Sara Saljoughi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Cinema as Novel Vision: Intertextuality and the Iranian New Wave

Aileen Robinson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Drama/Theater and Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Proposal Title: Technological Wonder: The Theatrical Fashioning of Modern Scientific Knowledge, 1838-1905

Stephanie O’Rourke

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Bodies of Knowledge: Girodet, Fuseli, and Spectatorship at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Anat Mooreville

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of California / Los Angeles

Proposal Title: The War Against Trachoma: Ophthalmology between Jews and Arabs, 1914-1973

Christina Mobley

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: The Kongolese Atlantic: Central Africans in the Haitian Revolution

Faiza Moatasim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Making Exceptions: Politics of Place in the Planned Modernist City of Islamabad

Amiel Melnick

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: 'Black Spots': Roads, Accidents, and Uncertainty in Kenya

Nada Matta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Youth Workers and the Egyptian Uprising

Emily Marker

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: The Cultural Politics of Late Colonialism and European Unity: Cultural Transnationalism in Postwar France, 1943-1968

Anca Mandru

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: "Socialism of Sentiment": Culture, Progress and Community in the Early Romanian Left (1870-1914)

Stephanie Maher

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Barça ou Barzakh: The Social “Elsewhere” of Failed Clandestine Migration Out of West Africa

Aman Luthra

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, Johns Hopkins University

Proposal Title: Modernity's Garb(age): A Political Ecology of Municipal Solid Waste in Delhi

Kristen Loveland

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Thinking the Future Human: Debates on the Ethics of Diagnostic Reproductive Technologies in Germany, 1946 – 2001

Chung-En Liu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Construction and Governance of the Global Carbon Commodity Chain

Ayala Levin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Nationalizing Modernism: Architectural Expertise in Israeli-African Technical Cooperation (1958-1973)

Seth LeJacq

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Proposal Title: “And What do You Know of the Body?”: Monitoring, Disciplining, and Caring for Sailors' Bodies in the British Royal Navy, 1688-1783

Sohl Lee

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester

Proposal Title: Within and beyond Minjung: The Aesthetics of National Identity and Democratic Participation in South Korean Art (1970-2010)

Kathleen Klaus

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Claiming Land: Institutions, Narratives, and Political Violence in Kenya

Hun Kim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Categorical Erosion: Land Capitalization and Governance in Vietnam

Deborah Jones

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Talk, Text & Land Grabs: Negotiating Place in Eastern Europe's Breadbasket

Jang Wook Huh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Black Radicalism in Korea: Overlapping Dispossessions in Afro-Korean Literary Networks, 1910-1953

Carter Higgins

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Exchanges with Gods and the Miracles of Capital: Pilgrimage and Development in India

Rebecca Herman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Collaboration and Dissent in the Construction of U.S. Airbases in Cuba and Brazil, 1940-1961

Alexander Hazanov

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Porous Empire: Foreign Visitors and the post-Stalin Transformation of the Soviet Union

Alysa Handelsman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Blackness, Work, and Repression: Street Children at Play in Guayaquil, Ecuador