Ling-wei Kung

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Intelligence Collection, Trans-Regional Trade, and International Relations between China and Inner Asia, 1697-1921

Jonathan Lear

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Splitting the Atom, Fusing the Nation: Japan and West Germany in the Atomic Age

Choon Hwee Koh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Outsourcing Empire: Contracting Out the Ottoman Postal System, 1690-1840

Linda Huang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Re-Imagining Post-Socialist Corporeality: Technology, Body, and Nation in Post-1989 Chinese Art

Hayana Kim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Drama/Theater and Perfomance Studies, Northwestern University

Proposal Title: Performing Democracy: The Gwangju Uprising and the Politics of Mourning in South Korea, 1980-2017

Xiao Ke

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Conserving (Non)violence: Animal Ethics, Political Struggle, and Wildlife Conservation in Tibet

Hilary Faxon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Making Myanmar: Struggles over Land on Asia’s Last Frontier

Bhoomika Joshi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Drivery: Transport, Mobility and Possibility in the Indian Himalayas

Huatse Huazejia

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Nafis Hasan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Techno-Politics of ICTs: Investigating Bureaucratic Practices and Subjectivities in the Digital Age

Curt Gambetta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Substituting Modernity: Architectural Materials and Subaltern Building in Postcolonial India

Andres Garcia Molina

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Street-Vendor Calls in Cuba: Sound, Labor, Infrastructure

Huma Gupta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History/Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Proposal Title: Informal Dwellings and the Formation of Modern Iraq

John Gorczyk

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Animals, Humans, and the Creation of Neolithic Society in Prehistoric Bulgaria

Emily Hite

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of Colorado / Boulder

Proposal Title: Negotiating Sovereignties in the Heart of Costa Rica's Climate Frontier

Aaron Aruck

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Policing Sexuality and Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Bi-National Efforts to Control Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Homosexuality across International Space, 1920-1965

Riley Brett-Roche

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: The People's Paper Archive

Lacy Feigh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Navigating Labor: Networks of Slavery, Migration, and Consumption in the Northwest Indian Ocean, 1919-1974

Luisa Castro

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Science and Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Proposal Title: Vectors of Health: Science and the Making of Modified Mosquitoes in Brazil

Kristen Connor

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Interdepartmental Program in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: States of the Sky: Meteorology and Rainmaking in Uganda, ca 1860-Present

Chloe Bordewich

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Empires of Suspicion: Intelligence, Power, and Social Trust in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1900-1935

Samantha Billing

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Indigenous Identity on the Edge of Empire: Diplomacy and Destruction in Colonial New Spain

Kilian Harrer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Wisconsin / Madison

Proposal Title: Our Lady across the Border: Marian Pilgrimage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe

Jessica Bachman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Books across Borders: Science, Cold War Culture, and Soviet Book Reading in Postcolonial India, 1954-1991

Patrick Anthony

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Producing the Subterranean: Mining, Mobility, and the Science of Alexander von Humboldt