Diana Georgescu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: “Ceausescu’s Children:” Ideological Scripts and Remembered Experiences of Childhood in Socialist Romania (1965-1989)

Elizabeth Gelber

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Exposing the Makings of a Social World: Transnational Workers, Local Residents and Oil Infrastructure in the Niger Delta

Jeremy Friedman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: The Fate of the Left: The Sino-Soviet Split and the Third World

George Flaherty

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History, University of California / Santa Barbara

Proposal Title: Mediating the Third Culture at Tlatelolco, Mexico City '68

Rosa Ficek

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: The Pan American Highway: An Ethnography of Latin American Integration

Rossen Djagalov

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Imagining Socialist Internationalism in the Age of Three Worlds

Matthew Derrick

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of Oregon

Proposal Title: Defining Territory, Shaping Faith: Islam and the Changing Landscape of Kazan's Old Tatar Quarter

Michael Dean

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Czech America and the National Movement in Bohemia

Leena Dallasheh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Nazarenes in the Tide of Turbulent Citizenships: Nazareth from 1940-1966

Lynette Chua

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Jurisprudence & Social Policy, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: How Does Law Matter in Gay Activism? A Case Study of Singapore

Lawrence Chua

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Modern Leisure Architecture in Thailand, 1911-1976: 'Public Space,' National Identity and Modernity

Hae Yeon Choo

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Citizenship at the Margins: Filipina Migrant Women and the Negotiation of National Boundaries in South Korea

Haydon Cherry

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Down and Out in Saigon: The Social History of the Urban Poor, 1880-1954

Kerry Chance

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Living Politics: New Practices and Protests of the "Poor" in Democratic South Africa

Ana Maria Candela

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Nations and Migrations in the Pacific: Peruvian Chinese Contributions to Nationalism and Nation-Building in China and Peru

Filipe Calvao

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: The Rough and the Cut: Extracting the State and Trading in Value in a Postcolonial Mining Complex

Virginia Breedlove

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Landscape and Livelihood in the Lake Chad Basin: Climate Change, Pastoral Production and the Politics of Groundwater Management on a Saharan Frontier

Alex Borucki

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identites in Montevideo, 1770-1850

Bethany Bloomston

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Uneven Mobilization: Gender, Land and Social Movements in Maranhao, Brazil

Gavril Bilev

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: 89 Russias: Centralization and Political Contestation

Leandro Benmergui

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Housing Development: Housing Policy, Slums, and Squatter Settlements in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1948-1973

Emily Baran

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Faith on the Margins: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia, 1945-Present

Brenda Baletti

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Paving Paradise? Property Rights and Social Mobilization along an Amazonian Highway

Felicity Aulino

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Transforming Death, Transforming Society: Palliative Caregiving Networks in Thailand

Avraham Astor

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Multicultural Celebration or Unwelcome Intrusion? The Politics of Mosque Construction in Spain