Dan Buck

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: 'Constructing China' Capitalism, Connecting Shanghai's Urban and Rural Industries

Michelle Johnson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

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

Proposal Title: Being Mandinga, Being Muslim: Transnational Debates on Personhood and Religious Identity in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal

Lori Watt

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation in Japan After World War Two

Maya Nadkarni

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999

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

Proposal Title: Competing Pasts, Contested Spaces: Urban Development and Architectural Preservation in Budapest, Hungary

Emily Yeh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Energy & Resources Group, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: Tibet's Economic Reform: Greenhouse Agriculture and a Hegemony of Tibetan Indolence

Helena Hansen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Agency and Addiction: Pentecostal Recovery Movements in Puerto Rico

Bruce Hall

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: Mapping the River in Black and White: Race, Servile Labor and the Struggle over Land in Northern Mali, 1894-1946

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2000

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

Proposal Title: "Assisted Reproduction through Spirit Possession: The Gendered Politics and Embodiment of in/fertility in Modernizing South India"

Lauren Minsky

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Health and Development in Colonial Punjab: Ecology, Politics and Social Change in Lyallpur District, 1868-1947

Lori Meeks

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Nuns, Court Ladies, and Female Bodhisattvas: The Women of Japan's Medieval Ritsu-school Nuns' Revival Movement

Kent Glenzer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Emory University

Proposal Title: "'Politics is a thing that passes': A Historical Ethnography of Power, Democracy, and Development in the Pondori Flood Plain, Mali, c. 1818-2004"

Mark Anner

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2001

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

Proposal Title: Segmented Production, Networked Solidarity: Labor and Industrial Restructuring in Latin America's Apparel and Auto Industries

Ronit Ricci

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

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

Proposal Title: Islamic Literary Traditions in Javanese and Tamil

Sherine Hamdy

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

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

Proposal Title: Contested Bodies: Biomedical Technologies, Ethics and Islam in Contemporary Egypt

Murat Ergin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2002

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

Proposal Title: Construction of National and International Identities in Turkey: The Role of Visiting Western Intellectuals and Theories of Race

Matthias vom Hau

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Contested Inclusion: A Comparative Study of Nationalism in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru, 1880-1950

Mark Rowe

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: A Grave Crisis: Burial Societies and the New Japanese Buddhism

Natasha Iskander

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Innovating Government: Forging a Synergistic Relationship between Migration and Economic Development in Mexico and Morocco

Matthew Hopper

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: The African Presence in Arabia: The Economic and Cultural Legacy of the African Diaspora in Eastern Arabia, 1820-1948

Edin Hajdarpasic

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Alternative Visions of Modernity: The Search for a Viable Polity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Bosnia, 1850-1882

Zeynep Gursel

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: The Image Industry: The Work of International News Photographs in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Mark Carey

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Grappling with Glaciers: Climate Change and Soceity in the Peruvian Andes, 1941-2002

Ngonidzashe Munemo

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Incumbent Insecurity and the Politics of Entitlement Protection in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

Kathleen Keller

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Colonial Suspects: Suspicious Persons and Police Surveillance in French West Africa, 1920-1958

Azra Hromadzic

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Emerging Citizens: Youth, Education, and Democratization in Post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina