Manjusha Nair

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Intimate Contentions: Class, Community and Nationhood in Chhattisgarh in Central India (1947-2005)

Natalia Milanesio

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Peronism, Mass Consumption, and Working-Class Culture, Argentina, 1946-1955

Tomas Matza

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Economies of Despair: Gender, Psychologies and Social Assistance in Postsocialist Russia

Oana Mateescu

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Memory, Proof and Persuasion: Re-creating Communal Ownership in Postsocialist Romania

Lilith Mahmud

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Seeking Sisterhood: Elite Constructions of Gender in the Italian Freemasonry

Fabiana Li

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Reconfiguring Networks, Politics, and Nature: The Emergence of Movements against Mining in Peru

Erez Levon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Language, Ideology and Gay Identity in Israel

Lili Lai

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Beyond the Economic Peasant: Embodiment and Healthcare in Rural Henan

Abby Kinchy

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Transgenic Crops and Transnational Activism: Controversies over Mexican Maize and Canadian Canola

Charles Keith

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Catholic Vietnam: Church, Colonialism and Revolution, 1908-1945

Beatrice Jauregui

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: The Force of Law: State Actors and Legal Orders in Contemporary India

Rusaslina Idrus

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: The Native State and Transnational Indigenes: The Legal Arena and Orang Asli Land Claims in Malaysia

Juan Gomez-Rivas

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Muslim Jurists under the Almoravids

Denise Geraci

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Inequality and Childcare in the Global Economy: The Children of Mexican Domestic Workers

Claudio Ferraz

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: The Impact of Globalization on Environmental Choices: Evidence from Brazilian Manufacturing Firms

Tasha Fairfield

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: The Distributional Politics of Tax Reform in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile

Nadia Ellis Russell

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: The Caribbean and the Making of Modern British Culture, 1932-1967

Madhuri Desai

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Resurrecting Banaras: Urban Space, Architecture and Religious Boundaries

Naomi Davidson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Un Espoir en Devenir: The Mosquée de Paris and the Creation of French Islams

Robyn Cutright

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Cuisine and Empire: A Domestic View of Chimu Expansion from the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru

Jason Cons

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: The Fragments and Their Nations: Marginality, Citizenship, and Territory in the India-Bangladesh Enclaves

Roseann Cohen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Migrating ecologies: Homegarden practice among displaced persons from rural Chocó, Colombia, resettled in the city of Cartagena, Colombia

D’Maris Coffman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: The "Devil's Remedy:" Excise Taxation in the British Isles, 1650-1700

Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Of Moors and Men: The Construction of Masculinities on the Spanish-Moroccan Frontier, Ceuta, 1640-1799

Lale Can

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Subjects of the Tsar, Brothers of the Sultan: The Ferghana Valley between Russian Colonialism and Ottoman Pan-Islamism