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911. Fellows & Grantees
Sigrid Schmalzer
"The People's Peking Man: Popular Paleoanthropology in Twentieth-century China"
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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
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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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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…


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