International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) > Competitions

2001 IDRF Program

Recipients

Gariba Boniface Abdul-Korah
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, History
"Migration, Ethnicity, and Uneven-development in Ghana: The Case of the Upper West Region, 1887 to the Present"
Paulina Laura Alberto
University of Pennsylvania, History
"Afro-Brazil: The Meanings and Uses of Africa in Brazilian Public Life, 1930-1988"
Mark Anner
Cornell University, Political Science
"Segmented Production, Networked Solidarity: Labor and Industrial Restructuring in Latin America's Apparel and Auto Industries"
Will Bennis
University of Chicago, Psychology
"Gambling Subcultures and Their Influence on Players' Beliefs about Winning"
Shun Ching Cheris Chan
Northwestern University, Sociology
"Making Insurance a Way of Life: Chinese Cultural Resistance and Global-Local Dynamics in the Creation of a Life Insurance Market in China"
Liviu Chelcea
University of Michigan, Anthropology
"Kinship, Domestic Relations and the Socialist State: Housing Nationalization and Restitution in Romania (1950- )"
Dorothy Grace Davie
University of Michigan, History
"Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: The Everyday Life of Social Science Expertise in the Twentieth Century"
Alexander Colman Diener
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Geography
"One Homeland or Two? Territorialization and the Repatriation Decision Among the Mongolian Kazakh Diaspora"
Theodora Dragostinova
University of Florida, History
"Between Two Motherlands: State Policies and Local Demands for Nationhood within Minority and Refugee Communities in Greece and Bulgaria, 1906-1949"
Devin Alden Fore
Columbia University, German
"All the Graphs, Reportage and Documentary in Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union"
Khaled Furani
City University of New York (CUNY), Anthropology
When Poets Go to Sleep: An Anthropological Inquiry into the Modernizing of Poetic Forms in Arabic
Scott Gehlbach
University of California, Berkeley, Political Science and Economics
"New Democratic Institutions and Corruption in Post-Communist Countries"
Eleonory Gilburd
University of California, Berkeley, History
'To See Paris and Die': Foreign Culture in the Soviet Union, 1956-1968
Kent Steven Glenzer
Liberal Arts
"'Politics is a thing that passes': A Historical Ethnography of Power, Democracy, and Development in the Pondori Flood Plain, Mali, c. 1818-2004"
Kent Steven Glenzer
Emory University, Liberal Arts
"'Politics is a thing that passes': A Historical Ethnography of Power, Democracy, and Development in the Pondori Flood Plain, Mali, c. 1818-2004"
Lila Ellen Gray
Duke University, Anthropology
"Re-sounding History, Embodying Place: Fado Performance in Lisbon, Portugal"
Amy Hanser
University of California, Berkeley, Sociology
"Serving the People: Department Stores and Social Change in Urban China"
Patrick Anthony Hatcher
University of Chicago, Religion
Conversion and Community: Religious Expansion and the Turkic Peoples in the Islamic Discourses of Samanid Central Asia (875-1005 C.E.)
Daniel Hoffman
Duke University, Anthropology
"The Kamajors of Sierra Leone: New Magic and the War-Machine"
Jeff Juris
University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology
"Transnational Activism and the Movement for Global Resistance (MGR) in Spain"
Benjamin Kafka
Stanford University, History
"The Imaginary State: Paperwork & Political Thought in France, 1789-1860"
Cyrius Vukile Khumalo
University of Michigan, History
"Epistolary Networks and the Politics of Cultural Productions in KwaZulu/Natal, 1860-1910"
Neil Kodesh
Northwestern University, History
"Beyond the Royal Gaze: Ganda Clans and the Construction of an African Metahistory"
Yukiko Koga
Columbia University, Anthropology
Modernity and Urban Space in the Cities of 'Manchuria'
Maxim O. Kupovykh
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sociology
"Soviet Union and After: The Study of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics"
Lara Rene Kusnetzky
City University of New York (CUNY), Anthropology
"Forging the State: Identity, Power and Practice in Gejiu's Tin Industry"
Marie Claire Leger
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Communication
Clinical Globalization: Pharmaceutical Research in the Developing World
Cecily Marcus
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
"The Molecular Intellectual: Cultural Magazines and Clandestine Life Under Argentina's Last Dictatorship"
Susan Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Harvard University, History
"Violence in the Politics of Modern Japan"
Justin McDaniel
Harvard University, Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Invoking the Source: Nissaya Manuscripts, Pedagogy and Sermon-making in Northern Thai and Lao Buddhism
Lori R. Meeks
Princeton University, Religion
"Nuns, Court Ladies, and Female Bodhisattvas: The Women of Japan's Medieval Ritsu-school Nuns' Revival Movement"
Lauren Nauta Minsky
University of Pennsylvania, History
"Health and Development in Colonial Punjab: Ecology, Politics and Social Change in Lyallpur District, 1868-1947"
Martin Monsalve
State University of New York (SUNY), History
"Civil(ized) Society and Public Spheres in Multiethnic Societies: Lima, Peru (1850-1880) "
Kwai Hang Ng
University of Chicago, Sociology
"The Common Law in Two Voices: Language and Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong"
Serguei Alex Oushakine
Columbia University, Anthropology
Transitional Subjects: Mother Russia and Her Children
Simone Pulver
University of California, Berkeley, Sociology
Power in the Public Sphere: The Battles between Oil Companies and Environmental Groups in the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations, 1991-2003
Tashi Yangzom Rabgey
Harvard University, Anthropology
Ethnic Identification among Tibetan Migrants in Taiwan
Bhavani Raman
University of Michigan, History
"Social Communication and the Emergence of Modern Publics in Colonial South India, 1790-1850"
Tricia Redeker-Hepner
Michigan State University, Anthropology
"Eritrea and Exile: Trans/nationalism in the Horn of Africa and the United States"
Sarah B. Savant
Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion
"Holy Site in Infidel Land"
Sara Scalenghe
Georgetown University, History
"Medical Discourses on the Body and Gender: The Case of Ottoman Syria"
Sigrid Schmalzer
University of California, San Diego, History
"The People's Peking Man: Popular Paleoanthropology in Twentieth-century China"
Suzanne Simon
New School, Anthropology
US-Mexico Border Health and Environmental Justice Movements: A Case Study of Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Genese Sodikoff
University of Michigan, Anthropology
Madagascar's Forest Labor: The Meaning of Conservation for Low-Wage Workers
Stefan Sperling
Princeton University, Anthropology
"Science and Conscience: Stem Cells, Bioethics, and German Citizenship"
Scott Straus
University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Mukta Singh Tamang
Cornell University, Anthropology
Contested Histories: Identity and Indigenous People's Movement in Nepal
Cihan Tugal
University of Michigan, Sociology
"Islamism among the Urban Poor of Turkey: Religion, Space, and Class in Everyday Political Interaction"
Alexandru I. Vari
Brown University, History
"Commercialized Modernities: A History of City Marketing and Urban Tourism Promotion in Paris and Budapest from the Nineteenth-Century to the Interwar Period."
Sara Elizabeth Watson
University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
"The Politics of Universalism: Pensions and Health Care in Southern Europe"
Jerry Lowell Wever
University of Iowa, Anthropology
"Shaping Creolization and Folklorization Processes: Expressive Culture and Creole Identity in St. Lucia and the Seychelles"