Linda Rodriguez

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Artistic Production, Race, and History in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Ran Zwigenberg

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Mute Memories: Menmotic Sites of Hiroshima, 1945-1995

YundanNima YundanNima

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of Colorado / Boulder

Proposal Title: Converting Pastures to Grasslands:State Interventions into Pastoral Livelihoods and Grassland Ecosystems of Tibet

Timothy Yang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Sciences of Modernity: Taiwan in Colonial and Postcolonial Times

Rebecca Woods

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Proposal Title: Bred to the Purple: Imperial Livestock and Colonial Places

Matthew West

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Economy's Global Division of Labor: Producing Green-Technology between Taiwan and China

Chika Watanabe

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Cultivating Transformation in Burma/Myanmar: Ideals, Knowledge, and Capacity Building Trainings by a Japanese NGO

Jaime Wadowiec

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, State University of New York (SUNY) / Binghamton University

Proposal Title: The Afterlives of Empire: Immigration and the Politics of Difference in Decolonized France, 1962-1974

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