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

Sheng Long

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Numbering Land: The Mathematics of Subjectivity and Geography in Rural China Reforms

Thomas Loyd

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Europe's Last Overseas Empire: The Soviet Union, Transnational Student Exchange, and the Black World after Stalin

Romm Lewkowicz

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Documenting the Undocumented: Experimenting the Future of Europe in the Migrant Archive

Owain Lawson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Redesigning the Litani River, 1931-1965

Roxani Christina Krystalli

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Proposal Title: "We Are Not Good Victims:" Hierarchies of Suffering and the Politics of Victimhood in Colombia

Abigail Lapin Dardashti

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: Politics, Religion, and Modernity in Transnational Afro-Brazilian Art, 1962-1988

Ognjen Kojanic

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Ownership vs. Property Rights in a Worker-Owned Company in Post-Socialist Croatia

Peter Kitlas

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: A Diplomat’s Social Life: The Role of Moroccan and Ottoman Ambassadors in creating Diplomatic Norms in the Eighteenth Century Mediterranean

Jameson Karns

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Spark: The Transatlantic History of Fire Science 1850-1910

Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Sovereignty, Sunni Legalism, and the Religious Culture of the Mughal Empire (c. 1640–c. 1680): A History of Political Practices

Minwoo Jung

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: The Emergence of Sexual Governance Regimes in Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea

Hazem Jamjoum

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Area and Cultural Studies, New York University (NYU)

Proposal Title: Producing the Arab Cultural Arena: Capital, Class and State in Egypt 1903-1952

Brendan Haidinger

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Security, State Building, and the Response to Surveillance in Europe, 1790-1866

Zehra Hashmi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Kinchip: Identification, Security and Biometric Belonging in Urban Pakistan

Zahra Hayat

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Intellectual Property's Futures and the Limits of Legality: Access to Cancer Drugs in Pakistan

Kathleen Gutierrez

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: The Politics of Science in an Imperial Enterprise: Contending Botanical Traditions in the Colonial Philippines, 1871–1923

Gaurav Garg

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Capital City: Local Businesses and Global Development Institutions in Calcutta’s Economic Decline