Guha Shankar

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Cultural Performances, Community Formations: The Indian Diaspora in Jamaica

Stephanie Rupp

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: I, You, We, They: Forests of Identity in Southeastern Cameroon

Robert Marlin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Proposal Title: Possessing the Past: Legacies of Violence and Reproductive Illness in Central Mozambique

Mei Zhan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: The Worlding of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Translocal Study of Knowledge, Identity, and Cultural Politics in China and the United States

Ariel Yablon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Patronage, Corruption, and Political Culture in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1880-1916

Yi Wu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Taking the Plunge: The Market and Reconstruction of Intellectual Identities in Contemporary China

Erica Wortham

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Narratives of Location: Televisual Media and the Production of Indigenous Identities in Mexico

Richard Weiss

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: The Reformulation of a Holy Science: Siddha Medicine and Tradition in South India

Elisa Joeden-Forgey

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Confronting Germandom: Colonial Law, African Experience and Identity in Germany, 1884-1945

Christa van Wijnbergen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: The Political Dynamics of Labor Market Reform: Efforts at Change in Germany and the Netherlands, 1982-1995

Bruce Tyler

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Communities and Institutions in Movements of Change

Matthew Tomlinson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Voice and Earth: Making Religious Meaning and Power in Christian Fiji

Yuka Suzuki

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Black Baboons and White Rubbish Trees: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature in Zimbabwe

Rolf Strom-Olsen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Courts without Kings: Crisis and Consensus in Early Modern Spain and Burgundy

Jennifer Sowerwine

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: The Political Ecology of Dao (Yao) Landscape Transformations: Territory, Gender, and Livelihood Politics in Highland Vietnam

Susan Snyder

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Woman as Heretic: Gender and Lay Religion in Late Medieval Bologna

Mark Setzler

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Democratizing Urban Brazil: Voters, Reformers, and the Pursuit of Political Accountability

Susan Schomburg

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Reviving Religion: The Qadiri Sufi Order, Popular Devotion to Sufi Saint Muhyiuddin Abdul Qadir al-Gilani, and Processes of 'Islamization' in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka

Matthew Reed

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Claremont Colleges / Claremont Graduate University

Proposal Title: Making the Case: The Evolution of the Psychiatric Case Study and the Formation of Modern Identities

Paula Pickering

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: The Choices Minorities Make about Diversity: Migration and Negotiation in Postwar Bosnia-Hercegovina

Donna Murdock

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: When Women Have Wings: Feminist NGO Strategies and Social Class in Medellin, Colombia

Keith McNeal

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Ecstasy in Exile: Divinity, Power, and Performance in Two Trinidadian Possession Religions

Brian McLaren

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art & Art History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Proposal Title: Mediterraneita and Modernita: Architecture and culture during the Period of Italian Colonization of North Africa

Debra McDougall

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: The Shifting Ground of Moral Community: Christianity, Property, and Place in Ranongga (Solomon Islands)

David Lurie

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: The Origins of Writing in Early Japan: From the 1st to the 8th Century C.E.