Fahad Bishara

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: A Sea of Debt: Law, Empire and Commercial Society in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1950

Lihi Ben Shitrit

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Women’s Activism in Religious Political Movements: A Study of Four Movements in Israel and the West Bank

Nicholas Smith

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Of Sovereignty and Extra-Territoriality: The Pirates of the Red Sea, 1860-1930

Honami Yoshida

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Research Fellow, Epidemiology

Proposal Title: Effects of gender disparity on the birthrate declines and reproductive health analyzed in US-Japan comparisons

Mari Yoshihara

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, American Studies, University of Hawaii

Proposal Title: Political Economy of the Arts in Japan and the United States

Yuma Totani

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Justice in the Balance: Lessons from the Allied War Crimes Trials in the Asia-Pacific Region

Tomomi Tanaka

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, School of Global Studies, Arizona State University

Proposal Title: An International Comparative Study of Relationship between Economic Growth and Incentives to Work, Save and Redistribute

Mitchell Sedgwick

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University

Proposal Title: Organizing Globalization: Anthropologies of Cross-Cultural Relations in Japanese Corporations

Andrew Oros

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Political Science, Washington College

Proposal Title: Trilateralism in the U.S.-Japan-China Security Relationship

Akihiro Ogawa

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Japanese Studies, Stockholm University

Proposal Title: Lifelong Learning and Globalization: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan

Yoko Ibuka

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Postdoctoral Associate, Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University

Proposal Title: Cost-Effective Strategies for Influenza Vaccinations in the U.S. and Japan

Miwako Hosoda

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Research Fellow, Global Health and Population, Harvard University

Proposal Title: Empirical Research on Social Movements around Health Issues in the U.S. and Japan

Koichi Hamada

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Tuntex Professor, Economics, Yale University

Proposal Title: Ignorance or Vested Interests: A Comparison of Economic Crisis Management in Japan and the United States

Mary Alice Haddad

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Environmental Politics and Civic Participation in East Asia

Taiji Furusawa

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Quality of Financial Institutions and International Trade

Sangmin Bae

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Human Security in East Asia: Japan Leading the Way?

Setsuko Kamiya

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, Domestic News Division, The Japan Times

Proposal Title: Law-Related Education in the United States and the Roles of Legal Professionals and Citizens

Peter Friederici

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University

Proposal Title: Ocean Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide

Robert Boynton

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assoicate Professor/ Director of literary Reportage, School of Journalism, New York University (NYU)

Proposal Title: Abduction: North Korea's Kidnappings of South Korean and Japanese Citizens

Juanjuan Peng

Competition: 2009

Proposal Title: Yudahua: the Rise of a Business Group in Modern China

Hoi-eun Kim

Competition: 2009

Proposal Title: Inscribing Racial Boundaries: German Medicine, Japanese Anthropology, and Physicians on the Move

Jonathan Hall

Competition: 2009

Proposal Title: Experimental Japanese Film, 1910-2010

Matthew Fraleigh

Competition: 2009

Proposal Title: Producing Literary Chinese in Japan's Long Nineteenth Century

Kathryn Tanaka

Competition: 2009

Proposal Title: Human Once More: Hansen's Disease and Modern Japanese Literature 1919-1944

Tze Loo

Competition: 2009

Proposal Title: Treasure of the Nation: Colonialism, Heritage Preservation, and the Making of Shuri Castle