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

Elisabetta Bini

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Cold War Domesticity: Consuming Women in Postwar Italy

James Barsimantov

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Testing the Role of Community Forestry in Conserving Mexico`s Pine-Oak Forests

Nikolay Antov

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Formation of Muslim Communities in the Ottoman Balkans: The Case of Deliorman, 16th-17th Centuries

Takashi Yoshida

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Remembering War, Commemorating Colonialism: A Comparative Analysis of Postwar Japanese Peace Activism and Museums

Mie Oba

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School of Management of Science, Tokyo University of Science

Proposal Title: The US Factor on Developing "Region Arrangement Complex" in Asia Pacific: Implications for US-Japan Relations

Joshua Muldavin

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Geography, Sarah Lawrence College

Proposal Title: Conservation, Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation in China: The Role of Japanese Environmental ODA in China’s Development

Harold Kerbo

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor and Chair, Social Sciences, California State University / California Polytechnic State University

Proposal Title: Policies and Programs for Poverty Reduction in Thailand and Vietnam: An Investigation of What Works and What Doesn’t and their Implications for other Developing Countries

Keiko Hirao

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Philosophical Anthropology, Sophia University

Proposal Title: Maternal Employment and Intergenerational Transfers for Children's Education: U.S.-Japan Comparison

Thomas Gill

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University

Proposal Title: Responses to Homelessness in Japan, the United States and Britain - an Anthropological Approach

Hiroshi Fukurai

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Sociology, University of California / Santa Cruz

Proposal Title: Cross-National Analysis of the Lay Participation System in Japan and the U.S.: The New Saiban-in Seido (Quasi-Jury System) in Japan and the Criminal Jury System in the U.S.

Adrian Favell

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California / Los Angeles

Proposal Title: Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of "Offshore" Japanese Cultural Industries in Art, Fashion and Food

Lieba Faier

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Women, University of California / Los Angeles

Proposal Title: NGO-Government Collaborations in Japan and the U.S.: Working across Cultural and Institutional Divides to Combat Human Trafficking

John Davis

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Cultivating Human Rights: A Comparison of Japanese and American Approaches

Alison Brysk

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

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

Proposal Title: Global Good Samaritans: Human Security Promoters and Networks

Jeffrey Broadbent

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Minnesota / Twin Cities

Proposal Title: Reciprocity and Negotiation on Diffuse Risks: Climate-Change Policy Networks in Japan, the United States, Germany and Austria

Toshi Arimura

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Economics, Sophia University

Proposal Title: Environmental Policy Instruments to Promote Technological Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Japanese Experiences

Christa Altenstetter

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2005

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Ph.D/M.A in Political Science, City University of New York (CUNY)

Proposal Title: The Consequences of Globalization for Regulatory Policy on Medical Devices: Bridging International and National Levels of Policy-making