Congratulations to PhD student, Kamal Kariem, winner of the Stephen F. Cohen–Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Fellowship (CTDRF) for his dissertation project (working title: "Believing Conservation: Altering Land Relations and Indigeneity on the Bikin River"). The Stephen F. Cohen–Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program for Russian Historical Studies supports the next generation of US scholars in Russian studies and is sponsored by the KAT Charitable Foundation. The CTDRF program funds PhD dissertation research on 19th - early 21st century Russian historical studies, to be conducted in Russia. The Fellowship provides a stipend of $25,000 and supports 9 - 15 months of research.