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

Corisande Fenwick

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Constructing Arabs and Berbers on the Peripheries of Empire: Surveying the Medieval Landscape of North-Eastern Morocco, 600-1200 CE

Alex Fattal

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Guerrilla Marketing: Information War and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels in Colombia

Matthew Ellis

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Envisaging Egypt: Geography and Conceptions of Space in a Desert Nation, 1841-1925

Tanwen Ellis

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: City-States in the International Economy: Changing Development Strategies and Social Compacts in Dubai, Bahrain, Singapore, and Hong Kong

Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: “Digital Birth”: Identity Cards, Mobility and the State in Senegal

Mona Damluji

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Architectural & Urban Planning, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: Petroleum's Promise: Imaginaries of the Nation-State and Modernity in Baghdad 1948-1958

Omar Cheta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies/History, New York University (NYU)

Proposal Title: Commerce and Law in Late Ottoman Egypt

Buyun Chen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Dressing the Empire: A History of Fashion in Tang Dynasty (618 – 907) China

James Chappel

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: The Lure of Orthodoxy: Radical Catholicism in Europe, 1920-1950

Paola Castaño

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: “The Time of the Victims”: Institutional Practices and Understandings of Violence in the National Commission of Reparation and Reconciliation in Colombia

John Buchanan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Coercion, Commodity Capital, and Warlord Emergence in Southeast Asia

Lina Britto

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: The Marijuana Axis: The First Narcotics Boom and the “War on Drugs” in Colombia, 1955-1985

Hiba Bou Akar

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): City and Regional Planning, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: Rebuilding the Center, Expanding the Frontier: Reconstructing Post-War(s) Beirut, Lebanon

Gautam Bhan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development/Urban Planning, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: The Juridical City: The Politics of Public Interest and Urban Citizenship in New Delhi

Brett Bennett

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Creating an Indian Ocean Rim Ecosystem: Forestry, Science, and the British Empire 1864-1963

Orkideh Behrouzan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Alternative Genealogies of Psychiatric Selves

Annaliese Bateman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009

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

Proposal Title: Mastering the Ice to Rule the Waves: British Imperial Mythologies and the Search for the Northwest Passage, 1817-1854