Graduate Methods Training Workshop 2018

On September 14-15, 2018, RSW organized and hosted the "Graduate Methods Training Workshop: Focus on Russia." The GMTW brought together 20 emerging social-science scholars from across the United States to IU's Social Science Research Commons (SSRC), a state-of-the-art facility designed for social scientists. There, students met with over a dozen social-science scholars who led panels and discussions on the practicalities of qualitative and quantitative research in and on Russia. The goals of the workshop were to break down the challenges of doing academic research in Russia and encourage an exchange of ideas and research, thereby making students’ time in the field more efficient and effective and fostering a community of emerging scholars—the next generation of social-science scholars in the United States to advance Russian studies.  

  Program  Participants  Presenters  CFA

Links to Presentations

"Solving 'the problem of linguistic polyphony' : transliteration, truncation, and other tricks of the trade."

Presentation by Kit Condill, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Strategies for Integrating Regional Resources"

Joe Lenkhart, Head of Slavic Reference Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Recommended Strategies: for Participating, Observing, Engaging"

Presentation by Michelle Rivkin-Fish, Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Conducting Research on Sensitive Issues"

Presentation by Svetlana Stephenson, Reader in Sociology at London Metropolitan University

"Media and Discourse Analysis"

Presentation by Kate Graber, Professor of Anthropology and CEUS, Indiana University

"Digital Humanities, Digital Methods"

Kalani Craig, Professor of History and co-director of The Institute for Digital Humanities at Indiana University