Visiting Scholars at ISEEES

	Tamir Chultemsuren is a visiting researcher with ISEEES this spring. He is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He studies social movements and protest in post-communist countries (comparative research of Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia). His visit is sponsored by the Open Society Institute. During his time in Berkeley, he will work with Professor Vicki Bonnell.
	Aleš Črnič is a visiting scholar with ISEEES during the spring 2012 semester. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Religion from University of Ljubljana and is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His visit is sponsored by Fulbright. His research focuses on religious pluralism, religious freedom, new religious movements, Oriental religions, and sociology of religion more broadly. While in Berkeley, he will be working on a comparative study that examines the different historical, social, cultural, and political factors that characterize the complex religious situations in the United States and Europe.
	Undrakh Davaadorj is a visiting student researcher with ISEEES during the spring 2012 semester. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the National University of Mongolia. Her visit in Berkeley is sponsored by the Open Society Institute Faculty Development Fellowship Program. Her research interests include international relations, comparative politics, and political philosophy. During her time in Berkeley, she hopes to develop a syllabus for a course in Mongolia on American Politics.
	Irina Dimitradze is a visiting scholar with ISEEES during the Spring 2011 semester. She is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ilia University, Tbilisi, Georgia. She will work on archaeology in Georgia with Professor Patrick Kirch, Anthropology.
	Burmaa Jamiyansuren is a visiting student researcher with ISEEES during the spring 2012 semester. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Marketing and International Trade at the National University of Mongolia. Her visit in Berkeley is sponsored by the Open Society Institute Faculty Development Fellowship Program. Her research focuses on topics like house market trends in Mongolia, consumer behavior and comparative analysis, and project management and industry marketing.
	Elira Karaja is a Ph.D candidate in Economics from IMT-Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca. She is a visiting researcher at the BEHL, Economics Dept, and ISEEES, UC Berkeley and is conducting research for her Ph.D. thesis at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Gérard Roland. Her research focuses on the impact of institutions, reforms, and historical legacies for transition (emerging) economies.
	Lee Suhyeon is spending her sabbatical year with us at ISEEES. She holds a Ph.D. in Russian linguistics from the Russian State University for the Humanities, and she is currently a research professor at Chungbuk National University in Korea. Her research focuses on type of nominal constructions in the Russian language.
	Zarina Molochieva is a post-doctoral scholar working with Professor Johanna Nichols on an NSF project focusing on the varieties of highland Chechen. Zarina holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Leipzig, and most recently worked as a researcher at in the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
	Sergiu Musteata is a visiting scholar with ISEEES during the spring 2012 semester. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Al. I. Cuza University in Romania and is currently an Associate Professor in the History Department at Ion Creangă State University, Chişinău, Moldova. His research interests include the effects of democratization in post-communist Moldovan history. His research project in Berkeley deals with an examination of how national values and national conscience have generated new approaches to the process of history learning.
	Anna Novakov comes to us this semester from just over the hill—St. Mary’s University of California in Moraga—where she teaches art history. She holds a doctorate from New York University in the History of Art and Art Education and her research is currently dedicated to the history of the East European avant-garde (from 1920-1940) and its impact on women artists and architects in Serbia.
	Dario Pavic is a visiting scholar with ISEEES during the spring 2012 semester. He holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia and is currently a researcher and senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and at the Center for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia. His visit is sponsored by the American Councils Junior Faculty Development Program. His research involves applying computational methods and statistical methods to topics in demography and sociology, such as sex ratio at birth.
	Svetlana Roberman is a visiting Fulbright post-doctoral scholar at ISEEES during the 2011 calendar year. She holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Her research is on post-Soviet Jewish diaspora in Germany and Israel.
	Nazym Shedenova is a visiting scholar with ISEEES during the Spring 2011 semester. She is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Politology, Al-Farabi Kazakh State National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her visit is sponsored by the Open Society Institute. Her research deals with sociology of gender, economical sociology, and public policy. During her time with ISEEES, she will work with Dr. Mary E. Kelsey at the Department of Sociology.
	Tatiana Voronina is a visiting Fulbright post-doctoral scholar at ISEEES from October 2011 to April 2012. She is currently an Associate Research Scholar at the Oral History Center at the European University of St. Petersburg. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Russian History. Her current research project deals with memories from the blockade of St. Petersburg. She will spend her time in Berkeley doing research for a book on this topic.