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ALUMNI NEWS

Anthony Kuria (Cape Town 2005) presented his paper “Towards a Political and Religious Consensus for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation” at a conference in Djibouti organized by the government of the Republic of Egypt at the No Peace Without Justice NGO.

Karolina Szmagalska (Krakow 2000) was awarded a Law and Social Science Program Dissertation Research grant by the National Science Foundation for her project entitled “Re-Bordering Europe: Fashioning the Eastern Boundary of the European Union on the Polish-Ukrainian Frontier.”

Andrea Carla (Krakow 2004) presented his paper “Community Security: Letters from Srebrenica” at the Conference on the Regional Peace Studies Consortium at Syracuse University.

Ebenezer Obadare (Cape Town 2001) and Wale Adebanwi (Cape Town 1999) have been awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant of $100,000 for their project “Between The State and ‘Western Union’: Migration, Transnational Resource Flow and the Paradoxes of Citizenship in Nigeria.”

Paul Mpunga (Cape Town 2001) has published an article entitled “The 1998-99 Banking Crisis in Uganda: What was the role of the New Capital Requirements?” in The Journal for Regulations and Compliance. He has also co-authored “Why do households save? Analysis using the Household Surveys Data for Uganda,” a research paper for the African Economic Research Consortium.

Lyudmyla Slobodyanyuk (Krakow 2002) has been awarded OSI/FCO Chevening scholarship for nine-month research at the University of Oxford, UK.

Monica Ciobanu (Krakow 2001) has been appointed acting professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She has published an article in Current Events of the Association for the Study of Nationalities entitled "Political Parties in Romania: a Pre-Electoral Analysis." She recently presented her paper, "Political Parties in Romania: from Polarized Pluralism to a Catch-All Strategy" at the Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia University

Jessica Blatt (Cape Town 2001) will have her article,“To Bring Out The Best That Is In Their Blood’: Race, reform, and civilization in the Journal of Race Development (1910-1919)" published in the up-coming issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. She will also be presenting her paper “Racial Thought and the Chicago School of Political Scientists” at the Social Science History Association Conference in November.

Ostap Odushkin (Krakow 1999) is currently participating in the Internship on Associations Development at the University of Minnesota administered by the US State Department. He has also published his article, "Problem of Separatism in the Post-Communist Space: Internal and External Sources. The Case of Ukraine", in Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs.



DIRECTOR DR. ELZBIETA MATYNIA
PROGRAM COORDINATOR JULIE FRATRIK

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