Devin Beaulieu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: "Savages" in an Indigenous State: Human Rights, Race, and Indigenous Territory in the Bolivian Amazon

Clark Alejandrino

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Storm Clouds over China: Typhoons, State, and Society in Coastal Guangdong, 1660s-1960s

Ekaterina Anderson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: The Micropolitics of Cultural Difference and Pluralism in Israel's Mental Health System

Puneet Bhasin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Sustaining Financialization(s): Politics and Profits in the Financial Transformation of Economies

Hector Beltran

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Disenchanted Hacking: Technology, Startups, and Alternative Capitalisms from Mexico

Alexandre Pelletier

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

Proposal Title: The State and the Local Religious Fields: Explaining Variation in Islamic Militancy in Post-Suharto Indonesia

Jacob Tischer

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Free University Berlin

Proposal Title: Cultural Heritage in the Making: Promoting Popular Religion in Contemporary China

Ruslan Yusupov

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Proposal Title: Pious Citizenship: Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity in a Chinese Town

Cameron Penwell

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

Proposal Title: The Emergence of Modern Buddhist Social Work in Twentieth-Century Japan

Dat Nguyen

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Boston University

Proposal Title: Buddhist Orphanages in Late-Socialist Vietnam: Reasoning and Debating the Public Good

Ariel Lopez

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Leiden University

Proposal Title: Conversion and Colonialism: The Making of Islam and Christianity in North Sulawesi (Indonesia), ca. 1800-1900

Catherine Larouche

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): McGill University

Proposal Title: Negotiating new development models: politics of Islamic charity in Uttar Pradesh, India

Sammit Khandeparkar

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

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

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

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

Kuei-min Chang

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Columbia University

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

Cole Carnesecca

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