Rossio Motta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Translations Of Psychiatric Knowledge-Practices In Lima, Peru

Maya Mikdashi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Conversion, the Politics of Secularism, and Personal Status Law in Lebanon

Marcos Mendoza

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: The Political Ecology of Climate Change in Argentine-Patagonia

Lena Meari

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Interrogating "Painful" Encounters: The Interrogation Encounter between Palestinian Political Activists and the Shabak

Lindsay Mayka

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Designing Democracy: National Participatory Governance Frameworks in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia

Katherine Mason

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: After SARS: An Ethnography of Public Health Campaigns in South China

Alberto Marchesi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Geographies of Armed Protest: Transnational Cold War, Latin American Internationalism and the New Left in the Southern Cone (1966-1976).

Devorah Manekin

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: The Good, the Bad, and the Ordinary: Patterns of Soldier Violence and Resistance in the Second Intifada

Jared Manasek

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Imperial Population Politics and Refugee Aid in the Balkans, 1875-1878

Shervin Malekzadeh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Ambiguous Spaces: Classrooms and the Politics of Schooling and Identity Formation in Postrevolutionary Iran

Kirsten Leng

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Contesting the “Laws of Life:” Science, Politics and Feminism in Germany and Britain, 1890-1914

Jody LaPorte

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Institutionalizing Autocracy: Protest and Response in Post-Communist Eurasia

Darien Lamen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ethnomusicology, University of Pennsylvania

Proposal Title: Negotiating Place: Forró, Regionalism, and Circum-Caribbean Connectedness

Larisa Kurtovic

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: "Think" Future! Postsocialist Hope in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Jaeeun Kim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Transborder National Membership Politics in Korea

Sebastian Karcher

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Liberalization, Segmentation, Informalization. The Politics of Labor Market Adaptation

Ozan Karaman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of Minnesota / Twin Cities

Proposal Title: Building a "World City:" Urban Entrepreneurialism and the Politics of Segregation in Istanbul

Nathan Jones

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: From Perestroika to the Polka: The Politicization and Everyday Life of “Germanness” in Kazakhstan

Brannon Ingram

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Religion, University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill

Proposal Title: Sufism and the Deoband Movement in South Asia and Beyond: Genealogy of a Polemic

Nur Amali Ibrahim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Producing Believers, Contesting Islam: Conservative and Liberal Youths in Post-New Order Indonesia

Daniel Hershenzon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Captives and Renegades: Forging Community and Identity in Early-Modern Spanish

Angelia Haro

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Developing Utopias: An Ethnography of Millennium Development

Alberto Harambour Ross

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Borderland Sovereignties: Race, Class, and Nation in Patagonia’s Nation-State Building, Argentina and Chile, 1840-1925

Dahlia Gubara

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Trajectories of Learning and the Everyday Life of Ideas: Al-Azhar in the Eighteenth Century

Kathryn Graber

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Reading Publics: Language and Local Media in Southeastern Siberia