Social Science Research Council

Uma Bhrugubanda
Anthropology, Columbia University. "Modes of Being in Secular Modern India: Religious Cinema and Its Audiences."

Juan Carlos Callirgos
History, University of Florida, Gainesville. "Postcolonial Modernizations of the City of the Kings: Reinventing Lima, Peru, 1850-1930."

Gerard Chouin
Archaeology, Syracuse University. "Forests of Power and Memory: An Archaeology of Sacred Groves in the Eguafo Kingdom, Coastal Ghana, c. 1400-1900."

Sienna Craig
Anthropology, Cornell University. "Himalayan Healers in Transition: Professionalization and Identity among Tibetan Medicine Practitioners in Nepal."

Elizabeth Davis
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. "The Ethics of Tolerance: Psychiatry, Government, and Historical Subjectivity in Greek Thrace."

Murat Ergin
Sociology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. "Construction of National and International Identities in Turkey: The Role of Visiting Western Intellectuals and Theories of Race."

Daniel T. Fisher
Anthropology, New York University. "Aboriginal Radio: A Political Economy of Speech and Sound in Indigenous Australia."

Susan Frekko
Anthropology, University of Michigan. "Language Standardization and National Sentiment in Catalonia."

Enrique Garguin
History, SUNY Stony Brook. "'Europe in the River Plate': Everyday Life, Public Sphere, and Race in the Making of the Middle Class in Argentina, 1920-1960."

Amber Gove
Economics, Stanford University. "Taking Sides: The Effects of Supply and Demand Driven Policies on Parent Decision Making and Education Investment in Brazil."

Sherine Hamdy
Anthropology, New York University. "Contested Bodies: Biomedical Technologies, Ethics, and Islam in Contemporary Egypt."

Yanique Hume
Anthropology, Emory University. "Re-Configuring Cubanidad: The Politics of Haitian-Cuban Performance at the Intersection of Nationalism and Tourism in Santiago de Cuba."

Ho-fung Hung
Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. "Dynamics of Social Unrest in Early Qing China, 1645-1795."

Mark Hunter
Geography, University of California, Berkeley. "'Transactional Sex' and Geographies of HIV Infection in South Africa."

Matthew Jackson
Art History, University of California, Berkeley. "Answers of the Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes." *Declined award.

Eric Jarosinski
Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "The Rhetoric of 'Transparency' in the 'New Berlin': A Critical Genealogy."

Caroline Jeannerat
Anthropology & History, University of Michigan. "Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Zoutpansberg, South Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries."

Eric Jepsen
Political Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. "The Political Economy of Subnational Industrial Promotions in India and Mexico."

Ritu Khanduri
Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin. "Routes of Caricature: Mr. Punch and Cartoon in Colonial India."

Tijana Krstic
History, University of Michigan. "Narrating Conversion to Islam - The Dialogue of Texts and Practices in the Early Modern Ottoman Balkans."

Axel Lazzari
Anthropology, Columbia University. "Phantoms, Freedom, and 'Pluralismo': The Re-emergence of the Rankulche Indians."

Giang Minh Le
Public Health, Columbia University. "Constructing Men and Masculinities along the Ho Chi Minh Highway in Late Socialist Vietnam."

Anna Maerker
Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University. "Science, the State, and the Model Subject in Late Eighteenth-Century Tuscany and Austria."

Amanda Minks
Ethnomusicology, Columbia University. "Expressive Practices and Identity Formation among Miskitu Children."

Amira Mittermaier
Anthropology, Columbia University. "A Poetics of Imagination: Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Contemporary Egypt."

Kelly Raspberry
Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "A Cultural Analysis of Assisted Reproduction."

Lucio Renno
Political Science, University of Pittsburgh. "Electoral Competition and Information Diffusion in Complex Electoral Environments."

Suk Rhee
Environmental Studies, Yale University. "Intent and Consequences: Forestry Institutions and Community Management in Indonesia."

Ronit Ricci
Comparative Literature, University of Michigan. "Islamic Literary Traditions in Javanese and Tamil."

Jennifer Rubenstein
Political Science, University of Chicago. "Obligation and Benevolence: NGOs and the Unintended Consequences of Humanitarian Aid."

Jeffrey Sallaz
Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. "Gambling with Development: The Birth of Casino Industries in South Africa and on Indian Lands in California, U.S."

Grace Shen
Science & Technology Studies, Harvard University. "Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and National Identity in Republican China, 1911-1949."

Asif Siddiqi
History, Carnegie Mellon University. "The Rocket's Red Glare: State, Society, and Technological Innovations in the Soviet Union, 1917-1957."

Lisa Margaret Stevenson
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. "Life in Question: Knowledge and Ethics in the Debate over Inuit Suicide."

Ian Straughn
Archaeology, University of Chicago. "Surveying the Syrian Landscape: An Archaeological Investigation of Islamic Sociospatial Practice in the Qinnasrin Region, North Syria, 640-1500 CE."

Dmitry Suspitsin
Education, Pennsylvania State University. "Private Higher Education in Russia: The Quest for Legitimacy."

Sean Takats
History, University of Michigan. "Selling Taste: The Invention of the Modern Cook in Eighteenth-Century France."

Emmanuel Teitelbaum
Political Science, Cornell University. "The Political Economy of Industrial Relations and Development in South Asia."

Christopher Thoms
Environmental Studies, University of Michigan. "The Role of International Assistance in Shaping Community Forestry Outcomes in Nepal."

Jason Throop
Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. "Culture, Experience, and Chronic Pain on Yap."

George R. Trumbull, IV.
History, Yale University. "The Sciences of Man and the Arts of Representation: The Politics of Cultural Knowledge in French Algeria, 1871-1914."

Jun Uchida
History, Harvard University. "'Brokers of Empire': Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1910-1937."

Claire Wendland
Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "Medical Education and Physician Identity Formation in Malawi."

Bjorn Westgard
Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Postcolonial Treatments: Articulating Body, Knowledge, and Community through Maternal and Child Health in Senegal."

Sarah Willen
Anthropology, Emory University. "Pregnant and Unwelcome: Undocumented Migrant Workers' Experiences of Reproduction in Israel."

Laura Yoder
Environmental Studies, Yale University. "Contesting Custom: Sifting the Legacies of Land and Resource Claims in East Timor."