Robert Pekkanen

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middlebury College

Gregory Dvorak

Proposal Title: Seeds from Afar, Fruit from the Reef: Imagining Home Between Japan and America at Kwajalein Atoll

Azra Hromadzic

Proposal Title: No Man’s Land: Youth Negotiating Democratization in Post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jane Ferguson

Proposal Title: Rockin’ for a Free World: Tracking popular music jams in the longest running civil war in modern

Bianca Dahl

Proposal Title: Great Expectations: Humanitarianism and the Invention of AIDS Orphans in Botswana

Jennifer Derr

Proposal Title: A New Nile: The Geography of Water and the Production of Agricultural Space in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Egypt

Vanessa Will

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: The Semiotics of Socialization: Gaelic-Medium Education and Language Revival in Scotland

James Weir

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Making Everyday Life in the Context of Conflict: Practices of Music, Chess and Gardening in Herat, Afghanistan

Tanya Weimer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Spanish & Portuguese, Emory University

Proposal Title: Beyond the Imperial Gaze: The Cuban Diaspora in Mexico

Rupa Viswanath

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: "The Pariah Problem:" Missionaries, State Intervention and Dalit Mobilisation in Colonial South India, 1880-1925

Alejandro Velasco

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: From Democratic Revolution to Massacre in Venezuela: Popular Consciousness and the Emergence of the Multitude in Caracas, 1958-1989

Jessica Stites Mor

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Screening the Transition: Cultural Politics of the Argentine Film Industry at the End of the Dirty War, 1983-1989

Nitzan Shoshan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Conflicts and Domination over Social Space in Post-Reunification East Berlin

Maud Seghers

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Re(con)figuring the state in Ghana and Senegal

Jason Seawright

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Party System Collapse in South America: Voters, Party Organization, and Adaptation

Riggan Jennifer

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Identity, Knowledge, Work: the Role of Teachers in Constructing the Eritrean Nation-State

Guillaume Ratel

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Of Law, Society, and Justice: the judicial practices of the magistrates of the Parlement de Toulouse (1550-1700)

Brett Pyper

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Music and the Non-Racial Imagination: Listening to Jazz in a Transitioning South Africa

Amanda Poole

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Inventing locality: Returnees and reconstruction of the Eritrean social landscape

Lorraine Plourde

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Difficult Music: Discursive Economies of Knowledge, Listening and Performance within Tokyo's Experimental Music Community

John Osburg

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Engendering Wealth: China`s New Rich and the Rise of an Elite Masculinity

Ato Onoma

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Securing property rights in land: politics on the land frontier in post-colonial Africa

Ozlem Okur

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Radio-Television and Film, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Internet Cafes in the Neighborhood: Politics of Virtuality, Intimacy, and Publicness

Faiza Mushtaq

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: Teachers, Preachers and Legal Interpreters: Creating Islamic Communities in Modern Pakistan

David Mozina

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2004

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

Proposal Title: How to Subjugate a God: The 'Banner-Writing Invocation of General Yin' in Contemporary China