All Alumni Fellows | 2010-2023
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
BRUNSTEDT, Jonathan Jay (US) for his research on Cultures of Victory: Cold War Interventionism in the Shadow of the Second World War
GABEL, Harold (US) for his research on Social and cultural connections between Poland and Western Europe in the 60s and 70s
GOLACHOWSKA, Julia (Poland) on her research on Memory Politics in Polish Samizdat Post Stamps of the 1980s
HERMANN, Veronika (Hungary) on her research on Nationalism Revisited – Conflicting ideologies in socialist and post-socialist Eastern European public discourses
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
GOLACHOWSKA, Julia (Poland) on her research on Memory Politics in Polish Samizdat Post Stamps of the 1980s
JEFFERY, Lucy (UK) for her research on Circumventing censorship during the Kádár era: a case study of the Demszky circle
JERSILD, Austin (US) for his research on 1959: The Cold War as International History
HABIBULINA, Iuliia for her research on A Cold Case of Soviet Monsters: Development of the Discourse about Snowman in the USSR during the Cold War’s late 1950s – early 1980s
LITVINENKO, Ksenia (Russia) on her research on Soviet Mobile Architecture: Enabling Colonial Resettlement, Displacement and Extractivism in Western Siberia, 1960-1993
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
MORARD III, Donald (US) on his research on The Failure to Scale: Estonian Experiments in Agricultural Reform during Late Socialism
VARGHA, János (Hungary) for his research on The Danube Circle and the Global Civil Society in the Last Years of the Cold War
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)
EWING, Christopher (US) on his research on Hate: A Transatlantic History of Germany’s Violent ‘90s
GOLUBEV, Alexey (Russia) on his research on Knowledge Propaganda: Soviet Socialism as an Epistemic Project
INGARIA, Alessandro (Italy) on his research on War in the Eyes
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
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
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
SVEGEL, Fanni (Hungary) for her research on Politicizing Reproductive Labor in Cold War Hungary
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)
POPOVIC, Milica (Serbia) for her research on The silence of saying no. Narrating desertion
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
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.
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
CANAFE, Nergis (Canada) for her research on Histories of Statelessness in Central and Eastern Europe: Silence, Memory and Violence
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
DZSACSOVSZKI, Helka (Hungary) for her research on Cultural Diplomacy and Architectural Conservation in State-Socialist Hungary
GOLUBKOV, Gleb (Russia) for his research on Transitional Justice in Russia: A Case of Failure (1985-1993)
JONES, Gwen (UK) for her research on Tankies then and now: A taxonomy of continuities and shifts in Western leftist appeasement vocabularies
KINGSTON, Lindsey (Italy/US) for her research on Weaponizing Citizenship: From the Soviet Union to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
KRASZNAHORKAI, Emma (Hungary) for her research on Media representation of refugees, with a special focus on refugee women
NEMETH, Adam (Slovakia) for his research on Architecture and the second public sphere in Hungary 1974-1989
VARGA, Zsuzsanna (UK/Hungary) for her research on Dissidents, émigrés and networks of information in Index on Censorship (1972-1991)
ZBOROVSKY, Alexandra (US) for her research on Should I Stay, or Should I Go: Jewish Emigration from the USSR 1955 to 1995
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
SATJUKOW, Elisa Dr (Germany) for her research on The Role of East and Southeast European Studies in the Transformations of the 1980/90s
VARGA-HARRIS, Christine (Canada/US) for her research on Materializing Ghost Towns: Soviet Military Barracks and Hungarian Daily Life during the Cold War
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
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.
BOGYO Virág (Hungary) for her research on Playgrounds: Small Battlefields of Big Ideas.
COSTAMAGNA, Christian (Italy) for his research on The Kosovo War between history and memory: The (ab)use of historical events for political ends.
FRANCKE, Maren (Germany) for her research on Historical Legacies from the Transition from Socialism to Democracy in Hungary.
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.
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.
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.
SNIEGON, Tomas (Sweden) for his research on Authoritarianism with human face? New analysis of Czechoslovak ”Prague Spring 1968” and its ”lessons from history”.
TRAJANOVSKI, Naum (Macedonia) for his research on Historicizing constitutional illiberalism in Poland: The Ehrlich-Kaczyński link.
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.
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.
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
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
KARDASH, Maria (Poland/Ukraine) for her research on Dancing Behind the Curtain: Dance Politics in the Eastern Bloc Countries in the Cold War
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
LANGSTAFF, Alexander (US) for his research on the Czechoslovak Institute of Public Opinion (CIPO)
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
MORSKA, Izabela (Poland) for her research on The State of Plagiarism: Narratives of Autocracy
MUSTEATA, Sergiu (Moldova) for his research on Communicating to Unfree Societies: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Soviet Moldavia
SAFONOVA, Tatiana (Russia) for her research on Turul Bird, Jurt and Kopjaga: Revival of Turanism at the beginning of 1990s in Hungary
The following candidate received partial support:
GABBAS, Marco (Italy) for his research on Workers’ Dissent in a Workers’ Paradise?
MUSKOVICS, Gyula (Hungary) for his research on Queer Cruising in the Kadar era in Budapest
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
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
BERSHADY, Isaac (US) for his research on Hungarian officials’ visions of economic reforms in the 1980s
BEILINSON, Orel (Israel/US) for his research on Tomorrow Belongs to Me: Dreams, Anxieties, and Private Life in the Other Europe, 1890-1968
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.
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?
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.
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
JANAC, Jira (Czech Republic) for his research on Hydrosocialism
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
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
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
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
RIPKA, Vojtech (Czech Republic) for his research on Knowledge production regarding public opinion in state socialist Czechoslovakia at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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
SZEMETOVA, Lucia (Slovakia) for her research on The Creative Use of the Archive During Socialism – History, Memory and National Identity
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”
RAMOVIC, Amila (Bosnia-Herzegovina) for her research on Art as Memory: Records of Artistic Practices during the Siege of Sarajevo 1992-1995
WYSOCKA, Masha (Belgium/Spain) for her research on New Strategies for responding creatively to an archive
November, 2019
The following candidates received full support:
DEBRE, Zsuzsanna (Hungary) for her research on Analog Detectives
FARKAS, Ádám (Hungary) for his research on Silent de-Stalinization – the party intelligentsia as opposition in Hungary
FEHER, Marianna (Sweden) for her research on The Cold War between the Medium and the Message: Performing the archive of the Non-Aligned Movement
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
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
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
HUKANOVIC, Adis (Bosnia-Herzegovina) for his research on Memory as facilitator of dialogue: how can local archives contribute to constructive dealing with past process?
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
KOZLOV, Dmitry (Russia) Leningrad Youth of the Thaw Period in Search of Space for Public Action
PETERSON, Christian (US) - Changing the World from Below
POCSIK, Andrea (Hungary) - Gendering and Decolonizing the “Patriarchive”: New focuses on Peter Forgács’s work
RADI, Szinan (Hungary) - Money, Fiscal Policy and the Production of Scientific Knowledge through the Hungarian Shopfloor, 1945-1974
VAGRAMENKO, Tatiana (Russia) - Religion under Surveillance: Religious Dissent and Secret Police Archives in Soviet Ukraine
VARSA, Eszter (Hungary) - Reproductive Politics East and West: The Representation of a Cold War Tension by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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
KRALJ, Lovro (Croatia) - The role of memory politics related to the Second World War in the dissolution of Yugoslavia
MISHKOVSKA-KAJEVSKA, Ana (Macedonia) - Active, yet ignored? Exploring the visibility of the feminist engagement against war rape during the (post-)Yugoslav wars
PAVLOVIC, Alexandar (Serbia) - From Belgrade 1968 Student Protests to First and Second Serbia: Intellectual and Political Legacy of the Praxis School
SZUMSKI, Jakub (Poland) - Political corruption in state socialist Poland
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
LUKACS, Mihai (Romania) - The Cult of Personality in the Romanian Communist Party
RIMKUTE, Agne (Lithuania) - Producing Socialism while Making Films: Film Industry in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union (1957-1972)
SASSO, Alfredo (Italy) - "The other 1989". The third-way political vision of Ante Marković and its representation through the media in Yugoslavia
SZAKACS Eszter (Hungary) - Global Forms of Cultural Propaganda in The Soviet Propaganda Film Collection
WESTLAKE, Steven (USA) - From “Bulletin of Frustration” to “Global Voice of Free Expression”: The Index on Censorship as Transnational Human Rights NGO
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
GEORGIEV, Georgi (Bulgaria) - An Archive of Noise and Radio Sets: Acoustic Information Gathering at Radio Free Europe
HAHAMOVITCH, Reynolds (USA) - A dialogue of propaganda, intelligence, and the public dissemination of knowledge between various actors in the East and West
IVANCHEVA, Marya (Bulgaria) - Crosscurrents: Cold war competition in higher education
MATUS Adrian (Romania) - The Spectra of 1968 in Central and Eastern Europe
PRZEPERSKI, Michal (Poland) - Main currents of reform from within that were designed in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary during the communist period
RISTIC, Katarina (Germany) - Media reporting on war crime trials in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia
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
ZIMÁNYI Eszter (Hungary/USA) - Migratory Wars: Producing Refugees, Crisis, and Europe’s Shifting Borderscapes Along the Balkan Route
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
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
DERES Kornélia (Hungary) for her proposal Dictatorship and Theatricality: Performing Memories in the Archive
KÚTVÖLGYI-SZABÓ Áron (Hungary) for his proposal Analogies between the contemporary Post-truth phenomena and similar symptoms of the Cold War era
IVANCIK, Matej (Slovakia) for his proposal Shaping the Public Space in Czechoslovakia through the Liberal Democratic Discourses
TAMÁS Etelka (Hungary) for her proposal The Iron Gate hydroelectric power station: a strategic tool in shaping the political relations during the Cold War?
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
OSA-Visegrád Fellow:
PEKUN, Didem (Turkey) for her proposal Film: Araf
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
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
VORONOVICI, Alexandr (Moldova) for his proposal: Shades and Facets of “Dissent” in Soviet Ukraine: Contextualization, Comparisons, and Entanglements
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
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
GINELLI Zoltán (Hungary) for his proposal: Opening the Semi-Periphery: Decolonisation and Socialist Hungary
LÁSZLÓ Zsuzsa (Hungary) for her proposal: Documents of Exhibition History, Cultural Diplomacy, and International Solidarity Networks in Eastern Europe and Beyond
MENDOZA MEIJA, Elis (Mexico) for her proposal: From Shelter to Sheltering: Humanitarian architecture as a deferred Utopia
NOELL, David Alen (USA) for his proposal: Religion and Radio Free Europe
ZASANSKA, Nadia (Russia) for her proposal: Propaganda Techniques in the Soviet Media: Focus on the Uprisings during the Cold War Period
The following candidates received partial support:
BENCURIKOVA, Martina (Slovakia) for her proposal: East Germany and the support of International Terrorism
ZOLICH, Katarzyna (Poland) for her proposal: Art and politics - constellation of images. Archive as an image
January, 2017
The following candidates received full support:
RÉVÉSZ Sándor (Hungary) for his proposal: Search for Public Opinion under Communism
SÁNTHA István (Hungary) for his proposal: History of Everyday Life of Forced Labour Camps in Central West Hungary after WWII
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
JASEK, Peter (Slovakia) for his proposal: The Voice of Freedom, that helped to bring Freedom
LÁSZLÓ Szabolcs (Hungary) for his proposal: Reclaiming the Hearts and Minds
MARKOVA, Klara (Czech Republic) for her proposal: First Czechoslovak Republic and foreign political systems in the discourse about the Czechoslovak and Czech constitution
POLISENSKA, Mileda (Czech Republic) for her proposal: Josef Josten (1913-1985)
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
PETRINCA, Ruxandra Iuliana (Romania/Canada) for her proposal: Varieties of Dissent Inside and Outside Communist Romania
ROLANDI, Francesca (Italy) for her proposal: The Adriatic Path of Eastern European Asylum Seekers During the Cold War (1945-1969)
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
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
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
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)
KHARKINA, Anna (Russia) for her proposal: Perception of “Others” Poverty, Social Exclusion, Scientific Discourse and Knowledge in the State Socialist
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
DEMETER, Laura (Romania/Germany) for her proposal: Picking up the Pieces from the Communist Past. Transitional Heritage in post 1989 Romania and Germany
TATEROVA, Eva (Czech Republic) for her proposal: Rudolf Slánský’s Trial from the Perspective of Radio Free Europe
VANEYAN, Lena (Russia) for her proposal: Boris Pasternak in the Grey Zone between the Political Repression and the Cultural Opposition
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
HARLOV Melinda (Hungary) for her proposal: Image construction of the Borderland
OLOSZ Levente (Hungary) for his proposal: Jews as propaganda tool and bargaining chip in Romania’s foreign policy during the Cold War
VOINEA, Andrei Răzvan (Romania) for his proposal: “Each Family with its own House and Garden”: Social Housing in Bucharest (1906 – 1952)
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)
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”
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
ROBERTS, Geoffrey (UK) for his proposal: The Struggle for Peace and Identity Formation in the Communist Bloc during the Early Cold War
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?
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
SOBCZAK, Anna (Poland) for her proposal: Broadcasting freedom – how the information circuit between Radio Free Europe and the Polish samizdat is related.
SPRING, Dawn (USA) for her proposal: The role that American advertisers played in creating Cold War propaganda and US information services, and public diplomacy.
VADAS András (Hungary) for his proposal: The Environmental History of a Damming Project. The Debates around the Construction of the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams.
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
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
SMITH, Hakeem (USA) for his proposal: In-depth analysis of the IHF collection at OSA
FUICA, Oana (Romania) for her proposal: Radio Free Europe’s research on religion and state power in Communist Romania
Partial support was granted to :
HONCOOPOVA, Haruna (Czech Republic) for her proposal: Relics of Communist Architecture (video project)
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
LÁZÁR Eszter (Hungary) for her proposal: Educational turn in the Eastern European Art Universities during the 1990s
MAJTÉNYI György (Hungary) for his proposal: Perception of “Others” Poverty, Social Exclusion, Scientific Discourse and Knowledge in the State Socialist
ROSIAK-ZIEBA, Ewa (Poland) for her proposal: Cursed Soldiers in the light of documentary film propaganda 1945-1953
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
DANYI Gábor (Hungary) for his proposal: The history of Hungarian unofficial publishing
PROKOPOVA, Katerina (Czech Republic) for her proposal: The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary
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
October, 2014
The following candidates received full support:
BOTEA, Irina (Romania) for her proposal: Repertories of (in)discreetness I.
KOSCIELNY, Pawel (Poland/Canada) for his proposal: The Radio Free Europe'Archive's Epistemic Rupture
HEINZEL, Tincuta (Germany) for her proposal: Repertories of (in)discreetness II.
April, 2014
The following candidates received full support:
BALAJTHY Anna (Hungary) for her proposal: Zsille Zoltán - activity in exile
KORSHUNOV, Igor (Russia) for his proposal: Soviet Human Rights Activists and Democratic Rollback in Russia
MARGINEAN, Mara (Romania) for her proposal: Policing good life: Ambiguous practices of social well being during the 1950s in Romania
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)
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
METYKOVA, Monika (Slovakia) for her proposal: Media Policies in Communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary
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"
NEKOLA, Martin (Czech Republic) for his proposal: East-European Exiles in the Cold War Era in Comparison
PARVULESCU, Constantin (Romania) for his proposal: Biopolitical Challenges in Post-Helsinki Socialist Eastern Europe
PINKASZ András (Hungary) for his proposal: Does the „third way” lead to liberalism? Transformation of the Hungarian democratic opposition’s ideology
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
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
KOVACIC, Nino (Croatia) for his proposal: Mediating the Nation: Media propaganda in Croatia during the Homeland War (1991 – 1995)
NAGY Szilvia (Hungary) for her proposal: Cultural Policies in Changing Realities
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
April, 2013
The following candidates received full support:
BRAUN, Axel (Germany) for his proposal: Družba-Barátság-Freundschaft-Friendship
KRAKOVSKY, Roman (Slovakia) for his proposal: Building Socialist Community: Social Ties in Czechoslovakia and Poland (1929-1974)
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
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
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
GRUN, Daniel (Slovakia) for his proposal: Notion of public space: underground publishing and participation art
KERÉNYI Szabina (Hungary) for her proposal: Repertories of Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe
HUDEK, Adam (Slovakia) for his proposal: Images of scientists in the socialist Czechoslovakia (1950 – 1974): Pride of the regime or unreliable intellectual
JUNES, Tom (Poland) for his proposal: Between internationalist cooperation and nationalist competition: the relations between the communists of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, 1956-1989
MAJOR Virág (Hungary) for her proposal: Archiving in the archive - art as a means of formulating public opinion
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)
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
ION, Elena (Romania) for her proposal: Soft Budgets, Enterprising Bureaucrats: Shortage and Urban Renewal in Late Socialism
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
EREMEEVA, Anna (Russia) for her proposal: History of Stalinist Science in the texts of Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Western Broadcasts 1950s–1980s
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
KENDE Tamás (Hungary) for his proposal: Wer aber ist die Partei? Communism as Conspiration and Counter-Conspiration
TYLECZ, Ewelina (Poland) for her proposal: Society against the "dictatorship of dunces" - the movements for the defense of cultural rights in Poland
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
HAGEN, Trever (USA) for his proposal: Calling Radio Free Europe: the Czechoslovak Service’s answering machine
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)
VÁSÁRHELYI Mária (Hungary) for her proposal: Public opinion and media research in Hungary, 1969-1991
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
KUZOVKIN, Gennadij (Russia) for his proposal: "Parting Iron Curtain": Radio Liberty and Its Policy towards Samizdat during Late Socialism
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
TOMPA Andrea (Hungary) for her proposal: Can you trust art criticism in the 70ies and 80ies? Criticism of opposition, consensus and subversion
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"
WASILEVSKI, Krzysztof (Poland) for his proposal: Radio Free Europe’s Polish Service and its struggle against communist propaganda (1951-1989)
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
BOTYÁNSZKI Alexandra (Hungary) for her proposal: The image of Samizdat in the Hungarian Official Propaganda between 1981-1990
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
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
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
SAPAROV, Arsene (Armenia) for his proposal: The Role of Autonomy in the Post-Soviet Conflicts
SEGES, Dusan (Slovakia) for his proposal: The Iron Curtain wasn't soundproof: the Council of Free Czechoslovakia and the RFE broadcast (1949-1967)
ZAVACKA, Marina (Slovakia) for her proposal: Paradise at the Roots: Internal political and social history of the Slovak Communist Party in 1948-1956
October, 2010
The following candidates were awarded a grant:
GRIGORYAN, Armen (Armenia) for his proposal: Interpretations of the Causes of World War II
HAJDU Eszter (Hungary) for her proposal: The Relationship between Jews and the Majority Nation as Depicted in Documentaries of the (Former) Socialist Countries
KOPECEK, Michal (Czech Republic) for his proposal: Democracy,Identity and the "Legacy of Dissidence" in East Central Europe 1975 - 2004
SOWINSKI, Pawel (Poland) for his proposal: Accelerating Peaceful Revolution: Polish Samizdat and Western Broadcasting
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
ZAJICOVA, Helena (Czech Republic) for her proposal: Faces of Memory – Cultures of Remembrance and Documentary Filmmaking in Central and Eastern Europe
NOVE Béla (Hungary) for his proposal: Righteous of the Region: A Comparative Study of Refugee Crises in East-Central Europe 1939–1989
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)
