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Olivia Route

A graduate of UPenn (BA) and Oxford (MSc), Olivia has recently worked for organizations such as People in Need and the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Armenia and a Luce Scholar in Thailand and is excited to dive into Caucasus-related data with CRRC. Her research interests include migration and identity, minority groups, nationalism, and conflict transformation processes.

Sasha Slobodov

Sasha is completing her MA in European, Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining CRRC, Sasha worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy in Canada, a Research Assistant in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, and as an English instructor in Spain. She received her BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia and spent one year abroad studying European Studies at Sciences Po Lyon. Her current research interests include energy geopolitics, civil society and the transition to renewable energy, with a broad regional focus on the South Caucasus, Central Asia and Russia. She speaks English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Julia Xavier

Julia is completing her master’s degree in European and Russian Affairs at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Council Scholarship. Previously, she obtained an Honors Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction at the University of Toronto, having mastered in History and Women and Gender Studies. Her interests include the impact of gender on policy making and the forms of resistance utilized by women in protesting against gendered discrimination. A native English speaker, Julia also has intermediate Russian language skills.

Shaimaa Elhowily

Shaimaa Elhowily holds a BA in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt. During her studies, her research focused on community sustainability and women’s rights. After graduation, she interned in journalism, where her research focused on human rights in the Middle East and the causes of violence in the region. She also wrote about art and community development. In 2018, she researched and published on female genital mutilation. In addition, she has worked as a freelance researcher on anti-Semitism in Egypt for a film production company and as a freelance graphic illustrator.

Lucas Fagliano

Lucas is a MA in European Politics and Society from Leiden University, Charles University and the Jagiellonian University. Through his studies, his research focused on strategic studies and international security, mainly grand strategy and hybrid threats at the EU level. Prior to joining the CRRC, he worked at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS) in national security planning, strategic foresight and hybrid threats. More recently, Lucas joined a working group at the Argentinian Institute for Strategic Studies focusing in the development of grand strategic processes in Argentina. Currently his research interests revolve around hybrid threats preparedness, comparative grand strategy and the political determinants for the formation of grand strategic processes through a mixed methodological approach, where he will explore...

Michael Eric Lambert

Michael holds a doctorate (DPhil) in History and International Affairs from Sorbonne University in collaboration with the INSEAD – Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (BFC’15D), where he focused on political-military affairs in the Eastern Partnership countries. Before joining CRRC, he worked at the French Ministry of Armed Forces as an intelligence analyst (OSINT), the University of Ottawa, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on the CIA (Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room) and the U.S. Department of State involvement in the Caucasus and Central Asia. His research focuses on macroeconomic intelligence and Chinese investments in the South Caucasus, with a particular emphasis on Georgia.

Alexandru Moise

Alex holds a PhD in Political Economy from Central European University. His work investigates how party characteristics, such as ideology and linkages to voters, influenced policy stances and reforms in the health sectors of Eastern and Southern European countries. His current research interests revolve around the social and institutional determinants of health inequalities, as well as individual behavioral determinants of access to healthcare, in Georgia and elsewhere. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Ilia State University’s School of Arts and Sciences, teaching methodology and other topics in Political Science.

Nicholas Barker

Nicholas is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford. His primary research interests are the causes, character and consequences of armed conflict and political violence, and the focus of his doctoral research is the termination and aftermath of separatist armed conflicts in the Caucasus and the Balkans, for which he did field research in Abkhazia, Georgia, Kosovo and Serbia and archival research at the UN. His wider research interests include international security and conflict management, qualitative research methods – in particular field research in conflict-affected areas – and research ethics.

Junior Fellowship