Visiting Scholars at ISEEES

	Vasilii Allenov is a Visiting Student Researcher with ISEEES for the 2012-2013 Academic Year. As a post-graduate student from the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) School of Regional and International Studies in Vladivostok, Russia, Allenov is currently taking a 10-month course in International Relations at UC Berkeley.
	Natasa Besirevic is a Visiting Scholar with ISEEES for the Spring 2013 semester. Dr. Besirevic holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Zagreb in Croatia. She is hosted at UC Berkeley by the Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) Fellowship. During her stay, Dr. Besirevic intends to collect materials in order to compose handbooks on the political system of the European Union and public diplomacy for undergraduate and graduate students studying political science and journalism.
	Tamir Chultemsuren is a visiting student researcher with ISEEES during the Spring 2013 semester. He is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Mongolia in 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 Victoria Bonnell.
	Undrakh Davaadorj is a visiting student researcher with ISEEES during the Spring 2013 semester. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the National University of Mongolia. Her visit to Berkeley is sponsored by the Open Society Institute's 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 Demetradze is a visiting scholar with ISEEES during the Spring 2013 semester. She is an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is working on settlement patterns in the South Caucasus with Professor Patrick V. Kirch in the Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley.
	Emily Finer is a Visiting Scholar with ISEEES for the Spring 2013 semester. Dr. Finer holds a PhD in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge and holds the position of Lecturer in Russian and Comparative Literature in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. During her stay at UC Berkeley, Dr. Finer intends to conduct research for her second monograph, The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Reading Charles Dickens in the Soviet Union.
	Vilius Ivanauskas is a Visiting Scholar with ISEEES for the 2012-2013 Academic Year. He holds a PhD in History from the Lithuanian Institute of History and Klaipėda University. Most recently, Dr. Ivanauskas was a research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History, conducting research on soviet intellectuals. Dr. Ivanauskas is a research fellow for the Fulbright Scholar Program.
	Yongwha Kim is a Visiting Scholar with ISEEES for the year of 2013. She holds a PhD in Russian historical linguistics from Moscow State University. Dr. Kim is a Professor in the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Chungbuk National University in Cheongju, South Korea. Her research at UC Berkeley will focus on the diachronic aspect of the variability of genitive plural noun forms in the Russian language.
	Zhanat Kundakbayeva is a visiting scholar with ISEEES during the 2012-2013 academic year. Dr. Kundakbayeva is Professor of history at the al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. She is a recipient of the Bolashak International Scholarship of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. While in Berkeley, she will be doing research on new approaches to historiography and will continue her research of Kazakh history.
	Elizabeth Maguire is a Visiting Scholar with ISEEES from May 2012 to May 2013. She holds a PhD in History from UC Berkeley. For the past 2 years, Dr. McGuire had held an academic position at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Her current research project is titled “Communist Neverland: The Russian International Children’s Home in Ivanovo and the Global Family it Created, 1933-2013.”
	Asel Murzakulova is an Associate Professor at Bishkek Humanities University and a consultant at Analytical Center “Polis Asia”. Her current research interests focus on the discourse of the Kyrgyz national image and identity, its reflection in Kyrgyz media, and CIS and Russian policy in Central Asia, and interethnic relations after the Osh events 2010. Murzakulova has a solid background of numerous work and research collaborations with international, governmental, and public organizations. From 2010 to 2012 she has been invited to serve as the national consultant for the United Nations Development Programme, the US State Department for the Interagency Conflict Assessment Framework assessment in Kyrgyzstan, UNESCO projects, etc. She is the author of two books: CIS Inter-Parliamentary Institutions in the Context of Post-Soviet Transformation (Kyrgyz-Russian Slavonic University, Bishkek, 2011), Interparliamentary Institutions of the CIS: Sustainability and Integration Issues in the Post-Soviet Area (Bishkek Humanities University, Bishkek, 2012).; and The citizen and the State in Modern Kyrgyzstan (KRSU Center "Polis Asia" - Bishkek, Maxprint, 2012), a tutorial for universities.
	Mie Nakachi is a visiting scholar with ISEEES during the 2012-2013 academic year. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and was until recently Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian History and Gender Studies at Hokkaido University, Japan. While in Berkeley, she will research gender issues in the Soviet Union following World War II.
	Nazym Shedenova is a visiting scholar at ISEEES during the Spring 2013 semester. She is a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Sciences at al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her visit is sponsored by the Open Society Institute. Her research deals with economic sociology, sociology of labor, sociology of gender, and public policy. Her current studies are devoted to issues of working women and the work-family balance, and economic strategies of survival in Kazakh households. During her time at ISEEES, she is working with Dr. Mary E. Kelsey in the Department of Sociology.
	Aghasi Tadevosyan is a Visiting Scholar with ISEEES for the 2012-2013 Academic Year. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology, certified by the Highest Certification Commission of the Republic of Armenia. Dr. Tadevosyan is a professor at Yerevan State University, and Senior Scientist of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography at the National Academy of Sciences in Armenia. Dr. Tadevosyan is a research fellow for the Fulbright Scholar Program. His current project involves research regarding transition issues in Armenia, Georgia, and other post-Soviet countries.