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

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

Hoi-eun Kim

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

Jonathan Hall

Proposal Title: Experimental Japanese Film, 1910-2010

Matthew Fraleigh

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

Kathryn Tanaka

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

Tze Loo

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

Andre Haag

Proposal Title: Representing the Resistance: Narratives of Rebellious Koreans in Taisho Japan

Alicia Gibson

Proposal Title: The End, or Life in the Atomic Age: Aesthetic Form and Modes of Subjectivity

Adam Clulow

Proposal Title: Rival Diasporas: Cooperation, competition and conflict between the Chinese Mercantile Community and the Dutch East India Company in early modern Japan

Hyungsub Choi

Proposal Title: Manufacturing Knowledge in Transit: A Transnational History of the Semiconductor Industry

Cheng-Heng Chang

Proposal Title: Managing a Good Life on Our Farm: Machizukuri and teinenkino in Contemporary Japan

Bernard Dubbeld

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012

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

Proposal Title: Becoming Homeless: Superfluity, Governance, and the Experience of Insecurity in Glendale, South Africa

Winnie Wong

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Proposal Title: After the Copy: China, Dafen Village and the Hand-Painted Art Product

Juan Eduardo Wolf

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ethnomusicology, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Sounding Stereotypes: Musical Styles in the Social Poetics of Arica, Chile

Joseph Wiltberger

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Alternatives to Migration: Place-based Practices in El Salvador

Tod Van Gunten

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: The Politics of Monetary Instability

Benjamin Uchiyama

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: The Culture of National Mobilization in Wartime Japan

Rebekah Tromble

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Framing Islam: Hizb ut-Tahrir's Transnational Call for a Caliphate

Michael Thorne

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: The Traumatic Mirror: Questions of Identity, Romanipe, and Romanianness during the Deportations of Roma under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944

Richard So

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Coolie Democracy: US-Sino Literary and Social Reform, 1929-1952

Kari Shepherdson-Scott

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Utopia/Dystopia: Japan's Image of the Manchurian Ideal

Sarah Reynolds

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Transfers in Salvador, Brazil

Lindsey Reynolds

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Vulnerability, Eligibility, and the "OVC:" The Local Lives of Policies and Categories