SSRC Fellows Funded for Environment Research
Published on: Nov 13, 2007

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Past Fellows

SSRC fellowship and grant programs have provided support and professional recognition to over 60 innovative projects especially from younger researchers whose work and ideas have had and will continue to have longer-term impact on how society and scholarship interact with the environment. The following list of alumni fellows is drawn largely from the International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program and the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) program.

2007

  • Nikhil Anand
    Anthropology, Stanford University
    2007, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    The Social Life of Water: The Limits of the Commodity and its Neoliberal State.
  • Andy Bruno
    History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    2007, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    An Environmental History of Russian and Soviet Modernization Efforts, 1861-1941.
  • Joshua Dimon
    Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
    2007, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Strategic Institutions and Collaborative Extractives? A Paradox of Fossil Fuel Development and Community Based Natural Resource Management in Mozambique.
  • Brent Kaup
    Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    2007, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    (Un-)Binding Bolivia? Negotiating with "Nature" in an Age of Neoliberal Globalization.
  • David Lansing
    Geography, Ohio State University
    2007, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Farming Carbon, Sequestering Livelihoods: The Dynamics of Carbon Markets in Costa Rican Indigenous Communities.
  • Katharine Meehan
    Geography, University of Arizona
    2007, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Greywater and the Grid: Analyzing Wastewater Reuse in Tijuana.
  • Oriol Mirosa
    Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    2007, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    The Global Water Regime, National Water Policy, and Social Movements in Bolivia and South Africa.
  • Alexander Nading
    Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    2007, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Dengue in the Landscape: Waste Management and Disease Ecologies in Urban Nicaragua.

2006

  • Virginia Breedlove
    African History, Johns Hopkins University
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Landscape and Livelihood in the Lake Chad Basin: A Social History of Environmental Change in Eastern Niger and Northeastern Nigeria Since 1968.
  • Steven C. Caton
    Anthropology, Harvard University
    2007, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Faculty Research Director
    Water Sustainability: Society, Politics, Culture
  • Christopher City
    Geography, Clark University
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Constructing Drought: Law, Land Use, and Water Sustainability.
  • Cari Coe
    Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
    2006, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Land Classification and Allocation on the Edge of Vietnam's Protected Forests.
  • Tessa Farmer
    Social Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Water and Oasis: Social Meanings and State Administration of Water in the Egyptian Oasis of Siwa.
  • David Ghertner
    Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley
    2006, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Green Evictions: The Politics of Land Privatization and Access in Delhi.
  • Angelia Haro
    Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Water and Promises of Utopia in Development Discourse and Practice.
  • Richard Hopkins
    History, Arizona State University
    2006, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Engineering Nature: Public Greenspaces in Nineteenth-century Paris.
  • Jessica Lage
    Geography, University of California, Berkeley
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    The role of water in rural land-use transformations in Spain.
  • Hao Nguyen
    Urban Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    The urbanization of water: Planning for adequate water services in cities of the developing world - The case of Vietnam.
  • Benjamin S. Orlove
    Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis
    2007, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Faculty Research Director
    Water Sustainability: Society, Politics, Culture
  • Maya Peterson
    History, Harvard University
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    An Environmental History of Central Asia in the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries.
  • Lisa Pfeiffer
    Economics, University of California, Davis
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Sustainability, Equity, and Growth: The Role of Water Markets in Mexico.
  • Julio Postigo
    Geography, University of California-Davis
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Andean herders' responses to changing water availability.
  • Sandra Ruckstuhl
    Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Socio-political Dynamics of Water Security: Understanding Institutions and Incentives for Improved Conflict Prevention and Sustainability.
  • Sarah Wise
    Anthropology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    2006, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Fluid Boundaries: Marine Protected Areas and Shifting Perceptions of Seascapes.

2005

  • Toshi Arimura
    Economics, Sophia University
    2005, Abe Fellowship Program - Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor
    Environmental Policy Instruments to Promote Technological Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Japanese Experiences.
  • James Barsimantov
    Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
    2005, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Testing the Role of Community Forestry in Conserving Mexico's Pine-Oak Forests.
  • Jeffrey Broadbent
    Sociology, University of Minnesota
    2005, Abe Fellowship Program - Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor
    Reciprocity and Negotiation on Diffuse Risks: Climate-Change Policy Networks in Japan, the United States, Germany and Austria.
  • Roseann Cohen
    Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
    2005, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Migrating Ecologies: Homegarden Practice Among Displaced Persons from Rural Chocó, Colombia, Resettled in the City of Cartagena, Colombia.
  • Claudio Ferraz
    Economics, University of California, Berkeley
    2005, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    The Impact of Globalization on Environmental Choices: Evidence from Brazilian Manufacturing Firms.
  • Joshua Muldavin
    Geography, Sarah Lawrence College
    2005, Abe Fellowship Program - Faculty Fellow, Luce Junior Professor of Human Geography and Asian Studies
    Conservation, sustainability and poverty alleviation in China: the role of Japanese environmental ODA in China's development.

2001 - 2004

  • Tori Jennings
    Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    2004, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    How's the Weather? Sociocultural Meanings of Weather and Climate in Cornwall, England.
  • Sandra Baptista
    Geography, Rutgers University
    2003, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Forest Turnaround, Suburban Sprawl, and Environmental Injustice in Southern Brazil.
  • Joseph Bryan
    Geography, University of California, Berkeley
    2003, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Map or Be Mapped: Resource Politics and Indigenous Land Claims in Eastern Nicaragua.
  • Mark Carey
    History, University of California, Davis
    2003, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Grappling with Glaciers: Climate Change and Society in the Peruvian Andes, 1941-2002.
  • Koichi Hasewaga
    Sociology, Tohoku University
    2003, Abe Fellowship Program - Faculty Fellow, Professor
    Green Energy Politics and Civil Society: Sociological Analysis of Strategies and Effects of Environmental NGOs on Macro, Meso and Micro level in Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands.
  • Hwa-Jen Liu
    Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
    2003, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Labor or Environment? The Configurations of Social Movements in Two Newly Industrializing Countries.
  • Bradford Martin
    History, Northwestern University
    2003, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Landscapes of Power: Native Peoples, National Parks and the Making of a Modern Wilderness in the Hinterlands of North America, 1940-1990.
  • Shinya Murase
    Law, Sophia University
    2003, Abe Fellowship Program - Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor
    The Search for an Alternative International Regime on Climate Change: Kyoto Protocol and Beyond.
  • Neera Singh
    Resource Development, Michigan State University
    2003, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Democratizing Forest Governance: Emergent Community Forestry Federation in Orissa, India.
  • Scott Voorhees
    Environmental Science, Office of Air Quality Planning/ Department of Occupational Health, U.S. EPA /National Institute of Public Health
    2003, Abe Fellowship Program - Fellow, Environmental Scientists
    Urban Air Quality Management in the Context of Developmental Constraints: Diverging Approaches to Controlling Particulate Matter Pollution in the Pacific Rim.
  • Leo Zulu
    Geography, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
    2003, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Re-Scaling Conservation: The Political Econology of Community-Based Forest Management in Southern Malawi.
  • Gerard Chouin
    Archaeology, Syracuse University
    2002, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Forests of Power and Memory: An Archaeology of Sacred Groves in the Eguafo Kingdom, Coastal Ghana, c. 1400-1900.
  • Sayuri Shimizu
    History, Michigan State University
    2002, Abe Fellowship Program - Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor
    The Evolution of Ocean Resource Management Regimes in the North Pacific, 1930-1977.
  • Laura Yoder
    Environmental Studies, Yale University
    2002, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Contesting Custom: Sifting the Legacies of Land and Resource Claims in East Timor.
  • Lauren Nauta
    History, University of Pennsylvania
    2001, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Health and Development in Colonial Punjab: Ecology, Politics and Social Change in Lyallpur District, 1868-1947.
  • Simone Pulver
    Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
    2001, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Pipelines of Politics: the Multiple Roles of Transnational Oil Corporations in the Climate Debates.
  • Suzanne Simon
    Anthropology, New School University
    2001, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    US-Mexico Border Health and Environmental Justice Movements: A Case Study of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
  • Genese Sodikoff
    Anthropology, University of Michigan
    2001, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Madagascar’s Forest Labor: the Meaning of Conservation for Low-Wage Workers.

1991 - 2000

  • Pratyusha Basu
    Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City
    2000, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Linking Green and White Revolutions: Gender Analysis of Dairy Development in Western India.
  • Michael Hathaway
    Anthropology, University of Michigan
    2000, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Tropical Nature and Local People: Contending Visions in Southwest China.
  • Susan Crate
    Ecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    1999, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    The Cultural Ecology of a Post-Socialist Society: The Case of the Vilyui Sakha.
  • James Straker
    Anthropology, Emory University
    1999, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    The Fate of an African Revolutionary Curriculum: Forest Youth and the Cultural Production of Guinean Nationalism.
  • Jennifer Gaynor
    Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
    1998, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Liquid Territory and the Place of 'Sea People': Storied Pasts and Constructed Spaces in the Straits of Tiworo, Indonesia.
  • Stephanie Rupp
    Anthropology, Yale University
    1998, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Reconsidering Relations in the Lobeke Forest, Southeastern Cameroon: Ethnicity and Ecology of the Bangando.
  • Jennifer Sowerwine
    Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
    1998, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Property, Gender, and Power: Ideological and Ecological Transformations of Highland Vietnam.
  • Yuka Suzuki
    Anthropology, Yale University
    1998, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    State Imaginings and the Discourse of Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe.
  • Laura B. Campbell
    Law, Environmental Law International
    1997, Abe Fellowship Program - Fellow, Director
    Global Climate Change: The Roles of Japan, the United States and China.
  • Diana K. Davis
    Geography, University of California, Berkeley
    1997, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Overgrazing the Range? The Political Ecology of Pastorialists' Ethnoveterinary Knowledge and Ecological 'Rationality' in Morocco.
  • Tamar L. Gutner
    Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    1997, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Banking on the Environment: Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and Environmental Policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe.
  • Nelson C. Hancock
    Anthropology, Columbia University
    1997, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) - Graduate Student Fellow
    Land Use, Land Claims and the Politics of Indigenous Identities in Kamchatka, Russia.
  • James Marsh
    Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    1993, Abe Fellowship Program - Faculty Fellow, Professor and Chair
    Japanese-American Marine Resources: Environmental Leadership on the North Pacific.
  • Fumiaki Kubo
    Law, Keio University
    1991, Abe Fellowship Program - Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor
    U.S. Environmental Politics under the Divided Government: The Issue Network and the Institutional Movement.
 
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