Jian Ming Chris Chang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: The Once and Future Past: Petitioning Historical Grievances in Post-Mao China

Darren Byler

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: The Art of Life at the Margins of Ürümchi: Aesthetics, Minoritarian Politics and the City in Chinese Central Asia

Elisabeth Burton

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Genetic Nationalism: Ethnic Mythmaking and Human Biology Research in Iran, Turkey, and Israel

Edward Brudney

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Remaking Argentina: Labor and Citizenship During the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional

Alexander Brey

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History/Architecture, Bryn Mawr College

Proposal Title: Beyond the Bilad al-Sham: Images of Hunting in the Umayyad Empire

Jacob Blanc

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Contested Development: Itaipu and the Meanings of Land and Opposition in Military Brazil

Dorota Biczel

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: “A Mediocre Utopia”: Artistic Interventions, Migration, and Making of Urban Publics in Lima, Peru, 1978–1989

Delal Aydin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, State University of New York (SUNY) / Binghamton University

Proposal Title: Crafting the Self in the Shadow of the Turkish State: The Formation of Yurtsever Subjecthood in the 1990s

Anthony Andersson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Environmentalists with Guns: Conservation and Counterinsurgency in the Petén, Guatemala, 1960-1996

Samar Al-Bulushi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Cosmopolitan Terror: Secular Imaginaries, Transnational Governance, and the Security State in Urban Kenya

Yakein Abdelmagid

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: The Sounds of Revolution: Improvisational Labor and the Independent Music Scene in Egypt

Zhumin Xu

Competition: 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of New Orleans

Proposal Title: Citizen Participation in Urban Renewal: A Multiple Case Study of Property Takings in Shanghai

James Wright

Competition: 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of California / Santa Cruz

Proposal Title: 'You can stake our land but you can't stake our spirits': Resisting Militarism and Fighting for Lived Spaces in Western Tokyo, 1933-2003.

Holly Stephens

Competition: 2014

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

Proposal Title: Agriculture and Development in an Age of Empire: Institutions, Associations and Market Networks in Modern Korea, 1876-1945

Christian Sorace Sorace

Competition: 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Urbanization of the Peasantry During the Post-2008 Sichuan Earthquake Reconstruction: The Creation of an Idle Proletariat

Laura Schoenberger

Competition: 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): York University

Proposal Title: Drawing the Leopard's Spots: Cambodia's Rapid Land Titling Initiative, Land Concessions and Counter-movements

Arivalagan Murugesha Pandian

Competition: 2014

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

Proposal Title: Glorifying the Colonial Past! Social Memory and Kanikkarans in Tamil Nadu

Malav Kanuga

Competition: 2014

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

Proposal Title: Urban Redevelopment, Subaltern Imagination, and the Spirit of Repossession in Mumbai

Emily Hong

Competition: 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Cornell University

Proposal Title: High Stakes Collaboration: Land Rights and Ethnic Sovereignty

David Gilbert

Competition: 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Stanford University

Proposal Title: The Sumatran Struggle against Plantation Monocultures: Ecological Change, the Agro-industry and a Modern Peasant Movement

Rebakah Daro Minarchek

Competition: 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Cornell University

Proposal Title: What the Misty Mountains Conceal: Competing Claims for Forest Access and Ownership in Indonesia’s Conservation Zones

Phillip Lipscy

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Political Science, Stanford University

Proposal Title: The Politics of Energy and Climate Change

Toru Morotomi

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

Proposal Title: Future of Corporate Taxation: A Comparative Study of Influences of Globalization and Competitiveness Considerations on Corporate Tax Reforms in Japan and U.S

Daisaku Yamamoto

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Geography and Asian Studies, Colgate University

Proposal Title: Coping with the Crisis of Public Facilities and Services in Nuclear Host Localities: U.S.-Japan Comparison Based on Livelihood Approach

Noriko Porter

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Instructor, Human Development, Washington State University

Proposal Title: Comparing Stress of Mothers Who Raise Children With Autism Between Japan and USA: A Mixed Methods Study