Seth Estrin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Objects of Pity: Art and Emotion in Archaic and Classical Greece, c. 520-380 B.C.E.

Andrew Ehrinpreis

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, State University of New York (SUNY) / Stony Brook University

Proposal Title: Coca Nation: The Protean Politics of the Coca Leaf in Bolivian Nationalism (1900 – 1961)

Courtney Doucette

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Proposal Title: Sweet Socialism in the Chocolate Factory: The Last Attempt to Create the New Soviet Person, 1985-1991

Darja Djordjevic

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: The Cancer War(d): Onco-Nationhood in Post-Traumatic Rwanda

Bryan Chitwood

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Poetic Investments: Public Finance and the Fiscal Sociology of Anglophone Poetry Since 1945

Hongwei Chen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Fairy Tales of Good Reception: The Educational Mode in Chinese Cinema, 1931-1966

Andra Chastain

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Vehicle of Progress: The Santiago Metro and the Techno-Politics of Military Rule in Chile, 1965–1990

Volha Charnysh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Overcoming the Challenges of Diversity: Institutional Solutions to Dilemmas of Collective Action

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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