The Pew Charitable
Trusts Democracy II Fellowships, 1995 -1998 The Democracy Fellowships II grant (awarded in 1995 by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) enables us to bring to the Graduate Faculty annually for three consecutive years 7 junior instructors from the region, for intensive - substantive and curricular - training. The program concentrates on improving educational and research capacity in the general fields of political science, political sociology, and economics, with a special focus on the areas of public policy, government administration, and economic policy. The three semester-long Program provides the Fellows with the opportunity to develop,, in conjunction with GF faculty, a new course at the Graduate Faculty during the first two semesters. Each Fellow will then teach this new course upon their return at his or her home institution in the third semester.
Our Fellows are asked to attend courses which inform their chosen topics, and are presenters in our Policy Workshop. The Workshop last year was on general policy issue whereas this year's Workshop specifically deals with issues concerning the Media. In addition, they are asked to contribute to our Electonic Research Resource Handbook which is coordinated by David Perry of the Raymond Fogelman Library of the New School.
Darius Aidukas (Vilnius, Lithuania) Mr. Aidukas is a 1993 Faculty of Law graduate at the University of Vilnius, and is currently a researcher at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at the same university. He has taught courses on political theory and public policy at the University of Vilnius.
Pavel Fedorchenko (Kiev, Ukraine) Ph.D., Sociology, Kiev State University of Economics, 1994. M.A., Sociology and Political Science, Kiev State University of Economics, 1993. Mr. Fedorchenko is currently an Assistant Professor at Kiev-Mohyla Academy. He has worked at the Institute of Public Administration and Local Government, and is enrolled in their Master of Public Administration Program.
Dionyz Hochel (Bratislava, Slovakia) M.A., History and Philosophy, Comenius University, 1991. He is an Assistant Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Trnava University and is presently pursuing his doctoral studies at the same university. Mr. Hochel has co-taught a course on political ideology with our colleague Martin Butora. He has also studied under a T. G. Masaryk scholarship at the London School of Economics and at the Center for Civil Education in Los Angeles.
Mariela Vargova (Sofia, Bulgaria) M.A., Political Science, Sofia University. Ms. Vargova is currently a Ph.D. candidate and her dissertation is entitled "Constitutional Theory and Comparative Analysis in Eastern European Countries." She is also involved in a program of the Law Department at Sofia University.
Andrew Klepikov (Kiev, Ukraine)
Ph.D., Philosophy, Kiev Mohyla Academy, 1996. Mr. Klepikov is an Assistant
Professor of Philosophy at Kiev Mohyla Academy. He plans to use the fellowship
to prepare two courses, one on political institutions, and one on political
discourse and the public sphere, both topics which he considers essential
to the democratization process in Ukraine.
Boris Kostov (Bourgas, Bulgaria)
M.A., Political Science, Sofia University, 1995. Mr. Kostov is presently
a Ph.D. student at Sofia University, and is a Cracow alumnus. His primary
research concerns the problems of European political integration and the
wider implications of this process for global politics.
Anna Laido (Tallinn, Estonia)
Post-graduate student, University of Tartu. Ms. Laido, another Cracow alumnus,
also has experience at the Estonian Parliament, as a Secretary of a Parliamentary
Faction of the Estonian Parliament, and has worked as a specialist for
the Department of Foreign Relations. Her research interests concern educational
and non-profit management issues.
Michal Vasecka (Bratislava, Slovakia)
M.A., Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno, 1995. Mr. Vasecka teaches Public
Policy Analysis at Academia Istropolitana, and is a Program Manager and
Legal Advisor to INFOROMA, an NGO which aims to advocate on behalf of the
Roma in Slovakia, and which is working for the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees.
Andrew W.
Mellon Democracy II Fellowships Magda Iwanska (Warsaw, Poland) M.A., Warsaw University, Department of Sociology of Custom and Law, where she wrote a thesis on the "Birth of the Homosexual Movement in Poland". Ms. Iwanska also teaches courses on democratic institutions, human rights, and is interested in social minority rights at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at Warsaw University.
Gábor Juhász (Budapest, Hungary) Master of Laws, Eötvös Loránd University, 1992, M.A., Policy Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1993. Mr. Juhász is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Policy of Eötvös Loránd University, where he is also a doctoral candidate. His dissertation is entitled "On the Effectiveness of Law in the Field of Social Policy."
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,
where she has also been accepted as a Ph.D. student. Her research interests
center around the representation of women in the media.
Agnes Kende (Budapest, Hungary)
M.A., Sociology, Eotvos Lorand University, 1996. Ms. Kende is also the
Executive Director of the Hungarian Federation of Free Radios, and has
taught courses on national identity and cultural anthropology. Her research
interests focuses on the situation of the Roma in Hungary and the integration
of racial minorities within majoritarian state frameworks.