Social Science Research Council

Sandra Baptista
Geography, Rutgers University. “Forest Turnaround, Suburban Sprawl, and Environmental Injustice in Southern Brazil.”

Jeremy Berndt
History, Northwestern University. “Division, Change, and Islam in Rural Mali: A Social-Intellectual History of Gimbala, 1862-1930.”

Joseph Bryan
Geography, University of California, Berkeley. “Map or Be Mapped: Resource Politics and Indigenous Land Claims in Eastern Nicaragua.”

Steven Bryan
History, Columbia University. “Civilization and Gold: The Gold Standard in Japan and Argentina, 1867-1932.” *Declined award.

Mark Carey
History, University of California, Davis. “Grappling with Glaciers: Climate Change and Society in the Peruvian Andes, 1941-2002.”

Jean-Marc Duplantier
Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University. “Channeled Spirits and Ritual Memory: The Romantic History and Literature of Haiti and Louisiana, 1836-1860.”

Tamer el-Leithy
Middle Eastern Studies, Princeton University. “Between Assimilation and Resistance: Coptic Culture in Medieval Cairo 1200-1550 AD.”

Mayanthi Fernando
Anthropology, University of Chicago. “The Politics of Faith: Recognizing the New Islamic Subject in Contemporary France.”

Aisha Finch
History, New York University. “Junctures of Insurgency: Cuban Slaves and the Conspiracy of La Escalera, 1843-1844.”

David Fitzgerald
Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. “A Nation of Emigrants? Everyday Nation-State Building in Mexico.”

Jennifer Fraser
Ethnomusicology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. “Containing Diversity: State Institutions, Musical Aesthetics, and the Performance of Ethnicity in West Sumatra, Indonesia.”

Zeynep Gursel
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. “The Image Industry: The Work of International News Photographs in the Age of Digital Reproduction.”

Edin Hajdarpasic
History, University of Michigan. “Alternative Visions of Modernity: The Search for a Viable Polity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Bosnia, 1850-1882.”

Clara Han
Anthropology, Harvard University. “Justice, Acknowledgement, and Neoliberalism: An Ethnography of Affects and Mental Illness in Post-Authoritarian Chile.”

Justine Hanson
Anthropology, University of California, Irvine. “Re-Investing Nicaragua: The Cultural and Social Logics of Investment and Re-Investment.”

Irina Harris
Archaeology, Boston University. “The Politics of War and Trade Between the Nomadic Khazar Empire and the Islamic Caliphate, 7th – 10th Centuries A.D.”

R. Douglas Hecock
Political Science, University of New Mexico. “The Politics of Education Reform in Mexico.”

Clara Henderson
Ethnomusicology, Indiana University. “The Spiritual, Sensual, and Corporeal Dimensions of Presbyterian Women’s Dance in Southern Malawi.”

Joseph Hill
Anthropology, Yale University. “Divine Knowledge and an Islamic Moral Order: The Disciples of Baay Niass in Senegal.”

Matthew Hopper
History, University of California, Los Angeles. “The African Presence in Arabia: The Economic and Cultural Legacy of the African Diaspora in Eastern Arabia, 1820-1948 .”

Natasha Iskander
Work and Employment Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Innovating Government: Forging a Synergistic Relationship between Migration and Economic Development in Mexico and Morocco.”

Jennifer Jackson
Anthropology, Yale University. “Getting an Edge in Wordwise: The Productive and Social Role of Oratorical Performance in Malagasy Democratic Process.”

Eleana Kim
Anthropology, New York University. “Remembering Loss: The Global Movement of Korean Adoptees.”

Liat Kozma
Middle Eastern Studies, New York University. “Licit and Illicit Sexuality in Late Nineteenth Century Egypt.”

Fang Lai
Economics, University of California, Berkeley. “The Impact of Peer Group Influence and School Quality on Educational Performance: Insights from Middle Education of Beijing’s Eastern City.”

Michele Lamprakos
Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Conservation and Building Practice in a World Heritage City: The Case of Sana'a, Yemen.”

Robert Lewis
History, University of Wisconsin. “The Society of the Stadium: Urban Modernity, Sports Spectatorship, and Mass Politics in France, 1893-1968.”

Hwa-Jen Liu
Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. “Labor or Environment? The Configurations of Social Movements in Two Newly Industrializing Countries.”

Mikail Mamedov
History, Georgetown University. “Imagining the Caucasus in Russian Imperial Consciousness, 1801-1864.”

Bradford Martin
History, Northwestern University. “Landscapes of Power: Native Peoples, National Parks and the Making of a Modern Wilderness in the Hinterlands of North America, 1940-1990.”

Lauren Meeker
Anthropology, Columbia University. “Mediating the Folk: Television and the Representation of Traditional Culture in Vietnam.”

Sandra Moog
Sociology, University of California – Berkeley. “Cross-National Variation in Civic Associational Cultures: How American and German Environmentalists Fight for the Amazon.”

Allison Morehead
Art History, University of Chicago. “Creative Pathologies: Experimental Psychology and the French Avant-Garde, 1889-1914.”

Noriko Muraki
Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. “Middle-Class Citizenship and Female College Students in Tokyo.”

Ana Julia Ramirez
History, SUNY – Stony Brook. “The Collective People’s Politics: Mobilization, Radicalization, and Political Change in Argentina (1966-1973).”

Camille Robcis
History, Cornell University. “Rethinking the Family: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, and the Problem of Kinship in Post-WWII France.”

Mark Rowe
Religion, Princeton University. “A Grave Crisis: Burial Societies and the New Japanese Buddhism.”

Daromir Rudnyckyj
Anthropology, University of California – Berkeley. “Islamic Networks and the Politics of Privatization: Religious Economy in Post-Suharto Indonesia.”

Linda Rupert
History, Duke University. “International Trade and Local Identity in the Colonial Atlantic: Curaçao, 1675-1791.”

Rebecca Scales
History, Rutgers University. “Sounding the Nation: Radio, the Phonograph, and the Politics of Auditory Culture in France, 1911-1935.”

Mitra Sharafi
History, Princeton University. “Judging the Empire: Bombay's Courts and Communities, 1870-1930.”

Fabien Simonis
East Asian Studies, Princeton University. “Mad Speech, Mad Acts, and Mad People in Chinese Legal and Medical Practice Under the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).”

Neera Singh
Resource Development, Michigan State University. “Democratizing Forest Governance: Emergent Community Forestry Federation in Orissa, India.”

Daniel Slater
Political Science, Emory University. “Social Conflict and the Origins of Fiscal Power in Southeast Asia: 1945-1975.”

Ruti Talmor
Anthropology, New York University. “Primitive Art and Modern Selves: the Greater Accra Regional Centre for National Culture.”

Yektan Turkyilmaz
Anthropology, Duke University. “Imagining ‘Turkey,’ Creating a Nation: the Politics of Geography and State Formation in Eastern Anatolia, 1908-1938.”

Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Sociology, University of California – Berkeley. “Reconciliation and Healing Truth: Truth Commissions, Moral Globalization and the Third Sector.”

Gunder Varinlioglu
Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. “The Rural Landscape and Built Environment at the End of Antiquity: The Limestone Villages of Southeastern Asauria.” *Declined award.

Matthias vom Hau
Sociology, Brown University. “Contested Inclusion: A Comparative Study of Nationalism in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru, 1880-1950.”

Amy Wendling
Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University. “Karl Marx and the Significance of Machines in Late Philosophical Modernity.”

Leo Zulu
Geography, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. “Re-Scaling Conservation: The Political Econology of Community-Based Forest Management in Southern Malawi.”