Fulbright Awards
Raja Adal, History: Egypt & Japan
He will be conducting a comparative study on the formation of aesthetic consciousness among children in Japan and Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when both countries developed a modern school system.
Lydia Bean, Sociology: Canada
She will study the street-level construction of citizenship in 2 Canadian provinces, Ontario and Alberta, addressing the scholarly argument that universalistic social policies, like national health insurance, build a sense of shared citizenship.
Yelena Biberman, Political Science: Russia
Her project is to analyze those whose civil socialization began during Gorbachev's 1987 perestroika, the first post-communist Russian elite lacking firsthand experience in the civil habits of the Soviet system.
Faisal Chaudhry, History: United Kingdom & India
She will examine the shifting relationship between law, custom, and religion in colonial law reform, showing how historians have taken 'the law' for granted and discussing the 'normative consequences' under the Mughal state.
Chanchal Dadlani, History of Art & Architecture: India, United Kingdom & France
Focusing on the architectural and urban history of Delhi in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries, she will study the transition from Mughal to British rule in South Asia.
Seth Hindin, History of Art & Architecture: Czech Republic & Austria
He will explore the ways that Czechs and Germans, who lived side by side in the Bohemia from the tenth century to 1946, used the visual arts to establish a shared national identity while concurrently maintaining distinct boundaries between the two communities.
Denise Ho, History: China
Her project is to examine how the preservation of material artifacts and the built environment in China reflected contemporary discourses of identity, modernity, and politics over the 20th century. She will be conducting research at various sites in Beijing.
Robert Karl, History: Colombia
He will research the influence of US developmental and security policies on the Colombian middle classes in the cold war climate of the late 1950s and early 1960s, considering the concordance of both nations' goals.
Katherine Moore McAllen, History of Art & Architecture: Mexico, Spain & Italy
She will examine Jesuit artistic production at Santa Maria de las Parras in northern New Spain, or present-day Mexico, demonstrating that Parras functions as a case study to re-conceptualize "frontier paradigms".
Megan Luke, History of Art & Architecture: Germany
Her project is a study of the Dada artist Kurt Schwitters, focusing on his prolific work in collage, typography, and poetry.
Sean McGraw, Political Science: Ireland
He will study the political conditions that enabled Ireland to engage in late economic development and to catapult itself, within a generation, from a poor rural nation to an urban, affluent, and largely secular society, becoming one of the wealthiest in Europe.
Harmony O'Rourke, History: Cameroon, France, United Kingdom
Her research project concerns West Africa's Hausa trading diaspora, focusing on its role in the Cameroonian Grassfields from 1903 to 1961. She will address its cultural and imperial influence in Grassfields societies.
William Cole Roskam: China, France
A complete study of Shanghai's commercial architectural development and construction betweeen 1842 and 1937, with specific focus on the relationship between Shanghai's architecture and the improvised origins of the city.
Anthony Shenoda, Social Anthropology: Egypt
His project is to study Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt, focusing on the question of how Copts construct and engage notions of mystery and materiality.
Thomas Walley, East Asian/Australian Languages & Literature: Japan
He will study at the Senshu University, researching the mid- 19th
century Japanese romance which is called "Eight Dogs," by Takizawa
Bakin, proving it is a work which is representative of critical and
cultural trends in Japanese literature.
Adina Yoffie, History: Germany
She will explore what contributions 17th century German Orthodox Lutherans, who often wrote of their quest for a "literal" interpretation of the Bible, made to Protestant literalism in their own time and beyond, focusing in particular on the methods and content of biblical commentary among orthodox Lutherans in 17th century German universities between 1640 and 1680.