Books by Fellows

Books published by recipients of SSRC fellowships.

Titles

Cover for Your Pocket is What Cures You: The Politics of Health in Senegal Your Pocket is What Cures You: The Politics of Health in Senegal
2010. Ellen Elizabeth Foley

Using a community-level approach, 1998 IDRF Fellow Ellen E. Foley analyzes the implementation of global health policies and how they become intertwined with existing social and political inequalities in Senegal.

Cover for Lesson Study Step by Step: How Teacher Learning Communities Improve Instruction Lesson Study Step by Step: How Teacher Learning Communities Improve Instruction
April 12, 2011.
Cover for Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine
Marc A. Rodwin

As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices.

Cover for In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi`ism, and the Making of Modern In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi`ism, and the Making of Modern
2010. Max David Weiss

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that sectarianism is intrinsically linked to violence, bloodshed, or social disharmony, 2005 IDRF Fellow Max Weiss uncovers the complex roots of Shi`i sectarianism in twentieth-century Lebanon.

Cover for Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
2010. Daromir Antonovych Rudnyckyj

2003 IDRF Fellow Daromir Rudnyckyj's innovative and surprising book challenges widespread assumptions about contemporary Islam by showing how moderate Muslims in Southeast Asia are reinterpreting Islam not to reject modernity but to create a spiritual economy consisting of practices conducive to globalization.

Cover for Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
10/10/2010.
Cover for The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957 The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957
2010. Asif A. Siddiqi

The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science.

Cover for Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico
2010. Natasha Nefertiti Iskander

Morocco's and Mexico's experiences with migration and development policy demonstrate that far from being a prosaic institution resistant to change, the state can be a remarkable site of creativity, an essential but often overlooked component of good governance.

Cover for Global Security Watch - Japan Global Security Watch - Japan
Andrew L Oros ; Yuki Tatsumi

This book provides an overview of Japan's transformation into one of the world's most capable military powers over the past 150 years.

Cover for New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
2008. Hairong Yan

Based on her interviews with young women who migrated from China's Anhui province to the city of Beijing to undertake domestic service for middle-class families--and with employers, job placement agencies, and government officials—1998 IDRF Fellow Yan Hairong explores what these migrant domestic workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Above all, Yan focuses on the domestic worker's self-conceptions, desires, and struggles.