Bard College and Russian Independent Media Archive Announce Inaugural Fellowship Recipients
Inaugural RIMA Semester Senior Fellows Elise Giuliano, Andrey Simonov, and George Beknazar-Yuzbashev.
The Russian Independent Media Archive (RIMA), a joint initiative of PEN America and the Gagarin Center at Bard College, has selected its inaugural RIMA fellows. Elise Giuliano, Andrey Simonov, and George Beknazar-Yuzbashev have been named RIMA Semester Senior Fellows. Awarded to senior scholars and researchers who demonstrate a commitment to advancing research on independent Russian journalism and media, Semester Senior Fellowships include a $6,000 stipend and weeklong visit to Bard College. Fellows will collaborate with PEN America and Bard College, participate in a residency, and engage with RIMA-related discussions and events.
Elise Giuliano is senior lecturer in political science, director of the MARS-REERS Program, and director of the Program on US–Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. During her fellowship, Giuliano will delve in the RIMA to analyze independent media articles for insight into ethnic minority populations, ethnic NGOs, and government activity in the republics over the past 10 years. She plans to write and publish academic journal articles about ethnic politics in Russia’s republics as well as incorporate her findings into a project that she is co-organizing at Columbia University, “Russia after Putin,” which is aimed at the US policy community. Researchers Andrey Simonov, who is the Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, and George Beknazar-Yuzbashev, who is a sixth year PhD candidate in economics at Columbia University, will be working together with RIMA to create better ways to identify and measure media bias, misinformation, and disinformation in Russian language media during their fellowship.
Additionally, recipients of the RIMA Course Development Fellowships include Artyom Melnik (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Montenegro), Anastasiya Osipova (University of Colorado, Boulder), Olga Klimova (University of Pittsburgh), and Kirsten Rutsala (Virginia Tech). These grants are designed to support the creation of innovative courses that utilize RIMA's resources to foster critical thinking, media literacy, and a deeper understanding of independent journalism under authoritarian regimes. Fellowships offer $2,000 grants to faculty members integrating RIMA into their curricula, helping to shape the next generation of scholars, journalists, and activists.
Recipients of the RIMA MA and Doctoral Virtual Fellowships include Djurdja Jovanovic Padejski (Arizona State University) and Nikolai Vokuev (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières). These fellowships provide $3,500 stipends for graduate students who incorporate RIMA into their theses. Fellows will have access to RIMA’s extensive resources and expert guidance from Bard College and PEN America to support their research on independent Russian journalism and its historical significance.
In partnership with the Gagarin Center at Bard College and PEN America, RIMA aims to preserve the last three decades of independent Russian journalism, an irreplaceable historical record at risk of erasure as Russian media outlets not aligned with the regime of President Vladimir Putin are shuttered and their reporters and editors are cast into exile. The project was inspired by Masha Gessen, Bard faculty member and former trustee of PEN America, a nonprofit organization that stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide, and was made possible with the support of Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust, advised by PEN America trustee Peter Barbey.
Launched in 2023 with the content from more than a dozen outlets and a half-million entries, the digital archive currently includes over 7,427,800 documents from more than 130 independent national, regional, investigative and cultural news outlets published since President Putin took office in 2000. The archive makes the journalism of this pivotal period accessible to the reporters, historians, political scientists and other researchers whose work counters propaganda-driven manipulation of Russia's historical narrative. The archive is created in collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and the Mass Media Defence Centre. View the Russian Independent Media Archives (RIMA).
Post Date: 12-17-2024
Elise Giuliano is senior lecturer in political science, director of the MARS-REERS Program, and director of the Program on US–Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. During her fellowship, Giuliano will delve in the RIMA to analyze independent media articles for insight into ethnic minority populations, ethnic NGOs, and government activity in the republics over the past 10 years. She plans to write and publish academic journal articles about ethnic politics in Russia’s republics as well as incorporate her findings into a project that she is co-organizing at Columbia University, “Russia after Putin,” which is aimed at the US policy community. Researchers Andrey Simonov, who is the Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, and George Beknazar-Yuzbashev, who is a sixth year PhD candidate in economics at Columbia University, will be working together with RIMA to create better ways to identify and measure media bias, misinformation, and disinformation in Russian language media during their fellowship.
Additionally, recipients of the RIMA Course Development Fellowships include Artyom Melnik (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Montenegro), Anastasiya Osipova (University of Colorado, Boulder), Olga Klimova (University of Pittsburgh), and Kirsten Rutsala (Virginia Tech). These grants are designed to support the creation of innovative courses that utilize RIMA's resources to foster critical thinking, media literacy, and a deeper understanding of independent journalism under authoritarian regimes. Fellowships offer $2,000 grants to faculty members integrating RIMA into their curricula, helping to shape the next generation of scholars, journalists, and activists.
Recipients of the RIMA MA and Doctoral Virtual Fellowships include Djurdja Jovanovic Padejski (Arizona State University) and Nikolai Vokuev (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières). These fellowships provide $3,500 stipends for graduate students who incorporate RIMA into their theses. Fellows will have access to RIMA’s extensive resources and expert guidance from Bard College and PEN America to support their research on independent Russian journalism and its historical significance.
In partnership with the Gagarin Center at Bard College and PEN America, RIMA aims to preserve the last three decades of independent Russian journalism, an irreplaceable historical record at risk of erasure as Russian media outlets not aligned with the regime of President Vladimir Putin are shuttered and their reporters and editors are cast into exile. The project was inspired by Masha Gessen, Bard faculty member and former trustee of PEN America, a nonprofit organization that stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide, and was made possible with the support of Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust, advised by PEN America trustee Peter Barbey.
Launched in 2023 with the content from more than a dozen outlets and a half-million entries, the digital archive currently includes over 7,427,800 documents from more than 130 independent national, regional, investigative and cultural news outlets published since President Putin took office in 2000. The archive makes the journalism of this pivotal period accessible to the reporters, historians, political scientists and other researchers whose work counters propaganda-driven manipulation of Russia's historical narrative. The archive is created in collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and the Mass Media Defence Centre. View the Russian Independent Media Archives (RIMA).
Post Date: 12-17-2024