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DPDF Student Fellowship Competition 2009

The third DPDF Program offered training in preparing dissertation research and funding proposals to student fellows. The 12 student fellows who participated in each field were drawn  from 33 universities and 19 disciplines or interdisciplinary studies (including history, sociology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, geography, architecture, education, art history, environmental studies, political science, law and society, religious studies, sociomedical studies, urban studies, english, and economics, and others).  The 60 fellows were selected from 392 applicants.

For information about the fields, field research directors, fellow projects, and workshop agendas, please browse the links below.

DPDF Research Fields

Critical Agrarian Studies
Field Directors:
  • Marc Edelman, Professor, City University of New York Graduate Center, Anthropology
  • Wendy Wolford, Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor, Cornell University, Development Sociology
Cultures & Histories of the Human Sciences
Field Directors:
  • Emily Martin, Professor, New York University, Anthropology
  • Elizabeth Lunbeck, Professor, Vanderbilt University, History
Empires of Vision
Field Directors:
  • Martin E. Jay, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, History
  • Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor, Duke University, History
Revitalizing Development Studies
Field Directors:
  • Ben Ross Schneider, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Political Science
  • Andrew Schrank, Associate Professor; Graduate Chair & Advisor, University of New Mexico, Sociology
State Violence
Field Directors:
  • Ivan Ermakoff, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology
  • Stathis Kalyvas, Arnold Wolfers Professor, Yale University, Political Science