All Fellows | 2010-2025
November 2024
The following candidates received full support:
BENEDEK, Kata (Hungary) for her research on Within and outwith censorship. | Final report
Dmitri Dubrovsky (Russia) for his research on Academics as Testimonial Experts in Soviet Trials: How Soviet Academics Assisted in Repression Against Dissidents
Jasna Jovicevic, Dr (Serbia) for her research on Sounding Freedom - Avant-Garde Jazz in Cold War Hungary as Cultural Resistance
Uschi Klein (New Zealand) for her research on Exploration of cultural practices of resistance through seeing and listening during Romania’s communist era
Volodomyr Kulikov (Ukraine) for his research on Coal Mining and the Language of Freedom in the Donbas (1890s to 1990s)
PAUN, Ioana (Romania) for her research on Do You See That Plane? Examining plane Hijackings as a means of resistance during communist dictatorship
POLUEKTOVA-KRIMER, Ksenia (Russia) for her research on Yurii Afanasoev and the Reinvention of Post-Soviet Historiography in Russia
Oleksandr Stoianov (Ukraine) for his research on The comparative and differing understandings of what constituted authorship and censorship in the depiction of labor camps in Soviet propaganda films
Ileana Gabriela Szasz-Voinea, Dr (Romania) for her research on The political dimension of personal documentaries in the Eastern European mediascape
The following candidates received partial support:
BELLI, Nicola (Italy) for her research on Environmental protection and the pursuit of transparency: A History of Lithuanian ecologism during perestroika
Mansur Gazimzianov (Russia) for his research on The RFE/RL Tatar-Bashkir office’s role in transmitting historical knowledge
Anne Madelain (France) for her research on Book publishing and publishers in the post-Yugoslav space: reorganizaton, legacy,circulatons (1991-2021)
Mikhail Suslov (Russia) for his research on Geopolitical culture of Eurasianism in the postwar period
July 2024
The following candidates received full support:
AKEN van, Job (Holland) on his research on A visual ethnography on heroism at Heroes’ Square | Final report
GALMARINI, Cristina (Italy) for her research on Disability and Freedom in Russia from Perestroika to Bolotnaia
ILCHUK, Natalya (Ukraine) for her research on Lasting commitment. Discourses in the Ukrainian diaspora publications | Final report
KERESZTES, Bence (Hungary) for his research on The concept of dissidence during the Kádár regime | Final report
KIRALY, Edit (Hungary) on her research on The Politics of Nature. Topics of the Hungarian Danube environmentalist movement in the late Kádár era
KONKOL, Mate (Hungary) on his research on Narrating Gender in the Hungarian Democratic Opposition
KORTUKOV, Dima (Israel) on his research on 1990 Parliamentary Elections and USSR Dissolution
LOPATINA, Sofia (Russia) for her research on Groups of young non-conformists and surveillance in Leningrad (1956-1968)
LUKACS, Nora (Hungary) for her research on “If the Berlin Wind Blows my Flag” (meetings and exchanges in the artistic field during the Cold War)
PETROVA, Olga (Ukraine) for her research on Freedom in Exile: Munich Institute, Transnational Scholarship, and Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, 1950s-1970s | Final report
SZOKOLAY, Domokos (Hungary) on his research on State-Controlled National Remembrance: Production of the Past and the Remembrance of the Communist Dictatorship in Hungary from the 1980s to the Present Day
November, 2023
The following candidates received full support:
BALA, Alexander (Poland/US) for his research on “Renascence” in East Central Europe during the period of de-Stalinization | Final report
BRUNSTEDT, Jonathan Jay (US) for his research on Cultures of Victory: Cold War Interventionism in the Shadow of the Second World War | Final report
GABEL, Harold (US) for his research on Social and cultural connections between Poland and Western Europe in the 60s and 70s | Final report
GOLACHOWSKA, Julia (Poland) on her research on Memory Politics in Polish Samizdat Post Stamps of the 1980s | Final report
HERMANN, Veronika (Hungary) on her research on Nationalism Revisited – Conflicting ideologies in socialist and post-socialist Eastern European public discourses | Final report
INGLIS, Cody James (US) for his research on From People’s Democracy to Socialist Democracy? The Afterlives of Left-Wing Republicanism in Hungary and Yugoslavia, 1945–1968 | Final report
JEFFERY, Lucy (UK) for her research on Circumventing censorship during the Kádár era: a case study of the Demszky circle | Final report
JERSILD, Austin (US) for his research on 1959: The Cold War as International History | Final report
LITVINENKO, Ksenia (Russia) on her research on Soviet Mobile Architecture: Enabling Colonial Resettlement, Displacement and Extractivism in Western Siberia, 1960-1993 | Final report
MIRNYI, Sergii (Ukraine) on his research on A radicalizing event: How the Chornobyl Disaster catalyzed collapse of a totalitarian state of the USSR in 1986-1991 | Final report
MORARD III, Donald (US) on his research on The Failure to Scale: Estonian Experiments in Agricultural Reform during Late Socialism | Final report
VARGHA, János (Hungary) for his research on The Danube Circle and the Global Civil Society in the Last Years of the Cold War | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
BUDNITSKY, Stanislav (Russia) for his research on Information-related activities of the Cultural Initiative (1988-1995) and the International Science Foundation (1992-1996) | Final report
EWING, Christopher (US) on his research on Hate: A Transatlantic History of Germany’s Violent ‘90s | Final report
GOLUBEV, Alexey (Russia) on his research on Knowledge Propaganda: Soviet Socialism as an Epistemic Project | Final report
INGARIA, Alessandro (Italy) on his research on War in the Eyes | Final report
KUBAL, Agnieszka (Poland) on her research on Who are the humans behind Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia
July, 2023
The following candidates received full support:
BADZOVA, Dominika (Slovakia) for her research on Diversity of Roma People in Radio Free Europe Collections: Analyzing Human Rights Discourses and their Image in Audiovisual Material | Final report
JEZOWSKA, Kasia (Poland), for her research on ‘Coal Nations and Carbon Cultures
KAMENSKAYA, Ekaterina (Russia) for her research on Radio Liberty, Soviet society and the perception of the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968–1969 and the 1968 invasion | Final report
KURTI, Emese (Hungary) for her research on The Solitude of Revolution. Invasion as Trauma and Solidarity in the 1968 dissident culture in Eastern Europe and Beyond | Final report
SVEGEL, Fanni (Hungary) for her research on Politicizing Reproductive Labor in Cold War Hungary | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
BUDZ, Kateryna (Ukraine) for her research on Ukrainian Greek Catholics in the Underground: Faith on the Margins of Soviet Society (1946-1989) | Final report
POPOVIC, Milica (Serbia) for her research on The silence of saying no. Narrating desertion | Final report
SOKULSKI, Mateusz (Poland) for his research on Mihajlo Mihajlov and Others: the Way to Support Democratic Solutions against Communist Regime in Yugoslavia in 1980’s | Final report
STANCZAK-WISLICZ, Katerzyna (Poland) for her research on Narratives of Crisis. Great History and a New Emotional Regime in Polish Personal Diaries and Memoirs of the 1980s. | Final report
November, 2022
The following candidates received full support:
BORIDCZENKO, Stanislaw (Poland) for his research on The Power of History: A Description of the History of Polish-Belarusian Relations in the Post-Stalinist Soviet Mass Media as a Justification of Russian Domination over Belarus | Final report
CANAFE, Nergis (Canada) for her research on Histories of Statelessness in Central and Eastern Europe: Silence, Memory and Violence | Final report
CATANUS, Ana Maria (Romania) for her research on Disturbing the peace of Communist regimes. Unwritten histories of dissenters in the Romanian communist regime in the 1970s and 1980s | Final report
DZSACSOVSZKI, Helka (Hungary) for her research on Cultural Diplomacy and Architectural Conservation in State-Socialist Hungary | Final report
GOLUBKOV, Gleb (Russia) for his research on Transitional Justice in Russia: A Case of Failure (1985-1993) | Final report
JONES, Gwen (UK) for her research on Tankies then and now: A taxonomy of continuities and shifts in Western leftist appeasement vocabularies | Final report
KINGSTON, Lindsey (Italy/US) for her research on Weaponizing Citizenship: From the Soviet Union to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine | Final report
KRASZNAHORKAI, Emma (Hungary) for her research on Media representation of refugees, with a special focus on refugee women | Final report
NEMETH, Adam (Slovakia) for his research on Architecture and the second public sphere in Hungary 1974-1989 | Final report
VARGA, Zsuzsanna (UK/Hungary) for her research on Dissidents, émigrés and networks of information in Index on Censorship (1972-1991) | Final report
ZBOROVSKY, Alexandra (US) for her research on Should I Stay, or Should I Go: Jewish Emigration from the USSR 1955 to 1995 | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
MILJKOVIC, Marko (Serbia) for his research on The Yugoslav Energy Wars: How Development of Energy Strategy Contributed to the Collapse of Yugoslavia | Final report
SATJUKOW, Elisa Dr (Germany) for her research on The Role of East and Southeast European Studies in the Transformations of the 1980/90s | Final report
VARGA-HARRIS, Christine (Canada/US) for her research on Materializing Ghost Towns: Soviet Military Barracks and Hungarian Daily Life during the Cold War | Final report
On the reserve list are:
GRADSKOVA, Yulia (Sweden) for her research on Encounters between “Eastern bloc women" and women and women's organizations in "developing countries" (Africa, Latin America and Asia) in the context of the Cold War | Final report
ZHOU Yougang “Ludwig” (China) for his research on Sino-Yugoslav relations 1975-1990: the instrumentalization and hollowing of concepts
July, 2022
The following candidates received full support:
ADASHINSKAYA, Anna (Russia) for her research on Use, Abuse, and Refuse: Building and Challenging Political Narratives of Medieval Rus’ in the Late USSR and Post-Soviet Russia. | Final report
BOGYO Virág (Hungary) for her research on Playgrounds: Small Battlefields of Big Ideas. | Final report
COSTAMAGNA, Christian (Italy) for his research on The Kosovo War between history and memory: The (ab)use of historical events for political ends. | Final report
FRANCKE, Maren (Germany) for her research on Historical Legacies from the Transition from Socialism to Democracy in Hungary. | Final report
JAKOBSON, Alexander (US) for his research on Warring Works: The Russian Book of the 1960s and 1970s.
KUZIEV, Faruh (Tajikistan) for his research on Borderlands in the Center: How Russia Domesticated the Tajik Civil War. | Final report
PÁL Benedek (Hungary) for his research on Between Crisis and Reform: Polish and Hungarian Critical Intellectual Discourses on the Future of State Socialism, 1975–1989. | Final report
SIMPSON, Grace (UK) for her research on Instrumentalising past and present: tools for defending worker interests in the Polish People’s Republic and Spanish State. | Final report
SNIEGON, Tomas (Sweden) for his research on Authoritarianism with human face? New analysis of Czechoslovak ”Prague Spring 1968” and its ”lessons from history”. | Final report
TRAJANOVSKI, Naum (Macedonia) for his research on Historicizing constitutional illiberalism in Poland: The Ehrlich-Kaczyński link. | Final report
The following candidate received partial support:
RUNCEANU, Camelia (Romania) for her research on The Romanian Anti-communist Dissidents Mirrored by Radio Free Europe. Production, Recognition, Consecration. | Final report
On the reserve list are:
MITROVITS Miklós (Hungary) for his research on Images of empire” in the second public sphere in Central Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.
PAVLOVA, Margarita (Russia) for her research on Litmus Test of Perestroika: Sociocultural Grassroots Movements of Leningrad in Gorbachev’s Russia. | Final report
ZHOU, Yuguang “Ludwig” (China) for his research on Sino-Yugoslav relations 1975-1990.
November, 2021
The following candidates received full support:
COSOVSCHI, Augustin (Argentina/Romania) for his research on Imagining the Third World: Non-Alignment From the Outside | Final report | Addendum
DJUMATAEVA, Venera (Kyrgyzstan) for her research on Turkestani Emigres’ Struggle in Europe For Freedom Of Thought During Cold War” (1945-1955)
FARFAL, Jan (Poland) for his research on Defying the Iron Curtain: Émigré journals and their attempts to confront the post-war reality | Final report
KARDASH, Maria (Poland/Ukraine) for her research on Dancing Behind the Curtain: Dance Politics in the Eastern Bloc Countries in the Cold War | Final report
KOZIURA, Karolina (Poland) for her research on Erasing Atrocity: Silenced Past, Reclaimed Histories and the Cold War-era Struggles over the Great Ukrainian Famine 1932-1991 | Final report
LANGSTAFF, Alexander (US) for his research on the Czechoslovak Institute of Public Opinion (CIPO) | Final report
LÓPEZ-BARAJAS, Jose (Spain) for his research on The Writer who Came from the Cold. The appraisals of Aleksander Solzhenitzyn in Central-Eastern Europe during and after the Cold War | Final report
MORSKA, Izabela (Poland) for her research on The State of Plagiarism: Narratives of Autocracy | Final report
MUSTEATA, Sergiu (Moldova) for his research on Communicating to Unfree Societies: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Soviet Moldavia | Final report
SAFONOVA, Tatiana (Russia) for her research on Turul Bird, Jurt and Kopjaga: Revival of Turanism at the beginning of 1990s in Hungary | Final report
The following candidate received partial support:
GABBAS, Marco (Italy) for his research on Workers’ Dissent in a Workers’ Paradise? | Final report
MUSKOVICS, Gyula (Hungary) for his research on Queer Cruising in the Kadar era in Budapest | Final report
ROSIEJKA, Karolina (Poland) for her research on Dead bodies of the enemies of the system. A necro-aesthetic analysis of Eastern European propaganda materials from the 1940s and 1950s | Final report
July, 2021
The following candidates received full support:
MATYJA, Bartosz (Poland) for his research on Who Is To Blame? Explaining the inequalities of development in socialist Poland in the 1970s | Final report
BERSHADY, Isaac (US) for his research on Hungarian officials’ visions of economic reforms in the 1980s | Final report
BEILINSON, Orel (Israel/US) for his research on Tomorrow Belongs to Me: Dreams, Anxieties, and Private Life in the Other Europe, 1890-1968 | Final report
SICARI, Ilaria (Italy) for her research on Across the Nylon Curtain: Transnational Cultural Exchanges between Italy and USSR. The role of Italian Cultural Actors in the diffusion of Soviet samizdat and tamizdat. | Final report
SUßMAN, Alexander (Germany) for his research on “I used to be the Mayor”
The following candidate received partial support:
KULAWIAK, Nicholas (US/Ireland) for his research on How did Cold War geopolitics shape and inform Polish media presentation of the 1972 Black September attack on the Israeli Olympic team? | Final report
November, 2020
The following candidates received full support:
ATMORE, John/Jack (US) for his research on Creating an online interactive archival documentary platform with the Privát Fotó és Film Alapítvány home movie collection
CULIBRK, Jelena (Serbia) for her research on Televising the Invisible Hand: The BBC and postwar (neo)liberalism, 1968-1980. | Final report
DIMITROVA, Svetlana (Bulgaria/France) for her research on “Promoting free exchange behind closed door.” The Foundation for the Support of European Intellectuals in its socio-historical context
FINKELMAN, Samuel (US) for his research on How Soviet Jewish intellectuals and activists mobilized the past to stimulate the resurgence of Jewish national consciousness | Final report
JANAC, Jira (Czech Republic) for his research on Hydrosocialism | Final report
SOOS, Andrea (Hungary) for her research on on the oeuvre of László Rajk and his contribution to the social and political transformation of Hungary in the 1980s | Final report
TRINKLE, Alice (Germany) for her research on “Understanding socialist economic reform as a global phenomenon.” Assessing exchanges between Europe and China and their influence on Chinese economic reform in the 1980s | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
BEWICZ, Piotr (Poland) for his research on Letters From The Inside. The Phenomenon of Experiencing Archive - The Open Society Archives Example
FARKAS, Lilla (Hungary) for her research on The emergence of the Roma rights movement in the last years of communism and its immediate aftermath | Final report
July, 2020
The following candidates received full support:
CSUNDERLIK, Péter (Hungary) for his research on Péter Hanák – a Central European Historian in the 20th century | Final report
RIPKA, Vojtech (Czech Republic) for his research on Knowledge production regarding public opinion in state socialist Czechoslovakia at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Final report
ROHDE, Martin (Germany) for his research on Soviet Psychiatry. Circulation, Repression, Reaction: 1920-2020
SCHWAB, Eva (Germany) for her research on The Desire to Appear Green – Radio Free Europe on Environmental Protection in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 80s | Final report
SZEMETOVA, Lucia (Slovakia) for her research on The Creative Use of the Archive During Socialism – History, Memory and National Identity | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
FLOHR, Zsuzsi (Hungary) for her research on “How I realized I was Roma, How I realized I was a Jew” | Final report
RAMOVIC, Amila (Bosnia-Herzegovina) for her research on Art as Memory: Records of Artistic Practices during the Siege of Sarajevo 1992-1995 | Final report
WYSOCKA, Masha (Belgium/Spain) for her research on New Strategies for responding creatively to an archive | Final report
November, 2019
The following candidates received full support:
DEBRE, Zsuzsanna (Hungary) for her research on Analog Detectives | Final report
FARKAS, Ádám (Hungary) for his research on Silent de-Stalinization – the party intelligentsia as opposition in Hungary | Final report
FEHER, Marianna (Sweden) for her research on The Cold War between the Medium and the Message: Performing the archive of the Non-Aligned Movement | Final report
FOKIN, Alexander (Russia) for his research on Late Soviet International: Socialist Integration in Eastern Europe
GRAVENOR, Natalie (US) for her research for her film, the The Man Behind the Curtain
GRUJIC, Marija (Serbia) for her research on The Means of Political Propaganda and the End of the Cold War in Yugoslavia in the International Perspective: Reshaping of Totalitarianism from the Global to Local | Final report
KIMMEY, Roy (US) for his research on Consumerism, Credit and Citizenship: Hungarian State Socialist Romani Policy Post-1968
RADOMAN, Maria (Serbia) for her research on Exploring extreme nationalism discourses in Serbia before and after Yugoslavia
The following candidates received partial support:
ÁRVAY, Erzsébet (Hungary) for her research on Diasporic Politics in the Cold War: The Documentation of State and Diaspora Relations of the Kádár Regime by Radio Free Europe | Final report
CULLETON, Brendan (UK) for his research for his film, The Twisted Path: Ceausescu’s Romania and the West
FRANKLIN, Daria (US) for her research on Samizdat: Production of Alternative Systems of Thought and Knowledge | Final report
HUKANOVIC, Adis (Bosnia-Herzegovina) for his research on Memory as facilitator of dialogue: how can local archives contribute to constructive dealing with past process? | Final report
July, 2019
The following candidates received full support:
GOMBOS, Taylor Jordan (US) - The international proportions of the Cold War – its social structure, its geopolitical implications, and its narrative potency | Final report
KOZLOV, Dmitry (Russia) Leningrad Youth of the Thaw Period in Search of Space for Public Action | Final report
PETERSON, Christian (US) - Changing the World from Below | Final report
POCSIK, Andrea (Hungary) - Gendering and Decolonizing the “Patriarchive”: New focuses on Peter Forgács’s work | Final report
RADI, Szinan (Hungary) - Money, Fiscal Policy and the Production of Scientific Knowledge through the Hungarian Shopfloor, 1945-1974 | Final report
VAGRAMENKO, Tatiana (Russia) - Religion under Surveillance: Religious Dissent and Secret Police Archives in Soviet Ukraine | Final report
VARSA, Eszter (Hungary) - Reproductive Politics East and West: The Representation of a Cold War Tension by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Final report
On the reserve list are:
CHIOREAN, Andru (Romania) - Broadcasting Socialist Culture: the Romanian Communist Radio and the Politics of Culture, 1945-1953
COSOVSCHI, Augustin (Argentina) - Cultural and intellectual relations between Yugoslavia and the Third World during the Cold War
FARKAS, Ádám (Hungary) - From support to opposition: Gyula Háy and the left-wing intelligentsia in Hungary after 1945 - Micro-historical approaches
GRUJIC, Marija (Serbia) - The Means of Political Propaganda and the End of the Cold War in Yugoslavia in the International Perspective: Reshaping of Totalitarianism from the Global to Local
November, 2018
The following candidates received full support:
BISZEWSKI, Charlotte (UK) - Change and Circuits of communication and (anti-)propaganda techniques
BLOOD, Henry (USA) - Structural Biases influencing Human Rights Narratives in the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights | Final report
KRALJ, Lovro (Croatia) - The role of memory politics related to the Second World War in the dissolution of Yugoslavia | Final report
MISHKOVSKA-KAJEVSKA, Ana (Macedonia) - Active, yet ignored? Exploring the visibility of the feminist engagement against war rape during the (post-)Yugoslav wars | Final report
PAVLOVIC, Alexandar (Serbia) - From Belgrade 1968 Student Protests to First and Second Serbia: Intellectual and Political Legacy of the Praxis School | Final report
SZUMSKI, Jakub (Poland) - Political corruption in state socialist Poland | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
KARTASHOVA, Olga (Russia) - The Representation of National Investigation, Justice, and Memory of Nazi Death Camps and Their Victims in Polish Press, 1944-1955 | Final report
LUKACS, Mihai (Romania) - The Cult of Personality in the Romanian Communist Party | Final report
RIMKUTE, Agne (Lithuania) - Producing Socialism while Making Films: Film Industry in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union (1957-1972) | Final report
SASSO, Alfredo (Italy) - "The other 1989". The third-way political vision of Ante Marković and its representation through the media in Yugoslavia | Final report
SZAKACS Eszter (Hungary) - Global Forms of Cultural Propaganda in The Soviet Propaganda Film Collection | Final report
WESTLAKE, Steven (USA) - From “Bulletin of Frustration” to “Global Voice of Free Expression”: The Index on Censorship as Transnational Human Rights NGO | Final report
July, 2018
The following candidates received full support:
BISCHOF, Anna (Germany) - Big Data in the Cold War: The Case of Radio Free Europe’s Audience Research | Final report
GEORGIEV, Georgi (Bulgaria) - An Archive of Noise and Radio Sets: Acoustic Information Gathering at Radio Free Europe | Final report
HAHAMOVITCH, Reynolds (USA) - A dialogue of propaganda, intelligence, and the public dissemination of knowledge between various actors in the East and West | Final report - summary
IVANCHEVA, Marya (Bulgaria) - Crosscurrents: Cold war competition in higher education | Final report
MATUS Adrian (Romania) - The Spectra of 1968 in Central and Eastern Europe | Final report
PRZEPERSKI, Michal (Poland) - Main currents of reform from within that were designed in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary during the communist period | Final report
RISTIC, Katarina (Germany) - Media reporting on war crime trials in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia | Final report
SIEGERT, Nadine (Germany) - The socialist dreamscape. Global South Relations of Socialist Modernity
SZAKÁL Veronika (Hungary) - Mass communication and public opinion research in Hungary during the Cold War | Final report
ZIMÁNYI Eszter (Hungary/USA) - Migratory Wars: Producing Refugees, Crisis, and Europe’s Shifting Borderscapes Along the Balkan Route | Final report
January-March, 2018
The following candidates received full support:
IMRE Zoltán (Hungary) for his proposal Radio Free Europe and the Theatre Policy of the Kádár-regime between 1970 and 1982 | Final report
OLSAKOVA, Doubravka (Czech Republic) for her proposal Between Ecological Crisis and Environmental Protection: The Evolution of Social and Political Discourses on Environment in Czechoslovakia in 1980s and 1990s | Final report
DERES Kornélia (Hungary) for her proposal Dictatorship and Theatricality: Performing Memories in the Archive | Final report
KÚTVÖLGYI-SZABÓ Áron (Hungary) for his proposal Analogies between the contemporary Post-truth phenomena and similar symptoms of the Cold War era | Final report
IVANCIK, Matej (Slovakia) for his proposal Shaping the Public Space in Czechoslovakia through the Liberal Democratic Discourses | Final report
TAMÁS Etelka (Hungary) for her proposal The Iron Gate hydroelectric power station: a strategic tool in shaping the political relations during the Cold War? | Final report
TERENETSKA, Olga (Ukraine) for her proposal Differences of persecution, imprisonment, forced migration and displacement of the victims and the survivors during the Cold War period in the CEE | Final report
OSA-Visegrád Fellow:
PEKUN, Didem (Turkey) for her proposal Film: Araf | Final report
October, 2017
The following candidates received full support:
SAFTA-ZECHERIA, Leyla (Romania) for her proposal: The workings of the humanitarian and human rights epistemologies, as they become visible in the archive’s holdings | Final report
SHYBUNKO, Kyle (USA) for her proposal: The practices of foreign foundations and development agencies in advising Hungarian elites and civil society organizations on their country’s political and economic transformation
STRAUSZ László (Hungary) for his proposal: State socialism in the mirror: strategies of self-representation in the Hungarian Interior Ministry’s propaganda and educational films between 1955-1989 | Final report
VORONOVICI, Alexandr (Moldova) for his proposal: Shades and Facets of “Dissent” in Soviet Ukraine: Contextualization, Comparisons, and Entanglements | Final report
The following candidate received partial support:
GIOIELLI, Emily Rebecca (USA) for her proposal: Europe Throws a Picnic: the Pan-European Picnic and the End of the Cold War | Final report
April, 2017
The following candidates received full support:
ASTROUSKAYA, Tatsiana (Belarus) for her proposal: "As if we had disappeared from this world forever." Tracing the lost connections of the Belarusian intelligentsia in the Soviet Union and abroad | Final report
GINELLI Zoltán (Hungary) for his proposal: Opening the Semi-Periphery: Decolonisation and Socialist Hungary | Final report
LÁSZLÓ Zsuzsa (Hungary) for her proposal: Documents of Exhibition History, Cultural Diplomacy, and International Solidarity Networks in Eastern Europe and Beyond | Final report
MENDOZA MEIJA, Elis (Mexico) for her proposal: From Shelter to Sheltering: Humanitarian architecture as a deferred Utopia | Final report
NOELL, David Alen (USA) for his proposal: Religion and Radio Free Europe | Final report
ZASANSKA, Nadia (Russia) for her proposal: Propaganda Techniques in the Soviet Media: Focus on the Uprisings during the Cold War Period | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
BENCURIKOVA, Martina (Slovakia) for her proposal: East Germany and the support of International Terrorism | Final report
ZOLICH, Katarzyna (Poland) for her proposal: Art and politics - constellation of images. Archive as an image | Final report
January, 2017
The following candidates received full support:
RÉVÉSZ Sándor (Hungary) for his proposal: Search for Public Opinion under Communism | Final report
SÁNTHA István (Hungary) for his proposal: History of Everyday Life of Forced Labour Camps in Central West Hungary after WWII | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
GRUTZA, Anna (Poland) for her proposal: Europe's Secret Agents and the Power of Things: A Transnational Media History of Actor-Networks in Times of Cold War and Social Change | Final report
JASEK, Peter (Slovakia) for his proposal: The Voice of Freedom, that helped to bring Freedom | Final report
LÁSZLÓ Szabolcs (Hungary) for his proposal: Reclaiming the Hearts and Minds | Final report
MARKOVA, Klara (Czech Republic) for her proposal: First Czechoslovak Republic and foreign political systems in the discourse about the Czechoslovak and Czech constitution | Final report
POLISENSKA, Mileda (Czech Republic) for her proposal: Josef Josten (1913-1985) | Final report
October, 2016
The following candidates received full support:
JOVCHEVSKI, Perica (Macedonia) for his proposal: What is new in old news?: analysis of the mechanisms behind the (mis)recognition of identities in TV newscasts in former Yugoslavia | Final report
PETRINCA, Ruxandra Iuliana (Romania/Canada) for her proposal: Varieties of Dissent Inside and Outside Communist Romania | Final report
ROLANDI, Francesca (Italy) for her proposal: The Adriatic Path of Eastern European Asylum Seekers During the Cold War (1945-1969) | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
COMANDUCCI, Carlo (Italy) for his proposal: Dissensus in the Image: Rodolf Hervé's Experimental VideosGiving in the Cold War and After: Economic Life, Humanitarianism, and Mobility in Europe, 1950s-1990s | Final report
NAZAROVA, Marina (Romania/Germany) for her proposal: Samizdat as Netizdat: the Role of the Information and Communication Technologies in the Dissident Movement of 1960s-1970sPicking up the Pieces from the Communist Past. Transitional Heritage in post 1989 Romania and Germany | Final report
WALEWSKA, Joanna (Poland) for her proposal: “Wired Radio Spreads Octopus Tentacles” Development of wired radio in Poland and other countries form the Soviet Block in the eyes of Radio Free Europe | Final report
April, 2016
The following candidates received full support:
DRELOVA, Agata (Slovakia) for her proposal: Libertas ecclesie or Libertas personae? (The Understanding of ‘Religious Freedom’ at the Radio Free Europe’s Czechoslovak Section) | Final report
KHARKINA, Anna (Russia) for her proposal: Perception of “Others” Poverty, Social Exclusion, Scientific Discourse and Knowledge in the State Socialist | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
CAPOTESCU, Cristian (Romania/Germany) for his proposal: Giving in the Cold War and After: Economic Life, Humanitarianism, and Mobility in Europe, 1950s-1990s | Final report
DEMETER, Laura (Romania/Germany) for her proposal: Picking up the Pieces from the Communist Past. Transitional Heritage in post 1989 Romania and Germany | Final report
TATEROVA, Eva (Czech Republic) for her proposal: Rudolf Slánský’s Trial from the Perspective of Radio Free Europe | Final report
VANEYAN, Lena (Russia) for her proposal: Boris Pasternak in the Grey Zone between the Political Repression and the Cultural Opposition | Final report
January, 2016
The following candidates received full support:
FELCHER, Anastasia (Moldova) for her proposal: The Holocaust in Transition: Treatment of the Matter and Jewish Cultural Heritage on (post)Soviet Space | Final report
HARLOV Melinda (Hungary) for her proposal: Image construction of the Borderland | Final report
OLOSZ Levente (Hungary) for his proposal: Jews as propaganda tool and bargaining chip in Romania’s foreign policy during the Cold War | Final report
VOINEA, Andrei Răzvan (Romania) for his proposal: “Each Family with its own House and Garden”: Social Housing in Bucharest (1906 – 1952) | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
GLONDYS, Olga (Spain) for her proposal: The impact of the FEIE's activities on the anti-dictatorial mobilization of cultural elites in Spain (1967-77) | Final report
HOUWINK TEN CATE, Lotte (USA) for her proposal: The aftermath of the Second World War, and its repercussions in postwar debates about law
PHILLIPS, Victoria (USA) for her proposal: An analysis of RFE/RL and the various “crusades” | Final report
PIOTROWSKA, Anna (Poland) for her proposal: Media portrayal of the Romany musicians in communistic times–the use and misuse of certain stereotypes in the Eastern European public discourse | Final report
ROBERTS, Geoffrey (UK) for his proposal: The Struggle for Peace and Identity Formation in the Communist Bloc during the Early Cold War | Final report
October, 2015
The following candidates received full support:
JOHNSTON, Rosamund (USA) for her proposal: What can radio archives tell us about listening practices in early Cold War Czechoslovakia? | Final report
KIESEWALTER, Georgy (Russia) for his proposal: Influence of Western Art and Culture on Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union. Information and Communication Permeability of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s-1970s | Final report
SOBCZAK, Anna (Poland) for her proposal: Broadcasting freedom – how the information circuit between Radio Free Europe and the Polish samizdat is related. | Final report
SPRING, Dawn (USA) for her proposal: The role that American advertisers played in creating Cold War propaganda and US information services, and public diplomacy. | Final report
VADAS András (Hungary) for his proposal: The Environmental History of a Damming Project. The Debates around the Construction of the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams. | Final report
WILSON, Natasha (New Zealand/Australia) for her proposal: The history of underground socialist groupings in the 1970s and 80s in the Soviet Union.
April, 2015
The following candidates received full support:
WCISLIK, Piotr (Poland) for his proposal: Interrelationship between the underground print culture and Radio Free Europe | Final report
GAGYI Ágnes (Hungary) for her proposal: Social movements as transnational constructs: Hungarian environmental and Romanian workers’ mobilizations in the Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute, 1973-1990 | Final report
SMITH, Hakeem (USA) for his proposal: In-depth analysis of the IHF collection at OSA | Final report
FUICA, Oana (Romania) for her proposal: Radio Free Europe’s research on religion and state power in Communist Romania | Final report
Partial support was granted to :
HONCOOPOVA, Haruna (Czech Republic) for her proposal: Relics of Communist Architecture (video project) | Final report
On the Reserve list are:
TYKHONOVA, Olga (Ukraine) for her proposal: Proliferation of self-organized structures that exist outside of mainstream institutions as seen through the OSA samizdat collection
BELL, Inna (Poland) for her proposal: The Cold War Informational Environment: The Case of Czechoslovak Non-Profit Organizations
GAZOVICOVA, Nina (Slovakia) for her proposal: The Collector as Class Enemy vs. the Connoisseur from the Housing Development / transformation of the art market system in The Slovak Republic (1948-1989)
March, 2015
The following candidates received full support:
KOROSI, Suzanne (France) for her proposal: Petition to defend the right to abortion in Hungary, 1973 | Final report
LÁZÁR Eszter (Hungary) for her proposal: Educational turn in the Eastern European Art Universities during the 1990s | Final report
MAJTÉNYI György (Hungary) for his proposal: Perception of “Others” Poverty, Social Exclusion, Scientific Discourse and Knowledge in the State Socialist | Final report
ROSIAK-ZIEBA, Ewa (Poland) for her proposal: Cursed Soldiers in the light of documentary film propaganda 1945-1953 | Final report
January, 2015
The following candidates received full support:
BUZATU, Cristinel (Romania) for his proposal: Documenting human rights abuses under totalitarian regimes – the archives of the early Helsinki Committees | Final report
DANYI Gábor (Hungary) for his proposal: The history of Hungarian unofficial publishing | Final report
PROKOPOVA, Katerina (Czech Republic) for her proposal: The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary | Final report
November, 2014
The following candidates received full support:
DOBROVITS Mihály (Hungary) for his proposal: The OSA Archives and Central Asia during the Cold War Period | Final report
October, 2014
The following candidates received full support:
BOTEA, Irina (Romania) for her proposal: Repertories of (in)discreetness I. | Final report
KOSCIELNY, Pawel (Poland/Canada) for his proposal: The Radio Free Europe'Archive's Epistemic Rupture | Final report
HEINZEL, Tincuta (Germany) for her proposal: Repertories of (in)discreetness II. | Final report
April, 2014
The following candidates received full support:
BALAJTHY Anna (Hungary) for her proposal: Zsille Zoltán - activity in exile | Final report
KORSHUNOV, Igor (Russia) for his proposal: Soviet Human Rights Activists and Democratic Rollback in Russia | Final report
MARGINEAN, Mara (Romania) for her proposal: Policing good life: Ambiguous practices of social well being during the 1950s in Romania | Final report
NAGY András, Dr (Hungary) for his proposal: Ideological and Cultural Aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type Societies (the Hedervary collection) | Final report
The following candidates received partial support:
KOUTKOVA, Karla (Czech Republic) for her proposal: Politics of Informality in Socialist Yugoslavia: ‘Solidarity` vs. Korupcija, Stela and Mito | Final report
METYKOVA, Monika (Slovakia) for her proposal: Media Policies in Communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary | Final report
On the Reserve List is
KOSCIELNY, Pawel for his proposal: Transnational intellectual history of Central European dissident thought after 1968
January, 2014
The following candidates received full support:
KUZMINA, Nataliia (Ukraine) for her proposal: "Inclusion through Visualization: participatory cinema as a tool addressing structural violence against Romani population in the EU" | Final report
NEKOLA, Martin (Czech Republic) for his proposal: East-European Exiles in the Cold War Era in Comparison | Final report
PARVULESCU, Constantin (Romania) for his proposal: Biopolitical Challenges in Post-Helsinki Socialist Eastern Europe | Final report
PINKASZ András (Hungary) for his proposal: Does the „third way” lead to liberalism? Transformation of the Hungarian democratic opposition’s ideology | Final report
SHMIDT, Victoria (Russia) for her proposal: Child welfare discourses and practices in the Czech lands: the segregation of Roma and disabled children during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries | Final report
October, 2013
The following candidates received full support:
HANSEN, Claus Bech (Germany) for his proposal: The Ambivalent Empire: Soviet Rule in the Uzbek SSR 1945-1964.| Final report
KOVACIC, Nino (Croatia) for his proposal: Mediating the Nation: Media propaganda in Croatia during the Homeland War (1991 – 1995) | Final report
NAGY Szilvia (Hungary) for her proposal: Cultural Policies in Changing Realities | Final report
RITTER, Rudiger (Germany) for his proposal: RFE Popular Music Broadcasting: US propaganda or mental refuge for listeners?
STOZEK, Maria (Poland) for her proposal: Situation of Drug Users in Communist Societies | Final report
April, 2013
The following candidates received full support:
BRAUN, Axel (Germany) for his proposal: Družba-Barátság-Freundschaft-Friendship | Final report
KRAKOVSKY, Roman (Slovakia) for his proposal: Building Socialist Community: Social Ties in Czechoslovakia and Poland (1929-1974) | Final report
LITKEI József (Hungary) for his proposal: In the Shadow of the War: Public perception of post-war Hungary, communism and the national self through the lens of rumors circulating during and before the 1956 uprising | Final report
MORSELLI, Francesca (Italy) for her proposal: Uniqueness and Multiplicity: How digitisation and new forms of digital access have affected the user interpretation of facts and data under Communism | Final report
February, 2013
In this round no full grants were awarded.
The following candidates received partial grants:
ADAMEC, Jan (Czech Republic) for his proposal: Thirst for power: Czechoslovakia and the development of its energy sector 1955 – 1972
BERNÁTH Gábor (Hungary) for his proposal: The state controlled public discourse and the official and ‘semi-official’ conceptualization of “gipsy criminality” in the socialist Hungary | Final report
GRUN, Daniel (Slovakia) for his proposal: Notion of public space: underground publishing and participation art | Final report
KERÉNYI Szabina (Hungary) for her proposal: Repertories of Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe | Final report
HUDEK, Adam (Slovakia) for his proposal: Images of scientists in the socialist Czechoslovakia (1950 – 1974): Pride of the regime or unreliable intellectual | Final report
JUNES, Tom (Poland) for his proposal: Between internationalist cooperation and nationalist competition: the relations between the communists of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, 1956-1989 | Final report
MAJOR Virág (Hungary) for her proposal: Archiving in the archive - art as a means of formulating public opinion | Final report
January, 2013
The following candidates received full grants:
DE SUTTER, Bart (Belgium) for his proposal: Universalism vs. Particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations: The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights between cooperation and competition (1982–2007) | Final report
SHYROKOVA, Irina (Ukraine) for her proposal: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Monitoring the Use of the Repressive Medicine in the Soviet Union in the 1960s–1980s _ Final report
ION, Elena (Romania) for her proposal: Soft Budgets, Enterprising Bureaucrats: Shortage and Urban Renewal in Late Socialism | Final report
The following candidates received partial grants:
CSEH Katalin (Hungary) for her proposal: Images of the East. Understanding the Hungarian Second Public Sphere from a ”West Bloc” perspective | Final report
EREMEEVA, Anna (Russia) for her proposal: History of Stalinist Science in the texts of Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Western Broadcasts 1950s–1980s | Final report
On the reserve list are:
VARGOVA, Eva (Slovakia) for her proposal: Emancipation of the Hungarian national media agency MTI: reflection and presentation of human rights movements in pre-revolutionary period 1989
ROGOS, Agata (Poland) for her proposal: Macedonia: Shells full of pearls in the turbulent cold, blooded sea
October, 2012
The following candidates were awarded full grants:
GOINA, Calin (Romania) for his proposal: The role of the urban legends in the Romanian collectivization process: 1946-1962 | Final report
KENDE Tamás (Hungary) for his proposal: Wer aber ist die Partei? Communism as Conspiration and Counter-Conspiration | Final report
TYLECZ, Ewelina (Poland) for her proposal: Society against the "dictatorship of dunces" - the movements for the defense of cultural rights in Poland | Final report
On the reserve list are:
BERNÁTH Gábor (Hungary) for his proposal: The state controlled public discourse and the official and "semi-official" conceptualization of "gipsy criminality" in the socialist Hungary
EREMEEVA, Anna (Russia) for her proposal: History of Stalinist Science in the texts of Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Western Broadcasts (1950s-1980s)
KERÉNYI Szabina (Hungary) for her proposal: Repertories of Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe
April, 2012
The following candidates were awarded full grants:
BACEVIC, Jana (Serbia) for her proposal: Education Policy in communist/socialist Yugoslavia | Final report
HAGEN, Trever (USA) for his proposal: Calling Radio Free Europe: the Czechoslovak Service’s answering machine | Final report
KISS Ilona (Hungary) for her proposal: “The theatre is game, the cinema is life”: The differentiation in the cultural policy on visual arts according to the goals of the propaganda in the period of stagnation in USSR (1964-1984) | Final report
VÁSÁRHELYI Mária (Hungary) for her proposal: Public opinion and media research in Hungary, 1969-1991 | Final report
January, 2012
The following candidates were awarded a grant (full or partial):
HORENÍ, Karina (Czech Republic) for her proposal: 1989-1993: Negotiating of Czechoslovakian recent past | Final report
KUZOVKIN, Gennadij (Russia) for his proposal: "Parting Iron Curtain": Radio Liberty and Its Policy towards Samizdat during Late Socialism | Final report
PÁL Viktor (Hungary) for his proposal: The Birth of Modern Water Pollution and Water Protection in East Central Europe (ECE), from the industrial beginnings until the end of the 1960s | Final report
TOMPA Andrea (Hungary) for her proposal: Can you trust art criticism in the 70ies and 80ies? Criticism of opposition, consensus and subversion | Final report
CAKL, Ondrej (Czech Republic) for his proposal: Virtual Guide through the Real Budapest
CINGEROVA, Nina (Slovakia) for her proposal: "Enemies in Cassocks and the New Saints. Anti-religious Propaganda and the Creation of Religion for the "new man" | Final report
WASILEVSKI, Krzysztof (Poland) for his proposal: Radio Free Europe’s Polish Service and its struggle against communist propaganda (1951-1989) | Final report
On the reserve list are:
BACEVIC, Jana (Serbia) for her proposal: Education Policy in communist/socialist Yugoslavia
HAGEN, Trever (USA) for his proposal: Calling Radio Free Europe: the Czechoslovak Service’s answering machine
SPRING, Dawn (USA) for her proposal: Advertising in the Age of Persuasion...1961 to the Present
TAKÁCS Róbert (Hungary) for his proposal: Hungary's Changing Image from the West between 1956 and 1968
October, 2011
The following candidates were awarded a grant:
YAKUBOVA, Natalia (Russia) for her proposal: Return to the Underground? Legacy of the Alternative Theatre of the 1960-80-s | Final report
BOTYÁNSZKI Alexandra (Hungary) for her proposal: The image of Samizdat in the Hungarian Official Propaganda between 1981-1990 | Final report
On the reserve list are
BACEVIC, Jana (Serbia) for her proposal: Education Policy in communist/socialist Yugoslavia
HAGEN, Trever (USA) for his proposal: Calling Radio Free Europe: the Czechoslovak Service’s answering machine
SPRING, Dawn (USA) for her proposal: Advertising in the Age of Persuasion...1961 to the Present
WASILEVSKI, Krzysztof (Poland) for his proposal: Radio Free Europe’s Polish Service and its struggle against communist propaganda (1951-1989)
September, 2011
The following candidates were awarded a grant:
APOR Péter (Hungary) and his international research team for their proposal: Re-visualizing the Recent Past: Museums of Communism and Recent History in Post-Communist Eastern Europe | Final report
July, 2011
The following candidates were awarded a grant:
GORDEEVA, Irina (Russia) for her proposal: Nonviolence and peaceful methods of protest in the public thought and historical experience | Final report
January, 2011
The following candidates were awarded a grant:
BOHUS Kata (Hungary) for her proposal: Israel’s influence on the situation of Central-European Jews | Final report
SAPAROV, Arsene (Armenia) for his proposal: The Role of Autonomy in the Post-Soviet Conflicts | Final report
SEGES, Dusan (Slovakia) for his proposal: The Iron Curtain wasn't soundproof: the Council of Free Czechoslovakia and the RFE broadcast (1949-1967) | Final report
ZAVACKA, Marina (Slovakia) for her proposal: Paradise at the Roots: Internal political and social history of the Slovak Communist Party in 1948-1956 | Final report
October, 2010
The following candidates were awarded a grant:
GRIGORYAN, Armen (Armenia) for his proposal: Interpretations of the Causes of World War II | Final report
HAJDU Eszter (Hungary) for her proposal: The Relationship between Jews and the Majority Nation as Depicted in Documentaries of the (Former) Socialist Countries | Final report
KOPECEK, Michal (Czech Republic) for his proposal: Democracy,Identity and the "Legacy of Dissidence" in East Central Europe 1975 - 2004 | Final report
SOWINSKI, Pawel (Poland) for his proposal: Accelerating Peaceful Revolution: Polish Samizdat and Western Broadcasting | Final report
On the reserve list are:
SZÉKELY Júlia (Hungary) for her proposal: "The Practice of Erecting Public Monuments as a Form of History Writing: Construction of History During the Socialist and Post-Socialist Era in Budapest
COPILAS, Emanuel (Romania) for his proposal: Romanian international orientation during the communist regime (1948–1989)
July, 2010
The following candidates were awarded a grant:
MAZURKIEWICZ, Anna (Poland) for her proposal: The Cold War Victims or Weapons? The story of the Assembly of Captive European Nations | Final report
ZAJICOVA, Helena (Czech Republic) for her proposal: Faces of Memory – Cultures of Remembrance and Documentary Filmmaking in Central and Eastern Europe | Final report
NOVE Béla (Hungary) for his proposal: Righteous of the Region: A Comparative Study of Refugee Crises in East-Central Europe 1939–1989 | Final report
On the reserve list are:
SZÉKELY Júlia (Hungary) for her proposal: The Practice of Erecting Public Monuments as a Form of History Writing: Construction of History During the Socialist and Post-Socialist Era in Budapest
COPILAS, Emanuel (Romania) for his proposal: Romanian international orientation during the communist regime (1948–1989)
