Peter Polak-Springer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Proposal Title: Shaping Oneness in the Borderlands: State Attempts to Construct National Community in Upper Silesia, 1919-50

Sylvain Perdigon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Survival and Normativity: Kin Relatedness among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

Jun Mizukawa

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: The Twenty-first Century Anthropology of Books: Digital Generations, Text Culture, and National Longing in Contemporary Japan

Ramah McKay

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Medical Welfare and Transnational Philanthropy in Mozambique

Daniel Margocsy

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: The Secret of Images: Scientific Illustrations and Intellectual Property in Early Modern Netherlands

Valeria Manzano

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: The Making of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality, 1958-1976

Karen Lloyd

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Proposal Title: Grafted Lineages, Crafted Identities: Altieri Patronage and the Complexity of Kinship in Early Modern Rome

Ebru Kayaalp

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: From Seed to Smoke: An Ethnography of Tobacco Production and Exchange in Turkey

Zahra Karimi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Exporting the American Dream: The United States and the Making of the Modern Iranian Home

Pamela Jagger

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: The Scramble for Property Rights: Renegotiating Livelihoods and Sustainability after Uganda’s Forest Governance Reform

Matthew Ingram

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science, University of New Mexico / Albuquerque

Proposal Title: The Politics of Subnational Judicial Performance in Brazil and Mexico

Abdourahmane Idrissa

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Complicit Disputes: Islamic and Secular Norms of Political Modernity in Niger

Abdulai Iddrisu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Contesting Islam: Wahhabism, Education, and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1950-2005

Steven Hyland

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Margins of the Mahjar: Arabic-speaking Immigrants in Argentina, 1880-1946

Cindy Huang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Remaking Muslim Women in China: The Rise of NGOs and New Configurations of Gendered Development

Richard Hopkins

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Engineering Nature: Public Greenspaces in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Bonar Hernandez

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: The Catholic Action Movement in Guatemala

Jocelyn Hendrickson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: The Jurisdiction of Orthodoxy: Islamic Law and Muslim Minorities in Medieval Spain

Lane Harris

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Communications Matrix: State-Making and Nation-Building in the Modern Chinese Postal Service, 1896-1949

Brian Hanrahan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Radio, Realism and the Hörfilm, 1923-1933

Bridget Guarasci

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Eden Again?: The Technologies of Nostalgia and Reconstruction in Iraq's Marshes

Karen Greenough

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Becoming Mobile Pastoralists: Desendentarization Among the Ful'be of Tanout, Niger

D. Ghertner

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Green Evictions: The Politics of Land Privatization and Access in Delhi

Maria Garay

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: The Changing Social Policy Divide: Informal and Formal Workers in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

Alessia Frassani

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006

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

Proposal Title: Art and Identity in Colonial Oaxaca: Dominicans, Spaniards, and Mixtecs at the Convento of Yanhuitlan