April

Carnegie Research Fellowship Program in the South Caucasus and Western CIS

(NCEEER Senior Program Officer Alexei Kharlamov presents on the Carnegie Research Fellowship Program at Odessa National University in Ukraine)

NCEEER has received support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to continue the Carnegie Research Fellowship Program in the South Caucasus and Western CIS.  The program brings scholars from these regions to the United States for four-month, intensive research stays in the social sciences and humanities at US host universities.  For more information on this program, please e-mail NCEEER Senior Program Officer Alexei Kharmalov This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

January

NCEEER and American Councils welcome their newest Carnegie Research Fellows to Washington, DC

(NCEEER President Dr. David Patton addresses the January 2013 Carnegie Research Fellows)

The newest Carnegie Fellows have now begun four month research stays at their U.S. host institutions, which are Harvard University (Ukranian Research Institute and the Kennedy School of Government), UCLA, UC - Berkeley, the University of Miami Medical School, the University of Wisconsin, and SUNY Buffalo.  The Carnegie Research Fellowship Program is an initiative of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and has been administered by NCEEER since 2002.  More information on the Carnegie Research Fellowship Program can be found here.

November

NCEEER and other Title VIII-recipient organizations collaborate on a "funding opportunities" panel at the 44th annual Association of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (ASEEES) conference in New Orleans.

(From left: Alissa Kirchoff - University of Illinois, Terrance Graham - American Councils, Andrzej Tymowski - ACLS, Dana Ponte - NCEEER)

Representatives from ACLS, American Councils, IREX, NCEEER, SSRC, and the University of Illinois - REEEC presented the Title VIII grant and fellowship programs that they will offer in 2013 to advance scholarship on the region. Title VIII is funded by the US Department of State and seeks to promote high quality, policy-relevant scholarship on the Former Soviet space, which is brought to the service of the US policymaking community.  NCEEER is currently accepting proposals for its Title VIII Short-Term Travel Grant (deadline December 15, 2012) and its Title VIII National Research Competition (deadline February 15, 2013).  Application materials can be downloaded here.

October

NCEEER Welcomes its Fall 2012 Carnegie Research Fellows

The Fall 2012 Carnegie Research Fellows gathered in Washington, DC for an orientation led by NCEEER and American Councils, before moving on to their US host universities.  The Fellows - who are from Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia - are conducting four month research stays at the University of Washington, the University of South Florida, Brown University, George Washington University, and the University of Wisconsin.  Research projects include a study of the socioeconomic impact of Russia's new restrictions on Georgian labor migration; a survey instrument for determining the casual effects of well-being and national self-identification in the Western CIS; and an evaluation of devolutionary political trends in the Moldovan region of Gagauzia.

The Carnegie Research Fellowship Program is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and administered by NCEEER in partnership with American Councils and the Caucasus Research Resource Centers.  More information on the Program can be found here.