Amy Zhang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Recycled Cities: Remaking Waste in Post-Reform Urban China

Cagri Yoltar-Durukan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: “Paying the Price”: Moral Economy and Citizenship in the Kurdish Region of Turkey

Adrian Yen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Psycho-pharmaceuticals and Traditional Medicine in Acholiland: Emerging Forms of Therapeutic Citizenship In Postwar Northern Uganda

Christopher Woolley

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Crown, Colony, and the Forests of New Spain

Kevin Woods

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Ceasefire Capitalism: Military-Private Concessions, Counterinsurgency, and Territorialization in the Burma-China Borderlands

Delia Wendel

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Rebuilding after the Genocide in Rwanda: Space and the Ethics of Transition

Brendan Weaver

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: “Fruit of the Vine, Work of Human Hands”: An Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Labor on the Jesuit Wine Haciendas of Nazca, Peru

Carol Wang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, The New School

Proposal Title: Entitlement Claims and NGO Professionalization in the Making of the Chinese AIDS Epidemic

Gowri Vijayakumar

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Viral Politics: AIDS, Public Health, and Citizenship in India and South Africa

Susan Vanek

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: The Cost of Independence: National Identity and Economic Autonomy in Greenland

Jennifer Tucker

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: State Informality in Paraguay's Frontier Economy: Bureaucrats, Border Agents and Entrepreneurial Subjects

Elena Ion

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Repaving Bucharest: Recession, Public Funding, and the Revival of Public Works in Romania’s Capital City

Marlee Tichenor

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Transnational Pharmaceutical Governance: Senegal and the Global Fight against Malaria

Christy Thornton

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Revolutionary Internationalism: Mexico and the Creation of the Postwar Multilateral System, 1919-1948

Peter Thilly

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Treachery on the Coast: Smuggling and Maritime Administration in Fujian, 1795-1937

Miriam Thangaraj

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin / Madison

Proposal Title: The Fabric of Childhood: Silk, Schools, Special Economic Zones

Stuart Strange

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Differences to Blame: Narrative, Agency and Responsibility in War, Sorcery, and Suffering in Suriname

Ian Simpson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Producing Market and Muslims: Religious Change and Commercial Culture in Early Islamic Syria-Palestine

Fiorella Sierra

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Brazil Goes Global: The Worker’s Party and the Rise of Brazilian Multinationals

Asheesh Siddique

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Daring to Ask: The Questionnaire and the Problem of Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth Century British Atlantic Enlightenment

Christopher Sheklian

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: What's “neo-” about “Neo-laicism?” Theological and Legal Developments in the Relationship of the Armenian Community of Istanbul to the Turkish State

Hosna Sheikholeslami

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: “Do Books Make Revolutions?”: Publishers, Translators, and the Circulation of Western Philosophy in Iran

Guo Quan Seng

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: The Birth of the Modern Diasporic Subject: Law, Knowledge, Family Reform and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies (1870-1942)

Timo Schaefer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Republic of Participatory Coercion: Policing, Army Recruitment, and Labor in the Making of Postcolonial Mexico

Stephanie Savell

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Humanitarian Militarism in Everyday Lives: The Brazilian Human Security Paradigm