William Welsh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: The New Enemy: Penality and the Political in Post Mao China

Hyo Kyung Woo

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Korean Englishes, Uneven Asias, and Global Circulation, 1895-1945

Yijun Wang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: The Transmission of Tin Mining and Pewter Crafting Technology in China and Southeast Asia from the 1700s to 1840s

Adeem Suhail

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Dead Dreams and Boys with Pistols: Rethinking Urban Violence in Lyari Town, Pakistan

Manuel Rosaldo

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Organizing in the Informal Economy: Recycler Movements in Brazil and Colombia

Andrew Simon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University

Proposal Title: Sounding the Nation: Cassettes, Culture, and Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (1970-2010)

Chih-yu Twu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: In Defense of Frontiers, and Mending Fences with China – Why Do Borders Become Indelible from the New Territories in Hong Kong?

William Stafford, Jr.

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: The Measurement of Measure: Labour as a Form of Regulation

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