International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) > Competitions

2004 IDRF Program

Recipients

Margarethe Adams
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ethnomusicology
The Politics of Festival Music in Kazakstan
Sean Sheridan Anderson
University of California, Los Angeles, Art History
In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and Its Representation in Colonial Eritrea, 1897-1941
Robert Winslow Blunt
University of Chicago, Anthropology
"The Kikuyu are Oathing Again": Neotraditionalism, Criminality, and the State in Kenya
Jeremy Brown
University of California, San Diego, History
Between Village and City: Rural-Urban Exchange and Conflict in the People’s Republic of China
Amy J Buono
University of California, Santa Barbara, Art History
Feathered Identities and Plumed Performances: Tupinamba Interculture in Early-Modern Brazil and Europe
Kerry Lee Bystrom
Princeton University, Literature
Family Narratives and National Reconstruction in Argentina and South Africa, 1993-2003
Zeynep Celik Alexander
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Architecture
The Kinesthetic Impulse: Space, Performance, and the Body in German Architecture, 1880-1914
Raina Lynn Croff
Yale University, Archaeology
Village des Bambaras: An Archaeology of Domestic Slavery, Goree Island, Senegal, A.D. 16-19th Centuries
Andrew Jarad Eisenberg
Columbia University, Ethnomusicology
Taarab Music and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Mombasa, Kenya
Brenda Jill Elsey
State University of New York at Stony Brook, History
Promises of Participation: The Political Life of Football in Chile 1920-1970
Hussein Fancy
Princeton University, History
Boundary Crossing, Boundary Making: Christian-Islamic Interaction in the Western Mediterranean (12th - 14th c.)
Guy Geltner
Princeton University, History
Crime and the City Solution: The Prisons of Southern Europe, c. 1250-c. 1400
Dorith Geva
New York University, Sociology
To Father or to Fight? Mass Conscription and the Politics of Masculine Citizenship, France, 1913-1939, and the United States, 1917-1944.
Catherine Helene Guirkinger
University of California, Davis, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Risk, Wealth and Sectoral Choice in Rural Credit Markets
Courtney Jill Handman
University of Chicago, Anthropology
Translating Locality: The Politics of Language and Culture in Papua New Guinea Bible Translation
Wenkai He
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Political Science
Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: A Comparative Historical Study of England (1660-1757), Japan (1868-1895), and China (1850-1911)
Christine M. Hegel-Cantarella
City University of New York Graduate Center, Anthropology
Lawmindedness and Social Mobility in Egypt
Maureen Helen Hickey
University of Washington, Geography
Driving Globalization: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and the Restructuring of Work and Masculinity in Thailand
Dana Gayle Holland
University of Pennsylvania, Education
Socializing Knowledge: The Production and Consumption of Social Science in Malawi
Matthew C. Hunter
University of Chicago, Art History
Robert Hooke Fecit: Making and Knowing in Restoration England
Tori Lee Jennings
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Anthropology
How`s the Weather? Sociocultural Meanings of Weather and Climate in Cornwall, England
Kevin Bradley Johnson
University of Washington, Germanics
Intimate Co-Production: The Czech Component of German cinema, 1918-1945
Graham Jones
New York University, Anthropology
Trades of the Trick: Apprenticeship and Innovation in the Artworld of French Magic
Kathleen Keller
Rutgers University, History
Colonial Suspects: Suspicious Persons and Police Surveillance in French West Africa, 1920-1958
Ruth Helen Kerkham
Harvard University, Art History
Escorting the Object: Performance and its Encore in Zambian Art
Hanan Abdelmohsen Kholoussy
New York University, History
The Making and Marrying of Modern Egyptians: Marriage, Law, and Nationalism in Colonial Egypt, 1898-1956
Jee Young Kim
Harvard University, Sociology
The Impacts of Global Labor-Rights Movements: Focusing on Vietnam`s Footwear and Garment Industries
Christopher Johannes Ksoll
Yale University, Economics
Family Networks, Inheritance and Orphans in Northwestern Tanzania
Amy Lang
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology
Assessing the Impact of Deliberative Processes on Electoral Reform Efforts in Two Canadian Provinces
David J. Mozina
Harvard University, Religion
How to Subjugate a God: The 'Banner-Writing Invocation of General Yin' in Contemporary China
Ngonidzashe Munemo
Columbia University, Political Science
Incumbent Insecurity and the Politics of Entitlement Protection in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Faiza Mushtaq
Northwestern University, Sociology
Teachers, Preachers and Legal Interpreters: Creating Islamic Communities in Modern Pakistan
Ozlem Okur
University of Texas at Austin, Radio-Television-Film
Internet Cafes in the Neighborhood: Politics of Virtuality, Intimacy, and Publicness
Ato Kwamena Onoma
Northwestern University, Political Science
Securing property rights in land: politics on the land frontier in post-colonial Africa
John Lewis Osburg
University of Chicago, Anthropology
Engendering Wealth: China`s New Rich and the Rise of an Elite Masculinity
Lorraine Daniels Plourde
Columbia University, Anthropology
Difficult Music: Discursive Economies of Knowledge, Listening and Performance within Tokyo's Experimental Music Community
Amanda Barrett Poole
University of Washington, Anthropology
Inventing locality: Returnees and reconstruction of the Eritrean social landscape
Brett Simon Pyper
New York University, Ethnomusicology
Music and the Non-Racial Imagination: Listening to Jazz in a Transitioning South Africa
Guillaume Ratel
Cornell University, History
Of Law, Society, and Justice: the judicial practices of the magistrates of the Parlement de Toulouse (1550-1700)
Jennifer Ann Riggan
University of Pennsylvania, Education
Identity, Knowledge, Work: the Role of Teachers in Constructing the Eritrean Nation-State
Jason Seawright
University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
Party System Collapse in South America: Voters, Party Organization, and Adaptation
Maud Seghers
Columbia University, Education
Re(con)figuring the state in Ghana and Senegal
Nitzan Shoshan
University of Chicago, Anthropology
Conflicts and Domination over Social Space in Post-Reunification East Berlin
Jessica Leigh Stites
Yale University, History
Screening the Transition: Cultural Politics of the Argentine Film Industry at the End of the Dirty War, 1983-1989
Alejandro Velasco
Duke University, History
From Democratic Revolution to Massacre in Venezuela: Popular Consciousness and the Emergence of the Multitude in Caracas, 1958-1989
Rupa Viswanath
Columbia University, Religion
"The Pariah Problem:" Missionaries, State Intervention and Dalit Mobilisation in Colonial South India, 1880-1925
Tanya Nicole Weimer
Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese
Beyond the Imperial Gaze: The Cuban Diaspora in Mexico
James Michael Weir
City University of New York Graduate Center, Anthropology
Making Everyday Life in the Context of Conflict: Practices of Music, Chess and Gardening in Herat, Afghanistan
Vanessa Katharina Angela Will
University of Michigan, Anthropology
The Semiotics of Socialization: Gaelic-Medium Education and Language Revival in Scotland