Giang Le

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Constructing Men and Masculinities along the Ho Chi Minh Highway in Late Socialist Vietnam

Axel Lazzari

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Phantoms, Freedom and "Pluralismo": the reemergence of the Rankulche Indians (La Pampa, Argentina)

Tijana Krstic

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: Narrating Conversion to Islam -- the Dialogue of Texts and Practices in the Early Modern Ottoman Balkans

Ritu Khanduri

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of Texas / Arlington

Proposal Title: Routes of Caricature: Mr. Punch and Cartoon in Colonial India

Eric Jepsen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science, University of New Mexico / Albuquerque

Proposal Title: The Political Economy of Subnational Industrial Promotions in India and Mexico

Caroline Jeannerat

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropolgy and History, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Zoutpansberg, South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries

Mark Hunter

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: 'Transactional Sex' and Geographies of HIV infection in South Africa

Ho-Fung Hung

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Proposal Title: Dynamics of Social Unrest in Early Qing China, 1645-1795

Yanique Hume

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Liberal Arts, Emory University

Proposal Title: Re-Configuring Cubanidad: The Politics of Haitian-Cuban Performance at the Intersection of Nationalism and Tourism in Santiago De Cuba

Amber Gove

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Economics, Stanford University

Proposal Title: Taking Sides: The Effects of Supply and Demand Driven Policies on Parent Decision Making and Education Investment in Brazil

Enrique Garguin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, State University of New York (SUNY) / Stony Brook University

Proposal Title: "Europe in the River Plate": Everyday Life, Public Sphere and Race in the Making of the Middle Class in Argentina, 1920-1960

Susan Frekko

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: Language Standardization and National Sentiment in Catalonia

Daniel Fisher

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, New York University (NYU)

Proposal Title: Aboriginal Radio: A Political Economy of Speech and Sound in Indigenous Australia

Elizabeth Davis

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: The Ethics of Tolerance: Psychiatry, Government, and Historical Subjectivity in Greek Thrace

Sienna Craig

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Cornell University

Proposal Title: Himalayan Healers in Transition: Professionalization and Identity among Tibetan Medicine Practitioners in Nepal

Gerard Chouin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Syracuse University

Proposal Title: Forests of Power and Memory: An Archaeology of Sacred Groves in the Eguafo Kingdom, Coastal Ghana, c. 1400-1900

Juan Callirgos

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Florida

Proposal Title: Postcolonial Modernizations of the City of the Kings: Reinventing Lima, Peru, 1850-1930

Uma Bhrugubanda

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Modes of Being in Secular Modern India: Religious Cinema and Its Audiences

Eric Jarosinski

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): German, University of Wisconsin / Madison

Proposal Title: The Rhetoric of Transparency in the New Berlin: A Critical Genealogy (Adorno, Benjamin, Kracauer)

Michael Zielenziger

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Tokyo bureau chief, Knight Ridder Newspapers, Knight Ridder

Proposal Title: Owning Up: Comparing the Response to Economic Crisis in Japan and South Korea Through an Inquiry Into Social Psychology

Niwako Yamawaki

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology, Brigham Young University

Proposal Title: A Comparative Study of Japan and the United States: The Perception of Domestic Violence

Yasushi Watanabe

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Information and Graduate School of Media & Governance, Keio University

Proposal Title: Globalization and the Question of "Anti-Americanism"

Etsuko Taketani

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Institute of Modern Languages and Culture, University of Tsukuba

Proposal Title: The Other "Pearl Harbor": African American Writers and Transpacific Networks

Kazuko Suzuki

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Research Fellow, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California / San Diego / Center for Comparative Immigration Studies

Proposal Title: The State and Immigrant Adaptation: A Comparative Study of the Korean Diaspora in Japan and the United States

Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2002

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, History, Michigan State University

Proposal Title: The Evolution of Ocean Resource Management Regimes in the North Pacific, 1930-1977