[Daviscenter-list] New Visitors at the Davis Center

The Davis Center is pleased to welcome six new visitors. Their biographies are below. To get in touch with any of our visitors, please contact Joan Gabel at jgabel(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-4038. Paul Josephson Visiting Scholar Prof. Josephson comes to the Davis Center from Colby College where he serves as an associate professor of history and chair of international studies. Having first been affiliated with the Davis Center in 1991-92, he returns as a Visiting to continue research on his project “Stalin, Soviet Engineering and Technology in Eastern Europe, 1945-1964.” In 1999-2000 he was a Fellow of the Davis Center. Prof. Josephson recently published a book entitled: An Environmental History of Russia and articles in Technology and Culture, and Slavonic and East European Review. He participates in Central European University’s Russian Environmental History project, and the Tensions of Europe: History of Technology Project. Natalya Kadatskaya Open Society Institute Fellow Ms. Kadatskaya is a lecturer in the department of world history and international relations at the E.A. Buketov State University in Karaganda, Kazakhstan where she is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of archaeology, ethnology and history. Her dissertation focuses on the role of migration in changing the demographic characteristics of the German people in Kazakhstan at the end of 20th century. Her research interests include problems of ethnic migrations and problems of identity in the post-Soviet space. Ms. Kadatskaya will be researching her project "The Identity of Germans as a Factor of Migration between Kazakhstan and Germany." Jane Lezina Sakharov Fellow for Human Rights Currently, Ms. Lezina is a Ph.D. candidate at the IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies in Italy. Her thesis project is entitled “Strategies for Overcoming a Totalitarian System: the Post-Nazi Federal German Republic and Post-Soviet Russia, a Comparative Perspective.” In 2006-2007, she coordinated several art exhibitions on human rights in Russia, including “Political Justice and Political Prisoners in Today’s Russia” (2006) and “Contemporary Art and Taboos.” She has presented lectures at Russian universities and human rights organizations on the history of repression and resistance in the USSR, overcoming the totalitarian past, and the relationship between the state and the individual. At Harvard, she plans to get acquainted with the work of civic education organizations in the US and to gather material for a course on civic education, specifically on political culture and civil society, to be introduced in Russia. Asel Murzakulova Open Society Institute Fellow Ms. Murzakulova is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Kyrgyz-Russian University in Kyrgyzstan. Her dissertation work analyses the main trends of nation-state building in Central Asia. She also serves as an expert advisor to the president of Kyrgyzstan through the International Institute of Strategic Research (IISR). Recently, she has published a paper entitled “The Problems of Borders in Central Asia: History, Tendencies, and Context.” During her stay at the Davis Center, her research will focus on the symbolic production of “nation” in the political narrative of Central Asia. Eliza Musaeva Sakharov Fellow for Human Rights Currently, Dr. Musaeva is a consultant for the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. In this capacity, she has published numerous human rights reports including: “The Decimation of the Human Rights Community in Uzbekistan” and “The Flawed Amnesty Process in Chechnya” (forthcoming). In 2000-2004, she was head of the Chechnya/Ingushetia office of the Human Rights Center “Memorial” which documents human rights violations in the region. In 1996-2004 she served as an assistant professor of psychology at the Chechen Pedagogical College. At Harvard, she intends to study the mechanisms that ensure the state's respect for human rights, to conduct a comparative analysis of the "War on Terror" in the Russian Federation and in other countries, and to study the use of preventive counter-terrorism measures in countries outside Russia. Margarita Pavlova Senior Fellow Dr. Pavlova is a senior scholar and archival specialist in the manuscript department of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2006 on the biography and prose of Fyodor Sologub. She specializes in the history of Russian symbolism and Russian culture in the early 20th century. Dr. Pavlova will be joining the Davis Center to continue research on her project, “The Idea of a ‘New Religious Consciousness’ and its Realization in the Neo-Christian Commune of the Merezhovsky Circle.” -- ---------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu