[Uwhistory] EVENT TOMORROW: The Positional Understanding of Ethnicity (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:28:59 -0700
From: Near Eastern Languages <neareast at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: EVENT TOMORROW: The Positional Understanding of Ethnicity (fwd)


The Positional Understanding of Ethnicity



Dr. Maxim Barbashin

Thursday May 31, 2007

Denny Room 215, 4:00 pm



Maxim Barbashin is Visiting Scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and Research Fellow of the
2007 U.S. - Russia Experts Forum, a Program of the Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, implemented by IREX. He is
a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for System and Regional Studies and
Prognosis at the South Federal University in Rostov-on-Don (Russia).
Barbashin received a master's degree from the Philology and Regional Studies
Departments at Rostov State University in 2003 and his Ph.D. from the
Department of Sociology at Rostov State University in 2005. Barbashin has
received multiple rewards for his work, including a gold medal from the
Russian Academy of Sciences for a series of publications that he authored on
the topic of ethno-political conflicts. He was a recipient of a Carnegie
Research Fellowship in 2004-2005 and has experience working on the World
Bank South Russia Service Delivery Project and on a series of Caucasus
Academic Projects under the patronage of the Critical Sociology Network in
Georgia. Barbashin has published extensively on various topics dealing with
social structure, institutional and ethnic conflicts.



This event is sponsored by the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and
Central Asian Studies. For more information call 206-543-4852 or email
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