Social Science Research Council

Ethnomusicology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The Politics of Festival Music in Kazakstan."

Art History, University of California, Los Angeles. "In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and Its Representation in Colonial Eritrea, 1897-1941."

Anthropology, University of Chicago. "'The Kikuyu are Oathing Again': Neotraditionalism, Criminality, and the State in Kenya."

History, University of California, San Diego. "Between Village and City: Rural-Urban Exchange and Conflict in the People's Republic of China."

Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Feathered Identities and Plumed Performances: Tupinambá Interculture in Early-Modern Brazil and Europe."

Literature, Princeton University. "Family Narratives and National Reconstruction in Argentina and South Africa, 1993-2003."

Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The Kinesthetic Impulse: Space, Performance, and the Body in German Architecture, 1880-1914."

Archaeology, Yale University. "Village des Bambaras: An Archaeology of Domestic Slavery, Gorée Island, Senegal, A.D. 16-19th Centuries."

Ethnomusicology, Columbia University. "Taarab Music and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Mombasa, Kenya."

History, State University of New York at Stony Brook. "Promises of Participation: The Political Life of Football in Chile 1920-1970."

History, Princeton University. "Boundary Crossing, Boundary Making: Christian-Islamic Interaction in the Western Mediterranean (12th - 14th c.)."

History, Princeton University. "Crime and the City Solution: The Prisons of Southern Europe, c. 1250-c. 1400."

Sociology, New York University. "To Father or to Fight? Mass Conscription and the Politics of Masculine Citizenship, France, 1913-1939, and the United States, 1917-1944."

Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis. "Risk, Wealth and Sectoral Choice in Rural Credit Markets."

Anthropology, University of Chicago. "Translating Locality: The Politics of Language and Culture in Papua New Guinea Bible Translation."

Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: A Comparative Historical Study of England (1660-1757), Japan (1868-1895), and China (1850-1911)."

Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center. "Lawmindedness and Social Mobility in Egypt."

Geography, University of Washington. "Driving Globalization: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and the Restructuring of Work and Masculinity in Thailand."

Education, University of Pennsylvania. "Socializing Knowledge: The Production and Consumption of Social Science in Malawi."

Art History, University of Chicago. "Robert Hooke Fecit: Making and Knowing in Restoration England."

Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "How's the Weather? Sociocultural Meanings of Weather and Climate in Cornwall, England."

Germanics, University of Washington. "Intimate Co-Production: The Czech Component of German Cinema, 1918-1945."

Anthropology, New York University. "Trades of the Trick: Apprenticeship and Innovation in the Artworld of French Magic."

History, Rutgers University. "Colonial Suspects: Suspicious Persons and Police Surveillance in French West Africa, 1920-1958."

Art History, Harvard University. "Escorting the Object: Performance and its Encore in Zambian Art."

History, New York University. "The Making and Marrying of Modern Egyptians: Marriage, Law, and Nationalism in Colonial Egypt, 1898-1956."

Sociology, Harvard University. "The Impacts of Global Labor-Rights Movements: Focusing on Vietnam's Footwear and Garment Industries."

Economics, Yale University. "Family Networks, Inheritance and Orphans in Northwestern Tanzania."

Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Assessing the Impact of Deliberative Processes on Electoral Reform Efforts in Two Canadian Provinces."

Political Science, University of Washington. "One Market, 25 States, 12 Million Outsiders: Free Movement, Immigration Politics and European Integration." *Declined award

Religion, Harvard University. "How to Subjugate a God: The 'Banner-Writing Invocation of General Yin' in Contemporary China."

Political Science, Columbia University. "Incumbent Insecurity and the Politics of Entitlement Protection in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe."

Sociology, Northwestern University. "Teachers, Preachers and Legal Interpreters: Creating Islamic Communities in Modern Pakistan."

Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin. "Internet Cafes in the Neighborhood: Politics of Virtuality, Intimacy, and Publicness."

Political Science, Northwestern University. "Securing Property Rights in Land: Politics on the Land Frontier in Post-Colonial Africa."

Anthropology, University of Chicago. "Engendering Wealth: China's New Rich and the Rise of an Elite Masculinity."

Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Medicine and Inequality in the Welfare State: AIDS Policy-Making in the United States and United Kingdom." *Declined award

Anthropology, Columbia University. "Difficult Music: Discursive Economies of Knowledge, Listening and Performance within Tokyo's Experimental Music Community."

Anthropology, University of Washington. "Inventing Locality: Returnees and Reconstruction of the Eritrean Social Landscape."

Ethnomusicology, New York University. "Music and the Non-Racial Imagination: Listening to Jazz in a Transitioning South Africa."

History, Cornell University. "Of Law, Society, and Justice: The Judicial Practices of the Magistrates of the Parlement de Toulouse (1550-1700)."

Education, University of Pennsylvania. "Identity, Knowledge, Work: the Role of Teachers in Constructing the Eritrean Nation-State."

Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. "Party System Collapse in South America: Voters, Party Organization, and Adaptation."

Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. "Re(con)figuring the State in Ghana and Senegal."

Anthropology, University of Chicago. "Conflicts and Domination over Social Space in Post-Reunification East Berlin."

History, Yale University. "Screening the Transition: Cultural Politics and the Argentine Film Industry at the End of the Dirty War, 1983-1989."

History, Duke University. "From Democratic Revolution to Massacre in Venezuela: Popular Consciousness and the Emergence of the Multitude in Caracas, 1958-1989."

Religion, Columbia University. "'The Pariah Problem': Missionaries, State Intervention and Dalit Mobilisation in Colonial South India, 1880-1925."

Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University. "Beyond the Imperial Gaze: The Cuban Diaspora in Mexico."

Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center. "Making Everyday Life in the Context of Conflict: Practices of Music, Chess and Gardening in Herat, Afghanistan."

Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "The Semiotics of Socialization: Gaelic-Medium Education and Language Revival in Scotland."