There are other graduate students and research scholars from the region who come to the Graduate Faculty on year-long scholarships for intensive research under the auspices of the East and Central Europe Program. In the past, these Fellows have been funded through the Open Society Institute, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Fulbright Commission.
Katarzyna Kalwinska
Fellow This fellowship is endowed by Vera G. List, a Life Trustee of the New School, in honor of Katarzyna Kalwinska, a Polish citizen, for heroism she displayed during the Second World War by hiding Jewish concentration camp escapees from the Nazis. When asked why she chose to risk her life for others, Mrs Kalwinska, a deeply religious Catholic, said: "If God has wanted me to die because I saved Jews, I was ready to go on the cross like Jesus." The donor established the fellowship, which is awarded to a student from Poland, so that Mrs Kalwinska's humanitarian act would serve as a permanent inspiration to her countrymen, and indeed, to all mankind.
Justyna Duriasz, 1991 - 1993 (Poland)
Wojciech Pawlak, 1991 - 1994, (Warsaw, Poland) Sociologist, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw.
Indira Kajosevic, 1994 - 1995 (Podgorica, Yugoslavia), completed her postgraduate studies on international relations at the Belgrade Faculty for Political Sciences. She is a member of the Women in Black Against the War and a feminist activist in Belgrade. Since the beginning of the war in former Yugoslavia she has worked for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Her research focuses on the issue of rape in Bosnia and the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution.
Lidia Bialek, 1995 - 1996 (Kielce, Poland) M.A. Jagiellonian
University, 1985. Ms. Bialek teaches social psychology at the
English Language College of Kielce. She has been actively involved
in Poland's political life and is a Deputy Chair of the Polish
Section of the European Union of Women.
Magdalena Iwanska, 1996 - 1997 (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Ms. Iwanska received her M.A. from the Department of Sociology
of Custom and Law, Warsaw University, where she wrote a thesis
on the "Birth of the Homosexual Movement in Poland".
Ms. Iwanska is teaching courses on democratic institutions and
human rights, and doing research in social-minority rights at
the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at Warsaw University.
She is also a member of this year's Locations of Gender Seminar
at Rutgers University.
Soros Foundation Fellows
Elemina Nazarchuk (Russia), Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Pavle Jovanovic (Belgrade, Serbia), is currently working on his MA in Philosophy in Prague. His research interests focus on problemetizing the concept of aesthetics in the context of postmodernism.
Laurentia Ghita (Corabia, Romania), is currently working on her MA in Political Science in Budapest. She is interested in the process of democratization, the role of the state in democratic societies, and theories of democracy. Ms. Ghita has also had extensive political experience in Romania during the Democratic Convention in 1992.
Jozsef Berenyi (Okoc, Slovakia), was a Member of Parliament in the Slovak National Council from 1990 to 1992. He just finished his MA in Budapest, where he is currently doing post-graduate study on questions of Slovakian and Eastern European nationalism, and the role of the media in fostering nationalist linguistic hysteria.
Ladislaw Öllös (Samorin, Slovakia) M.A., History, Comenius University, 1983, M.A., Hungarian Literature, Comenius University, 1983, M.A., Political Science, Central European University, 1994. Mr. Öllös teaches political science and political philosophy at the University of Netra, and is working towards his Ph.D. at Eötvös Loránd University in Political Philosophy. He is researching minority issues and political ideology.
Open Society Institute/
Virtual University Fellows Kinga Czuczor M.A., German, Russian, Eötvös Loránd University, 1993. Ms. Czuczor is currently working on a doctoral dissertation on German linguistics. She is also a student in the Media Studies Department of Eötvös Loránd University, where her research centers on the connection between the media and democratic order.
Malgorzata Gajda (Warsaw, Poland) M.A., English, University of Warsaw, 1993. She is a post-graduate student at the North American Studies Center of Lodz University and has taught courses on American culture in the English Department, University of Warsaw. Her research interests center around the representation of women in the media.
S.S.R.C./ MacArthur
Foundation Fellow Sylvia Mihalikova (Bratislava, Slovakia) Ph.D., Political Science, Comenius University, 1987. A specialist in theory and political sociology, Ms. Mihalikova is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Comenius University. Her current research includes the role of political culture in transitions of post-communist countries.