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Current
Students
DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP Central European University Olena Fedyuk
(Ukraine). Olena’s research will focus on the Ukrainian labor
migration to Italy, which started in the second half of the 1990s
and now riches estimated 600-700 thousand of Ukrainians working
in Italy. Elisabeth
Schober (Austria). U.S. soldiers in South Korea.
Tens of thousands of GIs are stationed in South Korea, where over
the last two decades their presence in the country has become
increasingly contested. While the geopolitical factors surrounding
the U.S. military presence on Korean soil are being debated in
academic circles, in more populist accounts it is particularly
the GIs’ off-duty behavior in the entertainment districts
of the county and their encounters with Korean women that have
come to the forefront. Andrea
Weiss (Austria). Networks in Grey: Ethnicity and
State-Making. Andrea's project focuses on clientelist networks
and the state in the Western Georgian region of Mingrelia. Mariya Ivancheva
(Bulgaria). Experimental Universities and Transnational Political
Philanthropy. This project compares the genesis and development
over time of two experimental "post-revolutionary" university
projects CEU and the Bolivarian University in Venezuela. |
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University College London Raluca Pernes
(Romania). Natural resource management and integration in a global
market: The case of the neem tree in Greater Accra, Ghana. The
project investigates how the small scale activity of neem harvesting
gets to be shaped by and interact with global politics, economics,
and changing life-styles elsewhere, as well as state-level policies
and local circumstances. Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
(Belarus). Sufi Muslims in Macedonia. Galina investigates how
Bektashi Turks in this Balkan state imagine and interpret the
state through a lens of religious mysticism and engage with the
state as simultaneously embodied and affective citizens and religious
disciples. Goldsmiths University of London Eva Zsuzsa
Katona (Hungary). Eva will explore the conditions
for cross-ethnic solidarity that could underpin cooperative ventures
for mutual benefits and successful multi-ethnic coalitions between
Israelis and Palestinians. This will be a visual anthropology
PhD. Michal
Sipos (Slovakia). Refugees from Chechnya in Poland.
Michal is interested in seeing how Chechen refugees in Eastern
Poland perceive and approach a local time and space in order to
reconstruct a new cycle of continuity in their lives. Martin Fotta
(Slovakia) The Calon in Brazil. The project will explore economic
activities of the Calon-Gypsies in Bahia, Brazil. I will look
into how these activities are influenced by the ambiguous position
of the Calon in Brazilian racial system and particular nature
of their activities, and how these in turn help to perpetuate
their distinctiveness. Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology Ida Harboe
Knudsen (Denmark). Ida is planning to work on legal/institutional
implementations of reforms to Lithuanian agriculture in the context
of admission to the EU. This is a legal anthropology PhD. Mateusz Laszczkowski
(Poland). 'City of the Future': The politics, pragmatics and aesthetics
of the future in Astana. Inspired by the futuristic
cityscape of Kazakhstan's new capital, Mateusz's project explores
the 'social life' of multiple, politically non-indifferent visions
of the future and their materializations. It is an inquiry into
the experience of life in a city whose material landscape is woven
of futuristic vision. Acknowledging that the future can form a
dynamic political field of exclusion and inclusion, the project
will look at how people appropriate, re-work or reject representations
of the future or how they invent and maintain their own ones in
everyday life. ILV FELLOWSHIP Central European University Ana Aceska
(Macedonia). In 2008-9 I will write my PhD thesis based on the
field research that I am now conducting in the divided city of
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am investigating how the processes
of spatial and institutional division and reunification take place
through 'negotiations' among the two ethnic groups (Bosniaks and
Croats) over the use of public space. Goldsmiths University of London Anikó Horváth
(Romania). Reproduction of Poverty. Anikó’s research will analyze
how changes in the political and social system of Romania contributed
in the past decades to the reproduction of class and poverty in
families living at the bottom of Romanian society. Neda Deneva
(Bulgaria). Transnational migration and the relationship with
the state. Neda's research investigates the complicated relationship,
which Bulgarian Muslims have developed with the two states in
which they are simultaneously embedded through migration - Bulgaria
and Spain. Marginalizing state practices and the relevant coping
strategies are scrutinized along with social citizenship practices
which opens up a new perspective on the possible scenarios of
the migrants' position vis-ŕ-vis the state. Elitza Ranova
(Bulgaria). "Styling 'Europeans': A Transformative Agenda of the
Avant-Garde in Postsocialist Bulgaria." Elitza's project assesses
how the discursive opposition between Western and Eastern Europe
is being re-imagined through art, style and fashion in the context
of Bulgaria's changing social structure. Focused on a new generation
of Bulgarian culture producers, the study explores the complexity
of postmodern artistic innovation on the margins of Europe and
assesses the enabling power of history and social privilege. Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology Viorel Anastasoaie
(Romania). Tobacco growers in Cuba - economics of socialist society
and the cognitive study of skill learning. This project aims to
understand what makes rural Cuba tick today by returning to the
field of Ortiz’s classic work and bring it into the contemporary
socialist context. Razvan Dumitru
(Romania). The Financial Market in the Republic of Moldova. Razvan’s
work investigates how a traditional “capitalist” institution,
the stock market, takes roots in a post-socialist environment. Dimitra Kofti
(Greece). Transformations of labour and time. This research focuses
on changing time-management, power relationships and discourses
on labour in the context of privatisation in Bulgaria. Babes-Bolyai University Gergely Pulay
(Hungary). Ethnicity and Cultural Production. Identity politics
and Roma performance in Romania. This project explores the ethnicized
ways of producing, performing and consuming popular culture -
especially in the case of a genre known as manele or
muzica orientala in Romania. Click here to see the list of FORMER FELLOWS |
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