Sammit Khandeparkar

Competition: 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Arizona State University

Proposal Title: Fabricating Caste: Ritual, Text, and Pollution in the Emergence of a Brahman Caste in Twentieth Century India

Philip Friedrich

Competition: 2015

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

Proposal Title: Regional Circulations and the Political Remaking of the Buddhasasana in Late-Medieval Sri Lanka

Dannah Dennis

Competition: 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Virginia

Proposal Title: Re-Imagining the Nation: Citizens in the Newly Secular Nepal

Kuei-min Chang

Competition: 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Columbia University

Proposal Title: Contesting the Sacred: the Political Economy of Temple Enclosure in China

Cole Carnesecca

Competition: 2015

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

Proposal Title: Fate of the Gods: The Emergence of Religious Modernity in China and Japan

Yusuke Tsugawa

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Research Associate, Health Policy and Management, Harvard University

Proposal Title: Assessing variation in physicians' practice patterns and its impacts on quality of care and healthcare spending in the U.S. and Japanese contexts

Yoko Hayami

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Proposal Title: Dynamics of the Social Foundations of Care in the Era of Global Aging: Comparative Study between Industrializing Thailand and Post-Industrrial Japan

Hirotsugu Uchida

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island

Proposal Title: Quota-based management for small-scale coastal fisheries: Towards better management of marine resources while preserving fishing communities

Akira Okamoto

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Faculty of Economics, Okayama University

Proposal Title: Quantitative Analysis of Social Security Policies for Depopulating and Aging Societies

Miyuki Sasaki

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University

Proposal Title: Effects of web-based communication tasks on the development of a sense of audience in learners of Japanese as an L2

Stephen Saideman

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Paterson Chair, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

Proposal Title: The Role of Parliamentarians in Overseeing Armed Forces

Masazumi Wakatabe

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University

Proposal Title: The Role of Economic Journalism in Economic Crises: A Comparative and Historical Study in Japan and the US

Isao Okada

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Senior Staff Writer, Economic News, The Mainichi Newspapers

Proposal Title: After the Carnival: How to Prevent Olympic Stadiums from Becoming White Elephants - Learning from Experiences in Asia, America, and Europe

Ann-Elise Lewallen

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California / Santa Barbara

Proposal Title: Transnational Ecologies: Indigenous Ecological Practice, Civil Society, and Sustainable Development in India and Japan

Todd Hall

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

Proposal Title: Passions and Interest? Emotional Politics and Politicized Emotions in Sino-Japanese Relations

Kumiko Nakatsuka

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, Life and Culture News Section of Editorial Division, Osaka Head Office, Asahi Shimbun

Proposal Title: Studying countermeasures to child poverty in Japan, the U.S. and EU

Cassandra Sweet

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Reporter, News, The Wall Street Journal

Proposal Title: Development of renewable energy and storage in Japan

Adam Taylor

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, Foreign Desk, The Washington Post

Proposal Title: Going up? Japan’s race to build the fastest elevators in the world in a slowing China

Sophia Yan

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Reporter, CNN Money, CNN

Proposal Title: Women Matter: Unlocking Japan's Full Economic Potential

Robert Simiyu

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Social Sciences, Moi University

Proposal Title: Cultural Geographies of Peacebuilding and the (Re)production of Power Asymmetries in Mount Elgon Region, Kenya

Jacinta Maweu

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Nairobi

Proposal Title: Are Media Catalysts of Conflict or Messengers of Peace? Navigating Inter-Faith Dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Mombasa, Kenya

Malango Washikala

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): International Peace Information Service (IPIS)

Proposal Title: An Analysis of the Link Between Armed Groups and Unregulated Mineral Extraction in Eastern DRC: Case Studies of South and North Kivu Provinces

Asebe Debelo

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute of Indigenous Studies, Dilla University

Proposal Title: Competing Forms of Legitimacy and Questions of Peacebuilding Along the Ethiopia-Kenya Border

Mesfin Tilaye

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Environment and Climate Change Management, Ethiopian Civil Service University

Proposal Title: Mapping Water Conflicts and Best Management Practices in Pastoralist Areas in Ethiopia and Djibouti

Pamela Khanakwa

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Archaeology, and Heritage Studies, Makerere University

Proposal Title: “We Never Sold Our Land”: Contested Ownership and Ensuing Conflicts Over Land in Bulambuli District