Robert F. Byrnes
Russian and East European Institute

Lilla Bauer is Assistant Professor of Public Administration in the Institute of State Governance and Public Policy at the National University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary. As a visiting scholar in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs through March, 2018, she will conduct research on social and educational programs in public administration.

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Francesca Silano will teach and conduct research at IU Bloomington throughout 2017-18 as a post-doctoral fellow affiliated with the Russian Studies Workshop (RSW). Her research addresses the Russian Orthodox Church, especially with respect to how it understands its history and creates narratives about itself. Her postdoctoral project at the RSW will focus on trials of members of various religious groups in the early 1920s as a window onto the Soviet legal system. In Spring 2018 she will teach Religions of Modern Russia.

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Meagan Todd will teach and conduct research at IU Bloomington throughout 2017-18 as a post-doctoral fellow affiliated with the Russian Studies Workshop (RSW). She specializes in the political geography of religion in contemporary Russia and, in particular, the rights of minorities to practice religion in Russian public spaces. Her current project considers the politics of mosque construction in Moscow. In Fall 2017, she is teaching Geographies of Islam with a strong focus on Russia.

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Mikhail Turchenko recently completed his Ph.D. in political science at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg. His research focuses on Russia’s regional elections and regional governance. He will be in residence at IU Bloomington for two months in Fall 2017 as an affiliate scholar of the Russian Studies Workshop.

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Anna Klepikova is a research associate in Anthropology at the European University of Saint Petersburg. During her residence at IU Bloomington for two months in Fall 2017 as an affiliate scholar of the Russian Studies Workshop, she will continue to conduct research on the social situation of children and adults with mental and multiple disabilities living in the state-run residential care institutions in Russia.

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