We asked Griffin Edwards to write up a few notes about this conference – his first experience in presenting a research paper – to give other Master’s degree students a sense of how it actually works. The conference took place February 28-March 1, 2020; their website notes that, “Graduate students (“colleagues-in-the-making”) are particularly welcome.” For… Read more »
Tag: Area Studies
Reflections on the Graduate Methods Training Workshop, September 14-15 2018
Memo from the Russian Studies Workshop. Written by Sarah Fogleman, RSW Project Coordinator. On September 14-15, 2018, RSW organized the “Graduate Methods Training Workshop: Focus on Russia.” The GMTW brought together 20 emerging social-science scholars from across the United States to IU’s Social Science Research Commons (SSRC), a state-of-the-art facility designed for social scientists. There, they met with over a… Read more »
“The Global Informality Project” with Alena Ledeneva
Written by Alisha Kirchoff, PhD student in Sociology On April 6, RSW hosted a fascinating Telebridge session with scholar Alena Ledeneva of the University College of London. Ledeneva, known for her work on blat, informal practices that shape post-Soviet politics and business, and the prospects for modernization in Russia, has led the effort to develop… Read more »
Professor Michael Burawoy: The Role of Russian and East European Area Studies Scholarship and Expertise in a Polarized World
Written by Madeline McCann, graduate student in REEI Several years ago, I was driven to Russian studies by my desire to escape the familiar. I felt sick of studying United States history—of regurgitating year after year the events and narratives that had been hammered into me since grade school. Strangely, it was an undergraduate course… Read more »