Scott Gehlbach

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: New Democratic Institutions and Corruption in Post-Communist Countries

Devin Fore

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: All the Graphs, Reportage and Documentary in Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union

Alexander Diener

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: One Homeland or Two? Territorialization and the Repatriation Decision Among the Mongolian Kazakh Diaspora

Shun Ching Chan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Making Insurance a Way of Life: Chinese Cultural Resistance and Global-Local Dynamics in the Creation of a Life Insurance Market in China

Paulina Alberto

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Afro-Brazil: The Meanings and Uses of Africa in Brazilian Public Life, 1930-1988

Gariba Abdul-Korah

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Minnesota / Twin Cities

Proposal Title: Migration, Ethnicity, and Uneven-development in Ghana: The Case of the Upper West Region, 1887 to the Present

Mukta Tamang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Contested Histories: Identity and Indigenous People's Movement in Nepal

Genese Sodikoff

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Madagascar's Forest Labor: The Meaning of Conservation for Low-Wage Workers

Sigrid Schmalzer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of California / San Diego

Proposal Title: The People's Peking Man: Popular Paleoanthropology in Twentieth-Century China

Sarah Savant

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Religion, Harvard University

Proposal Title: Holy Site in Infidel Land

Bhavani Raman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Social Communication and the Emergence of Modern Publics in Colonial South India, 1790-1850

Serguei Oushakine

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Transitional Subjects: Mother Russia and Her Children

Kwai Ng

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: The Common Law in Two Voices: Language and Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong

Martin Monsalve

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Civil(ized) Society and Public Spheres in Multiethnic Societies: Lima, Peru (1850-1880)

Cecily Marcus

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Discourse and Society, University of Minnesota / Twin Cities

Proposal Title: The Molecular Intellectual: Cultural Magazines and Clandestine Life Under Argentina's Last Dictatorship

Lara Kusnetzky

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Forging the State: Identity, Power and Practice in Gejiu's Tin Industry

Maxim Kupovykh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, University of Illinois / Urbana-Champaign

Proposal Title: Soviet Union and After: The Study of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics

Yukiko Koga

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Modernity and Urban Space in the Cities of 'Manchuria'

Neil Kodesh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Beyond the Royal Gaze: Ganda Clans and the Construction of an African Metahistory

Danny Hoffman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: The Kamajors of Sierra Leone: New Magic and the War-Machine

Patrick Hatcher

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Religion, University of Chicago

Proposal Title: Conversion and Community: Religious Expansion and the Turkic Peoples in the Islamic Discourses of Samanid Central Asia (875-1005 C.E.)

Lila Gray

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Re-sounding History, Embodying Place: Fado Performance in Lisbon, Portugal

Eleonor Gilburd

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: 'To See Paris and Die': Foreign Culture in the Soviet Union, 1956-1968

Grace Davie

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: The Everyday Life of Social Science Expertise in the Twentieth Century

Liviu Chelcea

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Kinship, Domestic Relations and the Socialist State: Housing Nationalization and Restitution in Romania (1950- )