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921. Fellows & Grantees
Stacey A. Van Vleet
The Efficacy of Tibetan Buddhist Medical Institutions Across the Qing Empire
My dissertation will examine changes in the organization, constitution of medical knowledge, and practices of Tibetan medical institutions during three distinct points in their development: an original model in Lhasa (the Iron Mountain Medical Monastery, founded 1696), the subseq… -
922. Fellows & Grantees
Stacey Leigh Vanderhurst
Victimizing Migrants?: Human Trafficking and Migration Management in Nigeria
Over the past six years, the Nigerian government has implemented a number of policies and programs targeting the trafficking of thousands of Nigerian women to Europe for sex work every year. Yet, a significant portion of these women do not identify as victims and are ârescuedâ… -
923. Fellows & Grantees
Stefan Sperling
"Science and Conscience: Stem Cells, Bioethics, and German Citizenship"
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924. Fellows & Grantees
Stefanie Graeter
Materiality, Medium, Message: Representational Politics of Lead Science in Central Peru
Over the past decade lead contamination science emerged into Peruvian political discourse in the context of national anti-mining protests. The scientific documentation of the metal lead in human tissue, particularly that of children, provides continued evidence of Peru's national… -
925. Fellows & Grantees
Stephanie Anne Savell
Humanitarian Militarism in Everyday Lives: The Brazilian Human Security Paradigm
This proposal outlines an ethnographic study of security, in particular the Brazilian ‘human security’ paradigm, which combines humanitarian discourses with armed interventions. Launching a vigorous bid to become the world’s ‘human security superpower,’ Brazilian troops… -
926. Fellows & Grantees
Stephanie Glickman
For Profit and Power: The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Art of Trade, c. 1600-50
My dissertation will offer the first comprehensive study of paintings, prints, and other cultural artefacts that were commissioned and collected in the early seventeenth century by Holland's most prominent tradesmen: officers of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Across genres a… -
927. Fellows & Grantees
Stephanie Karin Rupp
I, You, We, They: Forests of Identity in Southeastern Cameroon
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928. Fellows & Grantees
Stephanie Maher
Barça ou Barzakh: The Social “Elsewhere” of Failed Clandestine Migration Out of West Africa
Over the past decade, tens of thousands of predominantly male “boat migrants” departed from Senegalese shores for Europe. As labor markets opened in Tripoli and Algiers, thousands more transited by land across North Africa. Today, however, the combined effects of surveillance… -
929. Fellows & Grantees
Stephanie Mc Callum
The Veins of the Nation: Progress and Decay in Argentina's Railroad System
Argentina has the largest railroad system in Latin America, currently encompassing 34,000 kilometers of tracks (nearly nine times the length of the country). The history of trains in Argentina is intimately tied to state-making efforts to pacify and "whiten" the nation, and to di… -
930. Fellows & Grantees
Stephanie N. Hassell
African Slaves and the African Diaspora in Portuguese Asia, c. 1539-1750
Enslaved Africans toiled across early modern Portugal’s Asian imperial domains within the Estado da India, which stretched from southeastern Africa to China. While we know that these African slaves were integral to the functioning and survival of the Portuguese Empire in Asia,…


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