Garrett Washington

James Taylor

Michael Smith

Noriko Manabe

Sho Konishi

Chad Diehl

Clark Chilson

Shawn Bender

Miriam Kingsberg

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

Proposal Title: The Poppy and the Acacia: Opium and Imperialism in Japanese Manchuria

Brent Kaup

Proposal Title: An Unconventional Alliance: Class, Nature, and Conflict in Bolivia

Sara Smith

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography

Proposal Title: Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Babies, and the Making of Territory in Ladakh

Xin Zhang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Where Do the “Rules of the Game” Come From? State and Corporate Property Rights in Post-Privatization Russia

Lu Zhang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Globalization, Market Reform, and Dynamics of Labor Unrest in China, 1980-2005: A Case Study of Chinese Automobile Industry

Sterling Wilson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Global Nostalgias: Nation and Longing in Contemporary Art

Howard Tsai

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Ethnic Groups and Colonies: Investigation of Prehistoric Coastal-Highland Interaction at Las Varas, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru

Nirvana Tanoukhi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University

Proposal Title: Paradoxes of a “Defeatist” Imagination: Lebanese Journalistic and Literary Writing Post-1967

Anna Stirr

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Negotiating Nepalipan: Migration, Gender and Nation in Nepali Music and Language

Suyoung Son

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Proposal Title: Writing for Print: A Literatus-Publisher of Seventeenth-Century China

Ryan Skinner

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Sound and Subjectivity: Music, Modernity, and Mògòya in Postcolonial Bamako

Merav Shohet

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Hy Sinh & Nghia: Sacrifice as Virtue in Vietnamese Family Life

Katayoun Shafiee

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle East and Islamic Studies and History, New York University (NYU)

Proposal Title: Anglo-Persian Oil, Techno-Politics, and the Making of Modern Iran, 1901-1953

Christy Schuetze

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Looking Within and Between: Women and Religious Transformations in Mozambique

Andrew Robarts

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Imperial Confrontation or Frontier Cooperation? Population Movements and Ottoman and Russian Migration Management Policies in the Black Sea Region, 1768-1829

Yael Rice

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: The Impulse towards a New Subject: Mughal Court Painting, 1570-1650

Sugata Ray

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Performing “Hinduism” in the Twentieth Century: Temple Architecture and Pilgrimage in Braj Bhumi