Alexios Tsigkas

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, The New School

Proposal Title: A Commodity of a Certain Taste: An Ethnography of the Ceylon Tea Industry

Lydia Walker

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: The Claimsmakers: Nationalism as Internationalism for Nagaland, 1944-1966

Osama Siddiqui

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: John Stuart Mill and His Indian Readers: Classical Political Economy in Colonial North India, 1830-1890

Alessandro Tiberio

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Back to the Homeland: Neofascism, Precarity and Crisis in the New Borderlands of 'Fortress Europe'

Frederika Tevebring

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Baubo. The Greeks and the Obscene

Sudev Sheth

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): South Asia Studies; History, University of Pennsylvania

Proposal Title: Elite Business Households and State Formation in Western India: The Haribhakti Family and the Social World of Gujarati Bankers, c. 1750-1908

Nancy Thebaut

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Non est hic: Figuring the Absent Christ in Early Medieval Art

Anoush Suni

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Buried Histories: Ruins and the Politics of Memory in Anatolia

Hayley Rucker

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Sailing between Worlds: Cultural Experimentation and Exchange on French Oceanic Voyages, 1664-1789

Matthew Shutzer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: 'King Coal' in India: Energy, Agriculture, and National Development, 1870s - 1950s

Kathryn Renton

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Horses in the Iberian Atlantic World: A History of Breed and Race

Felix Rietmann

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Visualizing the Mind of the Child: Medical Film and the Mind Sciences of the Child

Victor Petrov

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: A Cyber-Socialism At Home and Abroad: Bulgarian Modernisation, Computers and The World 1967-1989

Diana Pardo Pedraza

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: When Landmines Do Not Explode: Peasant Life in the Colombian War

Andrea Recek

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ethnomusicology/Music, University of North Texas

Proposal Title: Constructing Identity through Liturgy: Devotion to the Saints in Medieval Aquitaine

Sean O’Neil

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Technicians of the Sign: The Practice of Semiotics in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1750

Rachel Nolan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: “Children for Export”: International Adoptions in Civil War and Postwar Guatemala 1968-2007

Claire Panetta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Heritage in Flux: The Shifting Politics of Historic Preservation in “Islamic Cairo” and Egypt’s Political Upheaval

Warrick Moses

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: In the Mix: Interrogating South African 'Mixed Race,' or Coloured Identities as Expressed via Cape Town-Based Hip-Hop

Rudo Mudiwa

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Communication and Culture, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Transgressive Mobilities: Zimbabwean Women Navigating the Crisis

Alaina Morgan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Atlantic Crescent: Afro-Muslim Internationalism, Anti-Colonialism, and Transnational Community Formation, 1955-1990

Matthew Minarchek

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Producing a Global Rainforest: Colonialism, Conservation, and the Opening of Sumatra's Highlands, 1900-1945

Naeem Mohaiemen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: The Past is Many Countries: Socialist Bangladesh, Rumors of Revolution, and the Return of Islam

Stephen McIsaac

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: A Memory from the Future: Emerging Temporalities of Care in South Africa

Charles McDonald

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, The New School

Proposal Title: “Return to Sepharad”: An Ethnography of Jewish Revivalism in Spain