2008 DPDF Fellows
Published on: Oct 23, 2007

Animal Studies

  • Noah Cincinnati
    History, Johns Hopkins University. “The White Man’s Other Burden: Zoos, Empire, and American Wildlife Conservation, 1889-1924”
  • Colter Ellis
    Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder. “Animals, Inequality, and the Environment”
  • Radhika Govindrajan
    Anthropology, Yale University. “Beautiful Beasts and Beastly Beauty: Human-Animal Relations in the Western Himalayas”
  • Clare Gupta
    Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California – Berkeley. “The Elephant Question: An Ethnography of Environmental Imaginaries in Chobe Enclave Community Trust, Botswana”
  • Karen Hibbard-Rode
    Biology & Wildlife, University of Alaska – Fairbanks. “Identity and History of the Teshekpuk Lake Caribou Herd: Perspectives from Oral History and Landscape Genetics”
  • Casey Riffel
    Critical Studies, University of Southern California. “The Visual Rhetoric of Animality: Animating Animals from Eadweard Muybridge to Jim Trainor”
  • Aaron Shackelford
    English, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. “‘I Think I Could Turn and Live Awhile With the Animals’: The Writer's Struggle with Animals in America, 1850-1865”
  • Ryan Shapiro
    History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Bodies at War: The Fight over Animal and Human Experimentation in Wartime America: 1916-1966”
  • Analia Villagra
    Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center. “Taxonomies of Nature: categories for an interspecies environmentalism”
  • Sharon Wilcox
    Geography , University of Texas at Austin. “Encountering El Tigre: Jaguars and People in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”
  • Michael Wise
    History, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. “‘Living Like a Wolf’: Predation, Civilization, and Conquest on the Northern Plains, 1869-1924”
  • Rebecca Woods
    History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Breeding Environments: Livestock and Location in the Modern Anglophone World”

Critical Studies of Science & Technology Policy

  • Miriam Boyer
    Sociology, Columbia University. “From a Basic Staple to a Strategic Plant Genetic Resource: Maize, Biotechnology and the Transformation of Social Relations in Mexican Agriculture”
  • Yu-Ju Chien
    Sociology, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. “The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in the Production of Scientific Knowledge on Avian Influenza”
  • Erica Dwyer
    History, University of Pennsylvania. “Making Sick People - Saving Lives and Building Careers in Times of Global Health Crisis”
  • Jakob Feinig
    Sociology, State University of New York – Binghamton. “Making Monetary Politics Safe for Democracy - The Legitimacy of Independent Central Banks in Europe”
  • Elizabeth Hennessy
    Geography, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. “Turtles All the Way Down: Scientific Knowledge and the Governance of Crisis in the Galapagos Islands”
  • Anna Jabloner
    Anthropology, University of Chicago. “Multicultural Technologies of 'Race': (Re)Productions of Racism in European and US Gene Databases - A Comparative Analysis”
  • Katherine Kenny
    Sociology, University of California – San Diego. “Different Publics, Different Health? Local and Global Knowledges in International Tobacco Control”
  • Abigail Martin
    Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California – Berkeley. “Towards Biomass Sustainability Assurance: Technology, Politics and Governance”
  • Chad Monfreda
    Science Policy, Arizona State University. “The Emergence of Public Reasoning in Global Environmental Governance: Cognitive Competition in IMoSEB and the MA”
  • Tischa Muñoz-Erickson
    Environmental Policy & Governance, Arizona State University. “Science, Policy and Water Governance in Puerto Rico: A Cross-Cultural Assessment of Knowledge Production for Sustainability”
  • Nathan Roberts
    History, University of Washington. “An Empire of Trees: U.S. Forest Policy among Filipinos and American Indians, 1875-1930”
  • Lee Vinsel
    History, Carnegie Mellon University. “Paper Tigers in an Asphalt Jungle: State Management of the Automobile in the United States, 1966-1988”

Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

  • Seth Baum
    Geography, Pennsylvania State University – University Park. “Discounting Across Space and Time in Climate Change Assessment”
  • Bryan Bushley
    Urban & Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa. “Reading Between the Trees: Impacts of Livelihood Diversification on Community Forestry Participation in Rural Nepal”
  • Jennifer Carrera
    Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Hearing the Rain: The Role of Gender, Knowledge and Community in Novel Solutions to Water Shortage in Rural India”
  • Kathryn Doherty
    Environmental Studies, Antioch University New England. “Toward a Global Consciousness: Lessons Learned from Environmental Exemplars”
  • Cerian Gibbes
    Geography, University of Florida. “Understanding landscape patterns in the Four Corners Area of southern Africa: An investigation of the role of resource management decisions in determining landscape change and fragmentation”
  • Jennifer Howk
    Government, Harvard University. “Losing Ground: Climate Change, Political Uncertainty, and Social Mobilization in Four Alaskan Communities”
  • James Jeffers
    Geography, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. “Institutional Decision-Making and Vulnerability to Climate Change in Coastal regions of Ireland”
  • Martha Lincoln
    Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center. “Preparing for Disaster: Climate Change and Public Health Policy in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta”
  • Peter Richards
    Geography, Michigan State University. “Mechanized Agriculture and Amazonian Deforestation”
  • Camille Washington-Ottombre
    Forestry & Natural Resources, Purdue University Main Campus. “Simulating Social and Land-Use Adaptations to Climate Change on Mount Kenya”
  • Alice Wiemers
    History, Johns Hopkins University. “Community and Climate Change in Northeastern Ghana: Local Authority and Natural Resource Management under Decentralization”
  • Alice Brooke Wilson
    Anthropology, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. “Interrogating Agricultural Sustainability: Food Sovereignty and the Defense of Maize in Central Mexico”

Muslim Modernities

  • Said Abdelrahman
    Islamic Studies, University of California – Los Angeles. “Fiqh of Muslim Minorities: A model of ongoing legal and social transformation in a religious minority, the Case of Muslims in the United States”
  • Orkideh Behrouzan
    History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Fashioning Psycho-biological Selves:  Psychiatric Subjects in Iran”

  • Dunya Deniz Cakir
    Political Science, University of Massachusetts. “Between the Education of Democratic Civility and Islamic Activism: Alternative Modernities in Turkey and Egypt”
  • Gilla Mae Camden
    Arabic Languages and Literature, Georgetown University. “Ruling in on Muslim Women’s Role within the Judiciary System: Linguistic Identity Construction in Egypt, Malaysia, and Afghanistan"
  • Tabitha Decker
    Sociology, Yale University. “Planning the Global City: Negotiating Gender and Mobility on the Dubai Metro”
  • Joshua Gedacht
    Southeast Asian History, University of Wisconsin – Madison. “Islam's Distant Shore: Colonialism, Conversion, and the Creation of Modernities around the Sulawesi Sea, 1851-1946”
  • Shady Hakim
    History, Georgetown University. “The Formation of Modern Coptic Identity: Religion, Class, Gender, and Nationalism in Egypt, 1881-1919”
  • Sarah Parkinson
    Political Science, University of Chicago. “Masters of Their Domain: Sovereign Cooptation and Militant Mobilization in Lebanon”
  • Daren Ray
    History, University of Virginia. “Swahili Modernities: Imagining Islamic Communities in Nineteenth-Century East Africa”
  • Abdoulaye Sounaye
    Religion, Northwestern University. “Muslim Epistemologies of Social Transformation in Niger”
  • Timur Yuskaev
    Religious Studies, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. “Toward an American Qur’an: Traditions, Modernities and Publics in American Muslim Qur'anic Interpretations”
  • Edoardo Zavarella
    Anthropology, University of California – Berkeley. “Images and Remembrance of Death”

Urban Visual Studies

  • Jennifer Boles
    History, University of Indiana at Bloomington. “’8 Millimeters Versus 8 Millions’: Superochero Cinema, Mexico City, and National Identity after the Golden Age”
  • Mona Damluji
    Architecture, University of California – Berkeley. “Baghdad on the Big Screen: Iraq’s urban history through the lens of British Newsreels from the 1920s to the 1950s”
  • Bridget Gilman
    History of Art, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. “Robert Bechtle’s Painted Streets: Tracing the Shifting Realities of Northern California’s Urban and Suburban Landscapes”
  • Zachary Hilpert
    American Studies, College of William and Mary. “Picturing the American City in Peril: The aesthetic of urban devastation and its role in American culture”
  • Max Hirsh
    Architecture & Urban Planning, Harvard University. “High-Speed Urbanism: The Infrastructure of International Mobility in Frankfurt and Hong Kong”
  • Nathan Holmes
    Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago. “Scenes of Crime: The Cinematic Aesthetics of Criminality and City Space”
  • Alfredo Rivera
    Art History, Duke University. “Re-Envisioning Cuba: Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture in Havana, 1955-1970”
  • Joshua Souliere
    History, Florida International University. “Religious Encounters, Political Authority, and Space: Urban Space in Zaria, Nigeria, 1500-1800”
  • Sara Stevens
    Architecture, Princeton University. “Space Rules: Aesthetic Regulation in the American Built Environment”
  • Jia Tan
    Cinema/TV, University of Southern California. “Experimental Art/Film in an Urbanization Experiment: Contemporary Chinese film and art in Pearl River Delta Region”
  • Alla Vronskaya
    History, Theory & Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Landscaping Dictatorships”
  • Annis Whitlow
    City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Stories of trauma, visions of change: exploring how interpretations of Camden, NJ,'s decline are impacting its revitalization”
 
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