IDRF Fellows Conducting Research in Africa

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Published on: Jun 16, 2006

The International Dissertation Field Research (IDRF) Fellowship program supports several people in a range of disciplines doing research in Africa.

2005 IDRF Fellows

Bianca Dahl

Left Behind? The Socialization of Orphaned Children in Contemporary Botswana
Ana Schaller de la Cova

Senegalese 'Making Do': Islamic Knowledge, National Schooling, and Opportunity in Dakar
Ibra Sene

Crime, Punishment, and Colonization: A History of the Prison of Saint-Louis and the Development of the Penitentiary System in Senegal, ca. 1860-ca. 1940
Henry Trotter

Port Culture: A Modern History of South African Sailors, Stevedores & Sugar-Girls
Lindsay Weiss

Toward an Archaeology of Apartheid: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa's First Industrial Mining Community

2004 IDRF Fellows

Sean Anderson

In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and Its Representation in Colonial Eritrea, 1897-1941
Robert Blunt

"The Kikuyu are Oathing Again": Neotraditionalism, Criminality, and the State in Kenya
Kerry Bystrom

Family Narratives and National Reconstruction in Argentine and South African Memory-Texts, 1995-2003
Raina Croff

Village des Bambaras: An Archaeology of Domestic Slavery, Goree Island, Senegal, A.D. 16-19th Centuries
Henry Dougan

Securing Property Rights in Land: Politics on the Land Frontier in Post-colonial Africa
Andrew Eisenberg

Taarab Music and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Mombasa, Kenya
Dana Holland

Socializing Knowledge: The Production and Consumption of Social Science in Malawi
Kathleen Keller

Suspicious Persons, Colonial Culture and Urban Identities in French West Africa, 1920-1958
Ruth Kerkham

Escorting the Object: Performance and its Encore in Zambian Art
Christopher Ksoll

Family Networds, Inheritance and Orphans in Tanzania
Ngonidzashe Munemo

Incumbent Insecurity and the Politics of Entitlement Protection in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Amanda Poole

Inventing Locality: Returnees and Reconstruction of the Eritrean Social Landscape
Brett Pyper

Music and the Non-Racial Imagination: Defining Jazz and Race in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Jennifer Riggan

Identity, Knowledge, Work: the Role of Teachers in Constructing the Eritrean Nation
Maud Seghers

Re(con)figuring the State in Ghana and Senegal

2003 IDRF Fellows

Jeremy Berndt

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

The Spiritual, Sensual, and Corporeal Dimensions of Presbyterian Women's Dance in Southern Malawi
Joseph Hill

Divine Knowledge and an Islamic Moral Order: The Disciples of Baay Niass in Senegal
Matthew Hopper

The African Presence in Arabia: The Economic and Cultural Legacy of the African Diaspora in Eastern Arabia, 1820-1948
Jennifer Jackson

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

Primitive Art and Modern Selves: the Greater Accra Regional Centre for National Culture
Jonathan van Antwerpen

Reconciliation and Healing Truth: Truth Commissions, Moral Globalization and the Third Sector (South Africa)
Leo Zulu

Re-Scaling Conservation: The Political Econology of Community-Based Forest Management in Southern Malawi

Social Science Research Council