2000: Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Colorado Dissertation: "Importing
Civil Society: Foreign Aid, Civic Development, and Democratization in Russia"
Nominated for the APSA Gabriel A. Almond Award in Comparative Politics
1995: M.A. in Political Science, University of Colorado
1993: B.A. in Politics, Oberlin College
External Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
2004: National Council for East European and Eurasian Research (NCEEER) Research Grant ($20,000)
2003:
Participant and Contributor, "A Program for Collaborative Public
Affairs Education and Research: Oregon State University and Sakhalin
State University (Russia)." U.S. Department of State, University
Affiliations Program ($249,616)
2002: Smith Richardson Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship ($60,000)
2001: American Political Science Association Research Grant ($1000)
2000: World Learning Democracy Fellowship (declined)
1998: National Security Education Project (NSEP) Graduate International Fellowship ($19,100)
1998: Institute of International Education (IIE) Professional Development Fellowship ($6,000)
1992: National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Fellowship ($3,000)
Publications
"Importing Civil Society: Foreign Aid and the Women's Movement in Russia," Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization (Winter 2000).
"Foreign
Aid Funding and the Women's Movement in Russia" (article); "Association
of Crisis Centers for Women"; "Femina"; "The Information Center of the
Independent Women's Forum"; "Karelian Center for Gender Studies";
"Mother's Right Foundation"; "Women's Congress of the Kola Peninsula";
"Women of the Don" (entries) in Norma Noonan and Carol Nechemias, eds. Encyclopedia of the Russian Women's Movement. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.
"Selling Civil Society: Western Aid and the Nongovernmental Organization Sector in Russia," Comparative Political Studies (March, 2002).
Building Democracy in Contemporary Russia: Western Support for Grassroots Organizations. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
University Services
OSU Faculty Senate (2003- current)
OSU Academic Standing Committee (2003 - current)
College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee (2003 - current)
Department of Political Science Awards and Nomination Committee (2001, 2003 - current)
Department of Political Science Budget Committee (2002 - current)
Department of Political Science Search Committee (2001)
