Through conferances and special events at Miami University, The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies has been able to create an archive of working papers. Please use this page to navigate through our intensive listing of papers dating back to Macrh 22, 2001.

Architecture

Brumfield, William Craft, Tulane University
  St. Petersburg and the Art of Survival
Burleigh-Motley, Marian, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Tchaikovsky’s St. Petersburg in Art and Architecture
Sanabria, Sergio, Architecture, Miami University with Miami Architecture students
  Tatlin and the Tower of Babel:  Architecture Presentation
 
   

 

Art

Burleigh-Motley, Marian, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Tchaikovsky’s St. Petersburg in Art and Architecture
Goscilo, Helena, University of Pittsburgh
  Unsaintly St. Petersburg? Visions and Visuals (Paper)
  Unsaintly St. Petersburg? Visions and Visuals (Supporting Visuals)
Grigar, Ewa, School of the Art Institute
  The gendered body as raw material for women artists of Central Eastern Europe in the Post-Communist decade
Kolodzei, Natalia, Kolodzei Art Foundation, New York City
  Gia Edzgveradze: Georgian-Soviet Hybrid within Nonconformist Circles
Shapiro, Gavriel, Russian Literature, Cornell University
  Vladimir Nabokov and the World of Art
Ziolkowski, Margaret, Miami University
  The Shifting Representation of Stalin in Russian Art and Literature
 
   

 

Classics

Grintser, Nikolai, Classics, The Russian University for the Humanities, Moscow
  Structuralizing Classics: Modern Theories in Contemporary Russian Classical Philology
 
   

 

Economics

Friedman, Leonid, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Moscow State University
  The CIS Ten Years Later: Economic and Social Changes
Gaidar, Yegor, former Prime Minister of Russia
  Subjective and Objective Forces in Post-Socialist Economic Reform
Gaidar, Yegor, former Prime Minister of Russia
  Ten Years of Transition in Russia: Political and Economic Challenges
Gregory, Paul R., Cullen Professor of Economics, University of Houston
  What Should We Have Expected from the Soviet Period: Should Soviet Specialists Have Been Consulted?
Herrera, Yoshiko, Harvard University
  The imagined economy in Russia
Mau, Vladimir, Director, Working Center for Economic Reform, Russian Federation
  Economic and Political Results of 2001 and Prospects for Consolidation of Economic Growth
Meliantsev, Vitali, Professor of Economics, Moscow State University, Havighurst Fellow
  Russia (1991-2001): Reassessment of Macroeconomic Performance in Comparative Perspective
Metzo, K., Indiana University
  Vodka, Spirits, and the Market
Weiner, Elaine, University of Michigan
  Rational economic (wo)men: Czech female managers in the Post-Socialist era
Zatusevski, Ecaterina, Columbia University
  Women in the postcommunist society: Business lady, victim of perestroika or a toy for men?

 

Environmental Studies

 
   
 
   

 

Film

Mitchell, Paul, Russian, Miami University
  Fire and Water Imagery in Nikita Mikhalkov’s “Burnt by the Sun”
 
   

 

Gender Studies

Brzozowska, Anna, Central European University
  Belarus' gendered national construct
Grigar, Ewa, School of the Art Institute
  The gendered body as raw material for women artists of Central Eastern Europe in the Post-Communist decade
Hromadzic, Azra, University of Pennsylvania
  From object to subject: Bosnian war rapes and the emergence of female voices
Kapusta-Pofahl, Karen, University of Minnesota
  "Who would create a Czech feminism?" Challenging assumptions in the process of creating relevant feminisms in the Czech Republic
Kowalsky, S., University of North Carolina
  Female Criminality in Revolutionary Russia
Lyon, Tania Rands, Princeton University
  How patriarchal is Post-Soviet Russia? Gender beliefs and work-family choices
Shevchenko, Iulia, Research Fellow, European University at St. Petersburg (Russia), and a 2002-2003 Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress
  The Representation of Women's Concerns in the Russian State Dumas: Voting Patterns of Female Legislators
Taraban, Svitlana, York University
  The internet bride: Ukrainian women in virtual space
Weiner, Elaine, University of Michigan
  Rational economic (wo)men: Czech female managers in the Post-Socialist era
Woodcock, Shannon, Sydney University
  Violence, gender, and the construction of the Roma as Other in postcommunist Romania
Zatusevski, Ecaterina, Columbia University
  Women in the post-communist society: Business lady, victim of perestroika or a toy for men?

 

History

Brandenberger, David, Harvard University
  The reemergence of Russocentrism in the 1930s: was it more than a ‘Great retreat'?
Kowalsky, S., University of North Carolina
  Female Criminality in Revolutionary Russia
LaPierre, B., University of Chicago
  "This is a Public Matter:" the Anti-Hooligan Campaign, 1953-1964
Levesque, J., University of Toronto
  Collective Farm Idlers and the Soviet State after World War II
Neuberger, Joan, University of Texas-Austin
  Do Russians need a powerful Tsar? Eisenstein's images in Ivan the Terrible
Paynich, T., University of California, Riverside
  Black-Market Patriotism in the 1930s
Retish, A., Ohio State University
  The Peasantry and the Soviet Revolutionary Tribunals
Sheinis, Victor, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations
  The Russian Constitution of 1993 in Historical Perspective
 
   

 

Literature

Dergatcheva, Anna, History, Central European University
  Emergence of Meaning and Cross-Cultural Translation in Vladimir Nabokov’s Translation and Commentary of Alexander Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin”
Gasparov, Boris, Russian Literature, Columbia University
  Lost in a Symbolist City: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades and Andrey Biely’s Petersburg
Kostalevsky, Marina, Russian Literature, Bard College
  Nadezhda von Meck: Patronage and Passion
Loseff, Lev, Russian Literature, Dartmouth College
  Brodsky and Akhmatova, a Russian Tradition
Morson, Gary Saul, Russian Literature, Northwestern University
  Narrativeness
Shapiro, Gavriel, Russian Literature, Cornell University
  Vladimir Nabokov and the World of Art
Shcherbenok, Andrey, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
  Literary History after Poststructuralism (Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, Nabokov)
Venclova, Tomas, Yale University
  A Meeting of Two Poets: Joseph Brodsky's "Nunc Dimittis"
Woll, Josephine, Howard University
  Can Russia live without Aleksandr Nevsky?
Ziolkowski, Margaret, Miami University
  The Shifting Representation of Stalin in Russian Art and Literature
 
   

 

Music

Fox, Pamela, Dean of the School of Fine Arts, Miami University
  Tchaikovsky in America
Gasparov, Boris, Russian Literature, Columbia University
  Lost in a Symbolist City: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades and Andrey Biely’s Petersburg
 
   

 

Political Science

Brudny, Yitzhak, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  Democracy and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia
Brumberg, Abraham, editor emeritus of Problems of Communism
  Images of Russia from within the Bund
Dawisha, Karen, Director, Havighusrt Center, Miami University
  Political Learning in Postcommunist Elections
Gaidar, Yegor, former Prime Minister of Russia
  Ten Years of Transition in Russia: Political and Economic Challenges
Gregory, Paul R., Cullen Professor of Economics, University of Houston
  What Should We Have Expected from the Soviet Period: Should Soviet Specialists Have Been Consulted?
Hanson, Stephen, Director and Chair, Russian , East European and Central Asian Studies Program, University of Washington
  Russian Democracy in Comparative Perspective
Jackson, William, Miami University
  The image of Russia in international relations theory
Khrushcheva, Nina, Senior Fellow of World Policy Institute, Dept. of International Affairs, New School of Social Research
  Lessons of transition: cultural contradictions of post-communism and the future of Russian liberalization
Levesque, J., University of Toronto
  Collective Farm Idlers and the Soviet State after World War II
Mau, Vladimir, Director, Working Center for Economic Reform, Russian Federation
  Economic and Political Results of 2001 and Prospects for Consolidation of Economic Growth
Petrov, Nikolai, head of Russian government working group on regional problems
  Federalism Russian-Style and the Evolution of Center-Region Relations
Remington, Thomas, Claus M. Halle Distinguished Professor Global Learning
  Democratization and the Problem of Governance: exploring the effect of the change in political institutions on the quality of governance in Russia
Sheinis, Victor, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations
  The Russian Constitution of 1993 in Historical Perspective
Shevchenko, Iulia, Research Fellow, European University at St. Petersburg (Russia), and a 2002-2003 Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress
  The Representation of Women's Concerns in the Russian State Dumas: Voting Patterns of Female Legislators
Simonia, Nodari A., Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow
  Putin's Russia: Succession, Return to the Past or Beginning of a New Era?
Stoner-Weiss, Kathryn, Princeton University
  Imagined geographies in center-periphery relations
Touronok, Stanislav, Moscow State University, and post-doctoral fellow, Havighurst Center
  Corruption as a driving force and as a checks-and-balances mechanism of Post-Soviet politics
Touronok, Stanislav, Moscow State University, and post-doctoral fellow, Havighurst Center
  Playing with Images on the Pastures of Russian Politics
 
   

 

Sociology

Bradatan, C., Pennsylvania State University
  Suicide before and after the Fall of Communism
Brandenberger, David, Harvard University
  The reemergence of Russocentrism in the 1930s: was it more than a ‘Great retreat'?
Brudny, Yitzhak, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  Democracy and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia
Brumberg, Abraham, editor emeritus of Problems of Communism
  Images of Russia from within the Bund
Brzozowska, Anna, Central European University
  Belarus' gendered national construct
Friedman, Leonid, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Moscow State University
  The CIS Ten Years Later: Economic and Social Changes
Galtz, Roz, Miami University
  Thoughts on studying russian everyday life in the post-Soviet era
Jacobs, Dan, Miami University 
  Images of Russia in the West
Kennedy, Michael, University of Michigan
  Envisioning Russia from disciplinary and national borderlands
Khrushcheva, Nina, Senior Fellow of World Policy Institute, Dept. of International Affairs, New School of Social Research
  Lessons of transition: cultural contradictions of post-communism and the future of Russian liberalization
Kollmann, Nancy Shields, Stanford University
  Enduring and Changing Aspects in the image of Russian despotism
Kowalsky, S., University of North Carolina
  Female Criminality in Revolutionary Russia
Lieven, Anatol, Carnegie Institute for International Peace
  Image of the West in Russian Nationalism
Lyon, Tania Rands, Princeton University
  How patriarchal is Post-Soviet Russia? Gender beliefs and work-family choices
McFaul, Michael, Stanford University
  Can Russia escape our image of its past?
Metzo, K., Indiana University
  Vodka, Spirits, and the Market
Neuberger, Joan, University of Texas-Austin
  Do Russians need a powerful Tsar? Eisenstein's images in Ivan the Terrible
Packocinaite, E., Central European University Warsaw
  Reducing the Problem of Youth Crime in Eastern Europe
Pap, A., New York University
  National Minorities and Ethno corruption
Prizel, Ilya, University of Pittsburgh
  Russian Nationalism: Threat or Chimera?
Stoner-Weiss, Kathryn, Princeton University
  Imagined geographies in center-periphery relations
Thurston, Robert, Miami University
  The dehumanization of the Russian people in Western images of Russia in the early Cold War
Tismaneanu, Vladimir, University of Maryland
  Fear of Russia, or Fear for Russia in East European images
Von Hagen, Mark, Columbia University
  The Problem of Legacies in Understanding Contemporary Russia
Woodcock, Shannon, Sydney University
  Violence, gender, and the construction of the Roma as Other in postcommunist Romania
Woll, Josephine, Howard University
  Can Russia live without Aleksandr Nevsky?
 
   

 

 

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