Congratulations go to Natalia Zotova, who was awarded a Mershon Center Graduate Student Research Grant. The grant will help her to conduct the initial research this summer and next winter for her Ph.D. dissertation, focusing on Central Asian immigrants who are relative newcomers to the US. She is especially interested in how they negotiate insecurity.   Specifically, she uses an ethnographic approach and build upon anthropology’s history of work on migration to 1) define how movers perceive security and insecurity in sending and destination communities; 2) describe how security and insecurity differ as Central Asian movers transition from their traditional destinations in Russia (particularly Moscow) to new destinations in the US (including New York City); and 3) identify the role social networks play in the ongoing negotiation of security and insecurity.