Stephanie Su

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

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

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

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

Chi Ha

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

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Emory University

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

Naomi Chiku

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

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

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

Ahilan Kadirgamar

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): City University of New York (CUNY) / Graduate Center

Proposal Title: Reconstruction and Dispossession: Landed Relations in Post-war Sri Lanka

Sakura Christmas

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Harvard University

Proposal Title: The Cartographic Steppe: Spaces of Development in Northeast Asia, 1895-1945

Llewelyn Hughes

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Political Science, George Washington University

Proposal Title: Business-Government Relations and the Politics of Climate Change

Hyon Joo Yoo

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Political Science, Trinity University

Proposal Title: Domestic Impediments for Alliance Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and South Korea in Relocating US bases

Yoko Yamamoto

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Adjunt Assistant Professor, Research Associate, Education, Center for the Study of Human Development, Brown University

Proposal Title: Social Stratification and Early Educational Processes: Student Beliefs about Learning in Japan and the U.S.

Nancy Snow

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Communications, California State University / Fullerton

Proposal Title: From Operation Tomodachi to No Nukes: Rethinking the Public in Japanese Diplomacy since 3/11

Craig Parsons

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Measuring Permanent and Transitory Effects of Disasters on Trade: Econometric Studies on Japan and the US

Sawa Omori

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Law and Public Policy, International Christian University

Proposal Title: Effects of the IMF and the World Bank on Financial Policy Reforms: Comparing the Influence of the United States and Japan on the IMF and the World Bank Programs

Nobuko Nagase

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University

Proposal Title: U.S.-Japan Comparison of Labor Market and Internal Labor Markets and the Effect on Female Labor, Fertility and Child Bearing

Matthew Marr

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University

Proposal Title: Service Hub or Service-Dependent Ghetto? A Comparison of Human Security at the Margins of American and Japanese Global Cities

Tomoko Kinugasa

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Population Aging, Education and Economic Growth: Comparative Research between Japan and the United States

Yukihiro Kidokoro

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Proposal Title: A US-Japan comparison of the effect of population migration on cost-benefit analysis applied to urban and transport policies

Ken Haig

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Political Studies, Bard College

Proposal Title: Family, State, and Society: Japanese and Korean Family Welfare Policies in Comparative Perspective

Takashi Araki

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo

Proposal Title: A Comparative Legal Study of Non-Standard Employment Policies in the US, Germany and Japan: The Regulatory Approach, Market Function Approach and Options for Japan

Allison Alexy

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Proposal Title: When Citizenship and Kinship Intersect: Comparing Japanese and American Responses to Transnational Child Custody Disputes

Hideki Yoshimura

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, Economic News, Sankei Shimbun

Proposal Title: Future Cooperation in Energy Policy between Japan and the U.S.

Eliza Strickland

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2012

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Editor, IEEE Spectrum

Proposal Title: Power Puzzle: Energy Policy in Post-Fukushima Japan