Maria Escallon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Cultural Heritage, Maroons and the Politics of Diversity in Colombia and Brazil

Melih Egemen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University

Proposal Title: Imperial Borderlands and Regional Geographies: Russian South Caucasus and Ottoman Eastern Provinces, 1860s-1920s

Elizabeth Dyer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: The Performance of Politics and the Politics of Performance: Theatre in Postcolonial Kenya, 1978-2002

Kristin Dickinson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Translation and the Production of Modernity: A Turkish German Comparative Analysis

April Colette

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of Illinois / Urbana-Champaign

Proposal Title: Floods, Favors and 'Fixes': The Reproduction of Vulnerability in Santa Fe, Argentina

Rishad Choudhury

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Empire and Self in Early Modern India: Mughals in the Indian Ocean World, c. 1605-1707

Yasmin Cho

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Politics of Tranquility: The Religious Practice of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Western China

Adriana Chira

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Circulating Freedoms: Citizenship Rights and Political Activism around the Gulf of Mexico, 1868-1898

Roberto Chauca Tapia

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Science in the Jungle: The Missionary Mapping and National Imagining of Western Amazonia

Sandra Botero Cabrera

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: High Courts and Socioeconomic Rights in Latin America

Daniel Beben

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Sacred Narratives, Spiritual Authority, and Communal Identity among the Ismailis of Central Asia, 1500-1895

Yesenia Barragan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: “The Darkest Place in New Granada”: The Abolition of Slavery and the Politics of Place in Chocó, Colombia, 1821-1852

Nicholas Barnes

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Monopolies of Violence: Gang Governance in Rio de Janeiro

Teofilo Ballve

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Territories of Life and Death: Space, Power, and Violence on a Colombian Frontier

Jochen Arndt

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Becoming "Xhosa:" German Missionary Linguists and How the Borderland Communities of the Eastern Cape Region of South Africa Became Part of the Xhosa Ethnolinguistic Group, 1830-1930

Rosemary Admiral

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Illinois / Urbana-Champaign

Proposal Title: Approaching Islamic Law: Women, Gender, and Law in Morocco, 1310-1465

Shu-Li Wang

Competition: 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of London / University College London

Proposal Title: Politics of Displaying Landscape - China’s National Archaeological Parks in the Making

Stephanie Su

Competition: 2012

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

Proposal Title: Imagination of China in Early Twentieth Century Chinese and Japanese History Painting

Diana Kudaibergenova

Competition: 2012

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

Proposal Title: Discovering nationalism in post-Soviet Central Asia. Elites, ethnonationalism and legitimation in post-independent era.

Kyoung-Lae Kang

Competition: 2012

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

Proposal Title: "Postcolonial Archive Fever and Politics of Absence in Contemporary Korea"

Chi Ha

Competition: 2012

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

Proposal Title: Competing Nationalisms: Censorship and Intellectual Production in Vietnam During the Vietnam War (1955-1975)

Pankhuree Dube

Competition: 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Emory University

Proposal Title: Rewriting History through Art: Gond Artists of Mandla District, Madhya Pradesh

Naomi Chiku

Competition: 2012

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

Proposal Title: Writing ‘Comprehensive Novels,’ or Constructing Living Historical Memory? : Murakami Haruki’s Textual Strategies of Dialogism

Bryce Beemer

Competition: 2012

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

Proposal Title: The Creole City in Southeast Asia: Slave-gathering warfare and cultural exchange in pre-colonial Burma, Thailand and Manipur

Christopher Baker

Competition: 2012

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

Proposal Title: The Politics of the Ethnic Past: Kazakh belles-lettres in the late Soviet Era