Eleana Kim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Remembering Loss: The Global Movement of Korean Adoptees

Jennifer Jackson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Getting an Edge in Wordwise: The Productive and Social Role of Oratorical Performance in Malagasy Democratic Process

Joseph Hill

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Divine Knowledge and an Islamic Moral Order: The Disciples of Baay Niass in Senegal

Clara Henderson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: The Spiritual, Sensual, and Corporeal Dimensions of Presbyterian Women's Dance in Southern Malawi

Richard Hecock

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: The Politics of Education Reform in Mexico

Irina Shingiray

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Archaeology, Boston University

Proposal Title: The Politics of War and Trade Between the Nomadic Khazar Empire and the Islamic Caliphate (7th-10th Centuries A.D.)

Justine Hanson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Re-Inventing Nicaragua: the Cultural and Social Logics of Investment and Re-Investment

Clara Han

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Justice, Acknowledgement, and Neoliberalism: An Ethnography of Affects and Mental Illness in Post-Authoritarian Chile

Jennifer Fraser

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Containing Diversity: State Institutions, Musical Aesthetics, and the Performance of Ethnicity in West Sumatra, Indonesia

David FitzGerald

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: A Nation of Emigrants? Everyday Nation-State Building in Mexico

Aisha Finch

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Junctures of Insurgency: Cuban Slaves and the Conspiracy of La Escalera, 1843-1844

Mayanthi Fernando

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: The Politics of Faith: Recognizing the New Islamic Subject in Contemporary France

Tamer el-Leithy

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Proposal Title: Between Assimilation and Resistance: Coptic Culture in Medieval Cairo, 1200-1550 A.D.

Jean-Marc Duplantier

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): French, Louisiana State University / Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Proposal Title: Channeled Spirits and Ritual Memory: The Romantic History and Literature of Haiti and Louisiana, 1836-1860

Joe Bryan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Map or be Mapped: Resource Politics and Indigenous Land Claims in Eastern Nicaragua

Jeremy Berndt

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Division, Change and Islam in Rural Mali: A Social-Intellectual History of Gimbala, 1862-1930

Sandra Baptista

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2003

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

Proposal Title: Forest Turnaround, Suburban Sprawl, and Environmental Injustice in Southern Brazil

A Scott Voorhees

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Environmental Scientist, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Proposal Title: Urban Air Quality Management in the Context of Developmental Constraints: Diverging Approaches to Controlling Particulate Matter Pollution in the Pacific Rim

Kiyoteru Tsutsui

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Sociology, State University of New York (SUNY) / Stony Brook University

Proposal Title: The Impact of Global Human Rights on Ethnic Social Movements: Cross-National Analysis and Japanese Cases

Naoko Taniguchi

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Sociology, Teikyo University

Proposal Title: Hereditary Politics in Modern Democracies: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and Japan

Satoshi Nakano

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor of History, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University

Proposal Title: Transnational Experiences and Memories of "Democratization": Philippines-U.S. Colonial/Postcolonial Relations and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

Karen Nakamura

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Macalester College

Proposal Title: The Reformulation and Expansion of Disability Politics in Japan and the United States

Shinya Murase

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Faculty of Law, Sophia University

Proposal Title: The Search for an Alternative International Regime on Climate Change: Kyoto Protocol and Beyond

Ann Mongoven

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Religious Studies (ethics), Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: Gift of Life or Relay of Life: A Contemporary Analysis of Organ Donation/Transplantation Policy, U.S.-Japan

James M. Mandiberg

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2003

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin / Madison

Proposal Title: The Development of Social Enterprise in the Social Service Sector in Japan: An Exploratory and Analytic Study