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  • 911. Fellows & Grantees

    Sigrid Schmalzer

    "The People's Peking Man: Popular Paleoanthropology in Twentieth-century China"

    Year 2001 University University of California, San Diego Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 912. Fellows & Grantees

    Simone Pulver

    Power in the Public Sphere: The Battles between Oil Companies and Environmental Groups in the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations, 1991-2003

    Year 2001 University University of California, Berkeley Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 913. Fellows & Grantees

    Siri Suh

    The Paradox of Post-Abortion Care (PAC): Health Professionals and the Medicalization of a Quasi-Legal Practice in Senegal
    Abortion laws in Senegal, a predominantly Muslim nation, are among the most restrictive in sub-Saharan Africa. Nevertheless, Senegalese medical professionals in government health facilities regularly practice abortion. My research seeks to explore how health professionals manag…

    Year 2010 University Columbia University Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 914. Fellows & Grantees

    Smoki Musaraj

    When and What is Corruption: A Case Study from Postsocialist Albania
    In recent years, an emerging global anti-corruption campaign has defined corruption as a breach of a universal ethic of impersonal transactions. Albania is defined as one of the world's most corrupt countries; development agencies point to bribery and "cultures of gift and favors…

    Year 2008 University New School Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 915. Fellows & Grantees

    Sohini Kar

    Creditable Lives: Microfinance, Development and Financial Risk in India
    Proponents of microfinance contend that financial inclusion mitigates socio-economic disparities by incorporating the poor into more efficient markets. However, the sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs), which mediate lending from commercial banks to the poor, requir…

    Year 2010 University Brown University Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 916. Fellows & Grantees

    Sohl C. Lee

    Within and beyond Minjung: The Aesthetics of National Identity and Democratic Participation in South Korean Art (1970-2010)
    The South Korean pro-democracy movement called “minjung movement” (or people’s movement) is often cited as a model of the third wave democracy, having successfully established a parliamentary democracy in 1987, as well as the subsequent economic prosperity. Yet, against thi…

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

  • 917. Fellows & Grantees

    Sonja Gammeltoft Ostrow

    The Pollsters and the People: German Social Scientists and the Pursuit of a Post-Fascist Public
    My dissertation will examine the West German social scientists who sought to theorize, identify, and render legible a national democratic "public" through empirical opinion and market research. My project will show how opinion researchers responded to, and built upon, theoretical…

    Year 2013 University Vanderbilt University Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 918. Fellows & Grantees

    Sophia Chloe Stamatopoulou-Robbins

    West Bank Waste: Governance and Garbage in Two Post-Oslo Municipalities
    This is a study of waste management in the absence of a state. If one indication of “good governance” is the provision of basic services, what insights do we acquire about governing authorities in the “stateless” Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) through an examinati…

    Year 2009 University Columbia University Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 919. Fellows & Grantees

    Sophia Balakian

    The Fraudulent Family: Kinship, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Refugee Resettlement from Nairobi
    In 2008, the US government instituted a DNA pilot program to assess "fraud" in its Refugee Family Reunification Program. Over 80% of refugees "failed." While the US government took these results as confirmation of lies and deception, this research seeks to understand the social…

    Year 2013 University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

  • 920. Fellows & Grantees

    Srigowri Vijayakumar

    Viral Politics: AIDS, Public Health, and Citizenship in India and South Africa
    This project uses multi-sited ethnographic methods to study the ways in which the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, in relation to gendered, sexualized, and racialized political structures in India and South Africa, shaped new kinds of citizenship claims in each place. India an…

    Year 2012 University University of California, Berkeley Fellowship/Grant International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)