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11. Fellows & Grantees
Adrian L. Yen
Psycho-pharmaceuticals and Traditional Medicine in Acholiland: Emerging Forms of Therapeutic Citizenship In Postwar Northern Uganda
Today in the Acholi region of post-conflict northern Uganda, international peacebuilding initiatives intersect with national health reforms to make generic psychotropic drugs, like benzodiazepine—an anti-anxiety drug, an important part of the care that government hospitals and… -
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Adriana Chira
Circulating Freedoms: Citizenship Rights and Political Activism around the Gulf of Mexico, 1868-1898
During the Cuban War of Independence (1868-1898) and U.S. Reconstruction, U.S. and Cuban Afro-descendants transformed regional commercial networks and port cities on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, which had traditionally sustained Caribbean plantation economies, into an infrast… -
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Adriana Valencia
Migration and the City: Early-seventeenth century urban history in Granada, Valencia, Rabat, and Tetouan
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14. Fellows & Grantees
Ahilan Arasaratnam Kadirgamar
Reconstruction and Dispossession: Landed Relations in Post-war Sri Lanka
In May 2009, a three decade long civil war came to an end in Sri Lanka. Its war-torn areas are now under reconstruction; a process led by state infrastructure development. While the livelihoods of rural people of Jaffna, the war-torn, predominantly Tamil district in northern Sri… -
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Ahmad Amara
Echoes of Legal Pasts: Landed Property Relations in the Negev, 1858-1948
My dissertation research aims to explore the interplay of geography and law in a relational way in the Negev, now part of Israel, under two different regimes: the late Ottoman, since the enactment of the Ottoman Land Code (1858-1917), and the British Mandatory (1917-1948). Lookin… -
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Ahmed Ali Sharif-abdinasir
Authoritative Scriptural Interpreters: An Anthropology of Islam
Shortly after the collapse of the central government in Somalia in 1990, there began to sprout up clan-based Islamic or Shari'a courts in southern Somalia. The courts began a process of centralization which culminated in the formation of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in 2004. By… -
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Ahmed El Shamsy
The Role of Legal Maxims in the Development of Islamic Law
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18. Fellows & Grantees
Aidan A. H. Forth
The Origins of the Camp: Violence and Humanity in the British Empire, 1830-1902
Usually associated with the totalitarian regimes of the mid twentieth century, concentration camps first appeared during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). My project traces the development of the concentration camp in British imperial practice. By exploring the affinities between… -
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Aileen Robinson
Technological Wonder: The Theatrical Fashioning of Modern Scientific Knowledge, 1838-1905
What was the impact of social and cultural modes of transmission upon the creation of modern scientific knowledge? My dissertation investigates the influence of nineteenth-century public performance on the communication and utilization of scientific and technological knowledge. -
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Aisha K. Finch
Junctures of Insurgency: Cuban Slaves and the Conspiracy of La Escalera, 1843-1844


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