Other Fellows from the Region

at the Graduate Faculty

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 Transregional Center for Democratic Studies and 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.

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 - 1998 (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.

Sergei Kuzmin, 1998-99 (Kuban State University, Russia). Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science Department.

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.

Rita Nagy (Budapest, Hungary). Ph.D. student, Sociology, Eotvos Lorand University / Budapest Economic University.
 
 

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.

Artis Pabriks (Valmiera, Latvia). Rector, Vidzme University College.

Tomasz Kitlinski(Lublin, Poland). Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Maria Sklodowska-Curie University, Lublin. Interested in concepts of sexual and national identity.

Pawel Leszkowicz (Pila, Poland). Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. Also affiliated with the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, England. Interested in the issues of gender in visual culture. Works as a curator in the State Art Gallery in Sopot.

Hana Cervinkova (Prague, Czech Republic) M.A.student, Anthropology, The Graduate Faculty.