Jessica Allina-Pisano

Jessica Allina-Pisano

Jessica  Allina-Pisano

Jessica Allina-Pisano, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Colgate University, earned her Ph.D. in political science in 2003 from Yale University. During her four months at Harvard (September-December 2006), Allina-Pisano will research the topic "The Last Barbed Wire Fence in Europe: State Power and Economy in a Divided Village of Zakarpattia, 1945-2005." She will study how "policies intended primarily to secure state sovereignty reach beyond political life to drive or limit economic opportunities" by looking at the effects of state control on the access of rural peoples to the means of capital reproduction in two villages, Kisszelmenc and Nagyszelmenc, located next to each other but separated by the Ukraine-European Union border.