FELLOWSHIP AND SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
2015-2016
The following is a list of the winners of all GSAS-administered fellowship competitions. It does not include
the winners of the many non-GSAS fellowship competitions and may not indicate where students have
declined the award.
GRADUATE STUDENTS WIN FULBRIGHT GRANTS FOR RESEARCH ABROAD
A total of six Cultural Exchange Fulbright grants from the Institute of International Education (IIE) were
made to GSAS students that will allow them to conduct dissertation or other advanced research abroad
next year. Below are the students and their topics:
IIE Fulbright Awards
Steffani Bennett, History of Art and Architecture
The China Years: Sesshu Toyo and Fifteenth-Century Chinese Painting
My proposed dissertation project explores the work of the fifteenth-century Japanese artist Sesshu Toyo
(1420-1506) and how his travel to Ming China profoundly mediated his artistic practice and career,
transforming the field of Muromachi-period painting in Japan. I will conduct archival and object-based
research in Japan during the 2015 to 2016 academic year under the guidance of Professor Shimao Arata
and Gakushuin University in Tokyo.
Ernest (Billy) Brewster, East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Declined)
Between Faith and Logic: Buddhist Philosophy of Religion in Ming China
I am applying for the Fulbright Cultural Exchange Grant to spend a year as a Senior Visiting Student in
the Department of Philosophy of Fudan University to conduct dissertation research on a period of
Chinese history when Buddhism underwent a radical transformation in response to challenges from
Western science and religion. My study shows how Buddhist scholars of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
drew from Buddhist logic and epistemology to defend their faith.
Deirdre Debruyn-Rubio, Religion
Cultivating Religious Citizens: Politics of Interfaith Organizations in France and the U.S.
Through a comparative ethnographic study of interfaith organizations in France and the United States, my
dissertation examines how Muslim participants of interfaith organizations make sense of how to be
religious citizens in democratic, secular societies. A Fulbright Research Grant will fund the French phase
of my research, which I will contact at four major interfaith organizations in Paris.
Neelam Khoja, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Historiography of South Asia: Writing 18 and 19 Century Histories of Punjab
My dissertation examines the challenging process of history writing in Punjab during a tumultuous, but
remarkable, two hundred year period from 1700-1900. I will intertextually read Persian and Urdu histories
and documents disclosing instructions for history writing, located in libraries and archives in India. My
dissertation will contribute to the needed study of Punjab historiography, as relatively little scholarship
exists on Punjab during this period.
David Porter, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ethnic and Status Identity in Qing China: The Hanjun Eight Banners
In my dissertation, I plan to examine the interplay between ethnic and status identity in late imperial
China. In addition, I hope to consider the Qing Empire’s (1644-1912) core military and social welfare
system, the Eight Banners, in a broader global context as a status system that, like similar systems in
other early modern states, tied social privilege to administrative and military service. A Fulbright grant will
help me analyze the hybrid identity of the Eight Banners by using Qing archival sources, principally in
Beijing, that record how the state constructed ethnic and status identity within the banner system, and
how the relationship between those two sorts of identity changed over the course of the dynasty.
Kimberly Wortmann, Religion
Religious Tolerance in Islam: The Case of the Ibadhi Community of Zanzibar
My dissertation will focus on the Ibadhi Muslim minority community of Zanzibar and its effectiveness,
since liberalization in the mid-1980s, in adopting an increasingly inclusive position towards other Muslims
while also renewing a sense of local Ibadhi identity. Through interviews, observations, and archival work,
I will examine how the main Ibadhi association in Zanzibar, Istiqaama, addresses sectarian biases at the
institutional and societal levels.
Sheldon/Kennedy Fellowships
Ernest (Billy) Brewster, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Between Faith and Logic: Buddhist Philosophy of Religion in Ming China
Andrew Campana, East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Declined)
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Poetry Across Media in 20 -Century Japan
Guangchen Chen, Comparative Literature
The Collector as Angel of History: Objects, Scripts, Quotations, Anthologies and Cultural
Cosmopolitanism in China, Czechoslovakia and Germany, 1924-1979
Charles Clavey, History
The Promise of Phenomenology: Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics in the Scuola di Milano, 1920-1980
Devin Fitzgerald, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Sinocentric Information Networks in the Early Modern World: News and Books in the Global Construction
of Qing China
Louis Gerdelan, History
The epistemologies of disaster in the Atlantic World, 1666-1755
Lisa Haber-Thomson, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Territories of incarceration: architecture and judicial procedure in the English Channel, 1642-1945
Kathryn Heintzman, History of Science
France and the Administration of Human and Animal Interdependence, 1761-1804
Rujing Huang, Music
Court Music Without a Court: Reviving Yayue in Contemporary Mainland China and Taiwan
Margaret Innes, History of Art and Architecture
Signs of Labor in the American Photographic Press, 1926-1951
Veronika Kusumaryati, Anthropology
Alerts and Transmissions: Electoral Politics, Digital Media Technology, and Political Mobilization in
Contemporary West Papua
Charlotte Lloyd, Sociology
Australian Reconciliation: Organizations and the Remaking of Social Inclusion
Sarah Jane Lockwood, African and African American Studies
Taking to the Streets: Understanding Protest in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Deirdre Moore, History of Science
Traditional methods of growing and treating cochineal dye insects in Mexico during the 18th century
Florin Stefan Morar, History of Science
The World Map in Sino-Western tradition
Jonathan Phillips, Government
Politics Against the Grain: When Do Politicians Create Programmatic Electoral Arenas?
David Porter, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ethnic and Status Identity in Qing China: The Hanjun Eight Banners
Stefan Prins, Music
Compositional research in the field or multimedial instrumental musical theatre
David Sadighian, History of Art and Architecture
Building a Global Imaginary: Architecture and Circulation, 1867-1914
Kai Thaler, Government
From Insurgent to Incumbent: State Building and Governance after Rebel Victory in Civil Wars
Marrikka Trotter, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Exploration of architecture’s engagement with geohistory using case studies as evidence
Peter Volberding, Government
KfW and the Global Convergence of National Development Banks
Eldra Walker, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Progression and Regression: The Question of the Primitive in Modern French Architectural Thought and
Practice, 1830-1893
Kimberly Wortmann, Religion
Religious Tolerance in Islam: The Case of the Ibadhi Community of Zanzibar
Liang Xu, History
Chinese in Newcastle: Apartheid Policy, Asian Investment and the (Un)Making of a South African
Industrial Town
Lurcy Fellowship
Sarah Grandin, History of Art and Architecture
Artisanal Operations of Scale under Louis XIV, 1661-1715
Knox Fellowships
Georgia Henley, Celtic Studies
The Evolution of a Shared Past: Chronicles, Translation and Networks of Literary Exchange between
Wales and England, 1135-1400
Warrick Moses, African and African American Studies
In the Mix: Interrogating South African “Mixed-Race” or Coloured Identities in Cape Town-Based Hip-Hop
Merit/Term-Time Fellowships
Colin Bossen, American Studies
More Bright than any Heaven: American Social Movements and Religion in the Wake of World War I
Lowell Brower, African and African American Studies
In the Place of Sorrow: Silence, Storytelling, and Sociality in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Elisabeth Burton, Middle Eastern Studies
Genetic Nationalism: Ethnic Mythmaking and Human Biology Research in Iran, Turkey, and Israel
Andrew Cunningham, Human Evolutionary Biology
Examination of the Okavango Delta
Elizabeth Davis, African and African American Studies
Making Movement Sounds: The Highlander Folk School & the Cultural Politics of Race
Maria Trout, Astronomy
The final stages of evolution and eventual catastrophic deaths of the most massive stars
Ruffin Evans, Physics
Nanophotonics
Athena Eyster, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Neoproterozoic tectonics, with a focus on Laurentia, central to the supercontinent Rodinia
Cara Fallon, History of Science
Accidents of Our Own Design: Falls, Age, and Alterations of Space in the Twentieth Century
Qiuyi Han, Statistics
Developing Models and Inference for Networks
Oliver Hauser, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Human cooperation, and its emergence and sustenance beyond the existing frameworks and theories of
reciprocity
Monica Hershberger, Music (Declined)
American Operatic Heroines and the Early Cold War in the United States
Rebecca Kastleman, English
Zealous Acts: A Religious History of Modern Drama, 1890-1968
Madhav Khosla, Government
Modern Constitutionalism and the Indian Founding
Krystal Klingenberg, Music
The Creation and Circulation of the Popular Music of Uganda, At Home and Abroad
Carly Knight, Sociology
The Personification of the American Corporation, 1860-2014
Douglas Kremm, Philosophy
Truth, correctness, and objectivity in the domain of ethics
Tomo Lazovich, Physics
Using the Higgs boson as a tool to search for new physics
Kevin Madore, Psychology
Reconstructive Memory: Insights from Psychology, Neuroscience, and Aging
Monica Magalhaes, Health Policy (Declined)
Study on “orphan drugs”
Bryan Norwood, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
The Architect’s Knowledge: The Concepts of History in American Architectural Education (1865-1950)
Andrew Ong, Anthropology
Fieldwork in Burma
Kristin Perkins, Social Policy
Have American Families Become Less Stable? Trends in Household Changes and their Consequences
for Children
Tony Qian, Comparative Literature
Comparing Roman Declamations and Tang Judgments in a Law and Literature Context
Katherine Rennebohm, Film and Visual Studies
Ethical Re-Vision: Cinema’s Ethical Thought in the 20th Century
Jose Reyes Lopez, Systems Biology
Dynamics of cellular senescence in singe cells
Jasmin Sandelson, Sociology
Unaccompanied Homeless Youth
Marina Santiago, Chemical Biology (Declined)
Probing with a panel of beta-lactams to find genetic resistance in MRSA
Paolo Savoia, History of Science
The surgical reconstruction of lips, ears, and, especially, noses in early modern Italy
Clarissa Scholes, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Towards a mechanistic understanding of enhancer interactions in an endogenous gene locus
Zeynep Soysal, Philosophy
Study of mathematical axioms which are epistematically justified in virtue of being “conceptually true” or
“analytic”
Iaroslava Strikha, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Discontinuities in Ukrainian autobiographies from the 1980s-1940s
Yunqing Tang, Mathematics
Arithmetic geometry and number theory
Argyrios Tsiaras, Economics
Implications of the reallocations of aggregate risk through financial markets
Katherine van Schaik, Classics
Evolution of medical decision-making
Taylor Walsh, History of Art and Architecture (Declined)
Medium at the Margins: Bruce Nauman at the end of the Sixties
Benjamin Weber, History
America’s Carceral Empire: Confinement, Punishment, and Work ‘at Home and Abroad,’ 1865-1945
Xin Wen, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Before Pax Mongolica: Traveling on the Silk Road without Empire (900-1200)
Oliver Wunsch, History of Art and Architecture
Painting Against Time: The Decaying Image in the French Enlightenment
John Zaleski, Religion
Study of Christian and Muslim writings on asceticism in Late Antiquity and the classical Islamic period
Christine Zgrabik, Engineering and Applied Sciences
Exploring titanium nitride as an alternative material for plasmonic device optimization
DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSHIPS
Graduate Society Fellowships
Lindsey Aakre, Comparative Literature
A study of Song dynasty poet Ouyang Xiu and his predecessor, the Tang figure Han Yu
Gregory Afinogenov, History
Secret Missions: Russian Intelligence, the Jesuits, and the Qing, 1675-1825
Ashely Anderson, Government
Going Political: Institutions, Labor Mobilization, and Political Transition in North Africa
Adam Anderson, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Old Assyrian Social Network: A Correspondence View and an Analysis Based on the Old Texts from
Kültepe, Turkey (1970-1720 BCE)
Noam Andrews, History of Science
Irregular Bodies: Polyhedral Geometry and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe
Samuel Anthony, Psychology
Investigating psychometrically-informed computer vision models of human face processing
Non Arkaraprasertkul, Anthropology
Locating Shanghai: Globalization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space
Arraiza Rivera Antonio, Romance Languages and Literatures
Towards an Idea of the Author: Representations of Writing in Early Modern Iberian Lyric
Samura Atallah, Public Policy
Essays in Experimental Economics
Trevor Baca, Music
Composition Portfolio
Erin Baggott, Government
Small Events in High Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in US-China Relations, 1949-2010
William Baldwin, English
The Cracked Earth: Geography and Literary Form in Joseph Conrad and T. S. Eliot
Trisha Banerjee, English
Back Stories
Tim Beaumont, Government
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Hedonism for Life
Lucas Bender, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Poet-Sage, Poet-Historian: Du Fu in the History of Chinese Poetics
Amy Benjamin, Religion
Right Feelings and American Benevolence: Sentimentality, Philosophy and Religion in the Literature of
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Arielle Bensimon, Health Policy
Using empirical data for policy evaluation and comparative effectiveness research in pediatric and
women’s health
Casey Bohlen, History
The Politics of Conscience: Religious Activism and Social Change in Postwar America
Henry Bowles, Comparative Literature
Anatomy of “Decadence”
Nicole Burgoyne, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Censored Autobiographies of German Socialist Realism: Ideology and Modernity in the Twentieth
Century
Merih Cantarella, History of Art and Architecture
Negotiating Self-Representation and Identity: Artistic Responses to Encounters between Byzantium and
the Islamic World (ca, 1300-1453)
Philip Cartelli, Anthropology
Marseille-J4: Redefining Urban Identity and Belonging in South France
Eric Castillo, Human Evolutionary Biology
The evolution, development, and function of human lumbar lordosis
Paula Chu, Health Policy
Comparative and cost-effectiveness of yoga as a cardiovascular disease prevention intervention
Tarryn Chun, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Technologized Performance and the Theatrical Production of Chinese Modernity
Ann Cleare, Music
Sculpting Shape, Time, and Language (composition portfolio)
Emily Clough, Government
NGOs, the State, and the Provision of Education in India
Gregory Conti, Government
The Diversity of Opinions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Elizabeth Cook-Stuntz, Business Economics
Essays in Economic History and Labor
Portia Cornell, Health Policy
Three papers in health policy
Caitlin Daniel, Sociology
Culture and Material Determinants of Parents’ Food Decisions
Kyrah Daniels, African and African American Studies
When the Spirit is Ill: Sacred Art Objects and Religious Healing in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of
Congo
Aryo Danusiri, Anthropology
Arab Saints and Sufi Bikers: Mobile Spectacular Prayer in the Making of Muslim Working Class in PostAuthoritarian Indonesia
Sutopa Dasgupta, Religion
The Annadamangal: Religion and Court in an Early Modern Epic from Bengal
Juana Davila, Anthropology
(Un)making legal and political landscapes: an ethnography about the social life and politics of the land
restitution policy in Colombia
Tilman Dette
Essays on Hospital Responses to Financial Incentives
Moira Dillon, Psychology
Becoming Euclid: Connection Core Cognition, Spatial Symbols, and the Abstract Concepts of Formal
Geometry
Yue Ding, Government
Environmental Governance in Urban China: the Political Process and the Formation of Public Support in
an Authoritarian Regime
Darja Djordjevic, Anthropology
The Cancer War(d): Onco-Nationhood in Post-Traumatic Rwanda
Jeffrey Dobereiner, Anthropology
Revisiting the Origins of Mesoamerican Complexity: Rancho Búfalo, Chiapas and the Preclassic Maya
Frontier
David Dodell-Feder, Psychology
Theory of mind and social functioning in schizophrenia
Kathryn Dooley, History
Consumer Culture, Ethnicity, and Self-Fashioning in Post-War Soviet Central Asia
Doran Connemara, History of Science
Seeking the Shape of the Universe, 1880-2003: Curved Geometries, Deformed Spaces, and the Cosmic
Microwave Background
Calliopi Dourou, Classics
Between Byzantium and Modern Greece: Recapturing the legacy of Homer in Nikolaos Loukanes’ 1526
Iliad
Ofer Dynes, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Jewish Culture and the Logic of the State: 1772-1848
Jeffrey Eden, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
Michael Egesdal, Economics
Retail Clustering and Consumer Search
James Feigenbaum, Economics
Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality in the Early Twentieth Century
Jeremy Fix, Philosophy
To Act From Thought
Pinar Fletcher, Organizational Behavior
The ironic effects of motivational tools on attention and decision making
Joseph Fort, Music
Incorporating Haydn’s Minuets
Carl Gershenson, Sociology
Dynamic Network Analysis of the Political and Social Bases of the American Business Corporation
Michael Gill, Government
Essays in International Relations and Political Economy
Goretti Gonzalez, Romance Languages and Literatures
Found in Translation: Barezzo Barezzi and the Picaresque Palimpsest
Brian Goodman, American Studies
The Disappearing Bridge: A Literary History of the United States and Czechoslovakia, 1947-1989
Daniel Green, Human Evolutionary Biology
Reconstructing seasonality at sites of human occupation using x-ray based tooth mineralization models
and isotope geochemistry
Ben Gruenbaum, Government
The Political Consequences of the U.S. Senate’s Electoral Demography
Rebecca Haffajee, Health Policy
Evaluating Legal Interventions Designed to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes
Nils Hagerdal, Public Policy
Ethnic Cleansing as Military Strategy: Lessons from Lebanon, 1975-1990
Elizabeth Hansen, Organizational Behavior
Organizational Practices of Adaptation: Managing the Transition from Broadcast to Digital in American
Public Radio
Carla Heelan, History
Medievalism and the Making of Modern Germany, 1806-1918
John Heintz, Anthropology
Intimate Violence: Partner Abuse in Bogota, Colombia
Joachim Hero, Health Policy
Variation in Health System Satisfaction among Developed Nations
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Social Policy
Corporate Interests and Conservative Mobilization Across the U.S. States, 1973 to 2013
Dianne Hezel, Psychology
Cognitive processes in obsessive compulsive disorder: An investigation of risk aversion, evaluation of
thoughts, and intolerance of uncertainty in adults with OCD
Nicole Hirsch, Sociology
Nonprofit Organizations and Anti-Racist Advocacy in Comparative Perspective
Ari Hoffman, English
Paradoxical Field Notes: Towards a New Agenda for Jewish Life and Letters
Thomas Hooker, History
A Comrade in Need is a Friend Indeed: Friendship and Communism in Soviet Russia, 1921-1985
Gabriel Hornung, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Nature and the Import of the Relationship Between the Joseph Story in Genesis and the Book of
Esther
David Hureau, Sociology
A Three Paper Exploration of Urban Violence
Ryota Iijima, Economics
Essays on Economic Theory
Anthony Jack, Sociology
Same Folks, Different Strokes: Class, Culture, and the “New” Affirmative Action at Elite Colleges and
Universities
Simon Jaeger, Economics
How Specific is Human Capital? Evidence from Displaced Firms
Yitzchak Jaffe, Anthropology
Negotiating the frontier - uncovering regional variation in the Western Zhou expansion (1046-771 BCE)
Abbas Jaffer, Anthropology
New Tracks: Digital Publics and Contemporary Music in Pakistan
Adam Jasienski, History of Art and Architecture
In the Guise of Holiness: Portraiture, Sanctity, and Dynastic Politics under the Spanish Habsburgs
Huan Jin, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Writing the Taipei Civil War
Sokhyo Jo, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Journey on a Möbius Strip: Eclipse Calculations in 18th Century Tibet
Paul Julian, Philosophy
Intersubjectivism: A Theory of Moral Authority
Rebecca Katz, Classics
Arms and the Man: The Significance of Spoils in Roman Culture
Einor Keinan-Segev, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Water Stages: Aquatic Theater and Other Floating Pleasures
Rohan Kekre, Business Economics
Essays in Macroeconomics
Elizabeth Kerley, History
Between Representation and Reform: Human Rights as Soft Power Problem in the Late USSR and PostSoviet Space (1975-1995)
Nancy Khalil, Anthropology
“American Islam”: The politics of an emerging religious category
Ateya Khorakiwala, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
The Well Fed Subject: Modern Architecture in the Quantitative State
Sunghee Kim, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Life and Death in North Korea: Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) and North Korean Literature
Jeehye Kim, Government
Commitment problem, elite cohesion, escalation: China’s management of territorial and maritime disputes
with U.S. allies in East Asia
Shawonipinesiik Kinew, History of Art and Architecture
The Vision in Stone: Melchiorre Cafa in the World, 1636-1667
Divya Kirti, Economics
Essays on financial markets and institutions
Anshul Kumar, Sociology
Why aren’t NGO’s and government schools in India working together more?
Lisa Kwan, Organizational Behavior
Territory Management among Groups in Organizations
Elizabeth Lagresa, Romance Languages and Literatures
Counterfeiting Women: Genre and Gender Economies in Spanish Early Modern Visual and Verbal Arts, A
Comparative Approach to Re-framing Dramas, Novellas and Portraits
Sarah Lannom, Classics
Intertextuality, Games, and Genre: Allusions to Pindar’s Ovid in Metamorphoses
Danial Lashkari, Political Economy and Government
Growth and Incentives for Innovation
Celine Leboeuf, Philosophy
The Social Constitution of the Body: A Phenomenological Approach
Mihan Lee, Health Policy
Investigating Socioeconomic Disparities in Patient Experiences of Infertility in the US
So-Yeon Lee, Linguistics
Split ergativity and voice marking in Ranmo
Christy Ley, Sociology
Occupational Cultures and Gender Equality in the Life Sciences Industry
Annie Liang, Economics
Essays in Economic Theory
Guilherme Lichand, Political Economy and Government
Essays in Development Economics and Political Economy
Benjamin Lockwood, Business Economics
Essays in Tax Policy
Luis Lopez, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Suicide in the Spanish Middle Ages: representation and transgression
Olivia Lucas, Music
Sound, Rhythm, and Environment: Analytical Issues in Contemporary Extreme Metal
Arndt Luemers, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Resonant Narration - Alfred Döblin and the Modern Novel
Joseph Luna, Government
Procurement Malfeasance: Linking Political Finance and Service Delivery in a Developing State
Rakeen Mabud, Government
Appreciating Housing: Essays on Housing and Politics
Gokul Madhavan, South Asian Studies
How to make your desires come true: Gadadhara Bhattacarya’s “Investigation into the Nature of
Injunctions”
Marisa Mandabach, History of Art and Architecture
Ruben’s Monsters: the Head of Medusa and the Painterly Grotesque
John Marshall, Government
Essays Examining How Political Information Affects Electoral Choice
Theresa McCulla, American Studies
Representing Modern New Orleans: Food and the Evolution of the Multiethnic City
Stuart McManus, History
Globalizing Cicero: Classical Eloquence in Early Modern Asia and the Americas
Calista McRae, English
Lyric as Comedy
Emily McWilliams, Philosophy
Methodology and the Nature of Epistemic Justification
Maria Metzler, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Biography of a Demonic Object: The Ark of the Covenant and Divine Rage in the Hebrew Bible
Jonathan Mijs, Sociology
Moral Stratification: How Schools Shape Students’ Inequality Beliefs
Ernest Mitchell, African and African American Studies
Remaking Moses: Zora Neale Hurston and the History of a Modern Obsession
Shilpa Mody, Psychology
Reasoning by Exclusion: A Case Study in Domain-General Representation and Reasoning
Joe Muller, Government
The Politics of Plato’s Early Dialogues
Sanam Nader-Esfahani, Romance Languages and Literatures
Knowledge and Representation Through Baroque Eyes: Literature and Optics in France and Italy, ca:
1600-1640
Nicholas Nardini, English
The Planetary Mind: American Literature After American Culture
Noah Nathan, Government
Political Behavior in African Cities: Evidence from Urban Ghana
Yusuf Neggers, Public Policy
Three Essays in Political Economy and Development
Hannah Neprash, Health Policy
Three Essays on Physician Behavior
Chinenye Offor, Health Policy
Doing Good and Doing Well: Private Sector Health Network Coordination in Developing Countries
Oyebola Okunogbe, Public Policy
Essays on Political Economy in Developing Countries
Luigi Patruno, Romance Languages and Literatures
The People on Stage: Culture and Peronism (1945-1955)
Sandy Placido, American Studies
Afro-diasporic solidarities: Dr. Ana Livia Cordero’s Movements in the Caribbean, Ghana, and the United
States, 1931-1992
Mikkel Plagborg-Moller, Economics
Essays in Time Series Econometrics and Macroeconomics
Daniel Pollmann, Economics
Consumer search and price competition for differentiated products in online retail
Tilsa Ponce Romero, Anthropology
“Los reyes de la papa”: the making of an indigenous middle class in the Peruvian Central Highlands
Katharine Porter, Psychology
Visual object individuation occurs over object wholes, parts, and even holes
Scott Poulson-Bryant, American Studies
Movin’ On Up: Uplift, Citizenship, and the Cross-Racial Politics of 1970s U.S. Popular Culture
Max Price, Anthropology
Pig Husbandry and Social Change in 7th-3rd Millennium BC Northern Mesopotamia
David Pullins, History of Art and Architecture
Cut & Paste: the mobile image from Watteau to Robert
Meredith Quinn, History
Books and Their Readers in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
James Reich, Religion
Meaning and Appearance: The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir
Jonathan Rhinesmith, Economics
Essays in finance: The impact of segmentation and specialization in ownership structures on the
information content of asset prices
Silvia Robles, Economics
Influencing College Matriculation and Application Behavior: A Retrospective Evaluation of the MITES
Program
Slawa Rokicki, Health Policy
Improving Reproductive Health: Assessing Determinants and Measuring Policy Impacts
Kara Ross Camarena, Government
Arriving by the Thousands: Political Migrants, Intervention in War, and the Reaction of State and nonState Actors
Sarah Rous, Classics
Ancient Upcycling: Social Memory and the Reuse of Marble at Athens
Christopher Rutt, Psychology
Monitoring and Feedback Systems in Youth Outpatient Psychotherapy: Youth and Caregiver Use Across
Two Studies
Fallon Samuels, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Groundwork for Gentrification: Critical Infrastructure Protection for Back-to-the-City Movements, 19501990
Eric Schluessel, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The Muslim Emperor of China: Everyday Politics in Colonial Xinjiang
Benjamin Schneer, Government
A Study of Political Expression, Old and New
Robert Schub, Government
The Promise and Peril of Certainty in the Decision for War
Anne Searcy, Music
It was not merely success, but something furious?: Soviet and American Cold War Ballet Exchange,
1959-1962
Trisha Shrum, Public Policy
Dissertation in Public Policy
Evann Smith, Government
New Communication Technologies and Mass Mobilization in the Middle East
Stephanie Spray, Anthropology
Hope’s Harvest: Tactics of Survival Among Nepal’s Gandharba
Adam Stern, Religion
Marks of Survival: Christianity, Judaism, Translation
Samuel Stolper, Public Policy
Oil and Water: Essays in Natural Resource Policy
Elaine Stranahan, Linguistics
Scalar Implicature: Time Course, Cognitive Resources, and Speaker Cooperativity
Melis Taner, History of Art and Architecture
Between the Persians and the Rum What Woe Befell Us: Painting in Baghdad in the Late 16th and Early
17th Centuries
Misha Teramura, English
Shakespeare and Chaucer: Influence and Authority on the Renaissance Stage
Kentaro Tomoeda, Economics
Investments in mechanism design and the design of priorities in matching problems
Deniz Turker, Middle Eastern Studies
Ottoman Victoriana: Nineteenth-Century Sultans and the Making of a Palace, 1836-1909
Patrick Turley, Economics
Essays on economics and genetics
Samuel Urlacher, Human Evolutionary Biology
Growth, immune function, and the energetics of childhood among Amazonian Shuar
Jacob Wallace, Health Policy
The Role of Government in Health Care Markets
Zhaoning Wang, Economics
Essays on Development Economics: Financial Institutions, Product Markets, and Corporations
Chi Wang, Sociology
Linking the Official and the Folk: The Process and Consequence of the Work of 911 Dispatchers
Jason Warner, African and African American Studies
Foreign Policy and Pax-Africana: Explaining State Actions in Collective Security Institutions in West Africa
and the Horn of Africa
Ana Weeks, Government
Real Change or Window Dressing? The Effect of Gender Quota Laws on Policy Outcomes
Jonathan Withers
Kurdish Music-Making in Istanbul: Music, Sentiment, and Loss in a Changing Urban Context
Micah Wittmer, Music
Performing Negro Folk Culture, Performing America: Hall Johnson’s Choral and Dramatic Works (19251939)
Anne Wyman, English
The Comic Age
Yimei Xiang, Linguistics
Complete answers to mention-some questions
Julia Yezbick, Anthropology
Remaking Detroit: an ethnography of creativity
Emrah Yildiz, Middle Eastern Studies
The Ways of Zainab: Visitations and Valuations across the Middle East
Yao Zeng, Economics
Endogenous Information Asymmetry in Asset Markets
Iosif Zhakevich, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Contradictions and Coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
Daniel Zolli, History of Art and Architecture
Sculpture in Process: Making and Unmaking in Donatello’s Workshops, 1419-64
Presidential Fellowships
Jonathan Bruno, Government
Rethinking Political Transparency: History, Theory, Applications
Nathaniel Erb-Satullo, Anthropology
Metal Production in the Land of the Golden Fleece: Economic Organization and Technological Change in
Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Colchis
Zeyneb Eroglu Sager, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Chinese Muslim (Hui) Intellectual Thought and Transnational Networks in the Era of Modernization (19001949)
John Gabriel, Music
Opera After Optimism: The Fate of Zeitoper at the End of the Weimar Republic
Matthew Holmberg, Celtic Studies
Towards a Relative Chronology of the Milesian Genealogical Scheme
Ainsley Morse, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Detki v kletki (Kids in cages): the childlike aesthetic and official children’s literature in unofficial poetry of
the Soviet period
James Townshend, Classics
In Search of the Ancient Grotesque
Queenie Zhu, Social Policy
(Hiding) In Plain Sight: How Income Status Matters Differently Among Low-Income Students in Suburban
Schools
Research Center Awards
Ashley Anderson, Government
Going Political: Institutions, Labor Mobilization, and Democratic Transition in the Middle East/North Africa
(Weatherhead)
Rhae Lynn Barnes, History
Darkology: The History of Amateur Blackface Minstrelsy and the Making of Modern America, 1865-1965
(Warren)
Charrise Barron, African and African American Studies
The Platinum Age of Gospel: Contemporary Gospel Music Since the 1990s (Mahindra)
Marco Basile, History
The United States and Emerging Global Law, 1807-1871 (Weatherhead)
Shane Bobrycki, History
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages, c. 500-1000 (Radcliffe)
Steven Brown, American Studies
The Illumined Waste: American’s Forgotten Aesthetic (Radcliffe)
Christina Crawford, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Producing Socialist Settlement: Soviet Urban Praxis, 1917-1932 (Weatherhead)
Elena Fratto, Comparative Literature
Medicine as Storytelling: Emplotment Strategies in Doctor-Patient Encounters (Davis)
Noam Gidron, Government
The Transformation of the European Center-Right, 1980-2015 (CES)
Alicia Harley, Public Policy
Innovation and Inequality: Agriculture development and caste politics in Bihar (Weatherhead)
Emily Harrison, History of Science
Infant Science: Leona Baumgartner and the Makings of the Global Problem of Infant Mortality (Mahindra)
Hansun Hsiung, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Republic of Letters, Empire of Textbooks: Japan in the Birth of Global Distance Learning, 1790-1895
(Reischauer)
Shi Lin Loh, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Rentogen and Instrumental Modernity: Japan’s Irradiated Past, 1896-1950s (Reischauer)
Aline-Florence Manent, History
The Intellectual Origins of the “German Model”: Rethinking Democracy in the early Federal Republic of
Germany (CES)
Shaun Nichols, History
Crisis Capital: The Making and Un-Making of Industrial Massachusetts, 1873-Present (Weatherhead)
Eva Payne, American Studies
Purifying the World: Americans and International Sexual Reform, 1865-1933 (Weatherhead)
Mircea Raianu, History
The Tata Business Empire and the Ethics of Capital in Modern India, ca. 1870-1960 (Weatherhead)
Carolin Roeder, History
Horizontal Networks and Vertical Pursuits: A Transnational History of Mountaineering, 1856-1974 (CES)
Jasmine Samara, Anthropology
The social afterlife of an international treaty: debating law, coercion and violence in a Greek borderland
(CES)
Peter Sealy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Building Truth: Architecture’s New Visual Culture (1860-1910) (Knox)
Yurika Wakamatsu, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Painting in Between: Gender and Modernity in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
(Reischauer)
Ariel White, Government
The unexpected political consequences of punitive policies (Radcliffe)
External Awards
Noam Andrews, History of Science
Irregular Bodies: Polyhedral Geometry and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (Villa I Tatti)
Charles Lesch, Government
The Ethical Commonwealth: Social Citizenship and the Moral Life of Political Communities (ACLS Mellon)
James Martin, History
Governing the World Economy: Economic Expertise and the Reshaping of Global Order, 1914-1948
(ACLS Mellon)
Erin Mosely, African and African American Studies
The Future of Rwanda’s Past: Transitional Justice, Archival Practice, and the Remaking of History after
Genocide (ACLS Mellon)
Delia Wendel, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Space and the Ethics of Transition: Rebuilding Rwanda after the Genocide (ACLS Mellon)
Graduate Society Summer Fellowships
Jared Abbott, Government
Matthew Barfield, Romance Languages and Literatures
Youssef Ben Ismail, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Laura Blattner, Political Economy and Government
Jack Cao, Psychology
Kacey Carter, Romance Languages and Literatures
Aparna Chaudhuri, English
Michelle Choi, Anthropology
Bradley Craig, African and African American Studies
Sanford Diehl, Philosophy
Jeronimo Duarte Riascos, Romance Languages and Literatures
Lulie El-Ashry, Religion
Mary Elston, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Thomas Evans, Film and Visual Studies (Declined)
Maria Belen Fernandez Milmanda, Government
Kelley Fong, Social Policy
Joshua Freeman, Inner Altaic and Asian Studies
Ben Goossen, History
Mariam Goshadze, Religion
Yichen Guan, Government
Annikki Herranen, Anthropology
Abraham Holland, Public Policy
Pei-Ling Huang, Music
Sa-kiera Hudson, Psychology
Erin Hutchinson, History
Reza Idria, Anthropology
Matthew Leslie, Music
Kate Lofgren, Health Policy
Huijun Mai, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Oliver Marjot, Classics
Margot Moinester, Sociology
Amelia Peterson, Education
Jake Ransohoff, History
Renee Rinehart, Education
David Romney, Government
Benny Shaffer, Anthropology
Kyle Shernuk, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Manvir Singh, Human Evolutionary Biology
Justin Stern, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Susan Taylor, Anthropology
Laura Thompson, Religion
Rachel Thompson, Anthropology
Erica Weaver, English
Thomas Wooten, Sociology
Xin Xiang, Education
Summer School Tuition Waivers
Khalil Andani, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Paul Anderson, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Ahson Azmat, Philosophy
Nina Begus, Comparative Literature
Jonathon Booth, History
Hannah Cohen, Film and Visual Studies
Gwendolyn Collaco, Middle Eastern Studies
Alicia DeMaio, History (Declined)
Jamin Dowdy, Government (Declined)
Grace Edgar, Music
Ashley Hannebrink, History of Art and Architecture
Rui Hua, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Jonathan Knapp, Film and Visual Studies
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Government
Colleen Lanier Christensen, History of Science
Alana Mailes, Music
Hualong Mei, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Declined)
Sun Min Park, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Thomas Pendlebury, Philosophy
Seth Powell, Religion
Arjun Ramamurti, Government
Alexandra Schultz, Classics
Paul Schwerda, South Asian Studies
Ryan Tobler, Religion
Gili Vidan, History of Science
Peter Volberding, Government
Zachary Wehrwein, Sociology
Clarisse Wells, South Asian Studies
Madeline Williams, History
Meredyth Winter, Middle Eastern Studies
Akif Yerlioglu, Middle Eastern Studies
James Zainaldin, Classics
National Science Foundation
Caitlin Baker, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Kaitlyn Becker, Engineering and Applied Sciences
Casey Brodsky, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Jack Cao, Psychology
Adam Carte, Systems Biology
Julia Cosgrove, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Truc Do, Medical Sciences
Cesar Echavarria, Medical Sciences
Matheus Carvalho Fernandes, Engineering and Applied Sciences
Gabriel Filsinger, Systems Biology
Patrick Fitzpatrick, Astronomy
Adrian Garcia Mosqueira, Health Policy
Benjamin Green, Engineering and Applied Sciences
Rachel Guerra, Medical Sciences
Grigori Guitchounts, Medical Sciences
Melissa Haskell, Biophysics
Jeffrey Haswell, Medical Sciences
Robert Holland, Public Policy
Jane Huang, Astronomy
Sa-kiera Hudson, Psychology
Evan Jones, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Ellen Klein, Physics
Pawel Latawiec, Engineering and Applied Sciences
Samuel Levi, Chemical Biology
John Lewis, Astronomy
Alexander Naydich, Engineering and Applied Sciences
Jason Nemirow, Psychology
Charleston Noble, Systems Biology
Erik Nook, Psychology
Alex Ocampo, Biostatistics
Dalila Ordonez, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Josh Pan, Medical Sciences
Jessica Panzarino, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Physics
Tamara Pico, Engineering Sciences
Rocco Policarpo, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Jason Qian, Medical Sciences
David Romney, Government
Emma Rosenfeld, Physics
Michka Sharpe, Medical Sciences
Aditi Shukla, Medical Sciences
Manvir Singh, Human Evolutionary Biology
Jessica Spinelli, Chemical Biology
Georgia Squyres, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Julia Steinberg, Physics
Stephen Thornquist, Medical Sciences
Adam Travis, Social Policy
Elana Urbach, Physics
Sonia Vallabh, Medical Sciences
Nico Wagner, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Huaiying Wang, Medical Sciences
Jennifer Wei, Chemical Physics
Zachary Werkhoven, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Mariel Williams, Human Evolutionary Biology
Felix Wong, Engineering and Applied Sciences
Alexandra Wrobel, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cathy Zhang, Engineering and Applied Sciences