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

Isa Blumi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: The Consequences of Empire: the Shifting Dynamics of Identity in Albania and Yemen

Monica Biradavolu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Unequal Globalization? Organizational Networks and Indian Migration in the Software Industry

Asad Ahmed

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Blasphemy and the Dialectics of Mediation: A Proposed Study of Courts, Conflict, and the Media in Contemporary Pakistan

Caren Freeman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: When Women Won't Marry Rural Men: Transnational Marriages between China and South Korea

Jennifer Grocer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Discourses of Affiliation: Sociocultural and Geopolitical Relations Between Turkey and the Turkic Republics

Vassiliki Yiakoumaki

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, The New School

Proposal Title: Perceptions of Greek and European Identity in the Cultural Politics of Food in Modern Greece

Jeffrey Houghtby

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Enclosing the Commons: Property Rights and Agrarian Modernization in Early Modern Burgundy, 1600-1789

Kinue Tokudome

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Freelance Journalist

Proposal Title: American NGOs Seek Justice for the Victims of the War Crimes Committed by the Japanese Military: Will the History of World War II in Asia be Remembered as Another Holocaust?

Sawako Shirahase

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Senior Research Fellow, Empirical Social Security Research, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

Proposal Title: A Comparative Study of Family Policies for the Support of Working Mothers in Japan and the United States

Toshimitsu Shigemura

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Editorial Writer, Mainichi Shimbun

Proposal Title: The US-Japan-Republic of Korea Strategic Alliance: Searching for Common Values and Strengthening Trust Measures in Response to North Korea's Threat

Ikuya Sato

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Commerce, Hitotsubashi University

Proposal Title: State Expansion and Institutionalization of Art Worlds

Marc Rodwin

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Medical Professions, Markets and States: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest in Japan, France and the United States

Yoshio Nukaga

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ph.D Candidate, Sociology, McGill University

Proposal Title: Regulating DNA Banks: A Comparison of the Use of Genetic Information in Canada, Japan and the United States

Yoshiko Nakano

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Research Assistant Professor, English, University of Hong Kong

Proposal Title: A Myth of Americanization and Japanization in China

Robert Leflar

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Law, University of Arkansas

Proposal Title: A Comparison of Health Care Quality Control Structure in Japan and the United States

Henry Laurence

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Government and Asian Studies Program, Bowdoin College

Proposal Title: Public Television Under Threat: How are NHK, the BBC and PBS Responding to the Global Media Revolution?

Saori Katada

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1999

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, International Relations, University of Southern California

Proposal Title: Japan and Asian Regionalization: Cultivating Constituency in International Finance