Hallie Wells

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Moving Words: Malagasy Slam Poetry at the Intersection of Politics, Performance, and Transnational Circulation

Arianne Urus

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Troubled Waters: The International Order and Conceptions of Nature in the North Atlantic Fisheries, 1713-1783

Elena Turevon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: When Mountains Melt: Life on the Edge in the Peruvian Andes

Vladimirs Trojanskis

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Integration and Resistance: North Caucasus Refugees in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1914

Nathan Taylor

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Stories of the System: Capital’s Representation in Crisis

Jill Stockwell

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Cold War Migrants: Canonizing the Gastarbeiter in Turkish and German Fiction

Etienne Stockland

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: The Insect Wars: Biological Invasions and Agricultural Disasters in the French Enlightenment

Brian Smithson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Piety in Progress: Video Filmmaking and Religious Encounter in Bénin

Marcio Siwi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Making the Modern and Cultured City: Urban Planning, Architecture, and Cultural Production in Postwar São Paulo

Sujit Shrestha

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Urban Contestations: Neoliberalism, Maoism, and Post-Revolutionary Politics in Kathmandu's Squatter Settlements

Jonathan Shaw

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Always Kadogo: The Mobilization of Children in Conflict and the Legacies of Social Marginalization in North Kivu, Congo (DRC), 1959-2003

Aarti Sethi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Chronicles of Deaths Foretold?: Farmer Suicides in Chhattisgarh, India

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