Polina Ivanova

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: From Byzantium's East to Iran's West: Economic Change and the Rise of Cities in Medieval Asia Minor, 1000-1400

Annikki Herranen-Tabibi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Care, Belonging, and Social Reproduction in the Teno/Deatnu River Valley of the Finnish Sámi Region

Tobin Hansen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: "Getting By": Resilience in One-and-a-Half Generation Immigrant Men Deported to Mexico

Ali Hamdan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Exile, Place, and Politics: Syria's Transnational Civil War

Maria Gutierrez De Jesus

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Native American Studies, University of California / Davis

Proposal Title: State Nationalism, Cultural Politics, and Indigenous Intellectualisms: Educational Processes in the P'urhépecha Region of Michoacán, Mexico, 1938-1990

Ezgi Guner

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: The Invention of Africa in Turkey: National Sovereignty and Transnational Circulations of Knowledge, Capital and Affect

Jonathan Gordon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Accepting the Unacceptable: Market Protection and Violence’s Situated Legitimacy in Medellín

Zoltan Gluck

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Security and State Transformation: An Anthropology of Kenya's War on Terror (1998-2017)

Matthew Ghazarian

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Famine in a Time of Uncertainty: Food Aid and Sectarianism in Turkey, 1856-1893

Nathaniel George

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: A Third World War: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Empire in Lebanon, 1967–1990

Elizabeth Geglia

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Disrupting Democracy? An Ethnography of Governance, Territoriality, and Dispossession in Honduras’s Emerging ‘Model Cities’

Ann Gaul

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University

Proposal Title: Kitchen Affects: Culinary Spaces in Colonial North Africa, 1919-1964

Joshua Freeman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Print Communism: Uyghur Literary Canon between China and the USSR

William Fitzsimons

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Distributed Power: A Mobile Politics of Age without Centers in East Africa, ca. 1300 to Recent Times

Jean Faye

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Environmental Sciences, Studies, and Policy, University of Oregon

Proposal Title: Farming and Meaning at the Desert’s Edge: Can Serer (Senegal) Indigenous Agricultural and Cultural Systems Co-Evolve towards Sustainability?

Anthony Dest

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Latin American Studies, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Without Consent: The Politics and Conditions of Interethnic Solidarity in Colombia

Oliver Cussen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Experiments in Empire: The Global Civil Society of Old Regime France

Sandy Chang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Across the Nanyang: Intimate Labor and Chinese Female Migration in British Asia, 1890-1939

Andrea Castonguay

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Keeping the Faith: Maliki Fuqaha, the Almoravid Dynasty, and the Sunnization of North Africa c. 1000 -1150 CE

Russell Burge

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Civilian Battleground: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979

Morgan Buck

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Domesticated Landscapes: Public Housing and the Cultural Politics of Domesticity in Johannesburg, 1930–1994

Tory Brykalski

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Cultivating Life: Agricultural Labor in Lebanon's Syrian Refugee Crisis

Katherine Bruhn

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: From Sanggar to Ekonomi Kreatif: West Sumatran Artists in Indonesia’s Reinvented Art World

Alyssa Bowen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill

Proposal Title: From Political Solidarity to Human Rights: The Transformation of Pinochet’s Opposition in Europe, 1973-1998

Svetlana Borodina

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Governing Productive (Dis)Abilities: the Inkluzivnyi Work Regime and Moral Citizenship in Russia