Michelle Dion

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: The Progress of Revolution? Mexico's Welfare Regime in Comparative & Historical Perspective

Katherine Dernbach

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Spirits in Conflict: Gender, Alcohol and Spirit Possession in Chuuk, Micronesia

Deborah Cole

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Iconic Ideologies in Modern Indonesian Poetry

Joel Budd

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Old Age in England, ca. 1590 - ca. 1700

Daniel Brinks

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Toll Barriers and Illusory Rights: the Rule of Law in Three Latin American Democracies

Isolde Brielmaier

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Picture Taking and the Production of Urban Identities on the Kenyan Coast, 1940-1980

Anna Bigelow

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Sharing Saints, Shrines, and Stories: Practicing Pluralism in India

Pratyusha Basu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of Iowa

Proposal Title: Linking Green and White Revolutions: Gender Analysis of Dairy Development in Western India

Annalyda Alvarez-Calderon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Peasant Political Culture, Indigenismo and State-Formation in the Southern Peruvian Andes

Richard Akresh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Children at Risk: Economic Motivations of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Ari Adut

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Scandal as Social Form: A Sociological Study of the Political, Financial and Cultural Scandals of the Third Republic

Kristen Velyvis

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: The Social Context of Sexual Networking among Migrant Women in Senegal: Implications for the Spread of HIV

Gillian Goslinga

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Assisted Reproduction through Spirit Possession: The Gendered Politics and Embodiment of in/fertility in Modernizing South India

Beate Sissenich

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: State-Building by a Non-State: European Union Enlargement and the Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary

Cynthia Miller

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

Heidi Feldman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: The Selective Memory of Race and Rhythm in Afro-Peruvian Music

Kazuo Yamaguchi

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Determinants of Historical Changes in Patterns of Work Experiences and Occupational Career: A Comparative Study of Japan and the United States

Karin Wilkins

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Japanese Development Programs for Women

Takahiro Ueyama

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Transformation of Medicine in the US: A Case Study of High Technology's Impact on Medical Care, 1957-1990

Motohiro Tsuchiya

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan

Proposal Title: Global Encryption Policy and the Role of the Internet Community: Why did the U.S. Government Eliminate Export Regulation of Encryption Software?

Nobuo Takahashi

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Political Science, Keio University

Proposal Title: Emerging Civil Society in China and the Role of the Outside World

Frances Rosenbluth

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: The Comparative Political Economy of Childcare: Japan, U.S., and Europe

Atsushi Maki

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Business and Commerce, Keio University

Proposal Title: A Comparison of Living Standards between Japan and the U.S.

Gregory Kasza

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Political Science/ East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Japan: The State and Society in Comparative Perspective

David Flath

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Economics, University of North Carolina / North Carolina State University

Proposal Title: The Japanese Marketing System and U.S.-Japan Trade and Investment