Visiting Fellows 2009-10
Mr Dmitry Omelchenko
Dalglish Visiting Fellow, 20 May to 13 June 2010
CEES welcomed Mr Dmitry Omelchenko from Region Research Centre, Ul'yanovsk State University as Dalglish Visiting Fellow 2010 from 20 May to 13 June. He writes :
"My name is Dmitry Omelchenko. I'm 27 years old and have come here from Russia, Ulyanovsk University. After graduating (I am a profession ad maker, copywriter) I have now decided to undertake postgraduate study. As it is not possible to take a doctorate in advertising studies I have chosen sociology and gender studies as my future point of interest. I have always been interested in movies so I decided to link these two interests and after a while I came up with my proposed thesis topic “Representation of masculinity in western and modern Russian movies: influence of globalization on images of men in different cultures”. So far I have almost completed the first, theoretical, part of my research. I hope that here in Glasgow I will succeed in finishing it. For the most part my interest is in the area of Hollywood moves. It is no secret that the whole world gets images of what is right and what is wrong via American cinema. The question here is how hard is it to resist those images, or is it important at all. These are the kind of questions I am interested in exploring."
Mr Keiji Sato
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow 1 February 2010 - 31 January 2011
Mr Keiji Sato is a research fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), based at the Slavic Reseach Center in Sapporo, Japan.
Central and East European Studies welcomed Mr Sato who is in the UK from 1 February 2010 to 31 January 2011 on a JSPS-funded fellowship to pursue his current research on ethnic mobilization in the Baltic States, Moldova and Ukraine at the end of Soviet period. During his stay in Glasgow he will work closely with Professor David Smith, Head of Subject, who is his designated mentor under JSPS fellowship.
Dr Monica Ciobanu
Departmental Visiting Research Fellow 2-27 November 2009
monica.ciobanu@plattsburgh.edu
Dr. Monica Ciobanu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Plattsburgh State University of New York. Her research interests are related to issues of democratization, memory and justice in post-communist societies. Her work appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, Comparative Sociology and International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society.
During her visit in University of Glasgow - November 1 - November 27, 2009 - Dr. Ciobanu developed her research on transitional justice and memory in post-communist Romania . Dr. Ciobanu gave a paper entitled 'Communist Regimes, Legitimacy and the 1989 Revolutions in Eastern Europe' at the West Coast seminar in November. She also met and discussed with a group of graduate students some of the methodological issues encountered during the recent field trip in Romania .