GIAS is proud to announce that the following students have been selected to receive research funding as part of our 2025 grant cycle.
The Reinhard Bendix and Allan Sharlin Fellowships
Sarah Daniel (Political Science)
"Where We Draw the Line: Exploring the Political Impact of Subjective Neighborhood Boundaries in Urban Kenya"
Bernardo Moreno Peniche (Medical Anthropology)
"Landscapes of Neglect–Chagas Disease and the Un/Making of the Tropical Border"
Eylem Taylan (Sociology)
"Neoliberalization in Crisis and the Rise of State Capitalism in Greece"
Liubing Xie (City & Regional Planning)
"Homemaking in Circulation: How Migrant Workers Construct the Notion of Home and Rights to Urban Citizenship in China"
The John L. Simpson ABD Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies
Banan Abdelrahman (Anthropology)
"Kolna A'yshenha [We are all living it]: Belonging, Solidarity, and Survival Among Egypt’s Displaced"
AJ Al-Kurdi (Ethnic Studies)
"Intersectionality Travels to Europe: 'Queer of Color' Organizing in Comparative Perspective"
Erica Anjum (City & Regional Planning)
"Memories of Water: Development, Disaster and Adaptation at the Fringes of U.S. Empire"
Nicholas Byers (Rhetoric)
"US Trap, UK Jungle and Black Degenerate Music, 1990-2025"
Jenae Carpenter (Sociology)
"Frontier Justice: Race and Punishment in Two Settler Colonial Courts"
Ceyda Çekmeci (Musicology)
"Music, Hegemony, and the Aesthetics of Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Contemporary Turkey"
Daniyal Channa (Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures)
"Philosophy and the Domain of Language: Scholarly Currents in Seventeenth Century Mughal South Asia"
Alex Yong Kang Chow (Geography)
"Embodied Ideals, Contested Futures: Geopolitics, Affect, and the Evolving Pursuit of Freedom in Hong Kong and Its Diaspora"
Alex Ciolac (South & Southeast Asian Studies)
"Monks, Manuscripts and Magic: The Multiple Lives of Jain Devotional Manuscripts"
Alejo García Aguilera (Environmental Science, Policy & Management)
"Global Environmental Policies, Local Environmental Politics: Political Ecologies of Climate Mitigation in Colombia"
Helen Jennings (Law)
"Suffer, Little Children: Applying Transitional Justice to the Child Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church"
Harrison King (History)
"'The Mountains Above the Black Sea: A History of the Georgian-Turkish Border, 1878-1965"
Sharik Laliwala (Political Science)
"Trapped Minorities, Confrontational Politics: Residential Segregation and Muslim Leadership in India"
Yen-Tung Lin (Jurisprudence & Social Policy)
"Rights Confined: How International Human Rights Law Shapes Solitary Confinement in Taiwan, Denmark, and California"
Kelly Leilani Main (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning)
"Decolonizing Wetland Planning: Lessons from al-Maghreb"
Jiahe Mei (East Asian Languages & Cultures)
"Perceptual Disability and the Transnational Formation of Modern Chinese Literature"
Chiara Motta (Haas School of Business)
"Spatial Inequalities and EU Interventions"
Jesús Nazario (Ethnic Studies)
"TEK as Cintli Farming: Relationality and Indigenous maize agriculture in The Land of Fresh Water"
Chloe Prendergast (Political Science)
"Symbolic Authority: Power, Space, and the Strategic Use of Symbols by Non-State Actors in Northern Ireland"
Ishaan Sharma (South & Southeast Asian Studies)
"Religion and Politics in the Udyogaparvan of the Mahābhārata"
Jacob Smiley (History)
"Technique Decides Everything: American Industry and the First Five-Year Plan"
Jenny Smith (History)
"The Reformation and Time: Clocks, Calendars, and Cultures in Early Modern England"
Yosef Tadesse (Political Science)
"Who Governs Whom? The Effect of Jurisdictional Change and Local Ethnic Governance on Citizens' Political Behavior"
Alara Ucak (History)
"Glass Hearts, Fragile Heads: The Rise and Decline of Transparent Bodies 1600-1800"
María Villalpando Páez (Energy & Resources Group)
"Cultivating Food Sovereignty in the High Mixtec Region: A Participatory Approach Towards Peasant Women’s Knowledge and Experience"
Naomi Yitref (Jurisprudence & Social Policy)
"The Red Screen of the Past: The Making of Memory, Race, and Identity through Law in the Aftermath of War"
Anqi Yu (Anthropology)
"Practicing Health in Uncertainty in the Community Hospital of Contemporary China"
Amar Zaidi (History)
"Lahore Islam, 1580-1730"
Zhengyuan Zhang (Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology)
"Negotiating Honor: Civic Patronage, Honorific Practice, and Civic Benefaction in the Cities of Roman Italy and North Africa (30 BC–AD 300)"
The John L. Simpson Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies
Thomas Abers Lourenço (Political Science)
"Varieties of Extralegal Justice in Urban Brazil"
Gaurav Banerjee (South & Southeast Asian Studies)
"The Making of Mardāngī: Normativity, Masculinity, and Performance in the Mughal Empire (c. 1526–1748)"
Luiza Bastos Lages (Ethnic Studies)
"Contesting the Tales and Fantasies of Western Modernity"
Adrián Bermúdez Pérez (History)
"Livable Worlds: Maroons and Maroon Environments in the Nineteenth Century Caribbean"
Jonathan Garza (History)
"The Endless Archipelago: Capitalism and Environmental Thought in the Japanese Empire"
Adriana Gonzales (Energy & Resources Group)
"Recovery or Repair? Infrastructural Contestations over Developmental Futures in the Post-Disaster Caribbean"
Xixi Jiang (City & Regional Planning)
"Rescaling Governance in the Dual-Transition of China's Electricity Sector"
David Kanj (History)
"Responses to American Immigration Restriction in the Arab East"
Caleb Longacre (History)
"An Oriental Antiquity: Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Europe"
Srihari Nageswaran (Anthroplogy)
"Regionalism and Labor Politics in Late Colonial Madras"
Jenna Norris (Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures)
"Embodied Movement: Bioarchaeological Approaches to Migration in the Middle East"
Charitra Pabbaraju (Political Science)
"Camera Raj: Comparative Inquiries in Algorithmic Policing in Democracies"
Anna Palmer (Sociology)
"Beyond (Climate) Catastrophe: Transforming the Politics of the Possible from Guyana"
Daniel Quiroga-Ángel (Political Science)
"From Democracy to Dictatorship: The Electoral Politics of Repression and Public Goods Provision in New Autocracies"
Githmi Rabel (Sociology)
"Navigating State(s), Society and Self: Women Migrant Workers Amidst Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis"
Angelica Remache Lopez (Political Science)
"Political Corruption: An Explanation for Latin American Migration"
David Su (Sociology)
"Political Origins of the Chinese in America: Clandestine Migration of Paper Families Under the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882-1943"
James Sun (Ethnic Studies)
"The Transnational History of Japonica Rice from Japan to the US"
Gemma Tronfi (History)
"Expert or Fraud? Charles Davenant and the Making of an Economic Professional"
Riley VanMeter (Romance Linguistics)
"Linguistic Change and the New Standard of Regional Italians"