International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) > Competitions

2012 IDRF Program

Recipients

Rosemary Admiral
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, History
Approaching Islamic Law: Women, Gender, and Law in Morocco, 1310-1465
Jochen Steffen Arndt
University of Illinois at Chicago, History
Becoming "Xhosa:" German Missionary Linguists and How the Borderland Communities of the Eastern Cape Region of South Africa Became Part of the Xhosa Ethnolinguistic Group, 1830-1930
Teofilo Ballve
University of California, Berkeley, Geography
Territories of Life and Death: Space, Power, and Violence on a Colombian Frontier
Nicholas Barnes
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Political Science
Monopolies of Violence: Gang Governance in Rio de Janeiro
Yesenia Barragan
Columbia University, History
“The Darkest Place in New Granada”: The Abolition of Slavery and the Politics of Place in Chocó, Colombia, 1821-1852
Daniel J. Beben
Indiana University Bloomington, History
Sacred Narratives, Spiritual Authority, and Communal Identity among the Ismailis of Central Asia, 1500-1895
Sandra Botero Cabrera
University of Notre Dame, Political Science
High Courts and Socioeconomic Rights in Latin America
Roberto Chauca Tapia
University of Florida, History
Science in the Jungle: The Missionary Mapping and National Imagining of Western Amazonia
Adriana Chira
University of Michigan, Anthropology and History
Circulating Freedoms: Citizenship Rights and Political Activism around the Gulf of Mexico, 1868-1898
Yasmin Cho
Duke University, Anthropology
Politics of Tranquility: The Religious Practice of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Western China
Rishad I. Choudhury
Cornell University, History
Empire and Self in Early Modern India: Mughals in the Indian Ocean World, c. 1605-1707
Sakura Christmas
Harvard University, History
Earth to Empire: Mongol Lands under Japanese Rule, 1905-1945
April L. Colette
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Geography
Floods, Favors and 'Fixes': The Reproduction of Vulnerability in Santa Fe, Argentina
Kristin A. Dickinson
University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature
Translation and the Production of Modernity: A Turkish German Comparative Analysis
Elizabeth Burns Dyer
University of Pennsylvania, History
The Performance of Politics and the Politics of Performance: Theatre in Postcolonial Kenya, 1978-2002
Melih Egemen
Harvard University, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Imperial Borderlands and Regional Geographies: Russian South Caucasus and Ottoman Eastern Provinces, 1860s-1920s
Kjell David Ericson
Princeton University, Area and Cultural Studies
Inventing the Japanese Pearl: Imperial Coastlines, Global Trade, and the Legal Limits of Nature, 1880-1950
Maria F. Escallon
Stanford University, Anthropology
Cultural Heritage, Maroons and the Politics of Diversity in Colombia and Brazil
Jeremy Ferwerda
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Political Science
Why the Levee Breaks: Explaining Variation in Citizenship Policy
Eric T. Gettig
Georgetown University, History
The United States, Oil, and Revolution in Cuba
Rachel Deborah Gibson
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Literature
Negotiating Space and Self in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Construction of Mercantile Identity in Franco-Italian Literature
Claire M. Gilbert
University of California, Los Angeles, History
Bilingual at the Boundary: The Politics of Translation and Language in Early Modern Spain
Geneviève Godbout
University of Chicago, Anthropology
Taste and Plantation Life in Antigua, ca. 1700-1900
Stefanie Graeter
University of California, Davis, Anthropology
Materiality, Medium, Message: Representational Politics of Lead Science in Central Peru
Christopher Gratien
Georgetown University, History
‘The Mountains Are Ours’: Malaria, Resettlement and Social Change in Ottoman Çukurova (1856-1896)
Fouad Halbouni
Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology
Addressing the Status of Ahl Al-Dhimma in Religious Public Speech in Al-Azbakiya District, Cairo, Egypt
Alysa M. Handelsman
University of Michigan, Anthropology
Blackness, Work, and Repression: Street Children at Play in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Alexander Hazanov
University of Pennsylvania, History
Porous Empire: Foreign Visitors and the post-Stalin Transformation of the Soviet Union
Rebecca Ann Herman
University of California, Berkeley, History
Collaboration and Dissent in the Construction of U.S. Airbases in Cuba and Brazil, 1940-1961
Carter Hawthorne Higgins
Cornell University, Asian Religion
Exchanges with Gods and the Miracles of Capital: Pilgrimage and Development in India
Jang Wook Huh
Columbia University, Literature
Black Radicalism in Korea: Overlapping Dispossessions in Afro-Korean Literary Networks, 1910-1953
Elena Ion
University of California, Berkeley, Art History/Architecture
Repaving Bucharest: Recession, Public Funding, and the Revival of Public Works in Romania’s Capital City
Deborah Alison Jones
University of Michigan, Anthropology
Talk, Text & Land Grabs: Negotiating Place in Eastern Europe's Breadbasket
Ahilan Arasaratnam Kadirgamar
City University of New York Graduate Center, Anthropology
Reconstruction and Dispossession: Landed Relations in Post-war Sri Lanka
Hun Kim
University of California, Berkeley, Urban Planning
Categorical Erosion: Land Capitalization and Governance in Vietnam
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Klaus
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Political Science
Claiming Land: Institutions, Narratives, and Political Violence in Kenya
Sohl C. Lee
University of Rochester, Visual and Cultural Studies
Within and beyond Minjung: The Aesthetics of National Identity and Democratic Participation in South Korean Art (1970-2010)
Seth S. LeJacq
Johns Hopkins University, History of Medicine
“And What do You Know of the Body?”: Monitoring, Disciplining, and Caring for Sailors' Bodies in the British Royal Navy, 1688-1783
Ayala Levin
Columbia University, Art History/Architecture
Nationalizing Modernism: Architectural Expertise in Israeli-African Technical Cooperation (1958-1973)
Chung-En Liu
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology
Construction and Governance of the Global Carbon Commodity Chain
Kristen Loveland
Harvard University, History
Thinking the Future Human: Debates on the Ethics of Diagnostic Reproductive Technologies in Germany, 1946 – 2001
Aman Luthra
Johns Hopkins University, Geography
Modernity's Garb(age): A Political Ecology of Municipal Solid Waste in Delhi
Stephanie Maher
University of Washington, Anthropology
Barça ou Barzakh: The Social “Elsewhere” of Failed Clandestine Migration Out of West Africa
Anca Mandru
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, History
"Socialism of Sentiment": Culture, Progress and Community in the Early Romanian Left (1870-1914)
Emily Marker
University of Chicago, History
The Cultural Politics of Late Colonialism and European Unity: Cultural Transnationalism in Postwar France, 1943-1968
Nada Matta
New York University, Sociology
Gender, Work, and the Family in Egypt
Amiel Melnick
Columbia University, Anthropology
'Black Spots': Roads, Accidents, and Uncertainty in Kenya
Faiza Moatasim
University of Michigan, Art History/Architecture
Making Exceptions: Politics of Place in the Planned Modernist City of Islamabad
Christina Frances Mobley
Duke University, History
The Kongolese Atlantic: Central Africans in the Haitian Revolution
Anat Mooreville
University of California, Los Angeles, History
The War Against Trachoma: Ophthalmology between Jews and Arabs, 1914-1973
Stephanie O'Rourke
Columbia University, Art History/Architecture
Bodies of Knowledge: Girodet, Fuseli, and Spectatorship at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Aileen Robinson
Northwestern University, Drama/Theater and Performance Studies
Technological Wonder: The Theatrical Fashioning of Modern Scientific Knowledge, 1838-1905
Sara Saljoughi
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
Cinema as Novel Vision: Intertextuality and the Iranian New Wave
Stephanie Anne Savell
Brown University, Anthropology
Humanitarian Militarism in Everyday Lives: The Brazilian Human Security Paradigm
Timo H. Schaefer
Indiana University Bloomington, History
Republic of Participatory Coercion: Policing, Army Recruitment, and Labor in the Making of Postcolonial Mexico
Guo Quan Seng
University of Chicago, History
The Birth of the Modern Diasporic Subject: Law, Knowledge, Family Reform and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies (1870-1942)
Hosna Sheikholeslami
Yale University, Anthropology
“Do Books Make Revolutions?”: Publishers, Translators, and the Circulation of Western Philosophy in Iran
Christopher Nicholas Sheklian
University of Chicago, Anthropology
What's “neo-” about “Neo-laicism?” Theological and Legal Developments in the Relationship of the Armenian Community of Istanbul to the Turkish State
Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Columbia University, History
Daring to Ask: The Questionnaire and the Problem of Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth Century British Atlantic Enlightenment
Fiorella Jazmin Sierra
Brown University, Political Science
Brazil Goes Global: The Worker’s Party and the Rise of Brazilian Multinationals
Ian R. Simpson
Stanford University, Anthropology
Producing Market and Muslims: Religious Change and Commercial Culture in Early Islamic Syria-Palestine
Stuart Strange
University of Michigan, Anthropology
Differences to Blame: Narrative, Agency and Responsibility in War, Sorcery, and Suffering in Suriname
Miriam S. Thangaraj
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Educational Policy Studies
The Fabric of Childhood: Silk, Schools, Special Economic Zones
Peter Dewitt Thilly
Northwestern University, History
Treachery on the Coast: Smuggling and Maritime Administration in Fujian, 1795-1937
Christy Thornton
New York University, History
Revolutionary Internationalism: Mexico and the Creation of the Postwar Multilateral System, 1919-1948
Marlee Jo Tichenor
University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology
Transnational Pharmaceutical Governance: Senegal and the Global Fight against Malaria
Jennifer Tucker
University of California, Berkeley, Urban Planning
State Informality in Paraguay's Frontier Economy: Bureaucrats, Border Agents and Entrepreneurial Subjects
Susan B. Vanek
State University of New York at Binghamton, Anthropology
The Cost of Independence: National Identity and Economic Autonomy in Greenland
Srigowri Vijayakumar
University of California, Berkeley, Sociology
Viral Politics: AIDS, Public Health, and Citizenship in India and South Africa
Carol Wang
New School, Anthropology
Entitlement Claims and NGO Professionalization in the Making of the Chinese AIDS Epidemic
Brendan Joseph McKinney Weaver
Vanderbilt University, Anthropology
“Fruit of the Vine, Work of Human Hands”: An Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Labor on the Jesuit Wine Haciendas of Nazca, Peru
Delia Duong Ba Wendel
Harvard University, Urban Planning
Rebuilding after the Genocide in Rwanda: Space and the Ethics of Transition
Kevin Woods
University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Science
Ceasefire Capitalism: Military-Private Concessions, Counterinsurgency, and Territorialization in the Burma-China Borderlands
Christopher Austin Woolley
University of Florida, History
Crown, Colony, and the Forests of New Spain
Adrian L. Yen
University of California, Davis, Anthropology
Psycho-pharmaceuticals and Traditional Medicine in Acholiland: Emerging Forms of Therapeutic Citizenship In Postwar Northern Uganda
Cagri Yoltar-Durukan
Duke University, Anthropology
“Paying the Price”: Moral Economy and Citizenship in the Kurdish Region of Turkey
Amy Zhang
Yale University, Anthropology
Recycled Cities: Remaking Waste in Post-reform Urban China