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.”
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