Shankar Ramaswami

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Respect in a Decivilizing Epoch: An Ethnography of Migrant Workers’ Lives and Aspirations in Delhi

Jeremy Prestholdt

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: East African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization

Janet Poole

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Time and the Colonial City: Modernisms of 1930s Korea

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame

Proposal Title: Crisis without Breakdown: Presidential Impeachment in Latin America

Gabriel Ondetti

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science, University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill

Proposal Title: Opportunities, Ideas and Actions: The Brazilian Landless Movement, 1979-2001

Jonathan Miran

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Facing the Land, Facing the Sea: Commercial Transformation and Urban Dynamics in the Red Sea Port of Massawa, 1840s-1900s

Nara Milanich

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: The Children of Fate: Families, Class, and the State in Chile, 1857-1930

Ethan Michelson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Unhooking from the State: The Privatization of Chinese Lawyers

Emily McEwan-Fujita

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Gaelic in Scotland, Scotland in Europe: The Political Economy of Minority Language Revitalization

Tracy Luedke

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Bodies of Knowledge: the Social Politics of Healing in Tet Province, Mozambique

Duanfang Lu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Building the Chinese Work Unit: Modernity, Scarcity, and Space, 1949-2000

Mara Loveman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, University of California / Los Angeles

Proposal Title: State-building, National Imaginings and 'Race' in Brazil (1870-1930)

Victoria Langland

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Reforming Our University, Re-Forming Ourselves: Student Movements and Collective Memory in Brazil, 1960-1998

Naveeda Khan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Constructing Citizens: Urban Mosques in Pakistan (1947-present)

Linda Jones

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Religious Studies, University of California / Santa Barbara

Proposal Title: Preaching Perfidy: Muslim and Christian Sermons in Medieval Spain and the Maghreb

Duana Fullwiley

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Taking Root: Grounding Science in Local Practice

Jed Friedman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Economics & Population Studies, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: Firm and Worker Responses to Economic Reform in Vietnam

Jan French

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Rewards of Resistance: Legal Rights, Memory, and Ethnic Identity among Indians and Descendants of Fugitive Slaves in Northeastern Brazil

Sebastiaan Faber

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Spanish & Classics, University of California / Davis

Proposal Title: Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico (1939-1975)

Lara Deeb

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety Among Islamist Shi'I Muslims in Beirut

Susan Crate

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill

Proposal Title: Cows, Kin & Capitalism: The Cultural Ecology of Viliui Sakha in the Post-Socialist Era

Sandra Comstock

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: The Mexican Garment Industry: New Strategies in a Changing World

Jillian Cavanaugh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Ideologies of Language Shift in Bergamo, Italy

Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: The Revival of Religious Healing Practices in Post-Socialist Mongolia

Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Rethinking Thuggery: Landed Elites and Agrarian Violence in Chiapas, Mexico