Elizabeth Cecil

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Brown University

Proposal Title: Seeking the 'Lord with a Club': Locating Lakulisa in the History of Pasupata Saivism(*Diacritical marks omitted)

Mirabelle Yang

Proposal Title: Modern Lovescapes and Phnom Penh’s New Dating Culture: Gender, Self and Desire(s) in Postconflict Cambodia

Hiroko Umegaki (Costantini)

Proposal Title: Family Relatedness: Sons-in-Law (giri no musuko) in the Changing Japanese Family

Bonnie Tilland

Proposal Title: Dramatic Restructuring: The Staging of Family Values and National Identity in South Korea

Baris Selcuk

Proposal Title: Individualization and the Chinese Middle Class Family. A Qualitative Study of 24 Beijing Families. (Working Title)

Elizabeth Miles

Proposal Title: Changing Lives, Changed Men: Heterosexual Masculinity in Postmainstream Japan

Nur ‘Adlina Maulod

Proposal Title: Labor of Love: Queer Kinship and Stratified Reproduction among Female Same-Sex Partners in Singapore

Fang Yu Hu

Proposal Title: Tug of War between Japanese School and Taiwanese Home: Han Taiwanese Girls’ Education during the Japanese Period, 1895-1945

Esther Horat

Proposal Title: Market Transformation and Dynamics in Families in Northern Vietnam: The Case of Ninh Hiep

Rachel Fleming

Proposal Title: Spaces of Gendered Belonging: Modernity, Generational Change, and Professional Women’s Friendships in Bangalore, India

Roslyn Fraser

Proposal Title: Global Labor Markets and Child Gender Preference in Rural Bangladesh

Resto Cruz

Proposal Title: The Labours of Kinship: Migration, Ties of Relatedness, and the Changing Family in the Philippines and Italy

Michael Chan

Proposal Title: Writing the Modern Family: Family, Nation and Everyday Life in Japan, 1910-1950

Dana Buntrock

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

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

Proposal Title: Energy and Architectural Innovation

Setsuya Fukuda

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Senior Researcher, Population Dynamics Research, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

Proposal Title: A Comparative Study of Marriage Timing and Assortative Mating: Examining the Reversal of the Educational Gradient in Marriage Formation in Japan and the United States

John Gilbert

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Economics and Finance, Utah State University

Proposal Title: Quantitative Assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Ryo Horii

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

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

Proposal Title: The Dynamics of US-Japan Current Account Imbalance: Focusing on the Difference in the Saving-Investment Behavior over the Process of Economic Growth

Hiroki Kondo

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Economics, Sophia University

Proposal Title: Intergenerational Relationships within a Family and the Impact of Education and Social Security Policies in a Globalizing Economy: A Comparative Research between Japan and the U.S.

Shoko Konishi

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Human Ecology, University of Tokyo

Proposal Title: US-Japan Comparison of Biobehavioral Factors Related to Low Fertility

Pardis Mahdavi

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor and Chair, Anthropology, Claremont Colleges / Pomona College

Proposal Title: The Family Detention Complex: Human Trafficking, Parenting, and Immobilized Migrants in Asia

Anuradha Mukherji

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, University of North Carolina / East Carolina University

Proposal Title: Planning Urban Recovery & Resilience: Comparing Land Use Policy and Adaptation Initiatives after Catastrophic Events

Hitoshi Shigeoka

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Economics, Simon Fraser University

Proposal Title: Comparison of Japan and the US Health Care Policy for Children

Emi Uchida

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island

Proposal Title: Long-term Socioeconomic Effects of China's Grain for Green Program

Asako Maria Toyoda

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Political Science, Villanova University

Proposal Title: Investing Relations: Japan's Financial Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Economic and Security Interests

Philip Cunningham

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Journalist

Proposal Title: Exploring Japan's Antiwar Tradition as Expressed in Manga and Anime