Social Science Research Council
2008 Fellows
Published on: Jun 06, 2008
- Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The Politics of Labor and Environmental Regulation in Argentina: Constructing State-Society Relations for Effective Implementation."
- Anthropology, City University of New York, Graduate Center. "The Production of Urban 'Knowledges': The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro as Sites of Intervention"
- Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Multicultural Celebration or Unwelcome Intrusion? The Politics of Mosque Construction in Spain."
- Anthropology, Harvard University. "Transforming Death, Transforming Society: Palliative Caregiving Networks in Thailand."
- Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Paving Paradise? Property Rights and Social Mobilization along an Amazonian Highway."
- History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Faith on the Margins: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia, 1945-Present."
- History, University of Maryland, College Park. "Housing Development: Housing Policy, Slums, and Squatter Settlements in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1948-1973."
- Political Science, Brown University. "89 Russias: Centralization and Political Contestation."
- Anthropology, Syracuse University. "Uneven Mobilization: Gender, Land and Social Movements in Maranhao, Brazil."
- History, Emory University. "From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in Montevideo, 1770-1850."
- History, Johns Hopkins University. "Landscape and Livelihood in the Lake Chad Basin: Climate Change, Pastoral Production and the Politics of Groundwater Management on a Saharan Frontier."
- History, Columbia University. "Democracy, Science and Everyday Life: Science of Thought and Postwar Japan, 1946-1996."
- Anthropology, University of Chicago. "The Rough and the Cut: Law, Value and the State in a Postcolonial Mining Complex."
- History, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Nations and Migrations in the Pacific: Peruvian Chinese Contributions to Nationalism and Nation-Building in China and Peru."
- Anthropology, University of Chicago. "Living Politics: New Practices and Protests of the 'Poor' in Democratic South Africa."
- History, Yale University. "Down and Out in Saigon: The Social History of the Urban Poor, 1880-1954."
- Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Citizenship at the Margins: Filipina Migrant Women and the Negotiation of National Boundaries in South Korea."
- Architecture, Cornell University. "Modern Leisure Architecture in Thailand, 1911-1976: 'Public Space,' National Identity and Modernity."
- Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley. "How Does Law Matter in Gay Activism? A Case Study of Singapore."
- History & Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University. "Nazarenes in the Tide of Turbulent Citizenships: Nazareth from 1940-1966."
- History, University of California, Berkeley. "Czech America and the National Movement in Bohemia."
- Geography, University of Oregon. "Defining Territory, Shaping Faith: Islam and the Changing Landscape of Kazan's Old Tatar Quarter."
- Comparative Literature, Yale University. "Imagining Socialist Internationalism in the Age of Three Worlds."
- Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. "The Pan American Highway: An Ethnography of Latin American Integration."
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Mateusz Filipski
Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis. "The Winners and Losers of Free Trade: Disaggregating the Rural Welfare Effects of CAFTA."
* Declined Award
- History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Mediating the Third Culture at Tlatelolco, Mexico City '68."
- History, Princeton University. "The Fate of the Left: The Sino-Soviet Split and the Third World."
- Anthropology, Columbia University. "Exposing the Makings of a Social World: Transnational Workers, Local Residents and Oil Infrastructure in the Niger Delta."
- History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "'Ceausescu's Children': Ideological Scripts and Remembered Experiences of Childhood in Socialist Romania, 1965-1989."
- Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Reading Publics: Language and Local Media in Southeastern Siberia."
- History, Columbia University. "Trajectories of Learning and the Everyday Life of Ideas: Al-Azhar in the Eighteenth Century."
- History, State University of New York, Stony Brook. "Borderland Sovereignties: Race, Class and Nation in Patagonia's Nation-State Building, Argentina and Chile, 1840-1925."
- Anthropology and Literature, Duke University. "Developing Utopias: An Ethnography of Millennium Development."
- History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Captives and Renegades: Forging Community and Identity in Early-Modern Spanish"
- Anthropology, New York University. "Producing Believers, Contesting Islam: Conservative and Liberal Youths in Post-New Order Indonesia."
- Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Sufism and the Deoband Movement in South Asia and Beyond: Genealogy of a Polemic."
- Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Networks of Knowledge: The Spatialization of Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, 1721-1743."
- Anthropology, City University of New York, Graduate Center. "From Perestroika to the Polka: The Politicization and Everyday Life of 'Germanness' in Kazakhstan."
- Geography, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. "Building a 'World City': Urban Entrepreneurialism and the Politics of Segregation in Istanbul."
- Political Science, Northwestern University. "Liberalization, Segmentation, Informalization: The Politics of Labor Market Adaptation."
- Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. "Transborder National Membership Politics in Korea."
- Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. "'Think' Future! Postsocialist Hope in Bosnia-Herzegovina."
- Ethnomusicology, University of Pennsylvania. "Negotiating Place: Forró, Regionalism and Circum-Caribbean Connectedness."
- Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. "Institutionalizing Autocracy: Protest and Response in Post-Communist Eurasia."
- History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Contesting the 'Laws of Life': Science, Politics, and Feminism in Germany and Britain, 1890-1914."
- Political Science, Georgetown University. "Ambiguous Spaces: Classrooms and the Politics of Schooling and Identity Formation in Postrevolutionary Iran."
- History, Columbia University. "Imperial Population Politics and Refugee Aid in the Balkans, 1875-1878."
- Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles. "Waging War Among Civilians: Patterns of Soldier Violence and Resistance in the Second Intifada."
- History, New York University. "Geographies of Armed Protest: Transnational Cold War, Latin American Internationalism and the New Left in the Southern Cone, 1966-1976."
- Anthropology, Harvard University. "After SARS: An Ethnography of Public Health Campaigns in South China."
- Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. "Designing Democracy: National Participatory Governance Frameworks in Brazil, Peru and Venezuela."
- Anthropology, University of California, Davis. "Interrogating 'Painful' Encounters: The Interrogation Encounter between Palestinian Political Activists and the Shabak."
- Anthropology, University of Chicago. "The Political Ecology of Climate Change in Argentine-Patagonia."
- Anthropology, Columbia University. "Conversion, the Politics of Secularism and Personal Status Law in Lebanon."
- Anthropology, University of California, Davis. "Translations of Psychiatric Knowledge-Practices in Lima, Peru."
- Anthropology, The New School. "When and What is Corruption: A Case Study from Postsocialist Albania."
- History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "The Struggle for Freedom in Santo Domingo and Saint-Domingue, 1789-1809."
- East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley. "Canonizing the Tale of Kieu: The Construction of a Vietnamese Classic."
- History, State University of New York, Stony Brook. "Afronorteamericanos in Tamaulipas and Coahuila: Informal Empire, Freedom and Identity in Northern Mexico, 1829-1895."
- Anthropology, University of Chicago. "Signs of an Unmarked Faith: Cultural Practices of Discreet Catholicism in Paris."
- Sociology, University of Massachusetts. "Commercial Surrogate Mothering in India: Nine Months of Labor?"
- History, Harvard University. "Technologies of Rule: Empire, Water and the Modernization of Central Asia, 1860s-1940s."
- Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Threatening Lives: Controlling Avian Flu in Vietnam's Poultry Sector."
- Political Science, Cornell University. "Encompassing Brokers and Political Entrepreneurs: Party Linkages to the Urban Poor in African Democracies."
- Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. "Vulnerability, Eligibility and the 'OVC': The Local Lives of Policies and Categories."
- Economics, Cornell University. "Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Transfers in Salvador, Brazil."
- Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University. "Utopia/Dystopia: Japan's Image of the Manchurian Ideal."
- English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. "Coolie Democracy: US-Sino Literary and Social Reform, 1929-1952."
- History, Indiana University, Bloomington. "The Traumatic Mirror: Questions of Identity, Romanipe, and Romanianness during the Deportations of Roma under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944."
- Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington. "Framing Islam: Hizb ut-Tahrir's Transnational Call for a Caliphate."
- History, University of Southern California. "The Culture of National Mobilization in Wartime Japan."
- Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "The Politics of Monetary Instability."
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Sarah Warren
Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Urban Mapuche Identity and Demands for Differentiated Citizenship."
* Declined Award
- Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Alternatives to Migration: Place-Based Practices in El Salvador."
- Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington. "Sounding Stereotypes: Musical Styles in the Social Poetics of Arica, Chile."
- History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "After the Copy: China, Dafen Village and the Hand-Painted Art Product."
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