Hannah Scott Deuchar

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University (NYU)

Proposal Title: Nothing but the Truth: Law, Crime and Arabic Fiction in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1880-1919

Pablo Seward Delaporte

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: The Risks of Racism: Afro-Colombian Migration and the Politics of Security in Urban Chile

David Sadighian

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: The World is a Composition: Beaux-Arts Design and Internationalism, 1867-1932

Steven Schwartz

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Lifeworlds of Extraction: An Ethnography of Wind Energy and Indigeneity in the Guajira

Matt Schissler

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Occasions of joy and grief in Myanmar

Gonzalo Romero Sommer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, State University of New York (SUNY) / Stony Brook University

Proposal Title: Alternating Currents: Electrical Power and Shifting Political Power in Peru

Scott Ross

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: The Early Warning Radio: Humanitarian Infrastructures and Networks of Protection in the Congo

Amir Reicher

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: “Going Native”: Second-Generation West Bank Settlers Feeling-at-Home in the West Bank

Robin Reich

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Copper-Alloys and Cures: A Material History of Scientific Translation in Norman Sicily

Eduardo Romero Dianderas

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Inscribing Rain Forests: Engineers, Information and the Epistemic Politics of Forest Bureaucracies in the Peruvian Amazon

Muneeza Rizvi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Mourning Hussain in Britain: Tatbir and 'British Islam' after Brexit

Lise Puyo

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Negotiations between Shell and Paper: Wampum Belts as Agents of Seventeenth-Century Religious Diplomacy

Watufani Poe

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Finding Space for the “Bicha Preta”: Black LGBTQ Activism in Brazil and the United States

Felice Physioc

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Information Networks in the Colonial Andes: Publishing, Reading, and Regulating, 1738-1824

Yasemin Ozer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Syrians in a Turkish City: Improvising Care Beyond the Refugee Camp

Lindsay Ofrias

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Oil Contamination in Ecuador's Amazon: An Ethnographic Inquiry of Intention and Intervention

Darshana Sreedhar Mini

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: The Transnational Journeys of Malayalam Soft-porn: Obscenity, Censorship and the Mediation of Desire

Uponita Mukherjee

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University

Proposal Title: A Case for Criminal Detection: Science, Stories and the Law of Evidence in British Bengal, 1850-1930

Estefania Mochon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Trade Networks and Language Transmission: Uncovering Routes of Arabization in Al-Andalus

Travis Knoll

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Liberate, Inculturate, Educate! Brazilian Black Catholics, Racial Justice, and Affirmative Action from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia

Brittany Meche

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Securing the Sahel: Nature, Catastrophe, and New Frontiers of Foreign Expertise

Janice Levi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Whispers in the West: the Emergence of a Jewish Community in Twentieth-Century Ghana

Chris Lesser

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Forests for the English to See?

Anh Le

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Chinese Migration, Colonialism, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Saigon, 1862-1954

Melissa Lefkowitz

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Chinese Dreams in the Silicon Savannah: An Ethnography of Chinese Millennials in Nairobi, Kenya