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Junior Fellowship

The CRRC-Georgia Junior Fellowship Program (JFP), launched in 2009, is a 5-9 month program offering extensive work experience and training to selected fellows. It is a unique opportunity for social science-oriented youth looking to gain skill sets that are largely missing in Georgia, such as the ability to analyze complex issues quickly and comprehensively, proficiency in essential computer programs (including statistical programs), and the opportunity to work with extraordinarily experienced and committed colleagues and superiors. Junior Research Fellows are required to contribute to complex research projects on issues that are important to Georgia's future, write analytical policy papers, be active team members, and work hard.

Bennett Clifford

Bennett recently received a BA degree in Politics and International Affairs from Wake Forest University. He will start an MA degree in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) in 2018. Previously, Bennett worked at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS). His research interests include terrorism, sub-state conflict, counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism, with a focus on the Caucasus region.

Izzi Whelan

Isabelle has an MA in Area Studies from the University of London and an undergraduate degree in Politics and International Relations. She has worked as a writer and editor at various non-governmental organisations including the United Nations in Jerusalem and the Red Cross in London. Before joining CRRC she was an editor in the research impact team at University College London. Her research interests include mechanisms for government accountability, and the use of research by civil society and policymakers.

Elizabeth Hunter

Elizabeth received an MS degree in resource economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a specialization in applied econometrics and energy policy. Throughout her academic career she maintained an interest in and taken courses related to economic development and the former Soviet Union. She first came to Georgia in 2012 after completing her undergraduate degree to teach English. Her research interests include property rights and the adoption of renewable energy technology in transition economies.

Sashenka Lleshaj

Sashenka holds an M. Sc. in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford where she studied as an Open Society Foundation Scholar. She previously completed her B. A. in Political Science at the University of Tirana and her B. A. in International Relations at the European University of Tirana. After completing her studies, she joined the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS) as a Think Tank Fund Fellow through the Think Tank Young Professional Development Program for MA and PhD Graduates 2013-2014. During this period she has been working on the Western Balkans’ EU accession process as well as on Albanian citizens’ perceptions about domestic and regional issues. Sashenka’s research interests are mainly related to...

Joseph Larsen

Joseph holds an M.A. degree from Central European University where he focused on the economic transition from central planning to the market system in post-Communist states. Prior to joining CRRC he worked in the fields of education and marketing, in addition to dabbling in freelance writing and even doing some construction work along the way. His research interests include the relationship between political economy and geopolitics as well as the impact of globalization on the efficacy of public policy. After spending a few years in Hungary he is thrilled to experience living Georgia for the first time.

Emily Knowles

Emily Knowles is in the final stages of a master’s degree in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh (UK). She also holds a First Class bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from the University of Surrey (UK), for which she was awarded the French prize for academic excellence. Emily is completing a combined research placement of six months at the Caucasus Research Resource Center and the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies in Tbilisi. Her interests include territorial disputes, land claims, identity narratives, securitization and methodologies for conflict analysis. Her fellowship will culminate in two papers; one on the securitization of disputed borders and one on methodologies for stress-testing territorial conflict, to be presented at...

Dustin Gilbreath

Dustin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Skidmore College. Prior to joining CRRC, he worked as an English teacher, freelance writer, editor and translator, and then as a lecturer in tourism geography at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. His research interests include the anthropology of politics and economic anthropology. He is particularly interested in discourse, shifts in discourse, and its embodiment in Georgia and Georgian politics. Dusting speaks English and Georgian.

Louis-Philippe Campeau

Louis-Philippe holds a BA in History from the University of Ottawa, where he focused on Russian history and the impact of ideologies. He also spent a year working for the Canadian military archives in Ottawa. Taking a career brake, he spent the next two years travelling through the ex-USSR by bicycle in order to better understand its people and cultures. This journey brought him to Tbilisi, where he is now doing independent research on the impact that alternative ideologies (neither Bolshevik nor Menshevik) had on the events leading to the 1918-1921 period of independence. He speaks French, English and Russian and is studying Georgian.
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