Rita Dela Kuma

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: An Archaeology of 'Legitimate' Trade in Amedeka, Ghana (AD 1807-1900)

Samuel Law

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: Constructing Urban Autonomy: Communal Responses to Precarity in Mexico City’s Peripheries

Youbin Kang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology

Proposal Title: Assembling Automated Subways: Historical Processes and Anticipated Futures of Subways in Three Global Cities

Marius Kothor

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History

Proposal Title: Securing Ablodé Blibo: West African Women Traders and the Transnational Politics of Decolonization 1930-1963

Lamin Keita

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science

Proposal Title: Politics of Armed Jihadism in West Africa

Rijul Kochhar

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History; Anthropology; STS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Proposal Title: Antibiotic Resistance, Planetary Crisis, and Bacteriophage Futures in the 21st Century

Anirban Karak

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

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

Proposal Title: Commerce as an Ethical Problem: Caste Norms, Devotional Poetry, and Property Disputes in Bengal in a Global Capitalist Context, 1720s-1830s

Daniel Iwama

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

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

Proposal Title: Taking Apart the Empire: Urban Military Land Conversion and Indigenous Resurgence in Okinawa

Chloe Howe Haralambous

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Literature

Proposal Title: Crimes of Association: Reassembling Europe in the Mediterranean Migrant Passage

Julio Aguilar

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History

Proposal Title: A Thirsty Colonization: Water and Urban Political Ecology in the Silver City of Potosí (1573-1700)

Mariam Sabri

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History

Proposal Title: Telling Time: The Exact Sciences, Everyday Culture & Empire in Mughal India 1530-1743

Maria Ramia

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: The Judgement of Fear: Asylum, Legal Personhood and Bureaucracy in Ecuador

Ahona Palchoudhuri

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: The Making and Receiving of Rain: Labor, Tempo, and the Ordinary Life of Climate-Change

Bright Gyamfi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History

Proposal Title: Nkrumahist Scholars and the Global Development of the Study of Africa, 1966 to 1992

Tyler Hook

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: Corporate Subjects: Reshaping Governance and Schooling through Corporatized Development in Liberia

Delilah Griswold

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

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

Proposal Title: Uncertain Tides: The Politics of Coastal Landlessness and Nature-Based Climate Adaptation in Fiji

Aparna Gopalan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: The Value of Poverty: Development Projects at the Bottom of the Pyramid in Rural Rajasthan

Scott Doebler

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History

Proposal Title: Connected Forests: Spanish, English, and Maya Commodity Ecologies in Southern Yucatan and Northern Guatemala, 1524-1717

Emma Gilheany

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: Circumpolar Colonialism: An Archaeology of the Recent Past

Julia Detchon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History/Architecture

Proposal Title: Work-Around: Four Argentine Artists between Feminism and Conceptualism, 1968–1983

Kimberly Fernandes

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

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

Proposal Title: Categorizing Disability, Negotiating Belonging: What Does It Take to Be Counted as Disabled in India?

Brian Fairley

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ethnomusicology/Music

Proposal Title: Dissected Listening: A Media History of Georgian Polyphonic Recording

Laura Foster

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: Translating Indigenous Rights: A Multi-level Analysis of Peru's Prior Consultation Law

Aylon Cohen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science

Proposal Title: Democracy’s Bodily Practices: Equality, Fraternity, and Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century England

Iuliia Cherniavskaia

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

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

Proposal Title: Freedom through Education: The Soviet "Knowledge Society" and the Quest to Make All Soviet Workers and Peasants Cultured and Educated, 1947-1995