 William B. Edgerton

REEI Awards

1994 Irene Meister College Distinguished Alumni1998 Stephen Cohen College Distinguished Alumni1999 James F. Collins Honorary Doctorate

IU Awards for REEI Alumni

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REEI MA DefensesJohn Burbank defended his essay “The Russian Federation and its RegionalRelationship with the European Union” in May. Toivo Raun chaired his commit-tee.

Patrick Kinney defended his essay “National Religions and Religious Nation-alities: Complexities of Identity in Communist and Post-Communist Romania”in May. Maria Bucur chaired his committee.

Zachary Laird defended his essay “Reason of State: The Absolute Power ofIvan the Terrible and Stalin” in August. Hiroaki Kuromiya chaired his commit-tee.

Michael Popovich defended his essay “Tengiz Tease: A Comparison of RentierState Characteristics and Kazakhstan Oil-driven Economic Development Strat-egy” in May. Robert Campbell chaired his committee.

Renne Traicova defended her essay “An Assessment of the Health Reform inBulgaria (1989-2001): Concept vs. Reality” in August. Randall Baker chairedher committee.

Annisa Wanat defended her essay “Bulgaria’s Integration Progress: A Journeyfrom the Balkans into the European Union and NATO” in August. DavidAudretsch chaired her committee.

Sang Yeol Yoon defended his essay “Soviet Foreign Policy Toward NortheastAsia during the Gorbachev Era” in May. Dina Spechler chaired his committee.

REEI Undergraduate Minors

Lyuba Bobova graduated in May with a BA in Psychology.Jennifer Challgren graduated in May with a BA in Slavic Languages andLiteratures.Wasyl Fedoriw graduated in May with a BA in Spanish.Diana Kogan graduated in May with a BA in Jewish Studies and French.Maura Miller graduated in May with a BA in Slavic Languages and Litera-tures.Robert Oprisko graduated in August with a BA in International Affairs.Zofia Walentynowicz graduated in May with a BA in Slavic Languages andLiteratures and Criminal Justice.Teresa Saksa graduated in May with a BA in Slavic Languages and Litera-tures.Paul Simacek graduated in May with a BS in Business.Tatyana Vdovina graduated in May with a BA in History.

Congratulations Graduates!

3REEIfication, October 2002

Distinguished Professor Emeritusof Economics Nicolas Spulber trav-eled to Romania May 25 to June 5 onthe invitation of the Romanian Na-tional School for Political Science andPublic Administration in Bucharestand with the support of the Atlas Foun-dation. The visit, hisfirst since leaving Ro-mania in 1938, includedseveral high-profileevents culminating inSpulber receiving oneof Romania’s highesthonors, The Order ofthe Merit in Rank ofHigh Commander. Themedal was awardedpersonally by RomanianPresident Ion Illiescu atPalatul Cotroceni, thePresidential Palace.Spulber was also hon-ored with a DoctorHonoris Causa from theNational School for Political Scienceand Public Administration inBucharest, the preeminent social sci-ences teaching and research institu-tion in Romania. The degree was con-ferred by Rector Vasile Secares andD e a nA d r i a nMiroiu in aspecial cer-emony thatr e c e i v e dwidespreadmedia cov-erage. TheRomanianA c a d e m yof Econom-ics grantedhim a Diploma of Excellence in rec-ognition of his work on state economic

Nicolas Spulber Honored by RomanianGovernment and Academia

By Paul Aligica

President Ion Iliescu (left),Pauline and Nicolas Spulber

functions and theory of economicpolicy.

A special moment on the agendawas his participation in various eventsrelated to the publications of his lat-est book, Economic Transitions (co-authored with Paul Aligica), his first

publication written origi-nally in Romanian.Spulber had meetingswith the President of theRomanian Academy, theGovernor of the NationalBank, Mugur Isarescu,leaders of political par-ties, public officials andpublic intellectuals. Hehas centered his teach-ing and research on thefunctions of the state insuch different economicframeworks as centrallyplanned economies,developing economiesand highly developed

market economies. His related pub-lications include notably: Managingthe American Economy fromRoosevelt to Reagan, The AmericanEconomy: The Struggle for Su-premacy in the 21st Century, and

Redefiningthe Role ofthe State:Privatizationand Wel-fare Re-form in theIndustrialand Tran-s i t i o n a lE c o n o -mies.

P a u lAligica is a graduate student in theDepartment of Political Science.

This is not the first time IU’s Romanian studies pro-gram and scholars have been honored by the Roma-nian government for their scholarship on Romanianissues. In November 2000, Christina Illias, MateiCalinescu (Comparative Literature), and Virginia Zeani(Music) were presented with medals of “Faithful Ser-vice” by Romanian President Emil Constantinescu torecognize their efforts to advance Romanian studiesin the United States. Illias was also presented with aspecial medal commemorating the 150th birthday ofRomania’s national poet, Mihai Eminescu, for her 1999publication of My Sweet Lady/My Beloved Emin: NewCorrespondence Mihai Eminescu - Veronica Micle.

Visiting FacultyMs. Malgorzata Cavar is a

Ph.D. Program Member and teacherof English at Humboldt University,Germany. She will be in Bloomingtonfor a period of one year and will beassociated with the Department ofSlavic Languages and Literatures.While in Bloomington she will beteaching second- and third-year Pol-ish. Her faculty contact is StevenFranks.

Mr. Yeon-Ho Chung is an Asso-ciate Professor of Russian Languagesand Literatures in the Department ofRussian Language and Literature atCatholic University of Daegu, Korea.He will be at IUB for a period of thir-teen months beginning July 20, 2002and will be associated with the Rus-sian and East European Institute. Hisfaculty contact will be Nina Perlinaof the Department of Slavic Lan-guages and Literatures. Chung willstudy the works of various Russiannovelists.

Ms. Svetlana Ialovitsyna is a lec-turer at the Department of History,Petrozavodsk State University, Rus-sia specializing in ethnology. She willbe at IUB for fall semester under theauspices of the Carnegie ResearchFellowship program. Ialovitsyna willstudy and compare religious charac-teristics of Russian border populationswith that of the inner region (West-ern Siberia). Her faculty contact willbe Barbara Truesdell of the IU Cen-ter for the Study of History andMemory.

Mr. Marko Kovacic is from theUniversity of Zagreb and will be as-sociated with the Department ofSlavic Languages and Literatures.

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A large gathering of faculty andstudents was on hand September 18for the annual fall reception honoringSlavics Professor Daniel Armstrong(1942-1979). The event also featuredthe presentation of the 2001-2002Daniel Armstrong Memorial Re-search PaperAward spon-sored by REEI.

D a v i dRansel openedthe award phaseof the receptionby welcomingstudents, fac-ulty, and guestsof REEI, includ-ing severalmembers of Daniel Armstrong’s fam-ily. Slavics Chair Ronald Feldsteinjoined Ransel in recognizing severalnew REEI and Slavics faculty, staffmembers and visiting scholars in at-tendance. Feldstein then gave a talkabout the life and accomplishmentsof his colleague Daniel Armstrong.Feldstein gave particular attention toArmstrong’s exceptional qualities asa friend, reminiscing fondly about themany acts of kindness that madeArmstrong special. ProfessorArmstrong’s family continues to playa part in REEI through its support ofthe endowment.

Ransel made the formal presenta-tion of the 2001-2002 ArmstrongAwards. These awards are given tothe authors of the best student pa-pers written in a class in Russian, EastEuropean or Central Eurasian stud-ies during the previous academic year.The papers are read during the sum-mer by a panel of REEI faculty (fac-ulty members whose students submit-ted papers are ineligible to serve asjudges).

2001-2002 Armstrong Awards RecognizeStudent Excellence

This year’s competition was par-ticularly challenging, and the panel ul-timately had to decide that three pa-pers were deserving of awards. Inorder to be able to recognize three stu-dent authors the panel agreed to al-low the honor of second place to be

shared bytwo stu-d e n t s .Each stu-dent re-ceived aframed cer-tificate ofrecognitionand a mon-etary re-ward. This

year the honor of first place wasawarded to Janis Cakars (REEI/Journalism) for his paper, “Soldiersof the Pen: The Use of Media inthe Nonviolent Liberation ofLatvia.” His paper was written forOwen Johnson’s Russian and EastEuropean Media Systems course.Second place honorswent to ChristianKanig (History) for hispaper “Engineers ofthe Human Soul:U p r a v l e n i ePropagandy,” andPatrick Kinney(REEI) for his paper“National Religionsand Religious Nation-alities: Complexities ofIdentity in Communistand Post-Communist Romania.”Christian prepared his paper for thecourse Empire and Culture, taught byJeff Veidlinger. Patrick’s paper waswritten for David Ransel’sInterdisciplinary Colloquium in Rus-sian and East European Studies.

Marci Shore comes to the depart-ment of History as an Assistant Pro-fessor this fall. Shore received herPhD from Stanford University in 2001after completing her dissertation onPolish intellectuals. She spent last yeardoing post-doctoral studies at Colum-bia University. She is currently teach-ing courses on Polish-Jewish relationsin the 20th century and East Europeanhistory.

Matthias Lehmann joins IU inthe Jewish Studies as an AssistantProfessor. He received his PhD fromFreie Universitat Berlin in 2002. Hewill be teaching general courses inJewish studies, as well as specializedcourses on the Jews in Islamic lands,Sephardic Jews and Ottoman-Jewishhistory. Lehmann comes to IU afterserving as a research fellow atConsejo Superior de InvestigacionesCientificas of Madrid since 1998. Hisdissertation traced the transformationof Ottoman Sephardic society in the

e i g h t e e n t hand nine-teenth centu-ries. He isc u r r e n t l yworking onan anthologyof Ladinor a b b i n i c a ltexts and re-searching themovement ofJews be-

tween Italy and the Ottoman Empirein early and modern times.

New Faculty

(left to right) Christian Kanig, David Ransel and Janis Cakars

Marci Shore and Bill Johnston

Welcome Marci and Matthias!

5REEIfication, October 2002

Students have the opportunity to im-prove their language skills through oneof the many “coffee hours” held onor near campus throughout the year.These informal gatherings provide anexcellent opportunity for students atall levels of proficiency to practice col-loquial and conversational language.

Russian tea meets every Tuesday at4:00 p.m. in Ballantine Hall 004.Contact: iuslavic@indiana.edu

Czech club meets every otherWednesday at 5:00 p.m. at the IrishLion.Contact: volkova@indiana.edu

Estonian coffee hour meets everyThursday at 4:00 p.m. at the RuncibleSpoon Coffee House.Contact: pkivik@indiana.edu

Finnish coffee hour meets everyWednesday at 4:30 p.m. in theBakehouse, 125 N. College Ave. ex-cept for the last Wednesday of everymonth, when it will be held at 1203Woods Hedge Way.Contact: thokkane@indiana.edu

Hungarian coffee hour meets everyThursday at 6:00 p.m at the Moon-struck Coffee House, 108 E.Kirkwood Ave.Contact: hca@indiana.edu

Latvian conversation hour meets ev-ery Friday at 5:00 p.m. at Crazy Horse.Contact: mlazda@indiana.edu

Polish tea hour meets every Thurs-day at 7:00 p.m. at the Polish StudiesCenter, 1217 East Atwater.Contact: polish@indiana.edu

2002 - 2003Coffee Hours

Kevin Miller, Jr. a graduate student of Public Affairs, would like to offer a10-volume Tafsir, (commentary on the Qu’ran), in the Russian Languagewith Arabic. He is seeking graduate students who would be interested inthese volumes. He is willing to give them away for free. Please contactKevin if you are interested at: kevmille@indiana.edu.

Russian Language Tafsir Available

REEI Welcomes New StudentAcademic Advisor

REEI welcomes Lisa Giullian as itsnew Academic Advisor. Lisa recentlyarrived from Lawrence, Kansaswhere she worked andattended the Universityof Kansas. She hasbeen involved withRussia and the Czechand Slovak Republicsin various capacitiesover the last ten years,doing volunteer ser-vice, teaching English,and assisting refugeesfrom the former SovietUnion. She looks for-ward to meeting REEI students and

learning more about their interests. Asshe becomes more familiar with avail-able resources, she plans to assist

graduate studentsin locating intern-ships and workopportunities. Inher free time sheand her husbandJon enjoy manyactive pursuits.Lisa is an avidhiker, enjoys danc-ing and plays vol-leyball. Her mostrecent adventure

was ice climbing in Alaska.

Tenure-track position for a social-cultural anthropologist beginning Au-gust 2003; ethnographer committedto field research in one or more ofthe following areas:  Russia, Ukraine,the Caucasus, or Eastern Europe. Should complement departmentaland university strengths in interna-tional and global studies, includingtransnationalism, nationalism, thepolitics of representation, local andglobal identities (as expressed in his-tory, national celebrations, museums,or memory),  political economy, andtransformation of economies.  Pref-erence for scholars who are also dy-namic undergraduate and graduateteachers and who have a strong pub-

Tenure-Track Position Openinglication record.  Requirements: PhD in Anthropology by August2003.  Send CV, letter of applica-tion including statement of teach-ing and research interests, samplearticle or chapter and the namesof three references to REEIsearch, Department of Anthropol-ogy, Indiana University, StudentBuilding 130, 701 E. Kirkwood,Bloomington, IN 47405.  Applica-tions received by November 25guaranteed full consideration;position will remain open until filled. Indiana University is an Equal Op-portunity/Affirmative Action Em-ployer.  We strongly encourage ap-plications from women and minori-ties.

Jon and Lisa Giullian

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REEI Honors Howard Aronson and William Hopkins withDistinguished Alumni Award

REEI extends congratulations toDr. Howard Aronson (Emeritus, Uni-versity of Chicago) and Dr. WilliamHopkins (former translator, U. S.Department of State) who were pre-sented with Distinguished Alumni

Awards by REEI on April 16 and June24, respectively. The REEI Distin-guished Alumni Award recognizesexceptional contributions to the fieldof Russian and East European Stud-ies by graduates of Indiana Univer-sity. Both recipients were presentedwith a certificate at separate recep-tions in their honor. Their names havebeen added to a permanent plaque inthe REEI office and to the mastheadof REEIfication . Aronson andHopkins are the fifth and sixth recipi-ents of the award since its inceptionin 1988.

Aronson received his B.A. inFrench from the University of Illinoisin 1956, before coming to IndianaUniversity to complete his M.A.(1958) and Ph.D. (1961) in Slavics.He accepted a position at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin Madison for oneyear, before beginning his career atthe University of Chicago. He hassince published numerous books and

articles, most recently Georgian Lan-guage and Culture: A ContinuingCourse (Slavica Publishers 1999)with Dodona Kiziria. His other workshave covered the Bulgarian, Yiddish,and Russian languages. Aronson was

nominated for theaward by Henry Coo-per, BozenaShallcross, andGeorge Fowler.

William Hopkinsreceived his B.A.(1956), M.A. (1967),and Ph.D. (1977)from the IU Depart-ment of Slavic Lan-guages and Litera-tures. After complet-ing his studies,Hopkins took a posi-

tion teaching Russian at MiddleburyCollege for one year. He then becamea diplomatic interpreter with the U.S.Department of State. In his time withthe State Department, he served as abranch chief aswell as an inter-preter for manyg o v e r n m e n t a lmeetings and sum-mits.

He also actedas an interpreterfor the Gore-Chernomyrd inCommission in1996 and theClinton-YeltsinSummit in 1994.Most recently, Hopkins has been as-sisting in an FBI interpreter trainingworkshop at the University of Dela-ware. David Ransel and JerzyKolodziej nominated William Hopkinsfor the award.

In remarks to friends and col-leagues attending a special receptionheld at the IU Bloomington campus,Hopkins noted the critical importanceof maintaining language and culturestudies. “At this time when questionsof protecting our national security areso much in the forefront, and whenthe need for those with expertise inother cultures and languages is so ap-parent, there can be justified satisfac-tion here that IU and REEI have solong appreciated that need and re-sponded to it,” he said. He went onto say that Indiana University, REEI,and the Slavics Department have longbeen key sources for specialists in allareas concerning the Soviet Unionand Commonwealth of IndependentStates.

Highlighting the ever growing net-work of IU alumni he noted,“Throughout the years I have met fewsuccessful professionals in govern-ment specializing in [Russian and EastEuropean Studies] who have not spent

at least some time at IU.” Hopkinsreiterated his continued advocacy ofarea studies and foreign languageacquisition, particularly in the contextof developing national security re-sources.

William Hopkins (right) with Paul Gebhard

Howard Aronson (right) and George Fowler

7REEIfication, October 2002

Jeffrey Veidlinger’s path to Jew-ish and Russian history appears tohave come naturally. Even though hedid not intend to focus on Jewish stud-ies when he chose history as his ma-jor. Perhaps his family ties to EasternEuropean Jewish culture subtly influ-enced him. His father survived WorldWar II in Budapest before emigrat-ing to Canada. His mother came froma long line of Polish rabbis. He re-calls hearing stories about hisgrandfather’s emotional farewell to hisfamily in the Polish village of Wolominbefore he boarded a train to attendthe yeshiva in Warsaw. His grandfa-ther did not see his family for fouryears. (While in Warsaw a few yearsago, Veidlinger was interested in find-ing the village his grandfather had left.He discovered, with some amuse-ment, that the “village” his grandfa-ther had so emotionally left was onlya twenty minute taxi ride from thecenter of Warsaw.The village had sincebeen incorporated asan outer suburb.)

As a child,Veidlinger studied ata Labor ZionistSchool in Toronto,where he studiedfour languages: He-brew, French, En-glish, and Yiddish.His six years of Yid-dish language studieswould come to play an important rolein his career. Veidlinger went on toattend McGill University in Montrealin the late 1980s. The fall of the Ber-lin Wall and sudden openings in East-ern Europe and Russia, prompted himto study Russian and Soviet History.

Knowing all along that he wantedto be a university professor, Veidlinger

chose to pursue a graduate degree inSoviet history, specifically in the con-text of cultural history and the effectsof politics on culture.Georgetown, he says,where Richard Stitestaught, was ideal. Al-though Veidlingerplanned to study Russiancultural history, Stitessoon discovered his abil-ity to read Yiddish andsuggested he follow thatpath in Soviet history.This advice – and hispersonal interest in bothmusic and theater – ledhim to write a paperearly in his graduate career on theMoscow State Yiddish Theater. Thatpaper turned into his dissertation, andfinally, into a full-length book. Aftercompleting his PhD in 1998 atGeorgetown, he moved to Chicago (on

a post-d o c )a n dp r e -paredhis dis-serta-tion forpubli-cation.H i sf i r s tb o o k( p i c -

tured above), The Moscow State Yid-dish Theater: Jewish Culture on theSoviet Stage (IU Press 2000), de-scribed the ways theater had becomea tool to promote Jewish culture andnationality within the boundaries ofSoviet policy. The book won the Na-tional Jewish Book Award, theBarnard Hewitt Award for Outstand-

ing Book in Theatre Studies, and wasnamed an Outstanding Academic Titleby Choice Magazine . In 1999

Veidlinger came to In-diana University as anAssistant Professor.

Veidlinger does notplan to rest on his lau-rels. Although he is cur-rently on leave from theuniversity, he is devot-ing the year to work onhis second book, tenta-tively entitled, Collect-ing Jewish Culture. Inthis work he focuses onthe cultural and volun-tary Jewish organiza-

tions that were established between1905 and 1921. Some of the groupshe has focused on include: a histori-cal society interested in establishinga narrative of Jewish history in Rus-sia, an ethnographic society, a folkmusic society, and a society to collectJewish folktales in Russia.

While wrapping up the loose endsof his book, Veidlinger chose to takepart in the preliminary work of anotherresearch project – a project that willwork toward preserving the stories ofthe last Yiddish speakers in Ukraine.The project began this summer, whenVeidlinger and Dov-Ber Kerler (Ger-manic Studies) traveled to Ukrainewith the goal of interviewing Yiddishspeakers and documenting their earlylives. The pair plans to continue theproject through 2005. The culminationof the project will be a digital libraryof the interviews to be housed on cam-pus.

Jennifer Maceyko is a graduatestudent at REEI. The project onYiddish speakers in Ukraine will befeatured in the December issue ofREEIfication.

Faculty Profile: Jeffrey VeidlingerBy Jen Maceyko

Veidlinger (standing) and Dov-Ber Kerler (left)

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This summer I spent ten weeksworking as a consular intern for theU.S. State Department at the Em-bassy in Warsaw, Poland. Consularaffairs officers manage consular re-lations between Poland and theUnited States, as well as provide ser-vices to U.S. citizens. Although I didnot spend timein high-level ne-gotiations withsenior Polishgovernment of-ficials or workto develop U.S.business inter-ests in thecountry, the ex-perience wasvaluable.

Consulates are commonly knownas the “visa office,” where visa ser-vices, immigrant and non-immigrantvisas, and an array of services forAmerican citizens are performed.During my stay I worked on the thou-sands of cases of Poles seeking toemigrate to or visit the United States.I experienced everything from U.S.citizens trying to cut through govern-ment red tape in hopes of adoptingPolish orphans to the “cyber-ro-mance” of American grooms and theirPolish internet brides, many of whomlive thousands of miles from eachother. My experiences were not,however, confined to the workplace.This essay accordingly reflects expe-riences I had with Poles both in pro-fessional and social settings. In a so-ciety still transitioning from commu-nist rule, the ability of the Poles to joinan increasingly global system of tradeand politics has been impressive.

In Poland I saw a nation full of con-trasts. Warsaw, where I worked andlived, is a city like any modern me-

tropolis full of hustle and bustle. AnAmerican tourist would feel right athome eating at the many Americanfast-food eateries that are springingup throughout the city. A walk to thelocal grocery store or “hypermarket”(a source of controversy for smallshop owners) reveals shelves stocked

with a multitudeof goods im-ported fromWestern Eu-rope and theUnited States.New “multi-plex” movietheaters can befound through-out the city,many of which

surpass our own in quality and clean-liness. Shopping malls rival theirAmerican counterparts in size and se-lection of goods.

While working at the embassy Ioften had a chance to speak with Pol-ish colleagues, who shared a mix ofreactions to Poland’s current politicaland economic situation. Poles work-ing in the embassy as-sessed Poland’s cur-rent economic situationas generally positive.With jobs that pay wellby Polish standardsand a high degree ofjob security, these indi-viduals represent the emerging, white-collar professionals who are able tomake dramatic improvements in theirstandard of living — sending their chil-dren to universities and being able toafford private health insurance, forexample. In contrast, I learned thatthe average Polish blue-collar workerstill depends heavily on state socialsupports in the wake of factory lay-

offs and closings (as formerly state-owned industries such as the massiveSzceczin shipyard flounder in the neweconomy). For Polish farmers thesituation is more desperate. The pro-tests I witnessed in Warsaw through-out the summer reminded me thatmuch work needs to be done in orderto bring the Polish economy back ontrack. Recent Polish governmentshave done much to address these con-ditions, but government corruption atthe federal and local level and an en-trepreneurial culture in its infancyleave much room for improvement.Consular officers conduct hundreds ofinterviews with applicants who canbarely afford to travel to Warsaw foran interview, let alone support them-selves in the U.S. as a tourist. De-ciding who should get a visa is obvi-ously tough, and consular officers areoften subjected to the displeasure ofthose who are denied visas.

It is not far fetched to questionwhether democracy and the free mar-ket will survive. The government un-der Prime Minister Leszek Miller con-tinues to move forward with the goal

of joining the Euro-pean Union (EU).This might enablethe nation’s strug-gling agriculturalsector to gainthrough the EUfarming subsidies.

Other benefits will be delivered toPoland’s industrial sectors,jumpstarting fledgling industries withnew access to West European mar-kets. Finally, EU structural supportsmay help Poland to improve the dis-mal state of its highway system (Po-land gives “road trip” a new mean-ing).

A Hoosier in WarsawBy Philip R. Mervis

Ambassador Christopher R. Hill (left) andsinger Eva Bem at the Ambassador’s annual

Fourth of July celebration in Warsaw

Street protest in Warsaw

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9REEIfication, October 2002

My new friends and I partedtearfully after exploring lakes Baikaland Tahoe together this summer. The16 of us met in Irkutsk, Russia, mid-June, to become the 12th Tahoe-Baikal Institute (TBI) internationalenvironmental exchange. We spentour first five weeks touring and re-searching the ecologi-cal masterpiece, LakeBaikal, in Siberia, andthen traveled to beau-tiful Lake Tahoe, Cali-fornia, for an equalperiod of comparativestudies.

The non-profitTahoe-Baikal Instituteselects up to 20 envi-ronmental scholarsand professionals tovisit the “sister” lakeseach year. A group ofRussian and Ameri-can students proposedthe program to “build unity through en-vironmental exchange,” as the mottogoes. And the institute now boasts aninternational network of environmen-tal advocates for the lakes: exchangealumni who swam and hiked together,and measured human impact on thefragile watersheds.

Seven Russians joined this year,including an ecology professor fromBuryat State University; graduate stu-dents in biochemistry, tourism, andgeography; and a botanist fromPribaikalsky National Park (on LakeBaikal). A Mongolian chemist, anecologist from Kyrgyzstan, and aUkrainian studying geography at UC-Berkeley participated, too. AnAmeriCorps ecologist joined from theU.S., plus former Peace Corps vol-unteers, a middle school teacher, aCalifornia Conservation Corps

worker, and myself, an IUB graduatestudent in SPEA and Journalism. AnREEI Mellon-Endowment grantmade my participation possible.

At each lake, we spent our firsttwo weeks taking notes from and ask-ing questions of well-known profes-sors. We met park rangers, advocates

from non-governmentalorganizations, naturalistsand water treatment ex-perts. We also hiked,swam and boated in bothbasins. And we gatheredfor evening “studenttalks”: presentations anddiscussions on our favor-ite environmental casestudies.

Participants special-ized in one of 4-5 re-search projects in eachcountry. On both sides, Ichose to work away fromthe main lake. In Siberia,

I joined my Kyrgyz and Russian col-leagues to study eco-tourism poten-tial at small lakes near Baikal. We firsttraveled toUlan-Ude, thecapital of theBuryat Repub-lic, and thencamped at sev-eral sitessoutheast ofBaikal. Westudied soilprofiles andwater chemis-try to deter-mine lakehealth, and surveyed beach goers atthe popular weekend resort “PikeLake.” We deduced high demand forstate-regulated eco-tourism in thearea, and wrote three corresponding

policy proposals to the state legisla-ture.

At Lake Tahoe, two Russiansjoined another American and me toperform a baseline vegetation studyon U.S. Forest Service land. We in-ventoried plant species and (flam-mable) biomass in a colorful moun-tain meadow for the Washoe Tribe ofCalifornia and Nevada. The WashoeEnvironmental Protection Depart-ment, in collaboration with the forestservice, will use our findings to plansafe and effective prescribed burnsin the meadow. Ultimately, theWashoe hope to restore native me-dicinal plants there. We wrote scien-tific papers and presented our find-ings at public hearings on both sidesof the program. Tahoe-Baikal Insti-tute volunteers attended our hearingsin Irkutsk and South Lake Tahoe.

Our group had been camping ina green-and-granite, High Sierra al-pine meadow for two days, when myturn came to lead a nighttime talk.Sitting in a circle, shivering under thestars, we discussed zebra mussels -

an invasivespecies thathas inundatedU.S. water-ways, from theGreat Lakes tothe Upper Mis-sissippi River.As my col-leagues arguedand questionedme, I felt over-whelming af-fection for

them.We had lived together 10 weeks,

touring unique ecosystems and ana-lyzing regulatory deficiencies at both

From Baikal to Tahoe: Comparing Two Unique EcosystemsBy Regina Galer

(left to right) TBI ProgramCoordinator Lena Maisuk,Regina Galer, and Nurzat

Abyrasulova, Irkutsk, Russia.

(left to right) Project leader (Washoe Tribe)Denice Morphew; Tatiana Kuzmina; and TBI

translator Elena Chernobrovkina interpret GPSreadings on a Tahoe basin alpine meadow.

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Rebecca Bartlett is originallyfrom Champaign, Illinois. She gradu-ated in May 2002 from IU with adouble major in Slavic Languages andLiteratures and Spanish, with a minorin Political Science. She is pursuing adouble masters in Library Science andRussian and East European studies.Her focus countries are Russia andPoland.

Timothy Buchen is a major in theUnited States Army, serving as a For-eign Area Officer. His focus is onRomania and Moldova. He receivedhis BBA in finance from Iowa StateUniversity in 1988.

John P. Glenn was born andraised in Ohio, near Dayton. Mostrecently he lived 5 years in Fairbanks,Alaska, where he finished a B.A. inRussian and Spanish with a minor inpolitical science at the University ofAlaska Fairbanks. He has been in-volved for several years in Christianeducation and foreign missions andhas spent time in Eastern Europe. Heis interested in improving relationsbetween Russia and the U.S.

Manuel Jesus LopezHernandez attended San FranciscoState University and graduated witha BA in international relations andRussian language in 2000. His areaof interest is Russian foreign policytowards the near east, specifically,Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.He is also interested in Russian rela-tions with the Central Asian repub-lics.

David Hickcox is a major in theUnited States Army serving as a For-eign Area Officer for the areas ofRussia and Eurasia. He earned a BAin classical studies from Louisiana

State University in 1992, and studiedRussian language at the Defense Lan-guage Institute in Monterey, Califor-nia from November 1999 to Novem-ber 2000. He is interested in studyingthe process of democratization and theeffects of globalization in the formerSoviet Union and the role that the U.S.government will play in these areas.

David Jones received his B.A. inEnglish with a French minor in De-cember 1998 from the University ofCentral Arkansas. He is currentlypursuing a joint MA/MPA with REEIand the School for Public and Envi-ronmental Affairs.

Aron Liptak graduated in 1998from Vassar College where he stud-ied English. He then went on to workas a Peace Corps volunteer inUzbekistan.

Leslie Lutz received her BA fromHendrix College, in Conway, Arkan-sas in 2002. At Hendrix, she designedher own Russian studies major, andminored in German. In the autumn of2000, she lived and studied inKrasnodar, Russia. She was offereda Fulbright to study in Estonia aftergraduation, but had to decline theaward due to prior obligations. Herstudies at IU focus on non-govern-mental organizations and grassrootssocial reform in Russia.

Jennifer Maceyko received herBA from Knox College in 2002 witha major in anthropology and sociol-ogy. She studied in Olomouc, CzechRepublic and conducted interviewsand research in the Jewish district ofKrakow in the fall of 2001. Upon re-turning to the U.S., she completed acollege honors project on the value ofmemory in creating Jewish identity.

At Indiana University, she is pursuingan MA degree, focusing on Polandand Ukraine and their relations withminorities within the countries.

Daniel Saulean, a native of Ro-mania, received a BA in physics fromthe University of Cluj in 1992. Hethen received his Master’s degree in1996 from the University ofBucharest in sociology. As a ResearchAssociate within the RomanianAcademy’s Institute of Sociology, hecarried out field research on coal min-ing at Jiu Valley and other state-owned industrial enterprises in pro-cess of privatization (1996-1999). Healso served as Romanian Local As-sociate for Johns HopkinsUniversity’s International NonprofitComparative Project (1997-1999).

Steven Page received his BA ininternational studies from BrighamYoung University in 2002. He tooktime from his studies to live in theCzech and Slovak Republics for twoyears while on a voluntary servicemission for The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints. At Indi-ana University, he is seeking a jointMA/MPA in Russian and East Euro-pean Studies with a regional focus onthe Czech Republic and a concentra-tion on international and comparativepolitics. Following his studies Stevenwould like to pursue a career in theforeign service.

Alice Tobin received her BA inRussian and French languages fromIndiana University. She studied in St.Petersburg for a semester in the fallof 1999 and has traveled to variousparts of Eastern Europe. She is en-rolled in IU’s dual MA/MPA, andhopes to pursue a career in Russia orUkraine, working in the public sector.

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Janis Cakars (Journalism) pre-sented a paper entitled “The Role ofJournalism in 19th Century NationalMovements in Estonia and Finland:Apples and Apples?” at the annualconference of the Association forEducation in Journalism and MassCommunications in Miami Beach,Florida in August. The paper also wonthird place in the Markham StudentPaper Competition at the conference.In July, he participated in an oral his-tory expedition in western Latvia. Histrip was supported through an Inter-national Enhancement Grant from theOffice of International Programs.Inta Carpenter (Folklore) and IlzeAkerbergs (Folklore) also partici-pated in the expedition. Last spring,Janis published an article in the Non-violent Activist entitled “Lessonsfrom Latvia.”

Melissa Cakars (History) spentthe month of June in Ulan Ude, Rus-sia where she conducted pre-disser-tation research supported by a grantfrom the Office of International Pro-grams.

Mimoza Rista-Dema (Linguis-tics) published an article entitled “Po-litical Discourse in Albania: Memoirsbefore the 1990s” in S. Obeng andB. Hartford eds., Surviving throughObliqueness - Language of Politicsin Emerging Democracies, NovaScience Publishers, pps. 46-68, Au-gust, 2002.

Nancy Eyl (Slavics) received a2002-2003 Fulbright award to studycontemporary literature in Kyiv andLviv, Ukraine.

Phillip Goss (Kelley School ofBusiness) was awarded a Fascell Fel-lowship with the U.S. State Depart-

ment. He will work at the U.S. Em-bassy in Warsaw for two years start-ing in September of 2002.

Christopher Howard (REEI/Slavics) attended the JagiellonianUniversity Szkola Letnia (SummerSchool), Krakow, Poland as a FLASrecipient. He also attended PalackyUniversity, Olomouc, Czech Repub-lic as a CIC traveling scholar. Hereceived a Kosciuszko FoundationGraduate Research Scholarship insupport of his Polish area studies aswell as a Center for InternationalBusiness Education and ResearchGrants (CIBER) scholarship for Fall2002. He is teaching first year Polishat IUB.

Bjorn Ingvoldstad (Communica-tions & Culture) attended a confer-ence sponsored by the Society forCinema Studies in Denver last Maywhere he spoke on the Lithuanian filmkazkas atsitiko. In June he spokeon Lithuanian popular music,eurovision, and post-socialist changeat the Association for the Advance-ment of Baltic Studies conference inBaltimore. He spent two months inLithuania this summer doing disser-tation follow-up research, fundedthrough a Center for InternationalBusiness Education and Research(CIBER) scholarship.

Ekrem Karakoc (Political Sci-ence) presented a paper entitled“Problems in the Consolidation of De-mocracy in Turkey” to the AnnualMeeting of the Association for theStudy of Nationalities, New York, April11-13.

Mara Lazda (History) participatedin the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Jun-ior Scholar Training Seminar for East-

ern European Studies on August 9-12, 2002 in Washington D.C. and atthe Wye River Plantation, Maryland.

Matt Loveless (Political Science)received a summer Pre-DissertationTravel Grant from the Office of In-ternational Programs to travel to Hun-gary to establish professional and in-stitutional affiliations.

Tony Mason (REEI/SPEA) isworking at the U.S. Embassy inPrague for the fall semester. He willwork in the Public Affairs Section ofthe Embassy, dealing with Cultural andEducational Affairs. He will also as-sist in the dispersion of funds relatedto the cleanup efforts underway in thewake of recent flooding.

Heather McDougall (PoliticalScience) was a discussant for thepanel “Attitudes and Outcomes inTransitional States” at the AmericanPolitical Science Association annualmeeting in Boston, August 2002.

Katherine Metzo (REEI/Anthro-pology) was awarded a Future Fac-ulty Teaching Fellowship to teach inthe Anthropology Department atIUPUI for the 2002-03 academicyear. She will also publish an articleentitled “Adapting Capitalism: House-hold Plots, Forest Resources, andMoonlighting in Post-Soviet Siberia,”in GeoJournal, Fall 2002.

Dana M. Ohren (History) pre-sented a paper entitled “All of theTsars’ Men: Minorities and Conscrip-tion in Imperial Russia, 1874-1905,”to the Midwest Historians of RussiaWorkshop, October 18-19, 2002, AnnArbor, Michigan.

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Emily Ray (REEI/SLIS) attendedthe 12th Annual Slavic LibrariansWorkshop at the University of Illinois,Champaign-Urbana June 26-28,where she participated in a panel onSlavic Cataloging. She was the re-cipient of an REEI Mellon Endow-ment Student Travel Grant in supportof her attendance at the workshop.

Donald F. Reindl (Slavics) re-viewed the following books: Literarytranslation: A practical guide, byClifford E. Landers, in LINGUISTList: Vol-13-904 (1 Apr 2002), avail-able at http://linguistlist.org/ ;Intelektualci v disapori/Intellectu-als in diaspora, ed. by Irena GantarGodina, in Slovene Studies (June2002), available at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ljubljan/reviewsL2.html; Slovenskakrajevna imena v Italiji. Prirocnik./ Toponimi sloveni in Italia.Manuale , by Pavle Merkù, inSlovene Studies (June 2002), avail-able at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ljubljan/reviewsL2.html; MinorityRights in Europe: European Mi-norities and Languages, by SnezanaTrifunovska (editor-in-chief) andFernand de Varennes (guest editor),in Balkan Academic News 23/2002(July 2002), available athttp:www.seep.ceu.hu/balkans.

He presented a paper entitled“Borrowings from German into theGrammatical system of Slovene,” atthe conference Deutsch-slawischerSprachkontakt, Entlehnungen undsprachliche Identität, SorbischesInstitut, Cottbus, Germany, Septem-ber 2002. He has also authored 24 ar-ticles on current events and politics inSlovenia for Radio Free Europe, avail-able at http://rferl.org/balkan-report.

Jennifer Sanders (Slavics) at-tended an International Seminar forMacedonian Language, Literature,and Culture in Ohrid, Macedonia, Au-gust 5-23, in support of her continuedstudy of Macedonian. She also at-tended the International Conferencefor Macedonian Language, Literature,and Culture in Ohrid August 19-20,where she presented a paper entitled“The Effects of Sonority Sequencingon Consonant Clusters after Jerfall,”which will bepublished ina collectionof papersfrom the con-ference.

She re-ceived agrant fromthe GraduateSchool fortravel to theconference and a full scholarship forthe seminar from the Saints Cyril andMethodius University in Skopje.

Chad D. Stewart (Linguistics) re-ceived an International EnhancementGrant for Fall semester to studyLithuanian language, culture, and lin-guistics at Vilnius University.

Nathaniel Wood (History) partici-pated in the Woodrow WilsonCenter’s Junior Scholar TrainingSeminar for Eastern European Stud-ies on August 9-12, 2002 in Washing-ton D.C. and at the Wye River Plan-tation, Maryland. He will give a talkat IUB as a participant in the CulturalHistory Workshop series, on “TheInterurban Matrix: Local News andInternational Sensations in Cracow’sPopular Press, 1900-1915" onOctober 24, 2002.

While in Bloomington he will teachsecond- and third-year Croatianand Serbian, combining grammarwith conversation situations in real-life and in literature. He is also ex-ploring the Lakota language taughtby Professor Parks and research-ing Native American culture.

Ms. Zinaida Starodubtseva isan instructor of Fine Arts at the Orel

State Institute of Artand Culture in Russia.She will be at IUB forone year under theauspices of theAmerican Councilsfor International Edu-cation, Junior FacultyDevelopment pro-gram.

Starodubtseva willexplore American

teaching methodologies for artsmanagement, international culturalpolicy as well as best-practices inthe area of arts management. Herfaculty contact is Janet Kennedy ofthe Department of Fine Arts.

Mr. Young-Sang Yim is a Pro-fessor of History and Cultural Con-tents at the College of Humanities,Hankuk University of Foreign Stud-ies, Korea. He will be at IUB forone year and will be associated withREEI. Yim will conduct researchrelated to Korean-AmericanChurches in the Midwest and willalso research source materials re-lated to Koreans in the CIS (focus-ing on written and visual materials).His faculty contact is BarbaraTruesdell of the Center for theStudy of History and Memory.

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Faculty PapersMaria Bucur (History): “Feminism, Na-tionalism, and the Discourse over Citizen-ship”

Bernd Fischer (History, Fort Wayne):“Albanian Politics: The Quest for Stabil-ity”

Henry Hale (Political Science): “DividedWe Stand: The Stability of Ethno-FederalSystems”

Charles J. Halperin (REEI): “Ivan IV andChinggis Qan”

Jeffrey Holdeman (Slavics): “Erie OldBelievers: The Construction of an EthnicIdentity”

Owen Johnson (Journalism/History):“New Identities, New Discourse: Slovaksand Their Press, 1918–1938”

Hiroaki Kuromiya (History): “The 1930Union for the Liberation of Ukraine (SVU)Trial”

Marci Shore (History): “CaféZiemianska’s Poets: Alexander Wat’sGeneration of Narcissism and Guilt Re-visited”

Student PapersMartin Blackwell (History): “A RegimeCity of the First Category: PopulationControl and Resistance in Kyiv, 1943–1946”

Adam E. Ehrlich (History): “Between Po-land and Germany: The Shifting Bound-aries of National Identity in Upper Silesia,1945–1949”

David C. Fisher (History): “Russia’s Im-age Problem in Europe and America andthe World’s Fairs, 1851–1900"

Mara Lazda (History): “Gender, Ideology,and Sovietization: Latvia, 1940–1941”

Jude Richter (History): “Voluntarism andGuardianship in the Kiev Court for Juve-niles, 1914–1917”

Jason Vuic (History): “American Radicals:Steve Nelson and Stevan Dedijer”

IU Participants in the AAASS ConferenceThe National Convention of the American Association for the

Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) will be held in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, November 21-24, 2002

Bradley D. Woodworth (History ): “Es-tates to Nationalities: Late ImperialTallinn”

Panel ChairsCharles Jelavich (History, Emeritus):South Slavic Americans and the Left,1900–1950

Bogdan Rakic (Slavics): David Albahari:Writing from the Other Europe

Toivo Raun (CEUS): Political and SocialSovietization of the Western Territories,1939–1950

Panel DiscussantsMurlin Croucher (Slavic Bibliographer):Exaggerated Demise: The East EuropeanBook Trade in the Second Post-Commu-nist Decade

Owen V. Johnson (Journalism/History):Independent and Controlled: The EastEuropean Media

Hiroaki Kuromiya (History): War’s Im-pact on Inter-Ethnic Relations in SovietLands, 1939–1945: Propaganda and Real-ity

Nina M. Perlina (Slavics): Imagining theHeritage in Contemporary Russian Litera-ture

Bogdan Rakic (Slavics): The NarrativeStructure of the Works of DragoslavMihailovic and Its Function

Roundtable ParticipantsSeptember 11 and After: The Impact ofthe War on Terrorism on the FormerSoviet SphereChair: Jack Bielasiak (Political Science)William Fierman (CEUS)Henry Hale (Political Science)Dina Spechler (Political Science)Martin Spechler (Economics, IUPUI)

Student Roundtable ParticipantsDavid C. Fisher (History): Exposition,Performance, Tourism: Constructing Rus-sian/Soviet Identities for the West fromNicholas I to Stalin

Jason Vuic (History): Serbian Refugees1991–2002: The Forgotten Victims

While the Poles I encounteredhave faith in the free market, the Pol-ish experience with democracy is lesscertain. Historically, most industrialpowers engaged in democracy firstand then free market followed. How-ever, as I learned in my East Euro-pean Politics course at IU, this pro-cess went in reverse in Poland. ThePolish public engaged in free marketactivities first. A democraticallyelected regime followed. Today,Polish public opinion reflects an alarm-ing distrust of politicians, many ofwhom are seen as corrupt and ineffi-cient. Many Poles see their govern-ment as unable to cope with suchchallenges as high unemployment andthe plight of pensioners. This hasgiven rise to a wave of ultraconser-vative or populist political parties suchas the “Self Defense” party led bythe charismatic and controversialAndrzej Lepper. A danger occurswhen average Polish citizens lose theirsense of political efficacy, which isnecessary for the survival of any po-litical system.

Poles have historically shown re-silience in the face of great adversity.My experiences this summer showedthat today is no different. While theUnited States continues to supportPoland’s efforts to transform itseconomy and strengthen its democ-racy, long-term U.S.-Polish partner-ships in a variety of areas will help toreinforce Poland’s emerging role asa pillar of regional economic strengthand geopolitical security. PhilipMervis is an undergraduate stu-dent in the Department of PoliticalScience. He will be spending the2002-2003 year studying at theUniversity of Kent at Canterbury,Britain as part of the IU OverseasStudy program.

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ronmental sciences.Our social science offerings will be

further expanded soon with the addi-tion of a cultural anthropologist. Thedean of the College has given the go-ahead for a search in that field. REEIwill be contributing byseeding the positionwith funding during itsfirst years.

REEI faculty arehelping people to un-derstand the global im-pact of the September11 attacks. A CampusForum on the responseof people around the world to the ter-rorist attacks was one of the firstevents REEI sponsored this semes-ter. In cooperation with others cen-ters, we organized the forum to in-form students, faculty, and membersof the community about how people(in Russia, Germany, China, LatinAmerica, Africa, and the Middle East)viewed America in the aftermath ofthe attacks. Henry Hale of our De-partment of Political Science spokeabout Russia. The forum was held inthe large Whittenberger Auditorium atthe Indiana Memorial Union and waswell attended. Dean KumbleSubbaswamy moderated.

Interestingly and probably not sur-prisingly, the speakers on all the worldareas delivered much the same mes-sage. People around the globe praisethe American values of democracyand freedom of expression and ad-mire the ability of Americans to liveby those values at home. What peopleelsewhere wonder is why our govern-ment does not support moderates whowork for democratic change in suchdictatorships, the very people whomost admire American values andwho would be the natural allies of the

United States. When America backsregimes that do not allow freedom ofexpression or legal avenues for politi-cal action, those who seek democraticchange may believe that their onlychoice is underground resistance andterror (for more on this general issue,see Nazif Shahrani’s comments in

REEIficationApril 2002).This discus-sion will becontinued atthe IUA A A S SRoundtable inPittsburgh.

I am de-lighted to report that we applied forand received an additional Title VINational Resource Center allocationof $65,000 from the Department ofEducation for this year. The fundscame from a special allocation fromCongress to increase understand-ing of Muslim societies and their lan-guages. We are using the moneyfor a variety of projects, includinga conference on education in Af-ghanistan in October, a course onRussian politics and ethnicities, andimproved publicity for IU’s summerinstitute in Slavic, East European,and Central Asian languages.

Finally, I want to remind ouralumni (as well as our students andfaculty) of the REEI reception at theAnnual Convention of the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement ofSlavic Studies. IU Press and Slavicacooperate in this reception. The con-vention takes place this year in Pitts-burgh, and the REEI reception will beheld on Friday, November 22, in theHilton Pittsburgh’s “King’s GardenSouth” room from 7:30 to 9:30p.m.. Ihope that you can attend. The REEIsenior staff and I look forward to see-ing you.

lakes. Russian participants had tol-erated their overseas colleagues’fascination with trans-Siberian traintravel (they were weary veteransof the four-day, Irkutsk-Moscowtrip). And Americans had sufferedcutting critiques of our non-organic,“lightweight” sandwich foods (weate flavorful, homegrown veg-etables for lunch in Siberia).

But we had bonded. Severaltalented participants had translatedand served as cultural liaisons. Andwhile a few participants were bi-lingual to begin with, everyone wasspeaking at least a bit of the otherlanguage by late August.

On the night of my student talkwe sat together in the High Sier-ras, discussing the international phe-nomenon of invasive species. We

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laughed and excitedly interruptedtranslations. I realized my col-leagues had given me responsibilityand hope. Human development andpollution threaten fresh water qual-ity everywhere, but good people ev-erywhere will work to save theirlakes.

Regina Galer is a graduatestudent at SPEA and the Schoolof Journalism.

Jeffrey Holdeman andvisiting scholar Malgorzata Cavar

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Faculty UpdateMalcolm Brown (Emeritus Musicol-ogy) has recently updated and pub-lished his influential article“Tchaikovsky and His Music inAnglo-American Criticism, 1890s-1950s,” in the book Queer Episodesin Music and Modern Identity, ed.Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell,Urbana and Chicago: University ofIllinois Press, 2002, pps. 134-49.

Maria Bucur (History) has beenawarded a Graduate and ProfessionalStudent Organization Faculty MentorAward in the Arts andHumanities.

Daniel Cole (IU-Law, Indianapolis)published Pollutionand Property: Com-paring OwnershipInstitutions for En-vironmental Protec-tion (Cambridge Uni-versity Press, 2002).His forthcoming book(co-edited with PeterZ. Grossman), TheEnd of Natural Mo-nopoly: Electric Utility Deregula-tion in the United States, will be pub-lished early next year by JAI/Elsevier.Cole also recently published an articleentitled, “The Meaning of PropertyRights: Law vs. Economics?” in 78Land Economics, 2002, pps. 317-330,and a book chapter entitled “Towarda Total-Cost Approach to Environ-mental Instrument Choice” (with Pe-ter Z. Grossman), in An Introductionto the Law and Economics of Envi-ronmental Policy, eds. T. Swansonand R. Zerbe, Elsevier 2002.

Aurelian Craiutu (Political Science)published an article entitled “NewPolitics for a New Epoch,” in The

Review of Politics, Summer 2002,Vol. 64, No. 3, pps. 537-40. He alsopublished the following articles inRomanian: “On Moderation, PoliticalJudgment, and Practical Wisdom” inCuvantul [The Word], #298 Febru-ary, 2002; “Plato: The Philosopher’sDizziness and the Vortex of Philoso-phy” in Cuvantul, #299, March 2002;“Aristotle: In Praise of the MiddleWay” in Cuvantul, #300, April 2002;and “The Paradox of Democracy” inDilema, #494, September 2002.

Steven Franks(Slavics/Linguistics)submitted a bookmanuscript on Polishto the Languages ofthe World series,Lincom Europa pub-lisher, together withRonald Feldstein. Healso co-edited the fol-lowing book withFeldstein and LauraJanda: Where One’sTongue Rules Well:A Festschrift forCharles E.

Townsend, Slavica Publishers 2002.Together with Zeljko Boskovic, he pub-lished an article entitled “Phonology-Syntax Interactions in South Slavic,”Balkanistica, vol.15, 2002, pps. 49-74. He was a guest professor at theEnglish Department, Warsaw Univer-sity, in May-June 2002, under the aus-pices of IU’s International Programs.While in Poland he made several pre-sentations including: “What’s that?”presented in May 2002 at Zentrum furAllgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Ber-lin, Warsaw University, Poznan Uni-versity, and Wroclaw University; and“NP-Internal Clitics in Slavic” Pre-sented in May 2002 at Potsdam Uni-versity. He continues as Chairman

of the Department of Linguistics andEditor-in-chief of the Journal ofSlavic Linguistics.

Halina Goldberg (Musicology) pub-lished a paper entitled, “Chamber Ar-rangements of Chopin’s ConcertWorks” in The Journal of Musicol-ogy, Winter, 2002.

Henry Hale (Political Science) pub-lished the following articles: “Russia:Consolidation or Collapse?” Europe-Asia Studies, v.54, no.7, November2002 with co-author Rein Taageperaand “Civil Society From Above? Stat-ist and Liberal Models of State-Build-ing in Russia,” Demokratizatsiya,v.10, no.3, Summer 2002. (This jour-nal is peer-reviewed as of 2002.) Healso presented the following papers:“Divided We Stand: InstitutionalSources of Ethnofederal Survival andCollapse,” at the Annual Meeting ofthe American Political Science Asso-ciation (APSA), Boston, August 29,2002 and at the PONARS academicconference, Seattle, May 30, 2002;“Political Parties and Putin’s FederalReforms,” to the East-West Instituteconference, Moscow, June 10, 2002;“A Political Economy of Secession-ism in Federal Systems,” to the con-ference “The Economics of PoliticalIntegration and Disintegration” at theCenter for Operations Research andEconometrics (CORE), UniversityCatholique de Louvain, Belgium, May24, 2002. He was a discussant at theAPSA conference panel entitled“Post-Communist Party Develop-ment.”

Mark T. Hooker (REEI) publishedthe following articles: “In Search ofthe Origins of the River Lune,” in

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Beyond Bree, April 2002, pps. 2-4,an etymology of hydronym Lune asused in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works; “Rus-sian Tolkien Books” in Beyond Bree,March 2002, p. 7, areview of a Russianknock-off of J.R.R.Tolkien’s TheHobbit; “The Lin-guistic Landscapeof Bree” in BeyondBree , May 2002,pps. 2-3, a linguisticanalysis of J.R.R.Tolkien’s use ofWelsh andAngloSaxon placename elements inThe Lord of the Rings; “Tolkien inRussia”, in Beyond Bree, June 2002,p. 2, a report on the possibility of theestablishment of a Tolkienian Churchin Russia; “Lingvisticheskij pejsazhBrijskoj okrugi,” Palantir (Journal ofthe St. Petersburg Tolkien Society),No. 31, 2002, pps. 6-9, reprinted fromBeyond Bree , May 2002;“Svyashchennye pisaniya?” inPalantir, No. 32, 2002, pps. 3-15, anoriginal article, not available in English,analyzing J.R.R. Tolkien’s use of Bibleallusions in The Lord of the Ringsand how these have been dealt withby the various (there are 9 differentpublished translations) Russian trans-lators; “2001: A Tolkien Odyssey intoRussia,” 2001: A Tolkien Odyssey,Ron Pirson (ed), Proceedings ofUnquendor’s (the Dutch Tolkien So-ciety) Fourth Lustrum Conference,Brielle, the Netherlands, 9 June 2001,published as a Lembas “Extra”(Lembas is the journal of the DutchTolkien Society.) Hooker is cited anumber of times in the revised andexpanded edition of Douglas A.Anserson, The Annotated Hobbit,

Houghton Mifflon, New York, 2002,and his contributions are acknowl-edged in the “Introduction.” Ander-son especially recommends Mr.Hooker’s “Tolkien Through RussianEyes” in Concerning Hobbits andOther Matters: Tolkien Across the

Disciplines, TimSchindler ed.,University of St.Thomas EnglishDepartment, St.Paul, MN, 2001,pps. 7-31, forthose interestedin the multiplicityof Russian trans-lations of TheHobbit.

Christina Illias(Slavics) has been awarded a $2,500Trustees Teaching Award for excel-lence in teaching. The award comeson the recommendation of her col-leagues in the Department of SlavicLanguages and Literatures.

Jeffrey Isaac (Political Science) isserving as main sponsorfor Professor VladimirTismaneanu, who will bean academic fellow fortwo weeks in early spring2003 semester through theIU Institute of AdvancedStudy. The two will col-laborate on two projects:Twentieth-century anti-liberal intellectuals and theCold War, and the relation-ship between liberalism,the West and the East.

Bill Johnston ( TESOL/Linguistics)translated His Current Woman, byJerzy Pilch, Evanston, Illinois, North-western University Press, 2002. Healso published a book entitled TheMoral Dimensions of Teaching:

Language, Power, and Culture inClassroom Discourse , co-writtenwith Cary A. Buzzelli and publishedby Routledge Falmer. He spent amonth in Krakow, Poland in May andJune under the new IU-JagiellonianUniversity exchange program. InBloomington he conducted a transla-tion seminar entitled “TranslatingVerse Drama: Wrestling with JuliuszSlowacki’s Balladyna,” on Septem-ber 26. The seminar was conductedin conjunction with the IU Institute forAdvanced Study. He has signed onto direct the Polish Studies Center forthree more years.

Frederika Kaestle (Anthropology)conducted research with a group ofgraduate students at an archeologicalsite in the Russian Far East. The workis in collaboration with Dr. AlexanderPopov, director of the Museum of Ar-chaeology and Ethnography, Far East-ern University, Vladivostok. She isusing DNA techniques to approachquestions about the Neolithic BoismanII culture on several levels. On abroader scale, she will be looking at

patterns ofgenetic rela-tionship be-tween thispopulationand othercontempo-rary popula-tions living inKorea, Ja-pan, and far-ther Northand West inRussia.

John J. Penikis (Emeritus PoliticalScience, South Bend) was featuredin an interview in the June 29th edi-tion of Diena, the leading daily news-

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Vasile Secares, Christina Illias, RomanianPresident Ion Iliescu, Nicolas and PaulineSpulber, Mihaela Miroiu, Nicolae Dima,

and Matei Calinescu

Frederika Kaestle (left) and IUgraduate student Ann Horsburgh at

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paper in Latvia. He was asked abouthis thoughts on Latvian political par-ties, parliamentary politics, the forth-coming elections, as well as on his lifeand work.

Alexander Rabinowitch (EmeritusHistory) participated in a mid-Juneconference on “War and Memory” atthe European University in St. Peters-burg. He also spent several weeksconducting research on newly declas-sified documents in the formerLeningrad Communist Party Archive.His research looked at the evolutionof worker attitudes toward Sovietpower in Petrograd in the aftermathof the October revolution and thechanging political role of Bolshevikdistrict committees during 1917-1918.Several months ago his article,“Moisei Uritskii: The Robespierre ofRevolutionary Petrograd?,” wasamong a collection of essays, IstorikSredi Istorikov, published in honor ofthe Kazan historian Alter Litvin. Agreatly expanded version of this es-say in Russian translation will appearlater this year in the Moscow histori-cal journal Otechestvennaia Istoriia.A Russian translation of his essay,“The ‘Left SR Problem’ and theFounding of the VCheka,” has justbeen published in a volume honoringthe late St. Petersburg historian VitaliiStartsev. The second Russian editionof his book, Bolsheviki PrikhodiatK Vlasti: Revoliutsiia 1917 GodaV Petrograde, is scheduled for publi-cation (Ves Mir Publishers) nextmonth in connection with the com-memoration of the 300th anniversaryof the founding of St. Petersburg.

David Ransel (REEI/History) waselected vice president/president-electof the American Association for theAdvancement of Slavic Studies.

Steve Raymer (Journalism) made athree-week trip to Asia as part of aworld-wide effort to explain Ameri-can institutions, including the newsmedia, to Muslim audiences. The pro-gram is part of the StateDepartment’s “public diplomacy” pro-gram in the continued effort againstglobal terrorism. Raymer traveled toSingapore, Malaysia, the Philippines,Indonesia and Burma (Myanmar) andtalked with audiences of profession-als, students, and Muslims.

Sherry Ricchiardi (Journalism) con-ducted a media training workshop inJune in Tirana, Albania, entitled “In-vestigative Journalism: Using theInternet as a Reporting Tool.” Theworkshop was sponsored by the In-ternational Broadcasting Bureau,Washington, D.C. During the work-shop mid-career journalists and stu-dents conducted a week-long investi-gation into sexual trafficking. In May,Ricchiardi spent three weeks in Ar-menia providing training on basic re-porting/writing skills, investigativetechniques and media ethics. She lec-tured at seven Armenian universitieson the role of media in a democracyand visited the war zone in NagornoKarabakh on assignment for Ameri-can Journalism Review. The storyis slated to run in the October issue.

Laurence Richter (Slavics)published Mussorgsky’s CompleteSong Texts: Russian texts of thecomplete songs of ModestPetrovich Mussorgsky withphonetic transcriptions, literal andidiomatic English translations ,Leyerle Publications 2002.

Alvin Rosenfeld (English/BornsJewish Studies Program) has beennamed by President George W. Bushas a member of the United StatesHolocaust Memorial Council. The

council oversees the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum. He will serve until2007. Rosenfeld has been affiliatedwith the U.S. Holocaust Council as aspecial advisor to the chairman and amember of the Education Committee.

Nazif Shahrani (Anthropology/CEUS) delivered a lecture entitled“War on Terrorism in Afghanistan: Nation Building or Endless Conflict?” to the Joint Area Centers Conferenceon “Rethinking Terrorism,” Universityof Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Octo-ber 3-5, 2002. He also participated inthe IU Chancellor’s Forum on “TheConsequences of War on Terrorism:An assessment by Afghan Scholars,”October 9, 2002.

Marci Shore (History) spent thesummer in Moscow and Kiev on aAmerican Councils for InternationalEducation Title VIII ResearchScholar/Combined Research and Lan-guage Training Program conductingarchival research for her forthcom-ing book manuscript “Caviar andAshes: Warsaw’s Fin-de-siecleGeneration’s Rendezvous with Marx-ism, 1918-1968.” She will also pub-lish an article entitled “Czysto Babski:A Woman’s Friendship in a Man’sRevolution” in East European Poli-tics and Societies, late fall.

Denis Sinor (CEUS) published “Re-marks on Metallurgical Themes inPre-modern Inner Asia” in IngeborgHauenschild et al. (eds .) ScriptaOttomanica et RES Altaicae .Festschrift fur Barbara Kellner-Heinkele zu Ihrem 60. Geburtstag(Wiesbaden 2002), pps. 297-312. OnMay 2-4 he served as the delegate ofthe American Oriental Society to theGeneral Meeting of the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies held in

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Philadelphia. On June 20 he deliv-ered a lecture in Budapest at the Hun-garian Academy of Sciences on“Problems of Prehistory andEthnogenesis.” June 23-26 he at-tended the 45th Meeting of the Per-manent International Altaistic Confer-ence in Budapest where he was re-elected for a five-year term as itsSecretary General. On July 2 he washonored by the Univer-sity of Szeged with amedal imprinted withthe seal of the univer-sity on its recto, and onthe verso an inscriptionlauding his “imperish-able services” ren-dered to the University.The rector personallyawarded the medal.On July 4 he visited theInstitute of Linguisticsof the HungarianAcademy of Sciencesin Budapest, where hereminisced about his “all-too-long life”and was elected an Honorary Mem-ber of the Institute.

Dina Spechler (Political Science)received a travel award from theOffice of International Programs tosupport her attendance at the SpecialConvention of the Centro perL’Europa Orientale e Balcanica inForli, Italy, in conjunction with theAssociation for the Study of Nation-alities.

Martin Spechler (Economics,IUPUI) presented a paper entitled“Regional Cooperation in CentralAsia: a Pathology,” at a conferenceof the Association for the Study ofNationalities and CECOB in Forli,Italy, June 6. On June 18 Spechler

gave a talk “How Can We ReduceWorld Poverty?” at the IU Mini Uni-versity in Bloomington. He recentlypublished “Forgotten in Central Asia:the Dynamics of Trade in the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Republic,” in theJournal of Central Asian Studies,vol. IV, no. 1 (2002). His article,“Russian Banking,” will appear in theEncyclopedia of Russian History(Macmillan Reference), edited byJames R. Millar.

J o h nParrish-S p r o w l(Commu-nicat ionStudies ,I U P U I )presenteda two-days e m i n a ron com-munica-tion to ap-p r o x i -mately 70f a c u l t y

from various universities at the Insti-tute of Business, Management &Law in Rostov-On-Don, Russia inMarch. While in Russia he presenteda lecture entitled “Communication andthe Future” to students of the insti-tute. In May he accompanied 11 stu-dents to Wroclaw, Poland for twoweeks while the group participated ina student conference entitled “Com-munication and Crossing Differ-ences.” The conference was spon-sored by the Institute of Sociology atthe University of Wroclaw and is the3rd year for this event. Another con-ference is planned for next year. InJune he presented a paper entitled“Organizational Issues in Russia: ACommunication Perspective,” to thefirst Russian Communication Associa-tion Conference in Piatigorsk, Russia.

In October The University Senate ofthe University of Wroclaw will rec-ognize his scholarly contributions overthe past 10 years with the Gold Medalof the University.

Jeffrey Veidlinger (History) hasbeen selected to be a Fellow of theCollege of Arts and Humanities Insti-tute to pursue his book project Col-lecting Jewish Nationhood in Rus-sia.

Bronislava Volkova (Slavics) orga-nized and chaired a panel on CzechLiterature entitled “20th Century Is-sues” at the 21st World Congress ofCzechoslovak Society of Arts andSciences held at the West-Czech Uni-versity in Pilsen, Czech Republic inJune 2002. She also presented a pa-per at this panel entitled “Vanek andPalaverer: Two Sons of the SameFather or Protagonist as a SemioticDevice.” The panel consisted of pa-pers focusing on issues of contempo-rary Czech Theater (including a pa-per by her Ph.D. student KurtHartwig), and images of women in thepoetry of Frantisek Halas (by her stu-dent and collaborator Clarice Cloutier,currently at Oxford, England).

Roman Zlotin (CEUS/Geography)presented a paper on “Dynamics ofJuniper, Pinyon and Oak Mast Pro-duction in Woodland Ecosystems ofCentral New Mexico,” to the Ecologi-cal Society of America, 87th AnnualMeeting August 04-09 in Tucson, Ari-zona. The paper reflects the resultsof a 6-year study analyzing environ-mental impacts on spatial structureand productivity variables in woodlandecosystems of Central New Mexico.The project is funded by the NationalScience Foundation and representsone facet of the Long Term Ecologi-cal Research Program.

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Ben Eklof (top row left) and Howard Mehlinger(Top row right) join Russian educators for the

“Seminar on Civic Education in Russia”April 1-20, Bloomington.

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Joshua Abrams (REEI MA /SPEAMPA, 2001) has been working inAlmaty, Kazakhstan as OutreachCoordinator for the Central Asian of-fices of the Eurasia Foundation sinceFebruary.

Robin Bisha (PhD History, 1994) hasa tenure-track position at TexasLutheran University in Communica-tion Studies. She is the advisor forthe campus newspaper, The Lone StarLutheran, and teaches courses aboutnews and public relations. She com-pleted a Journalism M.A. at Univer-sity of North Carolina (UNC) lastyear. The UNC Center for Interna-tional Studies included her thesis “Outof Site of the State: An Analysis ofRussian Communications Styles, Ra-dio, The Internet and the Potential forCommunicative Democracy in Post-Soviet Russia” in a series of paperson Democracy and Human Rights.

Paul M. Carter, Jr. (REEI MA,1984/ PhD Political Science, 1997) isa Foreign Service Officer with theU.S. Department of State. He is cur-rently stationed at the U.S. EmbassyMoscow, where he covers the Rus-sian presidency, both houses of par-liament, and the main centrist partiesfor the Political Section. He recentlypresented a paper on “Suslov and theSoviet Ideological System” at the ju-bilee conference marking the 60th an-niversary of the re-establishment ofthe Philosophy Faculty at MoscowState University (MGU). Dr. Carterand his wife Andrea have three chil-dren.

John K. Cox (PhD History, 1995)was the sole recipient of WheelingJesuit University’s annual Outstand-ing Teaching Award in May, 2002. Heand his wife are also celebrating the

recent birth of their son, Ethan James.Helena I. Goscilo (PhD Slavics,1976) will be a discussant for the panel“Seen and Heard? Women Painters,Performers, and Composers in Po-land,” at the annual AAASS confer-ence held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,November 21-24, 2002.

Brad Gutierrez (MA REEI, 1995)has been assigned the position of As-sistant Air Attache at the U.S. Em-bassy in Budapest. In June he suc-cessfully defended his Ph.D. disser-tation “Defense Reform in CentralEurope and the Challenges of NATOMembership: The Case of Hungary”at University of California – San Di-ego.

Janet Johnson (PhD Political Sci-ence, 2001) received an IREX 2002Short-Term Travel Grant for travel toRussia and Armenia. She is currentlya Postdoctoral Fellow at Miami Uni-versity (OH), Havighurst Center forRussian and Post-Soviet Studies. Herposition there has been extended.

John Kershaw (MA REEI, 1995)has begun his MBA program withIndiana University’s on-line offeringsthis fall.

Brian Randall (SPEA MPA, 2001)and his wife Radana are pleased toannounce the birth of their son Chris-topher Anthony Randall.

Paul Richardson (MA Political Sci-ence/REEI certificate, 1986) isfounder and owner of Russian Infor-mation Services (RIS), a small pub-lishing company producing books,maps and newsletters on travel anddoing business in Russia. He and hiswife Stephanie Ratmeyer (MA His-tory, 1988) have been running RIS for

12 years. Since 1998, the main focusof their publishing efforts has beenRussian Life magazine (which theypurchased in 1995), their maps ofRussia, Moscow and St. Petersburg,and several books.

Katherine J. Roberts (MA Journal-ism/REEI Certificate, 1981) has beennamed editor of the New York TimesWeek in Review section. She hadbeen national editor since 2000, afterhaving served as Op-Ed page editorsince 1995.

Lynn Sargeant (PhD History, 2001)will present a paper entitled “LocalPatrons, Local Culture: Musical Lifein the Provinces,” at the annualAAASS conference held in Pitts-burgh, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Skomp (BA ComparativeLiterature/Slavics, REEI certificate,1998) participated in a six week semi-nar on teaching Russian held at Mos-cow State University. The trip wasfunded through grants provided by theU.S. Department of Education’sFulbright Hays Group projects AbroadProgram and was coordinatedthrough the American Councils forInternational Education Outbound of-fice. Skomp is currently pursuingpostgraduate studies at the School ofSlavonic and East European Studies,University College London England.

Renne Traicova (MA REEI/MPASPEA, 2002) is Program Manager forMacedonia the National DemocraticInstitute (NDI).

Annisa Wanat (MA REEI/MPASPEA, 2002) is a Senior ProgramAssistant for the National DemocraticInstitute (NDI) where she will focuson Kosovo.

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