Chad Brevis

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of English, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: Communicative Freedom in a Digital Democracy: Political and Economic Resistance to Free Speech and the Rise of Digital Activism in South Africa.

Titilope Ajayi

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Ghana

Proposal Title: Through African Eyes: 'Bring Back Our Girls' and the Politics of New Transnational Activism in Violent Contexts

Nimrod Ben Zeev

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Foundations of Inequality: Construction, Political Economy, and the Senses in Israel/Palestine, 1918-1993

Duygu Yildirim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: How to Know: Scientific and Intellectual Networks between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, 1650-1800

Hengameh Ziai

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University

Proposal Title: The Indebted Peasant: Debt, Capitalism and Political Resistance in the Gezira Plain of Sudan

Amanda Wasielewski

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Krakers in the Virtual City: From Squats to Net Art in Amsterdam, 1980-2000

Brandi Waters

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Debating ‘Defects’: Slavery, Disability, Doctors, and the Law in Late Colonial Cartagena and Philadelphia

Trenton Wilson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Imperium of Doubt: Trust and Suspicion in China’s Early Empires, 356 BCE-316 CE

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