Social Science Research Council

Asad Ahmed
Anthropology, University of Chicago. “Blasphemy and the Dialectics of Mediation: A Proposed Study of Courts, Conflict, and the Media in Contemporary Pakistan.”

Monica Biradavolu
Sociology, Duke University. “Unequal Globalization? Organizational Networks and Indian Migration in the Software Industry.”

Isa Blumi
History, New York University. “The Consequences of Empire: The Shifting Dynamics of Identity in Albania and Yemen.”

C. Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Geography, University of California, Berkeley. “Rethinking Thuggery: Landed Elites and Agrarian Violence in Chiapas, Mexico.”

Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn
Anthropology, Harvard University. “The Revival of Religious Healing Practices in Post-Socialist Mongolia.”

Melani Cammett
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. "The Divided Market: The Domestic Stakes of International Exposure in Morocco and Tunisia."

Jillian Cavanaugh
Anthropology, New York University. “Within Sight of the Same Bell-Tower: Italy's questionne della lingua Today.”

Sandra Comstock
Sociology, Cornell University. “The Mexican Garment Industry: New Strategies in a Changing World.”

Susan Crate
Ecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “The Cultural Ecology of a Post-Socialist Society: The Case of the Vilyui Sakha.”

Megan Crowley
Anthropology, University of California, Irvine. "Culture, Class, and Bodily Meaning: An Ethnographic Study of Organ Transplantation in Mexico."

Lara Deeb
Anthropology, Emory University. “Rebuilding Nation and Defining Community: Shi'a Muslims in Post-Civil War Beirut.”

Neal Enssle
History, University of Chicago. "The Politics of the Unwanted: Migration Policy and the Construction of National Identity in Germany and Great Britain, 1905-1945." *Declined award.

Sebastiaan Faber
Literature, University of California, Davis. “Seven Responses to Exile: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico (1939-1975).”

Caren Freeman
Anthropology, University of Virginia. "When Women Won't Marry Rural Men: Transnational Marriages between China and South Korea."

Jan French
Anthropology, Duke University. “Rewards of Resistance: Legal Rights, Memory, and Ethnic Identity among Indians and Descendants of Fugitive Slaves in Northeastern Brazil.”

Jed Friedman
Economics, University of Michigan. “Firm and Worker Responses to Economic Reform in Vietnam.”

Duana Fullwiley
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. “Taking Root: Grounding Science in Local Practice.”

Jennifer Grocer
Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin. "Discourses of Affiliation: Sociocultural and Geopolitical Relations between Turkey and the Turkic Republics."

Samantha Herrick
History, Harvard University. "Norman Hagiography 911-1204: Cultural Transformation in the Middle Ages."

Jeffrey Houghtby
History, Emory University. "Enclosing the Commons: Property Rights and Agrarian Modernization in Early Modern Burgundy, 1600-1789."

Linda Jones
Religion, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Preaching Perfidy: Muslim and Christian Sermons in Medieval Spain and the Maghreb.”

Christopher Kelty
Science & Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "International Telemedicine Networking: Turkey, Israel, and India."

Naveeda Khan
Anthropology, Columbia University. “Constructing Citizens: Urban Mosques in Pakistan (1947-present).”

Victoria Langland
History, Yale University. “Reforming Our University, Re-Forming Ourselves: Student Movements and Collective Memory in Brazil, 1960-1998.”

Mara Loveman
Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. “State-Building, National Imaginings and "Race" in Brazil (1890-1930).”

Duanfang Lu
Architecture and Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. “Space and Chinese Socialism: A History of the Work Unit, 1949-2000.”

Tracy Luedke
Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington. “Bodies of Knowledge: The Social Politics of Healing in Tete Province, Mozambique.”

Emily McEwan-Fujita
Anthropology, University of Chicago. “Gaelic in Scotland, Scotland in Europe: The Political Economy of Minority Language Revitalization.”

Ethan Michelson
Sociology, University of Chicago. “Lawyers and Leaders: Legal Professionalization and the State in China's Transition from Socialism.”

Nara Milanich
History, Yale University. “Los Hijos del Azar: Culture, Class, and Family in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chile.”

Jonathan Miran
History, Michigan State University. ”Trade, Islam and Urban Identity in the Red Sea Port of Massawa and its Region, c.1850-1960.”

Maya Nadkarni
Anthropology, Columbia University. “Competing Pasts, Contested Spaces: Urban Development and Architectural Preservation in Budapest, Hungary.”

Gabriel Ondetti
Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “The Struggle for Land in Brazil.”

Anibal Perez-Linan
Political Science, University of Notre Dame. “Presidential Impeachment in Latin America: Scandal, Public Opinion, and Legislative Support.”

Janet Poole
Literature, Columbia University. “Time and the Colonial City: Modernisms of 1930s Korea.”

Jeremy Prestholdt
History, Northwestern University. “Consumption, Exchange and Social Transformation on the Swahili Coast, c. 1650-1800.”

Shankar Ramaswami
Anthropology, University of Chicago. “Work, Politics, and Culture in a Globalizing Economy: The Life-Worlds of Industrial Labor in a Satellite Town of Delhi.”

F. David Rueda
Political Science, Cornell University. “The Persistence of High Unemployment: A Political Analysis of Insider-Outsider Conflicts in Western Europe.”

Andrew Sackett
History, Yale University. “The Making of Acapulco: People, Land, and the State in the Development of the "Mexican Riviera," 1927-1973.”

Brian Selmeski
Anthropology, Syracuse University. “Warriors, Peasants and la Patria: Ethnicity and Nationalism among Ecuador's Indigenous Soldiers.”

Vera Sokolova
History, University of Washington, Seattle. “Life on the Fringes: Gypsies, Sexuality and Citizenship in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989.”

Miranda Spieler
History, Columbia University. “Empire and Underworld: A History of French Guiana as a Place of Exile.”

James Straker
Anthropology, Emory University. “The Fate of an African Revolutionary Curriculum: Forest Youth and the Cultural Production of Guinean Nationalism.”

Thomas Strong
Anthropology, Princeton University. “Personhood and Social Change in Bena Bena, Papua New Guinea.”

Yves Tiberghien
Political Science, Stanford University. “Global Capital Flows, Systemic Entropy and State Capacity: What Went Wrong with the Japanese Miracle?”

Lori Watt
History, Columbia University. “When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation in Japan after World War II.”

Peter Wilshusen
Environmental Policy and Sociology, University of Michigan. “Negotiating Legal Turns: Resource Control, Institutional Change, and Power Dynamics in the Maya Forest of Quintana Roo, Mexico.”

Edithe Wolfe
Art History, University of Texas, Austin. “Lasar Segall in Brazil, 1924-1945.”

Patricia Woods
Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle. “Religion, Gender and Politics: Social Groups, the State and the Religious Law Debates in Israel.”

Vassiliki Yiakoumaki
Anthropology, New School University. "Perceptions of Greek and European Identity in the Cultural Politics of Food in Modern Greece."

Benjamin Zimmer
Anthropology, University of Chicago. “Being Sundanese, Speaking Sundanese: The Sociopolitics of Linguistic Differentiation in the Highlands of West Java.”