Alejandra Azuero Quijano

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: "Criminal Enterprise": Forensics and the Re-Production of Corporate Power as Crime in Colombia

Alessandra Amin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Into the “Shadow Archives” of Palestinian Art: Modernism and Alternative Modes of Political Engagement

Renzo Aroni

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: An Avenged Massacre: The Indigenous Peasant Counter-Rebellion and the Fall of the Shining Path in the Peruvian Andes

Marina Alamo-Bryan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: The Bodies and the Archive: Bureaucratization of Violence and Communal Exhumation in Mexico

Angelina Chin

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, History, Pomona College

Proposal Title: Assistive Technologies for the Elderly and the Disabled in Japan and China

Koji Ueno

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Department of Sociology, Florida State University

Proposal Title: Sexual Minority Young Adults' Career Planning Process in the US and Japan

Heejun Chang

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Geography, Portland State University

Proposal Title: Coupled dynamics of human and flood risks in six cities across the Pacific

Adrian Van Allen

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Biobanking for the Future in Japan, France and the USA: A Comparative Study of Preserving Biodiversity in an Age of Extinction

David Slater

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University

Proposal Title: Refugee Support and Sustainable Social Integration in Japan and the US: The Role of the State and Civil Society Organizations in Tokyo and New York City

Misa Kayama

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Mississippi

Proposal Title: Understanding the experiences of elementary school-aged U.S. and Japanese children with disabilities to inform policy: Stigmatization and school functioning

Aynne Kokas

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Media Studies, University of Virginia

Proposal Title: Border Patrol on the Digital Frontier: Japan, the United States, China, and The Global Battle for National Data

Eriko Sase

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Visiting Researcher, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Proposal Title: Justice in End-of-Life Care: Bioethics and Human Rights in Aging Societies

Rie Watanabe

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, School of International Politics, Economics, and Communications, Aoyama Gakuin University

Proposal Title: A Comparative Study of Climate and Energy Politics in Japan, the United States and Germany: Actors' Beliefs and Paradigm Shift

Matt Katz

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Reporter, News, WNYC

Proposal Title: Refugees In Japan: When A Global Crisis Comes Knocking, Will Doors Stay Closed?

Pamela Boykoff

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Journalist, Various, CNN

Proposal Title: Ending the Waitlist: Searching for a Solution to Japan's Daycare Shortage

Peg Tyre

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Journalist, -, -

Proposal Title: Changing University Exam and Changing Culture: Efforts to Reform Education to Prepare Japan for the Age of Automation.

Mikako Yokoyama

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, Business News Department, The Manichi Papers

Proposal Title: We are Rated and Reconstructed by Big Data: Enjoying Convenience and Running Risks in Data Society, Considering the Current Field in the U.S

Tendai Chari

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Media Communication and Applied Language Studies

Proposal Title: The Role of Diaspora Media in Homeland Conflicts: Mapping Discourses of Peace and Conflict during Negotiations for a Government of National Unity in Zimbabwe, 2008-2009

Taiwo Owoeye

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Economics, Ekiti State University

Proposal Title: Confronting the Omo Onile Menace in Lagos Nigeria: The Conflicts and The Remedies

Sela Musundi

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Center for the Study of Adolescence

Proposal Title: How Young Rwandans Born Out of Genocide Rape Construct Selfhood

Thulisile Mphambukeli

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State

Proposal Title: Mapping the Shifting (Human) Securityscape of Immigrant Informal Settlers’ in Mangaung in the Post-Apartheid South African Urbanscape

Asnake Kefale

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Political Science and International Relations, Addis Ababa University

Proposal Title: Ethno-Federalist State Building and Political Stability: Reexamining the Ethiopian Experiment after 25 years

Priscilla Mwondha

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development Studies, Makerere Univeristy

Proposal Title: Uganda’s "Niger Delta": The Wails of Women and Children in Oil-Rich Communities of the Albertine Grabben

Alex Mbayo

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone

Proposal Title: How Can We Not Matter? People with Disabilities and Political Processes in Sierra Leone

Roseanne Njiru

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Social Sciences and Development Studies, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa

Proposal Title: Peacebuilding through Health Initiatives: Assessing the Role of Health Workers in Kenya