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  • 141. Fellows & Grantees

    Brannon D. Ingram

    Sufism and the Deoband Movement in South Asia and Beyond: Genealogy of a Polemic
    My dissertation examines the Deoband madrasa (Islamic school) of North India, whose curriculum has been copied and adapted by Islamic schools all over the world. Despite the media attention that Deoband has received in recent years, due to the revelation that some Taliban studied…

    Year 2008 University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 142. Fellows & Grantees

    Brenda C. Baletti

    Paving Paradise? Property Rights and Social Mobilization along an Amazonian Highway
    This project will analyze the struggle for property rights along Brazilian Amazonian highway, BR-163. This research is especially important at this particular conjuncture, when a long history of land conflict along the road has been exacerbated by the arrival of soy farmers into…

    Year 2008 University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 143. Fellows & Grantees

    Brenda Jill Elsey

    Promises of Participation: The Political Life of Football in Chile 1920-1970

    Year 2004 University State University of New York at Stony Brook Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 144. Fellows & Grantees

    Brendan Gerard Hart

    Translating Autism: "Knowledge Transfer," Expertise, and Therapeutics of the Self in Morocco
    This is a study of the introduction and reworking of the category autism within quotidian contexts of Moroccan social life. Autism is a novel kind of psychiatric category – distinct from mental illness and retardation – that represents and intervenes in human difference in un…

    Year 2011 University Columbia University Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 145. Fellows & Grantees

    Brendan Joseph McKinney Weaver

    “Fruit of the Vine, Work of Human Hands”: An Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Labor on the Jesuit Wine Haciendas of Nazca, Peru
    This project will archaeologically explore the institutions of coerced labor and slavery and the daily lives and practices of indigenous and African workers and residents on Jesuit wine haciendas in Nazca, Peru’s Ingenio Valley in the 17th and 18th centuries. Through a combinat…

    Year 2012 University Vanderbilt University Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 146. Fellows & Grantees

    Brent Zachary Kaup

    (Un-)Binding Bolivia? Negotiating with "Nature" in an Age of Neoliberal Globalization
    In an era of neoliberal globalization, natural resource extraction presents an intriguing paradox. As many of today’s transnational corporations are attempting to free themselves from the constraints of place, the fact that raw materials are held within, upon, and underneath th…

    Year 2007 University University of Wisconsin, Madison Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 147. Fellows & Grantees

    Brett M. Bennett

    Creating an Indian Ocean Rim Ecosystem: Forestry, Science, and the British Empire 1864-1963
    My dissertation, “Creating an Indian Ocean Rim Ecosystem: Forestry, Science, and the British Empire 1864-1963,” argues that foresters and botanists in British colonies around the Indian Ocean rim attempted to coordinate scientific forestry policies, introduce and grow similar…

    Year 2009 University University of Texas at Austin Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 148. Fellows & Grantees

    Brett Simon Pyper

    Music and the Non-Racial Imagination: Listening to Jazz in a Transitioning South Africa

    Year 2004 University New York University Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 149. Fellows & Grantees

    Brian E. Hanrahan

    Radio, Realism and the Hörfilm, 1923-1933

    Year 2006 University Columbia University Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 150. Fellows & Grantees

    Brian Jacobson

    Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and Early Cinema
    In 1909 the first permanent film studio was established in Los Angeles, California; within a decade the most dominant center of cultural production of the twentieth century would take form a few miles west. As filmmaking in America became identified with a place, Hollywood, its b…

    Year 2009 University University of Southern California Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)