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931. Fellows & Grantees
Stephanie O'Rourke
Bodies of Knowledge: Girodet, Fuseli, and Spectatorship at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
When the British writer Horace Walpole first saw Henry Fuseli’s "The Nightmare" exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1782, he used just one word to describe it: “shocking.” Although Walpole was referring to the salacious content of the painting, his description gestures to a m… -
932. Fellows & Grantees
Stephanie Spray
Hope's Harvest: Tactics of Survival among Nepal's Gaine
How does hope sustain people when their resources and options in life are limited, if not exhausted? I am applying for funding to explore this question in the lives of the Gaine, a community of traditionally itinerant musicians in Nepal who now engage in a variety of menial jobs… -
933. Fellows & Grantees
Sterling Paul Wilson
Global Nostalgias: Nation and Longing in Contemporary Art
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934. Fellows & Grantees
Steven Christopher Alley
Dengue Fever and Trash Collection in Brazil: Politics of Responsibility in Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Dengue fever epidemics in Brazil are worsening, and are driven by entrenched poverty and political abandonment of the urban poor: inadequate trash removal in slums leads to environmental conditions conducive to dengue's spread. Unlike malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitoes… -
935. Fellows & Grantees
Steven Leroy Hyland
Margins of the Mahjar: Arabic-speaking Immigrants in Argentina, 1880-1946
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936. Fellows & Grantees
Steven Samford
Coproducing Innovation: The Politics of Knowledge Production and Diffusion in Mexico
When faced with the integration of international markets, why do some small industries in the developing world respond by taking the “low road” of cutting labor standards and wages while others take the “high road” of upgrading production to become globally competitive? W… -
937. Fellows & Grantees
Stuart Strange
Differences to Blame: Narrative, Agency and Responsibility in War, Sorcery, and Suffering in Suriname
My project seeks to understand the influence of different cultural logics of accounting responsibility for misfortune on conceptions of ethnic difference in Suriname. I inquire into the ways people within the Indo-Surinamese and Afro-Surinamese communities’ differently narrate… -
938. Fellows & Grantees
Sugata Ray
Performing “Hinduism” in the Twentieth Century: Temple Architecture and Pilgrimage in Braj Bhumi.
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939. Fellows & Grantees
Suk (Steve) Bae Rhee
"Intent and Consequence: Forestry Institutions and Community Management in Indonesia"
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940. Fellows & Grantees
Sumayya Kassamali
Death is Everywhere: War and Mourning in Najaf and Karbala
This project seeks to map the relationship between a set of religious beliefs and practices surrounding death, and the experience of war. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the rise to power of the country's long-repressed Shi'i majority, the southern Iraqi cities of Najaf and K…


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