Brian Bond

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Singing Islam: Sufi Poetry Performance as Ethical Pedagogy in Western India

Secil Binboga

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Unsettled Geographies: Cold War Politics of “Space-Making” and “Scale-Making” in Turkey

Chantal Berman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Bread, Freedom: Protest, Social Policy, and Political Regimes After the Arab Spring

Nandita Badami

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Cultures of the Sun: The Politics of Solar Energy in India

Ali Atabey

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Crossing Borders in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Europeans in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Galata

Ghazal Asif

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Papering the Divide: Religious Difference, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Pakistan

Quincy Amoah

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Phenomenology of Divination and Ethical Action in Karamoja

Ryoko Yamamoto

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Sociology, State University of New York (SUNY) / Old Westbury

Proposal Title: Global Talents on the Local Job Markets: Academic Globalization and Post-Graduation Decision-Makings among International Students in Japan and the United States

Shinsuke Tanaka

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Proposal Title: Clearing the Air: Comparing and Evaluating Environmental Policies in the Automobile Industry in Japan and the United States

Hirofumi Uchida

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University

Proposal Title: Research on startup finance in the U.S.

Adam Liff

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Japan and the Evolution of Washington's Post-Cold War Asia-Pacific Strategy

Kohei Watanabe

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Sociology, Teikyo University

Proposal Title: Food waste in Japan, US, and Europe - detailed grasp of the magnitude, and analyses on the formation of awareness

Charles Mooney Jr

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania

Proposal Title: Japanese Markets for Private Business Credit: Prospects for Modernizing Japanese Secured Transactions Law

Kunio Nishikawa

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University

Proposal Title: The future direction of Japan's rice farming industry under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) regime: An approach from California

Kyunghee Lee

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Michigan State University

Proposal Title: Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Poverty on Children's Developmental Outcomes: Japan and the US

Nicole Darnall

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, School of Public Affairs and the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Proposal Title: Sustainable Public Procurement in Japanese Local Governments: A Multicity and U.S. Cross-comparative Analysis

Lindy Heinecken

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2013

Proposal Title: Enhancing the Capacity of Female Peacekeepers and Local Women in Building Peace in Africa

Peace Medie

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy, Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy

Proposal Title: Security and Justice in Côte d’Ivoire: A Study of Women’s Responses to Gender-Based Violence

Jimam Lar

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History and International Studies Department

Proposal Title: Plurality, Local Authority, and Conflict Resolution: Prospects and Challenges from Central Nigerian Conflict Theaters, 2000–2015

Fekadu Tufa

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Social Anthropology

Proposal Title: Understanding Conflicts and Peacebuilding Practices in the Context of Multiple Actors: The Case of the Somali Region of Ethiopia

Nkwachukwu Orji

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute for Development Studies

Proposal Title: Peacebuilding and Separatism in Nigeria: Democracy, Peace Settlement, and Biafran Separatism

Joyce Omwoha

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Communication and Media Studies

Proposal Title: From Street Sentiments to Online Sentiments: Negotiating Peace through Social Media Activism in Kenya

Jacinta Nwaka

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History and International Studies Department

Proposal Title: The Ambivalence of the Sacred”: Religion, Peace, and Conflict in Northcentral Nigeria

Philani Moyo

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Proposal Title: An Appraisal of Climate Change Security Risks and Local Conflicts in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Enock Makupa

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Proposal Title: Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: Assessing Community Participation in the Natural Gas Sector in Tanzania