GIAS is proud to announce that the following students have been selected to receive research funding as part of our 2024 grant cycle.
The Reinhard Bendix and Allan Sharlin Fellowships
Keoni Correa (Rhetoric)
"Islands Between Empires: Japanese and American Empire and the Making of the Modern Pacific"
Sloane Nilsen (History)
"Nazi Nights: A Time of Spectacle and Terror"
Michele Segretario (Italian Studies)
"The Traveling Soundscape An Acoustic Ethnography of the Italian Diaspora"
The John L. Simpson ABD Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies
Yasyn Abdullaev (History)
"Deciphering the Apocalypse: Conspiracy Thinking and the Rise of Modern Politics in Russia and Europe, 1789–1855"
Jane Mango Angar (Political Science)
"From Fragmentation to Recognition: Uniting Marginalized Voices for State Intervention"
Diego Aristizábal (Sociology)
"Violence, Neoliberalism, and Legitimacy: Paramilitarism and State Capture in Colombia’s Coffee Growing Region 1989-2016"
Frederik Braüner (Architecture)
"Welfare Colonialism in the Global Far North: The Architecture, Urbanism, and Colonial History of the Danish Welfare State"
Caitlin Brown Romtvedt (Music)
"A Space to Breathe: Music, Dance, and Minority Language Use in the Basque Country"
Andrés Caicedo Salcedo (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
"Glyphosate and Eradication in Colombia: Embodied and Local Stories of Food and Reproductive Health"
Chris Chan (Anthropology)
"The Archipelagic Avant-garde: Symbolic Power and Recognition in the Taiwan Strait"
Cheng-Chai Chiang (English)
"The Theater and Its Dubber: Queer Translation in the Anglo-Chinese Diaspora"
Anna Closas i Casasampera (Political Science)
"Playing the Asylum Game: Strategizing With, Through, and Around Asylum Law"
Sean Cronan (History)
"Diplomacy and the Remaking of an East Asian Interstate Order, 1250-1500"
Sarah Daniel (Political Science)
"'Neighbors Divided: Exploring the Social and Political Impacts of Spatial Fragmentation in East Africa"
Sara Eriksson (Anthropology)
Juliana Fadil-Luchkiw (Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies)
Pol Fité Matamoros (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning)
"Fascist Spatial Imaginaries: Race, Empire, and the Building of Francoist Spain"
Christian Gilberti (South and Southeast Asian Studies)
"Burmese Students Traveling to Colonial India and Debates Surrounding 'National Education' in Burma, 1854-1948"
Justin Greene (Anthropology)
"The Intervention Organ: An Ethnography of Leftist Publication in Brazil"
Victoria Huynh (Ethnic Studies)
"When We Fight: Southeast Asian Refugees and Criminalized Deportation"
Elizabeth Keyser (Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology)
"Reframing Mycenaean Religion: Patterning Greek Bronze Age Ritual Practice with Computational Archaeology"
Pranav Kuttaiah (City and Regional Planning)
"Between Opportunity and Precarity: Examining the Labor Market Choices and Multi-local Lives of Young Migrant Workers in India"
Michelle Layvant (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
"School Fees and Under-investment in Human Capital"
Min Lee (Medical Anthropology)
"Life Taking Root: New Villagers Seeking Experimental Life Migration in Southwest China"
Jiahe Mei (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
"(Un)Sensing Modernity: Perceptual Disabilities and the Making of Modern Chinese Literature"
Mahwish Moazzam (Law)
"Navigating the Gap: Legislative Efforts vs. Reality in Pakistan's Fight Against Domestic Violence"
Suraj Nair (School of Information)
"Characterizing the Scale and Extent of Sand Mining in India"
Daniel Owen (South and Southeast Asian Studies)
"'A Book Hungry for Meaning:' Indonesian Poetry and Social Change at the End of the Twentieth Century"
Isabel Peñaranda Currie (City and Regional Planning)
"Public Values: The Techno-politics of Land Value Capture in Bogotá, Colombia"
Crossley Pinkstaff (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
"Land-Water Struggles Amid Africa’s Green Revolution: The Case of Tanzania’s Agricultural Growth Corridor"
Allegra Robertson (Linguistics)
"Language Documentation and Perception in Barese"
Juliette Rosenthal (History)
"Politics, Peers, and the Press: Sephardi Intellectual Networks in the Modern Mediterranean"
Natasha Shannon (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
"Agrarian Advancements? AgTech, Regenerative Agriculture, and Rural Development in Central Appalachia"
Ivan Sokolov (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
"Viktor Sosnora and Soviet Modernism"
Eylem Taylan (Sociology)
"Imperialism and The Politics of Logistics: Transimperial Rivalry and Labor Militancy at the Ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki"
Emily Thompson (Anthropology)
"Fotos (Des)aparecidas: Recovering Material Memories of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict"
María Catalina Villalpando Páez (Energy and Resources Group)
"Cultivating Food Sovereignty in the High Mixtec Region: A Participatory Approach Towards Peasant Women’s Knowledge and Experience"
Carlotta Wright de la Cal (History)
"Borders, Boxcars, and Belonging: the Making of Race and Space along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1880-1945"
Kamya Yadav (Political Science)
"Beyond the Ballot: Rethinking Women’s Political Ambition and Gendered Pathways into Politics"
Shabaran Tahura Zaman (Law)
"Energy Transition under the Paris Agreement: Assessing Legal Pathways"
The John L. Simpson Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies
Sabrina Amrane (History)
Lauren Bartone (Italian Studies)
"Botanical Genealogies in the Italian Diaspora"
Adrián Bermúdez Pérez (History)
"Livable Worlds: Afro-Caribbean Environments in the Nineteenth-Century"
Gray Brakke (City and Regional Planning)
"(Post-)Cold War Urbanism: Self-Built Housing, Property Rights, and the Production of Postsocialist Space in Hanoi"
Kanani D'Angelo (Landscape Architecture / City Planning)
"The Restoration of Ahupua'a in the Urban Areas of 'Aiea, Kalauao and Hālawa on O'ahu, Hawai'i"
Cecille de Laurentis (City and Regional Planning)
"The Politics of Japanese Expertise in Urbanizing Asia: JICA as Development Planner and Problem-Framer"
Hasmik Djoulakian (Energy and Resources Group)
"Our Soil and Water: Food Traditions Among Displaced Artsakh Armenians"
Jair Jáuregui Torres (Hispanic Languages and Literatures)
Igor Kolesnikov (Political Science)
Sharik Laliwala (Political Science)
Clay Lemar (History)
Jasmine Martin (Geography)
"Tracing 19th and 20th Century Discourses of Race, Toxicity, and Contamination in Guadeloupe"
Lydia Mathews (History)
Lydia Milhon (Hispanic Languages and Literatures)
Isabella Montini (Political Science)
"The Paradox of Protection: Examining Patterns of Sexual Violence in Gang-Controlled Areas"
Chi Kwan Vivian Ngan (History)
"Oases of Obscurity: Historicizing the Mobility of “Non-Treaty Persons” Through China During the First World War"
Isabel Qi (City and Regional Planning)
"Urban Expansion in a Coastal Megaregion: How Climate Risk and Land Governance Shape Coastal Resilience in China’s Pearl River Delta"
Ciele Rosenberg (Anthropology)
Ajung Ryoo (Anthropology)
Jenny Smith (History)
Carolina Wanderley Van Parys de Wit (History)
"The Making of Brazilian Eugenics: Criminality, Race and Gender in Latin America (1890- 1945)"
Ruby Zalduondo (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning)
"Tracing Clean Energy Pathways In Puerto Rico: The Origins and Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar"