Eiji Kawabata

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

Hiraku Shimoda

Proposal Title: Generation X: Mythologyzing the Baby Boom Workforce in Japan

David Quinter

Proposal Title: From Charity to War: Shingon Ritsu and the Manjusri Cult in Kamakura Japan

Michele Mason

Proposal Title: Peripheral Visions: Imagining Hokkaido and Instituting Imperial Japan

Ryan Holmberg

Proposal Title: Blowout: Japanese Art and the Crisis of the Spoken Word, 1959-72

Christopher Bondy

Proposal Title: Alternative Education and the Changing Labor Market

Micah Auerback

Proposal Title: The Many Lives of the Buddha in Modern Japan

Kevin Carr

Proposal Title: Sacred Landscapes on the Margins of Medieval Japan

Mi-Ryong Shim

Proposal Title: Regional Identities: Korean Writers and their Depictions of Manchuria during the Asia-Pacific War

Elisheva Perelman

Proposal Title: The Role of Christian Evangelism in Combating Taisho Japan's Tuberculosis Epidemic

David Morris

Proposal Title: Minzoku Madness: The Nation, The Subject, and The Globe in Japanese Popular Music

Erin Kelley

Proposal Title: Confronting Modernity: Shirakaba Magazine and the Japanese Avant-garde

Susanna Fioratta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Clean Money for New Mosques: Remittances, Morality, and Contestation in the Republic of Guinea

Anjali Gupta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: “Modernized Life Is How Things Are Now” : A Study of People and Park Relations around Chobe National Park, Botswana

Sarah Parkinson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Reinventing Resistance: Palestinian Refugee Camps and Post-PLO Politics in Lebanon

Jennifer Boles

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: "8 Millimeters Versus 8 Million:" Superochero Cinema in Mexico City after 1968

Wazhmah Osman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Thinking Outside the Box: Television and Gender in the Afghan Culture Wars

Sheetal Chhabria

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: The City's Slums: Producing Urban Poverty in Western India, 1870-1918

Jinting Wu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Citizenship at a Crossroad--Education, Tourism, and Migrancy in a Chinese Hmong Village

Kurt MacMillan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Hormonal Bodies: A Transregional History of Sex and Race in Constitutional Medicine, 1911-1965

Alison Cool

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Translating Twins: Twin Studies and the Production of Genetic Knowledge in the Swedish Welfare State

Tessa Farmer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Cairo Ecologies: Water in Social and Material Cycles

Brian Jacobson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

Proposal Title: Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and Early Cinema

Kevan Harris

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: The Martyrs' Welfare State: Social Bases of the Post-Revolutionary Regime in Iran

Matthew Conn

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Corporal Rhetorics: Sexology, Citizenship and the State in ''German-Speaking'' Central Europe, 1880-1935