Danielle Resnick

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Encompassing Brokers and Political Entrepreneurs: Party Linkages to the Urban Poor in African Democracies

Natalie Porter

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Threatening Lives: Controlling Avian Flu in Vietnam's Poultry Sector

Maya Peterson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Technologies of Rule: Empire, Water and the Modernization of Central Asia, 1860s-1940s

Elayne Oliphant

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: Signs of an Unmarked Faith: Cultural Practices of Discreet Catholicism in Paris

James Nichols

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: "Afronorteamericanos in Tamaulipas and Coahuila: Informal Empire, Freedom, and Identity in Northern Mexico, 1829-1895"

Cam Nguyen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Area & Cultural Studies, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: Canonizing The Tale of Kieu: The Construction of a Vietnamese Classic

Graham Nessler

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

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

Proposal Title: The Struggle for Freedom in Santo Domingo and Saint-Domingue, 1789-1809

Smoki Musaraj

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, The New School

Proposal Title: When and What is Corruption: A Case Study from Postsocialist Albania

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