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181. Fellows & Grantees
Ceyda Karamursel
Victims, Tricksters, and Homemakers: The Worlds of Slave Women in the Ottoman Empire, 1789-1922
This project will examine the practice and distinctive features of slavery in the Ottoman Empire throughout the long nineteenth century. It will begin by asking why Ottoman slavery involved mostly women and in what ways female slaves' reception and assimilation into Ottoman soci… -
182. Fellows & Grantees
Chad Elias
Conflicting Visions: Contemporary Art in Post-Civil War Lebanon
In the years following the civil war (1975-90), Lebanon has been split between two opposing attitudes to the past: on the one hand, the desire to obliterate the memory of an ugly and unresolved conflict and, on the other, the effort to commemorate it. While the latter is increasi… -
183. Fellows & Grantees
Charles C. Krusekopf
Land Tenure Institutions and Agricultural Productivity in Post-Reform China
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184. Fellows & Grantees
Charles Patrick Keith
Catholic Vietnam: Church, Colonialism and Revolution, 1908-1945
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185. Fellows & Grantees
Charlotte Marie Walker
Negotiating the State: Entrepreneurship, Bureaucracy, and Corruption in Late Colonial and Independent Cameroon, 1940-1970.
My dissertation examines the growth of the Cameroonian colonial state and the highly complex forms of bureaucratic navigation that emerged in tandem with it through the interactions of local African entrepreneurs with state bureaucracy. This study will investigate the burgeoning… -
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Chika Watanabe
Cultivating Transformation in Burma/Myanmar: Ideals, Knowledge, and Capacity Building Trainings by a Japanese NGO
My project asks: How do international humanitarian and development interventions today increasingly work upon the individual as a site of global governance and transformation? Humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) today emphasize the importance of “capacity buildin… -
187. Fellows & Grantees
Christa van Wijnbergen
The Political Dynamics of Labor Market Reform: Efforts at Change in Germany and the Netherlands, 1982-1995
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188. Fellows & Grantees
Christina Frances Mobley
The Kongolese Atlantic: Central Africans in the Haitian Revolution
My dissertation, “The Kongolese Atlantic: Central Africans in the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804),” examines how enslaved Africans drew on their experiences in Africa to resist chattel slavery in the New World through the most successful slave revolt in history, the Haitian Re… -
189. Fellows & Grantees
Christina S. Yi
Coercive Collaborations: The Production and Reception of Japanese-Language Literature by Korean Writers, 1930s-1980s
In my dissertation project, I examine the rise of Japanese-language literature by Korean colonial subjects during the 1930s and 1940s and its subsequent impact on discourse regarding "national" and "ethnic minority" literature in postwar Japan and Korea. I reevaluate key texts fr… -
190. Fellows & Grantees
Christine J. Mathias
Violent Encounters: The Long Conquest of the Argentine Chaco, 1870-1935
In order to convert a frontier into an economically productive, taxpaying territory and its indigenous occupants into laborers, nineteenth-century states had to maintain a “monopoly of violence.” I will illuminate both material and discursive dimensions of this hegemonic proc…


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