Dr Felix Ciută (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) has been awarded an ESRC/SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, in the Spring term 2010. At SAIS, Felix will conduct research on his project "Lily-Pad Geopolitics: Strategic Representations of Romania in the Global War on Terror".

The Collaborative Visiting Fellowships are designed to enable exchange visits between researchers in the United Kingdom and the Americas in order to foster communication, cooperation and joint research. Fellowships support scholars from the Americas to visit ESRC-supported scholars in the United Kingdom and ESRC-supported scholars from the United Kingdom to visit scholars in the Americas.

See: http://fellowships.ssrc.org/esrc/