International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) > Competitions

2002 IDRF Program

Recipients

Uma Bhrugubanda
Columbia University, Anthropology
Modes of Being in Secular Modern India: Religious Cinema and Its Audiences
Juan Carlos Callirgos
University of Florida, History
"Postcolonial Modernizations of the City of the Kings: Reinventing Lima, Peru, 1850-1930"
Gerard Lucien Chouin
Syracuse University, Anthropology
"Forests of Power and Memory: An Archaeology of Sacred Groves in the Eguafo Kingdom, Coastal Ghana, c. 1400-1900"
Sienna Craig
Cornell University, Anthropology
"Himalayan Healers in Transition: Professionalization and Identity among Tibetan Medicine Practitioners in Nepal"
Elizabeth A. Davis
University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology
The Ethics of Tolerance: Psychiatry, Government, and Historical Subjectivity in Greek Thrace
Murat Ergin
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Sociology
"Construction of National and International Identities in Turkey: The Role of Visiting Western Intellectuals and Theories of Race"
Daniel Fisher
New York University, Anthropology
"Aboriginal Radio: A Political Economy of Speech and Sound in Indigenous Australia"
Susan Frekko
University of Michigan, Anthropology
Language Standardization and National Sentiment in Catalonia
Enrique Garguin
State University of New York at Stony Brook, History
"Europe in the River Plate": Everyday Life, Public Sphere and Race in the Making of the Middle Class in Argentina, 1920-1960
Amber Gove
Stanford University, Economics
"Taking Sides: The Effects of Supply and Demand Driven Policies on Parent Decision Making and Education Investment in Brazil"
Sherine F Hamdy
New York University, Anthropology
"Contested Bodies: Biomedical Technologies, Ethics and Islam in Contemporary Egypt"
Yanique Melanie Hume
Emory University, Anthropology
"Re-Configuring Cubanidad: The Politics of Haitian-Cuban Performance at the Intersection of Nationalism and Tourism in Santiago De Cuba"
Ho Fung Hung
Johns Hopkins University, Sociology
"Dynamics of Social Unrest in Early Qing China, 1645-1795"
Mark William Hunter
University of California, Berkeley, Geography
"'Transactional Sex' and Geographies of HIV infection in South Africa"
Eric Jarosinski
University of Wisconsin, Madison, German
"The Rhetoric of Transparency in the New Berlin: A Critical Genealogy (Adorno, Benjamin, Kracauer)"
Caroline Jeannerat
University of Michigan, Anthropology and History
"Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Zoutpansberg, South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries"
Eric Jepsen
University of New Mexico Main Campus, Political Science
"The Political Economy of Subnational Industrial Promotions in India and Mexico"
Ritu Khanduri
University of Texas at Arlington, Anthropology
Routes of Caricature: Mr. Punch and Cartoon in Colonial India
Tijana Krstic
University of Michigan, History
Narrating Conversion to Islam -- the Dialogue of Texts and Practices in the Early Modern Ottoman Balkans
Axel Lazzari
Columbia University, Anthropology
"Phantoms, Freedom and "Pluralismo": the reemergence of the Rankulche Indians (La Pampa, Argentina)"
Giang Minh Le
Columbia University, Socialmedical Sciences
"Constructing Men and Masculinities along the Ho Chi Minh Highway in Late Socialist Vietnam"
Anna Katharina Maerker
Cornell University, Science and Technology Studies
"Science, the State, and the Model Subject in Enlightened Absolutism: Anatomical Models in Late Eighteenth-Century Tuscany and Austria"
Amanda Minks
Columbia University, Music
"Expressive Practices and Identity Formation among Miskitu Children"
Amira Mittermaier
Columbia University, Anthropology
"A Poetics of the Imagination: Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Contemporary Egypt"
Kelly Amanda Raspberry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Anthropology
"A Cultural Analysis of Assisted Reproduction Practices in Argentina"
Lucio Renno
University of Pittsburgh, Political Science
"Electoral Competition and Information Diffusion in Complex Electoral Environments"
Suk (Steve) Bae Rhee
Yale University, Forestry and Environmental Studies
"Intent and Consequence: Forestry Institutions and Community Management in Indonesia"
Ronit Ricci
University of Michigan, Comparative Literature
Islamic Literary Traditions in Javanese and Tamil
Jennifer Rubenstein
University of Chicago, Political Science
"Just Samaritans? The Politics and Ethics of International Private Aid"
Jeffrey Sallaz
University of California, Berkeley, Sociology
"Divergent Worlds of Work: Structuring the Global Casino in the US and South Africa."
Grace Shen
Harvard University, History of Science
"Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and National Identity in Republican China, 1911-1949"
Asif A. Siddiqi
Carnegie Mellon University, History
"The Rockets' Red Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957"
Lisa Margaret Stevenson
University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology
Life in Question: Knowledge and Ethics in the Debate over Inuit Suicide
Ian Straughn
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"Constructing the 'Abode of Islam' in Medieval Northern Syria: Landscapes, Spatial Practice and the Islamic Discursive Tadition in Early Muslim Society"
Dmitry Suspitsin
Pennsylvania State University, Education
"Private Higher Education in Russia: The Quest for Legitimacy"
Sean P. Takats
University of Michigan, History
"Corrupting Cooks: Domestic Service and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century France"
Emmanuel Teitelbaum
Cornell University, Government
"Rethinking Repression: Political Unions and Economic Development in South Asia."
Christopher Allen Thoms
University of Michigan, Natural Resources & Environment
Self-Mediated Interactions among Community Forestry Actors in Nepal: A Political Ecology of the UK's Livelihoods and Forestry Programme
Jason Throop
University of California, Los Angeles, Anthropology
Culture, Experience, and Chronic Pain on Yap
George R. R. Trumbull IV
Yale University, History
"The Sciences of Man and the Arts of Representation: The Politics of Cultural Knowledge in French Algeria, 1871-1914."
Jun Uchida
Harvard University, History
"'Brokers of Empire': Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1910-1937."
Claire Wendland
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Anthropology and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Making Doctors in Malawi: Local Exigencies Meet Global Identities in an African Medical School
Bjorn Westgard
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Anthropology
"Postcolonial Treatments: Articulating Body, Knowledge, and Community through Maternal and Child Health in Senegal."
Sarah Willen
Emory University, Anthropology
Pregnant and Unwelcome: Undocumented Migrant Workers' Experiences of Reproduction in Israel
Laura Yoder
Yale University, Forestry and Environmental Studies
Custom, Codification, Collaboration: Integrating the Legacies of Land and Forest Authorities in Oecusse Enclave, East Timor