Simon Hinman Wan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Hybrid Architectural Import: Dutch and Chinese Welfare Institutions in the Seventeenth-Century Urbanization of Indonesia

Catalina Vallejo

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Pricing Suffering: Compensation for Human Rights Violations in Colombia and Peru

Margherita Trento

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Area and Cultural Studies, University of Chicago

Proposal Title: Writing Christianity in Early Modern Tamil Nadu (1606-1759)

Peter Sorensen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Memory, Performance, and Syncretism in 16th Century Aztec Songs

Samuel Shuman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Cutting Out the Middleman: A Hasidic Enclave in Economic Transition

Omer Shah

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Apprehending the Crowd: Think Tanks & Start-Ups in the Making of the Modern Hajj

Michael Sims

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington

Proposal Title: "Without a Purpose Misfortune Will Befall Our Land:" Discourses of Nation and Purpose in Late Ottoman Kurdistan

Natasha Pesaran

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Third River: The Iraq-Mediterranean Oil Pipeline and Politics in the Middle East, 1920-1968

Max Shmookler

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Area and Cultural Studies, Columbia University

Proposal Title: The Otherworldliness of World Literature: A Study in the Arabic Maqama

Hayden Shelby

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Creating Community: “Secure Housing” and Social Order in Thailand

Tara Reyelts

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Gendering Law and Justice in Precolonial and Colonial Ogidi, Igboland, 1890-1960

Pauliina Patana

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: From the Fringes to the Frontline: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe

Ahona Panda

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Proposal Title: Philology and the Politics of Language: The Case of Bengali, 1893-1952

Nicholas Myers

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Recalcitrant Periphery: Space and Autonomy in the North American Sierra, 1776-1890

Christopher Parisano

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Between Waste and Huacas: Cultural Patrimony and Recyclers’ Rights in Lima-Peru

Royce Novak

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Archipelago of Extinction: Prison Islands in the Making and Unmaking of Empire

Nicholas Mulder

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Rise of the Economic Weapon: Sanctions in Britain, France, and Germany, 1914-1933

Elise Mitchell

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Smallpox and Slavery: Morbidity, Medical Intervention, and Enslaved People's Lives in the Greater Caribbean

Meredith McLaughlin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Faithful Citizenship: Islam, Bureuacratic Ritual, and the State in Rajasthan, India

Eilat Maoz

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Police Beyond the State: Jamaican Police Reform and the Postcolonial Present

Megan McDonie

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Explosive Encounters: Volcanic Landscapes, Indigenous Knowledge, and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Mesoamerica

Lei Lin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University

Proposal Title: The Limits of Empire: The Gurkha War, Qing China’s Borderlands, and the Trans-Himalayan Paradigm, 1788–1793

Sarah Mayo

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Medical Practice, Medical Performance: Mountebanks in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England

Erin McElroy

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Technologies of Displacement: Contours of Gentrification in Bucharest and Cluj, Romania

Nerve Macaspac

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Insurgent Peace: An Ethnography of Peacebuilding among Indigenous Peoples in Sagada, Philippines