Onur Arslan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: Terrorism Expertise and Suspicious Signals: Remaking the War on Terror in Turkey

Esther Ajayi-Lowo

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Women's and Gender Studies

Proposal Title: Decolonizing Birth: Women, Traditional Birth Attendants, and Reproductive Justice in Nigeria

Fathimath Anan Ahmed

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

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

Proposal Title: ‘Self-Illness,’ Biomedicalization, and Reformist Sunni-Islam: Living Ethical ‘Modern’ Lives in Contemporary Malé, Maldives

Samantha Agarwal

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology

Proposal Title: Between Recognition and Redistribution: A Comparative Study of Dalit Politics in Contemporary India

Kurt Kuehne

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology

Proposal Title: Hidden From the Heartlands: Precarity, Control, and South(east) Asian Migrant Workers in Singapore.

Otto Stuparitz

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ethnomusicology

Proposal Title: Java Jazz: Politics of Preservation and Circuits of Performance

Yucong Hao

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Asian Languages and Cultures

Proposal Title: Acoustics of Emergency: Sound Culture, Transnational Encounters, and Historical Upheavals in Mid-Twentieth-Century China

Nushelle de Silva

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): PhD Candidate, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Proposal Title: Protocols for the Peripatetic: Infrastructures of Exhibition Exchange in the Modern Museum

Amrita Mishra

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): English

Proposal Title: Indenture's Intimacies: Coolie Women and Afro-Asian Diasporic Literary Imagination

Yasser Nasser

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History

Proposal Title: Creating ‘New Asia’: Networks of Solidarity and Asianism in China and India, 1945-1960

Pawan Sharma

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Asian and Middle-Eastern Studies

Proposal Title: Cinema Crossing the Transnational Boundaries: The Popularity and Relevance of Bollywood Films amidst the Chinese Popular Imagination and the Formulation of Inter-Asian Identities

Beiyin Deng

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Religious Studies

Proposal Title: Trading Buddhas: Circulating Marble Buddhist Images Across the Sino-Burmese Border

Erin Linn

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology & Sociology

Proposal Title: The Power of Shared Heritage: China’s Belt Road Initiative and the politics of Silk Road Heritage

Arina Mikhalevskaya

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History

Proposal Title: The Nature of the Empire: Animal Wonders in China, 1680–1800

Idriss Fofana

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History

Proposal Title: The “Chinese Solution” to the Labor Question in Africa: Chinese Workers, African Railroads and the International Regulation of Labor Migration, 1860-1935

Jinaeng Choi

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Asian Languages and Cultures

Proposal Title: Rethinking Migrant Narratives: The Case of Korean Literary Communities in Latin America

Emmanuel Sarabwe

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Quality Assurance Manager, N/A, CBS Rwanda

Proposal Title: Learning from the past to build a culture of peace: Experiences of forgiveness within families of survivors and perpetraoto

Chimaobi Onwukwe

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Communications Studies, Abia State University

Proposal Title: Responding to Xenophobic violence in South Africa: Identity negotiations and language practices of Nigerian Immigrants

Ibrahima Niang

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Lecturer and Researcher, Department of the Sociology International Relations and Development, University of Dakar

Proposal Title: Gender Approach to Conflict Resolution in Casamance: The Case of the Women's Platform for Peace in Casamance

Ufiem Ogbonnaya

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Senior Fellow, N/A, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies

Proposal Title: Dominant and Emerging Narratives in the Farmers-Herders' Conflict in Nigeria's Middle Belt Region: Implications for Peacebuilding

Sylvie Namwase

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Post-doctoral research fellow, Human Rights and Peace Centre: School of Law, Makerere Univeristy

Proposal Title: National dialogues as state-led and state-backed initiatives of nation building in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya

Theresia Mvungi

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): N/A, N/A, University of Dar es Salaam

Proposal Title: Community-based payment for ecosystem services (CB-PES) as a tool for conflict resolution and peace-building in Tanzania: The Case of Mkungunero Game Reserve

Missaye Mengstie

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Gondar

Proposal Title: Promoting Tolerance and Peace through Indigenous Conflict Resolution Mechanism in Benshangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia

Tapiwa Madimu

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, North West University

Proposal Title: Historiography, Agency and Violence: "Illegal" Gold Mining and the Everyday in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Kundai Manamere

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2020

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Post-doctoral fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State

Proposal Title: A Deadly Tripartite - Civil War, Drought and Diseases: Narratives of Mozambican Refugees and Host Communities Experiences at Chambuta Camp, Southeastern Zimbabwe, 1988 to 1992