Juan Carlos Garzon Mantilla

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Columbia University

Proposal Title: A New World’s-Knowledge: Colonial Andean Historical Cosmography, 1551-1656

Darby Walters

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Southern California

Proposal Title: Reading Disease: The Novel and the Medical Imagination from 1813-1892

M. Kawēlau Wright

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Hawaii / Manoa

Proposal Title: Hulihia Nā Kānāwai ʻĀina: The Effects of Post-Overthrow Land Law Changes on Hawaiʻi and Native Hawaiians

Zep Kalb

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: Workers’ Protest and Labor Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Jason Ahlenius

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: The Limits of Freedom: The Politics of Labor and Race on Mexico’s Imperial Borderlands (1810-1908)

Agnieszka Ficek

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): City University of New York (CUNY) / Graduate Center

Proposal Title: From Allegory to Revolution: the Inca Empire in the Eighteenth-Century French Imagination

Arielle Alterwaite

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: Empire of Debt: Haiti and France in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

Sonal Sharma

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: Legal Recognition and Domestic Workers’ Struggles in India and South Africa, 1950 - Present

Jianmin Shao

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of California - Irvine

Proposal Title: Transgendering “In-Betweens”: Precarity and Belonging of Gender-Nonconforming Individuals in China

Yui Leh Timothy Loh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Proposal Title: Assistive Technologies for the Deaf in Jordan: Language, Religion, and the Question of Disability

Priscilla Cisternas

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of California / Davis

Proposal Title: Quinoa and its People. Empire, Food, and Agrobiodiversity in Colonial Andes

Tony Yeboah

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Yale University

Proposal Title: The West African Garden City: Kumasi in the Making of Global Urban Planning, 1874—1957

Pablo Millalen Lepin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: Water and Land as Mapuche Gen: The Environmental, Social and Cultural Effects of the Forestry Industry in Lof Mañiuko, Chile

Ikaika Ramones

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science

Proposal Title: Bureaucracy and Social Movements: Native Hawaiian Philanthrocapitalism and Indigenous Nation-Building

Elisa Sperandio

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: Contested Geographies of ‘Welcome’: A Comparative Analysis of Migrant Reception

Amelia Spooner

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Columbia University

Proposal Title: Formally Free: Regulating Labor After Slavery in the French Empire, 1848–1914

Gillian Jones

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: Archipelagos of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai´i

Sophie Brady

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Princeton University

Proposal Title: Radio Dakar, African Experimental Music, and the Forging of a Global Avant-Garde

Saad Khan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: Nascent Moves: A Comparative Ethnography of LGBT and Hijra Political Spheres in Bangladesh

Susan Bay

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of California - Berkeley

Proposal Title: French Colonial Radio from 1953-1958: Pierre Schaeffer & the Founding of SORAFOM

Liane Hewitt

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Princeton University

Proposal Title: Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918-1957

Lisette Varón-Carvajal

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: A World with no Doctors: Gender and Race in the History of Popular Medicine in New Granada, 1700-1850

Catherine ʻĪmaikalani Ulep

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Minnesota / Twin Cities

Proposal Title: Makaʻāinana Wāhine: Sex-for-Goods Trade and Fashion in Nineteenth Century Hawai'i

Arianne Ekinci

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

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

Proposal Title: Subjects of No Nation, Citizens of any State: East Turkestanis and Ethnic Uyghurs in China and Diaspora, 1949-1979

Tawfiq Alhamedi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of California - Irvine

Proposal Title: Oceanic Memories: Nationhood, Belonging, and Geopolitics in the Zanzibar Archipelago