Rafael Domingues Lenz Cesar

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Spanish and Portuguese Languages and literatures, New York University (NYU)

Proposal Title: Fictions of Racelessness: The Brazilian and Cuban Influence on the Angolan Racial Imaginary (1948-2000s)

Constance de Font-Réaulx

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Power of Water in Versailles, Paris, and London, 1650-1800

David Delano

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Animal Between Crisis and Catastrophe: Extremities of German Thought, 1918-1949

Killian Clarke

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Overthrowing Revolution: The Popular Roots of Counterrevolution in Egypt

Sarah Balakrishnan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Inventing West Africa: Land Struggle and the West African Unity Movement, 1910-1950

Samuel Bass

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Subject of a Subject, Slave of a Slave: Labor, Taxes, and Society in Qing Mongolia

Christopher Daley

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Playing the State: Cuban Baseball and Socialist Subjectivity in a Time of Change

Caitlyn Bolton

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Spirit of Progress: Islamic Education, Development and Modernity in Zanzibar

Nadia Augustyniak

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Work of Care: Social Impacts and Political Dimensions of Psychological Counseling in Sri Lanka

Dean Chahim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Engineering the Infinite Metropolis: Water, Technology, and the Limits to Growth in Mexico City

Hannah Carlan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Semiotic Life of Empowerment: Multilingualism and Development Practice in North India

William Bamber

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Interdiciplinary Near and Middle East Studies, University of Washington

Proposal Title: Visual Transnationalism and the Spread of the Fez from Ottoman Turkey to South Asia, 1876-1908

Kevan Aguilar

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Revolutionary Encounters: Mexican Communities and Spanish Exiles, 1917-1975

Noriko Endo

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University

Proposal Title: Reconsidering the role of the national government in U.S.-Japan Nuclear Liability

Sumie Nakaya

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Affairs Officer, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations

Proposal Title: Ceasefire planning in multi-layered armed conflicts: Towards a new model of violence management among heterogeneous armed groups

Elizabeth DeSombre

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies, Environmental Studies, Wellesley College

Proposal Title: Comparative Influences on Port Sustainability

Koki Oikawa

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, School of Social Sciences, Waseda University

Proposal Title: Research on the impact of monetary policy on economic growth through reallocation among heterogeneous firms

Albert Park

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor of History, History, Claremont Colleges / Claremont McKenna College

Proposal Title: Rural Ecology: Environmentalism, Building New Communities and Social Renewal in Korea and Japan

Jason Danely

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Senior Lecturer, Social Science, Oxford Brookes University

Proposal Title: Comparison of older ex-offender resettlement and community-based organizations for reducing recidivism in Japan and the United Kingdom

Jolyon Thomas

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Proposal Title: Religion, Morality, and Public School Education in Japan and the United States

Heather Montgomery

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Senior Associate Professor, Department of Business and Economics, International Christian University

Proposal Title: Global Financial Stability in the wake of Banking Sector Consolidation: Evidence from Japan and the United States

Toshiaki Iizuka

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy and Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo

Proposal Title: The Value of Medical Care in the US and Japan

Dorothea Abraham

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Information Systems, College of William and Mary

Proposal Title: A Comparative Analysis of the 2017 Cybersecurity Strategies of Japan and the United States: Implications for Healthcare and Government

Rachel Nuwer

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Freelance Journalist

Proposal Title: Ivory Trade in Japan: Past, Present and Future

Amos Zeeberg

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2017

Proposal Title: How to Invent the 21st Century's Great Lifesaver: Stem-Cell Therapy