Dr. Nadezhda Chvedova, a distinguished scholar at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, has been selected to be at Trinity College as a Scholar-in-Residence. This has been made possible through an award to Trinity College granted by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. During her tenure at Trinity, Dr. Chvedova will be affiliated with Trinity's International Migration: Women's and Children's Issues certificate program that is housed within the college's programs in International Affairs. She will be on campus in 2003.

Dr. Chvedova will work with both post-graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. She will teach: "Post-Cold War Migration and Russia: Women's and Children's Issues in a Gender Mirror." This course, INS 585, will be offered as an elective in Trinity's International Migration certificate program. Enrollment in the course, cross-listed in the schedule as INS 385, will be open not only to certificate program students, but also to students with a junior or senior standing who are majoring in any social science discipline. Students enrolled at colleges and universities that are members of the Consortium of Universities in the Washington Metropolitan Area who fulfill this pre-requisite will be eligible to enroll as long space is available.

In addition to her marquee migration course, Dr. Chvedova will teach an undergraduate seminar on democratization and the status of women in Russia.

Dr. Nadezhda Chvedova comes to Trinity College with impressive research and teaching credentials. She holds a Doctor of Sciences in Political Science and Ph.D. in World History and Political Science, both from the Institute of the USA and Canada Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. She also has a degree in history from the Moscow State University.

Dr. Chvedova is the author of a number of publications that focus on gender, human rights, refugee, and migration issues. Her most recent publication is "Simply about the Complex: Gender Education," published in 2002 by the Antikva Press in Moscow. As a leading researcher in Russia, Dr. Chvedova has been instrumental in developing frameworks for the analysis of gender and development issues in the post-Soviet Union period. She has researched issues and lectured on gender equity, Russian women in the mass media, women and violence in Russia, and the emergence of women in Russian politics and parliament. In 1999, Dr. Chvedova was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Russian Academy of Sciences in recognition of her pioneering research.

In addition to her work at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Chvedova has taught at the Central Order of Lenin Institute for Advanced Medical Studies. She has also lectured at the Harrisburg campus of Pennsylvania State University and at Augsburg College in Minnesota, and has reviewed numerous Master and Doctorate theses.

Dr. Chvedova's professional activities include affiliation with the Gender in Development Bureau of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), along with membership in the International Women's Forum and in the Russian Duma's Council of Experts of the Committee on Women, Family and Young People. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the Gender Section of the Russian Association of Political Scientists.

For more information, contact Programs in International Affairs at 202-884-9514 or InternationalAffairs@trinitydc.edu.