Publications
2013 - Leilah Vevaina
"Excarnation and the City: The Tower of Silence Debates in Mumbai" in I. Becci, M. Burchardt and J. Casanova (eds.) Topographies of Faith: Religion in Urban Space. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishing.
2012 - Amber Benezra
"Anthropology of Microbes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2012.
2011 - David Bond
"The Science of Catastrophe: Making Sense of the BP Oil Spill." Anthropology Now, Vol. 3, Number 1, pp. 36-46.
2011 - Smoki Musaraj
"Tales from Albarado: The Materiality of Pyramid Schemes in Postsocialist Albania." Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 26, Issue 1, pp. 84-110.
Alumni News
2011 - Simanti Dasgupta, PhD 2009, was offered a tenure track position at the University of Dayton.
Student Fellowships and Grants Awarded
2013- Katyayani Dalmia - IDRF Fellowship from the SSRC
"Inhabiting One's Skin: An Ethnography of Skin Color and Appearance in a North Indian City"
2013 - Emily Sekine - Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
"The Unsteady Earth: Predicting Nature's Uncertainties in Post 3.11 Japan"
2013 - Emily Sekine - The Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Language Study
"The Unsteady Earth: Predicting Nature's Uncertainties in Post 3.11 Japan"
2013 - Emily Sekine - Osmundsen Initiative
"The Unsteady Earth: Predicting Nature's Uncertainties in Post 3.11 Japan"
2013 - Alexios Tsigkas - SSRC DPDF Fellowship
"A Commodity of a Certain Taste: An Ethnography of the Ceylon Tea Industry"
2013 - Amber Benezra - Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Post-Doctoral Fellowship at NYU
2012- Rhea Rahman - Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
"Translating Faith into Action: Islamic Relief in Mali"
2012 - Katheryn Detwiler - Research Grant from Dick and Sally Roberts Coyote Foundation
"Desert Science"
2012 - Carol Wang - NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Provisional Title: "Economic Policy, Entitlement Claims, and NGO Professionalization in the Making of the Chinese AIDS Epidemic"
2012 - David Bond - American Council of Learned Societies Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
"Hydrocarbon Frontiers: Science and Politics in the British Petroleum Oil Spill"
2012 - Carol Wang - Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship
Provisional Title: "Economic Policy, Entitlement Claims, and NGO Professionalization in the Making of the Chinese AIDS Epidemic"
2012 - Jason Euren - Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
"Technological Citizenship: How Today's Hackerspaces are Interfacing Tomorrow's Future"
2012 - Marisa Solomon - NSF Graduate Research Grant
"Letting Trash Talk: Garbage in the Order of People"
2012 - Mateusz Halawa - Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
"Inhabiting Postsocialism: The Rise of Mortgages in Poland"
2011 - Julienne Obadiah - NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
"Intimate Sharing"
2011 - Jason Euren - NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
"Building Politics and Technology: How Today's Hackerspaces are Interfacing Tomorrow's Future"
2011 - Julienne Obadia - Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
"Intimate Sharing"
2011 - Tyler Boersen - Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship
"Visible Labor: The Precarious Workers' Movement in Greece"
2011 - Monica Fagioli - Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
"From Failure to Resource: The Somali Diaspora and State-making in Somaliland and Puntland"
2011 - Vasiliki Touhouliotis - Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
"Weapons Between Wars: Cluster Bombs, Technological Failure and the Durability of War in South Lebanon"
2011 - Brie Gettleson - Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship
"The Politics of Femicide in Guatemala"
2011 - Leilah Vevaina - Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
"Community By Design: Parsis and Property in Mumbai"
2010-2011 - David Bond - Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
"Hydrocarbon Frontiers: Experts and the Social Life of Facts at a Caribbean Refinery"
2010-2011 - Leilah Vevaina - The American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship
"Community By Design: Parsis and Property in Mumbai"
2010 - Amber Benezra - NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
"Being Commensal: Human-Microbe Relations at the Edge of Biological Science"
2010 - David Bond - NSF Rapid Response Research Grant
"What Counts as Oil? Measuring the Extent and Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill"
2010 - Monica Fagioli - NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
"From Failure to Resource: The Somali Diaspora and State-making in Somaliland and Puntland"
2010 - Zohar Rotem - Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education
Tentative title: "Becoming Jews and Arabs: Israeli Children and the Making of Social Difference"
2010 - Zohar Rotem - International Cognition and Culture Institute
Winner of mini-grant competition funded by the Programme in Culture and Cognition at the London School of Economics
2010 - Emily Sekine - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2010 - Vasiliki Touhouliotis - NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
"Weapons Between Wars: Cluster Bombs, Technological Failure and the Durabilities of War in South Lebanon"
2009 - Zohar Rotem - NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Tentative title: "Becoming Jews and Arabs: Israeli Children and the Making of Social Difference"
2009 - Zohar Rotem - Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Tentative title: "Becoming Jews and Arabs: Israeli Children and the Making of Social Difference"
2008 - Mateusz Halawa - Wenner-Gren, Wadsworth International Fellowship
2008 - Smoki Musaraj - Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship
"When and What is Corruption: A Case Study from Postsocialist Albania"
2008 - Smoki Musaraj - Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
"When and What is Corruption: A Case Study from Postsocialist Albania"
2008 - Grzegorz Sokol - Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant
"Affective Disorder: The Medicalization of Mood in Postsocialist Poland"
2008 - Grzegorz Sokol - David Bruderer Stiftung Research Grant
"Affective Disorder: The Medicalization of Mood in Postsocialist Poland"
2007 - Smoki Musaraj - NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
"When and What is Corruption: A Case Study from Postsocialist Albania"
2006 - Leilah Vevaina - India-China Institute Student Fellowship
