Saiba Varma

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Many Lives of Suffering: Human Rights and Psychiatry in Practice in Kashmir

Nathaniel VanValkenburgh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Out of Urbs, Civitas: The Archaeology of Spanish Conquest, Colonization, and Forced Migration in the Zaña and Chamán Valleys, Peru

Lisa Ubelaker

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Americas Mapped: Mass Media and the Making of an “American” Geography during World War II

Philip Thai

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Capital, Commerce, and Political Economy in Southeast China, 1842-1949

Mrinalini Tankha

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Cubanos Convertibles: Meanings of Multiple Currencies in Cuba

Carla Ann Takaki Richardson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Converting Loss to Advantage: Science and the Reinvention of Failure in Japan

Megan Sullivan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Concrete Nations: The Avant-Garde and Nation Building in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela

Jonathan Stillo

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Magic Mountains in Romania: Citizenship, Poverty and the New Role of Tuberculosis Sanatoria

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: West Bank Waste: Governance and Garbage in Two Post-Oslo Municipalities

Claudio Sopranzetti

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Constituting Mobilities: Ice-Cubes, Newspapers, and Motor-Taxis in Bangkok CBD

Laurencio Sanguino

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Large-Scale Emigration between Mexico and the United States, 1916-46

Kendra Ponniah

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Decentralizing Democracy: Urban Participation in Chavez's Venezuela

Yekaterina Oziashvili

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Stability of the Ethnofederal State: The Case of Russia

Adedamola Osinulu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): World Arts and Cultures, University of California / Los Angeles

Proposal Title: Venues of Transformation: Pentecostal Spaces in Lagos, Nigeria

Kathleen O’Brien

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Generational Modernities: Gender and the Politics of Evangelical Indigenous Religiosity in Chimborazo, Ecuador

Pedro Monaville

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Global 1968 in Kinshasa: From a Student Massacre to Ruins in a Postcolonial University

Louisa Lombard

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Raiding Sovereignty in Central African Borderlands

Annette Lienau

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: In the Spirit of Bandung: The Comparative Evolution of Postcolonial Literatures in Indonesia, Egypt, and Senegal (1905 to Present)

Michael Levien

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: From Dams to Special Economic Zones: The Changing Political Economy of Dispossession in India

Julie Kleinman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Parisian Junction, Transnational Crossroads: Remaking Social and Political Experience at the Gare du Nord

Jakub Kakietek

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Governments and Germs: Electoral Market Imperfections and the Politics of AIDS in Developing Democracies

Omotayo Jolaosho

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Proposal Title: Performance and Community Mobilization in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Area and Cultural Studies, Harvard University

Proposal Title: Abu'l Fazl: Creator of the Akbarian Idea

Ying Hu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: The Jasak's Court: Legal Institution and Practice in Qing Mongolia

E. Mara Green

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Everyday Signs: Rural Deaf Nepalis, Social Interaction, and the Remaking of Language