Jane Ferguson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: The National Politics of Local Digital Media in Mae Hong Son, Thailand

Jennifer Derr

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: The Development of the Egyptian Sugar Industry, 1850-1950: Geography, Authority and Community in Southern Egypt

Bianca Dahl

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Left Behind? The Socialization of Orphaned Children in Contemporary Botswana

Alice Weinreb

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Nourishing Socialism: Food, Bodies, and the Building of a National Identity in Early Cold War East Germany

Romola Sanyal

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: An Architecture of Displacement: Spatializing Identity in the Refugee Spaces of Beirut and Calcutta

Ahmed el Shamsy

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Proposal Title: The Role of Legal Maxims in the Development of Islamic Law

Sara Smith

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2007

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of Arizona

Proposal Title: Embodied Histories: Women, Religion and Family Decisions in Leh, Ladakh, India

Miriam Kingsberg

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2007

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

Proposal Title: "Opium Modernity" in Early Twentieth-Century Dairen

Brent Kaup

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2007

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

Proposal Title: (Un-)Binding Bolivia? Negotiating with "Nature" in an Age of Neoliberal Globalization

Amrita Pande

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Commercial Surrogate Mothering In India: Nine Months Of Labor?

Susan Johnson-Roehr

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History, University of Illinois / Urbana-Champaign

Proposal Title: Space, Time and Architecture: The Spatialization of Knowledge and Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, 1721-1743

Adam Bronson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Democracy, Science, and Everyday Life: Science of Thought and Postwar Japan, 1946-1996

Bernard Dubbeld

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Building a Respectable Home: Security and Social Differentiation in the KwaZulu-Natal Hinterland

Nicholas Smith

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Citizen Tsotsi: Violent Crime in Democratic South Africa

Seiji Shirane

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2011

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

Proposal Title: Japan's Maritime Gate: Colonial Taiwan in the Making of a Southern Empire, 1895-1945

Anatoly Detwyler

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2011

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

Proposal Title: Networks of Exchange: Propaganda and Information Society in Modern Chinese Literature

Samuel Anderson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): World Arts and Cultures, University of California / Los Angeles

Proposal Title: Celebrity, Violence, and the Mystic Arts in Postwar Sierra Leone

Ahilan Kadirgamar

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Reconstruction and Dispossession: Landed Relations in Post-war Sri Lanka

Kjell Ericson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Inventing the Japanese Pearl: Imperial Coastlines, Global Trade, and the Legal Limits of Nature, 1880-1950

Sakura Christmas

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Earth to Empire: Mongol Lands under Japanese Rule, 1905-1945

Elizabeth Cecil

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Religion, Brown University

Proposal Title: Mapping a Contested Landscape: Religion, Politics, and Place in the Making of Pasupata Identity

Joshua Batts

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Windows on the World: Japan's Port Communities and the Global Experience, 1547-1634

Holly Stephens

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Agriculture and Development in an Age of Empire: Institutions, Associations, and Market Networks in Modern Korea, 1876-1945

Malav Kanuga

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Imagine Us Here: Urban Redevelopment, Slum Dwellers, and the Place of Imagination in Mumbai

Candace Lukasik

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Transnational Anxieties: Shaping a Minority Community between Egypt and the United States