Tunç Şen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Proposal Title: Astrology and the Mediterranean Apocalypse: Knowledge, Prophecy, and Politics at the Ottoman Court, 1450s-1550s

Eric Schluessel

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Area and Cultural Studies, Harvard University

Proposal Title: The Muslim Emperor of China: Everyday Encounter in Law and Ritual in Xinjiang, 1877-1933

Akshya Saxena

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota / Twin Cities

Proposal Title: Vernacular Englishes: Language, Translation, and Democratic Politics in Post-Liberalization India

Shashank Saini

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Urbanity and its Discontents: Violence, Masculinity and Dispossession in Delhi

Andrew Ruoss

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Competitive Collaboration: Forging Global Corporate Political Economy, 1600-1730

Kelsey Rice

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Crossroads Intellectuals: Enlightenment Societies and Music Assemblies in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Azerbaijan

Catherine Reilly

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Naming Disorder: Psychiatry, Diagnosis and Literary Modernism in Russia and Germany, 1880 - 1929

Marco Ramos

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: The Politics of the Mind: Psychology, Violence, and Activism in Cold War Argentina

Justin Perez

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Coming Out Bureaucratically: Sexuality Rights and Narratives of Discrimination in Peru

Patrick Otim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Wisconsin / Madison

Proposal Title: Forgotten Voices of The Transition: Precolonial Intellectuals and the Colonial State in Northern Uganda, 1850-1950

Galen Murton

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of Colorado / Boulder

Proposal Title: Himalayan Highways: Intersecting Identities, Markets, and Geopolitics in Mustang, Nepal

Isadora Mota

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Reading about Freedom: Slavery, Literacy, and the Impact of the U.S. Civil War in Brazil (1850-1870)

Caroline Merrifield

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Eating against the Grain in Late Socialist China

Robynne Mellor

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: A Comparative Environmental History of Uranium Mining and Milling in North America and the USSR, 1945-1985

Stuart McManus

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Globalizing Cicero: Humanist Eloquence in Early Modern European Empires

Nathan Marvin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: A Larger Atlantic: A French Indian Ocean History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1767-1804

Johanna Markkula

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Navigators of the Social Ocean: Filipino Seafarers and Coastguards in the Global Maritime World

Eli Marienthal

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Promised Land, Contested Space: Canaan and the Geography of Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Benedito Machava

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: The Morality of Revolution: Urban Cleansings and the Making of Socialist Mozambique, 1974-1988

Ameem Lutfi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Soldiers Now, Citizens Later: Baloch Mercenaries and Bahraini State Formation

Paul Love

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Mapping the Ibadi Archipelago: Tracing Intellectual Networks among Ibadi Muslim Communities in Medieval North Africa (11-16th c.)

Jeremy Lin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Patriotic Philology: Linguistic Classification and the Construction of Nations in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe

Kevin Li

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Crime, Criminality, and the State: A Social History of Southern Vietnam

Elizabeth Lhost

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Proposal Title: Between Community and Qanun: Documenting the Practice of Islamic Law in 19th C. British India

Whitney Larratt-Smith

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Of Water and Life: An Ethnographic Intervention in the Alberta Oil Sands