AISEES Fellows

Sarah Craycraft (2019 Fellow) – Ohio State University. Young in the village: Place, generation, and the project of rural revival in Bulgaria

Dhurata Osmani (2019 Fellow) – University of California, Berkeley. Fighting For Their Rights: Analyzing the Feminist-Based NGO Boom in Post-War Kosovo

Claire Weiss (2019 Fellow) – University of Virginia. Roman Colonial Urbanism Project – A Cross-Mediterranean Archaeological Comparison

Cameron Mailhot (2020 Fellow) – Cornell University. The International Determinants of Political Trust in Contemporary Kosovo

Marina Mandrikova (2020 Fellow) – Temple University. Crime and Punishment: Images of Sinners and the Power of the Visual in Byzantine and Slavic Monumental Painting

Suzana Vuljevic (2020 Fellow) – Columbia University. The Crisis of Spirit: PanBalkan Idealism, Transnational Cultural Diplomatic Networks and Intellectual Cooperation in Interwar Southeast Europe, 1930-1941

Marlo Buser (2021 Fellow) – Michigan State University. Law as Mediator and Instigator: Ethnicity and the Law in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Alexandra Karppi (2021 Fellow) – Columbia University. Government Hostility Towards NGOs in Croatia Since 1991

Alexandra Zaremba (2021 Fellow) – American University. Curating Yugoslavs: Museums, Culture, and Identity in Socialist Yugoslavia

Erina Baci (2022 Fellow) – University of Michigan. Settlement and Mobility in Western Kosovo during the Late Bronze through the Early Iron Age (1450-800 BC)

Mary Shiraef (2022 Fellow) – University of Notre Dame. Hoxha’s Grand Experiment on the Greeks of Albania: the Politics of Minority Identity Transmission Before, During and After a Communist Dictatorship

Sterling Wright (2022 Fellow) – Penn State University. Oral microbiomes of archaeological and living populations in Romania, Serbia, Portugal, and Georgia (Mesolithic to the Present)

Jelena Bogdanovic (2023 Lynn Roller Senior Fellow) – Vanderbilt University. Byzantine Architecture and the Human Body between Iconicity and Chôra

Elana Resnik (2023 Lynn Roller Senior Fellow) – University of California, Santa Barbara. To Love a River Toxic: Nuclear Ecologies and the Racial Politics of Green Energy

Andrew Kaiser (2023 Fellow) – New York University. Plague Frontiers: Policing Peoples along Austria’s Sanitary Cordon in the Balkans, 1776-1857

Patrick McKenzie (2023 Fellow) – University of Colorado at Boulder. Migration Anxieties: Differential Imagination and Treatment of Ukrainian and Syrian Refugees in Not-Fully-EU Bulgaria

Patrick Willett (2023 Fellow) – University at Buffalo, SUNY. Contextualizing the Neolithic sites of the Korça plain in southeast Albania

Emil Kerenyi (2024 Lynn Roller Senior Fellow) –United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Violence and the City: Urban Change, Memory, and Forgetting in Novi Sad

Ols Lafe (2024 Lynn Roller Senior Fellow) – Center for the Development of Ancient and Medieval Albanian Heritage. Archaeological Research at Olympe (Mavrovë), Albania

Sarah Craycraft (2024 Fellow) – Harvard University. Vorbe Din Viatsa: Preserving the Vlashki Language in Northwestern Bulgaria

Vladislav Lilic (2024 Fellow) – Vanderbilt University. Laboratory of Statehood: Empire, Law, and International Order in the Balkans, c. 1830-1912

Hannah Quaintance (2024 Fellow) – University at Buffalo, SUNY. Preserving Archaeological and Agricultural Heritage in the Korça Plain, Albania