International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) > Competitions

2000 IDRF Program

Recipients

Ari Adut
University of Chicago, Sociology
"Scandal as Social Form: A Sociological Study of the Political, Financial and Cultural Scandals of the Third Republic"
Richard Seth Akresh
Yale University, Economics
Children at Risk: Economic Motivations of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso
Annalyda Alvarez-Calderon
State University of New York at Stony Brook, History
"Peasant Political Culture, Indigenismo and State-Formation in the Southern Peruvian Andes"
Pratyusha Basu
University of Iowa, Geography
"Linking Green and White Revolutions: Gender Analysis of Dairy Development in Western India"
Anna Barry Bigelow
University of California, Santa Barbara, Relgious Studies
Sharing Saints, Shrines, and Stories: Practicing Pluralism in India
Isolde Brielmaier
Columbia University, Art History
"Picture Taking and the Production of Urban Identities on the Kenyan Coast, 1940-1980"
Daniel Marcelo Brinks
University of Notre Dame, Government and International Studies
"Toll Barriers and Illusory Rights: the Rule of Law in Three Latin American Democracies"
Joel Budd
New York University, History
"Old Age in England, ca. 1590 - ca. 1700"
Deborah Cole
University of Arizona, Linguistics & Anthropology
Iconic Ideologies in Modern Indonesian Poetry
Katherine Dernbach
University of Iowa, Anthropology
"Spirits in Conflict: Gender, Alcohol and Spirit Possession in Chuuk, Micronesia"
Michelle Lynn Dion
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Political Science
"The Progress of Revolution? Mexico's Welfare Regime in Comparative & Historical Perspective"
Kathryn Edgerton
Indiana University, History
"Of Dry Bones and Railroads: Disparate Cultural Responses to Famine in North China, 1876-79"
Alexander Edmonds
Princeton University, Anthropology
"New Markets, New Bodies: An Ethnography of Brazil’s Beauty Industry"
Alisa Eimen
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Art History
Negotiating Identity through Architecture in late 20th-Century Tehran
Sebastian Etchemendy
University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
"Models of Economic Liberalization: Compensating the Losers in Argentina, Spain and Chile"
Tulia Falleti
Northwestern University, Political Science
Governing Governors: Coalitions and Sequences of Decentralization in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico
Heidi Feldman
University of California, Los Angeles, Liberal Arts
"The Selective Memory of Race and Rhythm in Afro-Peruvian Music"
Gillian M. Goslinga
University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness
"Assisted Reproduction through Spirit Possession: The Gendered Politics and Embodiment of in/fertility in Modernizing South India"
Scott Greer
Northwestern University, Political Science
"Elites, States and Nationalists: The Politics of Regional Autonomy in Western Europe"
Maria Gutierrez
City University of New York (CUNY), Anthropology
"Making Markets out of Thin Air: Pioneering Emissions Trading in Costa Rica"
Bruce Stewart Hall
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, History
"Mapping the River in Black and White: Race, Servile Labor and the Struggle over Land in Northern Mali, 1894-1946"
Robert Pendleton Hamrick
University of Chicago, Linguistics
"Sociolinguistic Difference and 'Fractal' Socioeconomic Relations in Sta. Catarina Palopo, Guatemala"
Sean Hanretta
University of Wisconsin, Madison, History
"The Yacoubiste Sufi Order Until 1960"
Helena Hansen
Yale University, Anthropology
"Agency and Addiction: Pentecostal Recovery Movements in Puerto Rico"
Michael John Hathaway
University of Michigan, Anthropology
"Tropical Nature and Local People: Contending Visions in Southwest China"
Khaled Helmy
Harvard University, Government
"The Internal Dynamics of Moderate Islamism: Islamist Intra-Party Conflict and Ideological Contestation in Jordan & Egypt"
Andrew Ivaska
University of Michigan, History
"Negotiating 'Culture' in a Cosmopolitanism Capital: Urban Style, and the Tanzanian State in Colonial and Postcolonial Dar es Salaam"
Walima Kalusa
Johns Hopkins University, History
"Disease and the Remaking of Missionary Medicine in Colonial North-Western Zambia: A Case Study of Mwinilunga District, 1902-64"
Thomas Kuehn
New York University, History
"Shaping Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1872-1919"
Marixa Lasso
University of Florida, History
"Black Republicanism and the Myth of Racial Democracy in Colombia, Cartagena 1808-1830"
Darcy K Leach
University of Michigan, Sociology
"Revisiting the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Direct Democracy in German New Social Movement Organizations"
Yuen-Gen Liang
Princeton University, History
"Family and Power in Early Modern Europe: The Fernandez de Cordoba Lineage, Service, and the Construction of the Spanish Empire"
Hongnan Ma
Cornell University, Anthropology
"'Stepping Down': The Reconstruction of Working Class Identities in Urban China"
Cynthia Miller
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
University of Michigan, Sociology
"Learning to Belong: Citizenship, Schooling and National Identity in Contemporary Germany"
Emma Naughton
New York University, Sociology
"Nostalgia Wars: Post-Conflict Urban Renewal in Lebanon"
Milen Petrov
Princeton University, Near Eastern Studies
"The Vilayet of Danube, 1864-1868: Proactive Imperial Modernization, Popular Reaction and Nation-Building"
Sarah K. Pinto
Princeton University, Anthropology
"Casting Desire: Reproduction, Loss, and Subjectivity in Rural North India"
Pauline Laura Ripat
University of Washington, Classics
"Prophecy and policy in Roman Egypt"
Bryan Keith Ritchie
Emory University, Political Science
"The Political Economy of Technical Intellectual Capital Formation in Southeast Asia"
Andrew Roberts
Princeton University, Politics
"The Politics of Social Policy Reform in Eastern Europe"
Douglas Rogers
University of Michigan, Anthropology
Conversion to Old Belief: Anti-modernity and Anti-individualism in Postsocialist Russia
Robert Rozehnal
Duke University, Religion
"Islamic Sufism Unbound: Tracing Contemporary Chishti Sabiri Identity"
Gregory David Ruiters
Johns Hopkins University, Geography
"Commodified Water, Race and Social Justice in South Africa: A Study of Three Privatisation Experiences in Post-Apartheid South African Municipalities, 1990--2000"
Andrew Sartori
University of Chicago, History
"'Culture' in Bengal, 1870s to 1920s: The Historical Genesis of an Ambivalent Concept"
Nicholas Sawicki
University of Pennsylvania, Art History
"Centering the Periphery: Czech Art Exhibitions and the Search for a Modern Identity in Central Europe, 1900-1914"
Amber Levanon Seligson
Cornell University, Government
"When Democracies Elect Dictators: Motivations for and Impact of the Election of Former Authoritarians in Argentina and Bolivia"
Beate Sissenich
Cornell University, Government
"State-Building by a Non-State: European Union Enlargement and the Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary"
William Douglas Smith
Stanford University, Anthropology
Baroque Modernity: State, Economy, and Socio-Ecology in Totonacapan, 1900-2000
Peter Stamatov
University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology
"The Religious Origins of Long-Distance Humanitarianism: England in Comparative Perspective, 1780-1880"
Tonya Taylor
University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology & Archaeology
"Healing the Trauma of Everyday Life: Un'anga (Traditional Medicine) and Mukondombera (HIV/AIDS) in Chipinge, Zimbabwe"
Kristen Velyvis
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology
"The Social Context of Sexual Networking among Migrant Women in Senegal: Implications for the Spread of HIV"
Sarah Womack
University of Michigan, History
"Colonialism and the collaborationist agenda: Pham Quynh, print culture, and the politics of persuasion in colonial Vietnam."
Emily Yeh
University of California, Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group
"Tibet's Economic Reform: Greenhouse Agriculture and a Hegemony of Tibetan Indolence"