Social Science Research Council

Akissi Britton
Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center. "From Brooklyn to Brazil: Race, Place, and Religion in the Mapping of Diasporic Blackness."

Jamie Davidson
World Arts & Cultures, University of California-Los Angeles. “Embodied Knowledge in the Tambor de Mina of Maranhão.”

Nandini Dhar
Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin. “Problematizing the Archive, Re-Writing Agency: 'Neo-Slave' Aesthetics in Museums and Historical Novels of the African Diaspora.”

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Geography, University of California-Berkeley. “Of Youth and Revolućion: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation in Contemporary Cuba.”

Sharon Kivenko
Social Anthropology, Harvard University. “Dancing Through 'Performance-scapes:' Reflections on Transnationalism, Embodiment and West African Performance.”

Chelsey Kivland
Anthropology, University of Chicago. “Masking Change, Performing Order: The Ritual Histories and Political Arts of Haitian Carnival.”

Xelaju Korda
Latin American Studies, Tulane University. “Sex Tourism in the Brazilian Northeast: Gender Performances Within a Sexualized World Market.”

Jessica Krug
History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Fugitive Nations: Maroon Societies in Kisama, Angola, São Tomé, and Brazil, 1500-1700.”

Jamila Moore
Cultural Studies, University of California-Davis. “Digitally Mapping The Black Atlantic: Spatial Imagination and the Politics of Re-Appropriation Between Africa and the Americas.”

Matthew Norton
Sociology, Yale University. “Ashanti to Gold Coast to Ghana: A genealogy of the experience of documentary rule.”

Petra Rivera
African Diaspora, University of California-Berkeley. “What is Afro-Boricua?: The Impact of Migration and Popular Culture on Understandings of Blackness in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora.”

Carmen Thompson
History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Black Womanhood and Slavery: Survival Strategies in the New World and in West Africa, 1655-1863.”

Avi Astor
Sociology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. “Regional Variation and the (Re)Making of Islam in Modern Spain.”

M. Nell Balthrop-Flynn
Anthropology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. “Security, Embodiment, & Development in Euromediterranean Marseille's Franco-Maghrebi Communities.”

Abigail Dumes
Anthropology, Yale University. “Musical Citizenship: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Belonging among African Gospel Performers in France.”

Crystal Fleming
Sociology, Harvard University. “Cultural Boundaries and Public Performance: The Politics of Ethnicity in French and American Spoken Word Poetry Venues.”

Gulseren Kozak-Isik
Sociology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. “A comparative study of Islamic Legal, Religious and Political Institutions in Europe and the USA: A Political Approach to Institutions.”

Sheila Nowinski
History, University of Notre Dame. “Postwar French Catholic Political Culture, 1944-1958.”

Elayne Oliphant
Anthropology, University of Chicago. “Laïcité and Discreet Religiosity: Experiences of Catholicism in Secular France.”

Michael O'Toole
Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago. “Modeling Multiculturalism: Discourses of Multiculturalism and the Experience of German-Turkish Musicians in Berlin, Germany.”

Zeynep Ozgen
Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles. “Rethinking the Role of Identity in Daily Life: Social Interaction in Antakya.”

Susan Rottmann
Cultural Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The Predicaments of Belonging to Europe: Ethnicity, Religion and Class for German-Turkish Return Migrants.”

Alexander Street
Political Science, University of California-Berkeley. “Testing, Testing, A, B, C: The Politics of Language and Civics Tests in Europe.”

Rebekah Tromble
Political Science, Indiana University at Bloomington. “Islam's Transnational Call to Action.”

Heather Bergman
Political Science, University of California-Los Angeles. “Reliance on Volatile Foreign Capital and the Politics of Regional Redistribution in Latin America.”

Luis Camacho-Solis
Political Science, University of Texas at Austin. “Statists or Free-Marketers? Preferences for Redistribution in Latin America.”

Miguel de Figueiredo
Political Science, University of California-Berkeley. “The Politics of Poverty: Explaining the Origins, Administration, and Outcomes of Social Programs in Latin America.”

Michael Ewers
Geography, The Ohio State University Main Campus. “Migration, Rent Distribution and Development in the New Gulf Development States.”

Guy Grossman
Political Science, Columbia University. “Three Worlds of Arab Welfare Capitalism - the Middle East in Comparative Perspective.”

Tai-Wei Liu
Political Science, University of California-San Diego. “The Political Logic of the Financing and Provision of Social Welfare in China.”

Christopher Marcum
Sociology, University of California-Irvine. “Population and Organizational Response to Disasters.”

Rachel Meltzer
Public Policy, New York University. “Business Improvement Districts and Neighborhood Change: A Political and Socioeconomic Analysis.”

Sade Owolabi
Development / Urban Planning, Cornell University. “Fiscal Decentralization in Kenya - Rhetoric versus Practice.”

Yumiko Shimabukuro
Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Analyzing the Provision of Public Employment Training at the Sub-National Level: The Case of the United States and Japan.”

Rebecca Tippett
Sociology, Duke University. “Institutional Determinants of Household Debt: A Comparative Study of the United States and Canada.”

Tod Van Gunten
Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The Politics of Monetary Institutions: Macroeconomic Policy, Inequality, and Expertise.”

Sinem Arcak
Art History, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. “Islamic Art in War and Peace: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange in the 16th and 17th Centuries.”

Emerson Bowyer
Art History, Columbia University. “Perceiving the Sculptural in Nineteenth-Century France and England.”

Ramzi Fawaz
American Studies, George Washington University. “Heroic Measures: A New Cultural History of the American Superhero, 1955-2006.”

Olivia Gruber
Art History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. “Representations of Beauty: Empress Elisabeth and the Visual Culture of Femininity in Austria-Hungary 1848-1914.”

Brian Jacobson
Critical Studies, University of Southern California. “Making Modern Space: Architecture, Technology, and Early Cinema.”

Aynne Kokas
Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California-Los Angeles. “The Space of Contemporary Shanghai and the Global Cinematic Constructions of the City as a Place.”

Erin Lambert
History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Hearing the Image, Seeing the Word: Illustrated Hymns in the German Reformation.”

Toby Lee
Social Anthropology, Harvard University. “The Social Life of Cinema: An Ethnographic Study of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.”

Ryan Linkof
History, University of Southern California. “Framing the News: The British Tabloid and the Spectacle of the Everyday.”

Alexander Olson
Program in American Culture, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. “Ruin and Representation: Bohemians in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1906.”

Traci Reeves
Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago. “Black Female Images of Embodiment: Towards A New Theory of Representation and Phenomenological Spectatorship.”

Victoria Watts
Cultural Studies, George Mason University. “Patterns of embodiment: dance notation and visual culture.”

Virginia Breedlove
African History, Johns Hopkins University. “Landscape and Livelihood in the Lake Chad Basin: A Social History of Environmental Change in Eastern Niger and Northeastern Nigeria Since 1968.”

Christopher City
Geography, Clark University. “Constructing Drought: Law, Land Use, and Water Sustainability.”

Tessa Farmer
Social Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. “Water and Oasis: Social Meanings and State Administration of Water in the Egyptian Oasis of Siwa.”

Angelia Haro
Cultural Anthropology, Duke University. “Water and Promises of Utopia in Development Discourse and Practice.”

Jessica Lage
Geography, University of California-Berkeley. “The role of water in rural land-use transformations in Spain.”

Hao Nguyen
Urban Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa. "The urbanization of water: Planning for adequate water services in cities of the developing world - The case of Vietnam."

Maya Peterson
History, Harvard University. “An Environmental History of Central Asia in the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries.”

Lisa Pfeiffer
Economics, University of California-Davis. “Sustainability, Equity, and Growth: The Role of Water Markets in Mexico.”

Neil Pischner
Comparative Literature, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. “Andean Oral Traditions as Cultural Response to Climate Change.”

Julio Postigo
Geography, University of California-Davis. “Andean herders' responses to changing water availability.”

Sandra Ruckstuhl
Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. “Socio-political Dynamics of Water Security: Understanding Institutions and Incentives for Improved Conflict Prevention and Sustainability.”

Sarah Wise
Anthropology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. “Fluid Boundaries: Marine Protected Areas and Shifting Perceptions of Seascapes.”