Social Science Research Council

Gariba Abdul-Korah
History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. “Migration, Ethnicity, and Uneven-development in Ghana: the Case of Upper West Region, 1887 to the Present.”

Paulina Alberto
History, University of Pennsylvania. “Afro-Brazil: the Meanings and Uses of Africa in Brazilian Public Life, 1930-1988.”

Mark Anner
Political Science, Cornell University. “Segmented Production, Networked Solidarity: Labor and Industrial Restructuring in Latin America’s Apparel and Auto Industries.”

Will Bennis
Psychology, University of Chicago. “Gambling Subcultures and Their Influence on Players’ Beliefs about Winning.”

Liviu Chelcea
Anthropology, University of Michigan. “Kinship, Domestic Relations and the Socialist State: Housing Nationalization and Restitution in Romania (1950-).”

Shun-ching Chan
Sociology, Northwestern University. “Making Insurance a Way of Life: Chinese Cultural Resistance and Global-Local Dynamics in the Creation of a Life Insurance Market in China.“

D. Grace Davie
History, University of Michigan. “The Poverty Question and the Social Sciences in Twentieth Century South Africa.”

Alexander Diener
Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “One Homeland or Two? Territorialization and the Repatriation Decision among the Mongolian Kazakh Diaspora.”

Theodora Dragostinova
History, University of Florida, Gainesville. “Between Two Motherlands: State Policies and Local Demands for Nationhood within Minority and Refugee Communities in Greece and Bulgaria, 1906-1949.”

Devin Fore
Literature, Columbia University, “All the Graphs, Reportage and Documentary in Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union.”

Khaled Furani
Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, “Modern Arab Poets Contesting Power.”

Scott Gehlbach
Political Science/Economics, University of California, Berkeley. “New Democratic Institutions and Corruption in Post-Communist Countries."

Elenory Gilburd
History, University of California, Berkeley. “‘To See Paris and Die’: Foreign Culture in the Soviet Union, 1956-1968.”

Kent Glenzer
Anthropology, Emory University. “A Historical Ethnography of Civil Society in Mali.”

Lila Ellen Gray
Anthropology, Duke University. “Re-sounding History, Embodying Place: Fado Performance in Lisbon, Portugal.”

Amy Hanser
Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. “Serving the People: Department Stores and Social Change in Urban China.”

Patrick Hatcher
Religion, University of Chicago. “Conversion and Community: Religious Expansion and the Turkic Peoples in the Islamic Discourses of Samanid Central Asia (875-1005 C.E.).”

Daniel Hoffman
Anthropology, Duke University. “The Kamajors of Sierra Leone: New Magic and the War-Machine.”

Jeff Juris
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. “Transnational Activism and the Movement for Global Resistance (MGR) in Spain.”

Benjamin Kafka
History, Stanford University. “’Imaginary States’: Paperwork and Political Thought in France, 1789-1860.”

Cyrius Khumalo
History, University of Michigan. “Ekukhanyeni Letter-Writers: an Historical Inquiry into the Culture and Practice of Reading and Writing in KwaZulu/Natal – South Africa, 1880-1910.”

Neil Kodesh
History, Northwestern University. “Beyond the Royal Gaze: Ganda Clans and the Construction of an African Metahistory.”

Yukiko Koga
Anthropology, Columbia University. “Modernity and Urban Space in the Cities of ‘Manchuria.’”

Maxim Koupovykh
Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Soviet Union and After: the Study of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics.”

Lara Kusnetzky
Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center. “Forging the State: Identity, Power and Practice in Geijiu’s Tin Industry.”

Marie Leger
Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Clinical Globalization: Pharmaceutical Research in the Developing World.”

Cecily Marcus
Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. “Broadsiding History: Literary Magazines and Intellectual Life during Argentina’s Dirty War.”

Susan Maruko
History, Harvard University. “Organized Crime in the Politics of Modern Japan, 1868-1952.”

Justin McDaniel
Religious Studies, Harvard University. “The Emergence of Religious and Regional Identity in Northern Thailand: Nissaya Texts and Buddhist Pedagogy.”

Lori Meeks
Religion, Princeton University. “The Women of Japan’s Medieval Ritsu-School Nun’s Revival Movement.”

Martin Monsalve
History, SUNY, Stony Brook. “Civilized Society and Public Spheres in Multiethnic Societies: Struggles over Citizenship in Lima, Peru (1780-1871).”

Lauren Nauta
History, University of Pennsylvania. “Health and Development in Colonial Punjab: Ecology, Politics and Social Change in Lyallpur District, 1868-1947.”

Kwai Hang Ng
Sociology, University of Chicago. “The Common Law in Two Voices: Language and Law in Post Colonial Hong Kong.”

Serguei Oushakine
Anthropology, Columbia University. “Transitional Subjects: Mother Russia and Her Children.”

Simone Pulver
Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. “Pipelines of Politics: the Multiple Roles of Transnational Oil Corporations in the Climate Debates.”

Tashi Rabgey
Anthropology, Harvard University. “Ethnic Identification among Tibetan Migrants in Taiwan.”

Bhavani Raman
History, University of Michigan. “Social Communication and the Emergence of Modern Publics in Colonial South India, 1790-1850.”

Tricia Redeker-Hepner
Anthropology, Michigan State University. “Of Eritrea and Exile: Trans/Nationalism in the Horn of Africa and the United States.”

Sarah Savant
Religion, Harvard University. “Holy Site in Infidel Land.”

Sara Scalenghe
History, Georgetown University. “Medical Discourses on the Body and Gender: the Case of Ottoman Syria.”

Sigrid Schmalzer
History, University of California, San Diego. “Peking Man’s Progeny: Constructions of Human Origins in the People’s Republic of China.”

Suzanne Simon
Anthropology, New School University. “US-Mexico Border Health and Environmental Justice Movements: A Case Study of Matamoros, Tamaulipas."

Genese Sodikoff
Anthropology, University of Michigan. “Madagascar’s Forest Labor: the Meaning of Conservation for Low-Wage Workers.”

Stefan Sperling
Anthropology, Princeton University. “German Natures and Their Genes: a Study of Some Recent Recombinations.”

Scott Straus
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. “The Rwandan Genocide in Comparative Perspective.”

Mukta Tamang
Anthropology, Cornell University. “Contested Histories: Identity and Indigenous People’s Movement in Nepal.”

Cihan Tugal
Sociology, University of Michigan. “Counter-Hegemony and the City-Islamism among the Urban Poor in Turkey.”

Alexandru Vari
History, Brown University. “’Paris of the East?’: Urban Fantasies, Mass Culture and the Democratic Imaginary in turn-of-the-century Budapest.”

Sara Watson
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. “The Politics of Universalism: Pensions and Health Care in Southern Europe.”

Jerry Wever
Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City. “Shaping Creolization and Folklorization Processes: Expressive Culture and Creole Identity in St. Lucia and the Seychelles.”