William Smith

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Baroque Modernity: State, Economy, and Socio-Ecology in Totonacapan, 1900-2000

Amber Seligson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: When Democracies Elect Dictators: Motivations for and Impact of the Election of Former Authoritarians in Argentina and Bolivia

Nicholas Sawicki

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Centering the Periphery: Czech Art Exhibitions and the Search for a Modern Identity in Central Europe, 1900-1914

Gregory Ruiters

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography & Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Proposal Title: Commodified Water, Race and Social Justice in South Africa: A Study of Three Privatisation Experiences in Post-Apartheid South African Municipalities, 1990--2000

Robert Rozehnal

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Islamic Sufism Unbound: Tracing Contemporary Chishti Sabiri Identity

Douglas Rogers

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Conversion to Old Belief: Anti-modernity and Anti-individualism in Postsocialist Russia

Andrew Roberts

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Politics, Princeton University

Proposal Title: The Politics of Social Policy Reform in Eastern Europe

Pauline Ripat

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Classics, University of Washington

Proposal Title: Prophecy and policy in Roman Egypt

Sarah Pinto

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Casting Desire: Reproduction, Loss, and Subjectivity in Rural North India

Milen Petrov

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Proposal Title: The Vilayet of Danube, 1864-1868: Proactive Imperial Modernization, Popular Reaction and Nation-Building

Emma Naughton

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Nostalgia Wars: Post-Conflict Urban Renewal in Lebanon

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Learning to Belong: Citizenship, Schooling and National Identity in Contemporary Germany

Hongnan Ma

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Stepping Down': The Reconstruction of Working Class Identities in Urban China

Yuen-Gen Liang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Family and Power in Early Modern Europe: The Fernandez de Cordoba Lineage, Service, and the Construction of the Spanish Empire

Darcy Leach

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Revisiting the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Direct Democracy in German New Social Movement Organizations

Marixa Lasso

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Black Republicanism and the Myth of Racial Democracy in Colombia, Cartagena 1808-1830

Thomas Kuehn

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle Eastern Studies, New York University (NYU)

Proposal Title: Shaping Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1872-1919

Walima Kalusa

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Disease and the Remaking of Missionary Medicine in Colonial North-Western Zambia: A Case Study of Mwinilunga District, 1902-64

Andrew Ivaska

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Negotiating 'Culture' in a Cosmopolitanism Capital: Urban Style, and the Tanzanian State in Colonial and Postcolonial Dar es Salaam

Khaled Helmy

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: "The Internal Dynamics of Moderate Islamism: Islamist Intra-Party Conflict and Ideological Contestation in Jordan & Egypt"

Michael Hathaway

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Tropical Nature and Local People: Contending Visions in Southwest China

Sean Hanretta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: The Yacoubiste Sufi Order Until 1960

Robert Hamrick

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Sociolinguistic Difference and 'Fractal' Socioeconomic Relations in Sta. Catarina Palopo, Guatemala

Scott Greer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Elites, States and Nationalists: The Politics of Regional Autonomy in Western Europe

Tulia Falleti

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Governing Governors: Coalitions and Sequences of Decentralization in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico