Research by CRES Members
In addition to research described within the Russian and East European Studies pages, the research activities of CRES members located in other Schools includes the following, amongst others:
Professor Peter Gatrell (History, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures)
PhD students:
- Nat Moser (working on a comparative economic history of the Soviet oil industry, 1870 to the present day)
- Junya Takiguchi (working on the Communist Party Congress in Soviet Russia, 1918-1929: organisation, performance and Audience)
- Chris Lash (working on the movement west: the 1944-1946 displacement of Eastern Poles to Post-Yalta Poland)
- Jon Chang (with Professor Yoram Gorlizki; working on a comparative analysis of the Soviet deportation of Koreans in 1937)
AHRC-funded project
Professor Gatrell is PI (with Dr Nick Baron of Nottingham University as co-investigator) for a 9-year project on 'Population Displacements in Eastern Europe and the USSR in the 20th Century'. For details, please visit http://www.popdis.org/
Professor David Fanning (Music, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures)
PhD students
- Ivana Medic (working on Alfred Schnittke and polystylism)
- Robert Ellis (working on émigré Russian symphonists).
Professor Fanning is also responsible for the Quatuor Danel - a string quartet in residence at the University, and currently engaged in performing and recording all 17 string quartets by Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Professor Yoram Gorlizki (Politics, School of Social Sciences)
PhD students
- Elisabeth Schimpfossl (with Dr Lynne Attwood; working on the reproduction of elites in post-communist Russia)
- Jon Chang (with Professor Peter Gatrell, starting in Jan 2008; working on a comparative analysis of the Soviet deportation of Koreans in 1937)
Workshop
Professor Gorlizki is organising a workshop, co-funded by the British Academy and CEELBAS, to be held on 18 and 19 September 2008. It will have twenty participants including tenured professors from Princeton, Harvard and Stanford, six US doctoral students and young faculty, and three Russians, as well as various scholars from Britain (including Catriona Kelly, Alena Ledeneva, Mark Harrison). It arises from the ESRC-funded project 'Networks and Hierarchies in the Soviet Provinces, 1945-1970'; for details, please visit: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/sovietprovinces)