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

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