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2024 Fellows
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Abraham, Susan
University of Virginia
Spanish Literature; Mediterranean Literature and Religion
Narrating Faith Across the Straits: Morisco Manuals of Faith in Tunis and the Early Modern Mediterranean
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Alterwaite, Arielle Xena
University of Pennsylvania
History
Empire of Debt: Haiti and France in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
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Alves, Italo (Robert M. Adams-Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow in Philosophy)
Loyola University Chicago
Social Philosophy and Aesthetics
The Social Aesthetics of Recognition
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Croteau, Chantal
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sociocultural Anthropology
Contentious Relations: Kinship, Personhood, and Extractive Industry in Thailand
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Davennes, Aurelien
University of Southern California
American Studies; Cultural Anthropology
Vodou in Magic City: Migration and Subjective Formation Among the Haitian Diaspora of Miami
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Diehr, Christene
University of California, Berkeley
Medieval Europe
Paying your dues: the birth of the tithe in Carolingian Francia
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Dinenis, Nikianna
Princeton University
Early Modern Europe
Women Readers in the Holy Roman Empire, 1400-1600
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El-Shafei, Alaa
Columbia University
Middle Eastern Studies
Convicts on the Nile: Prisons and the Making of Modern Egypt
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Freeman, S.
University of California, Berkeley
Geography
Quantifying Mobility: The Politics of Humanitarian Data Collection in South Sudan
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Garcia, Miranda
University of Michigan
Sociocultural Anthropology
Entrepreneurs and the Search for Dignity in Post-Castro Cuba
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Hoover, Hannah
University of Michigan
Archaeology
Networking Households, Building a Nation: A Study of Yamasee Towns in Colonial South Carolina
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Isaacson, Clio
Rutgers University
History
Women of the Nahuatl Annals: Writing the Lives of Women in Late Pre-Hispanic and Early Colonial Mexico
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Lawson, Sierra (Carpenter/Newcombe Fellow)
UNC Chapel Hill
Religion and Culture
Spilled Milk, Spilled Blood: Breastmilk, Genealogy, and Religion in Transatlantic Spanish Empire
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Marquardt, Savannah
Yale University
History of Art, Archaeology, Classics
Chthon: Material Eschatology and Burial in Colonial Southern Italy (5th-4th c BCE)
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Mond, Ariel
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
History
Politics Imprisoned: Political Prisoners and the Making of Democracy, Decolonization, and Human Rights in Postwar France, 1945-1975
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Ng, Kelvin
Yale University
Southeast Asian history; Indian Ocean history
Vernacular Equality: Migration and Resistance in the Indian Ocean, c. 1920–1950
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Pacyniak, Kori
University of California, Riverside
Queer and Trans Studies in Religion; Catholic Studies; Ethics
Sacred Bodies, Sacred Lives: Trans Catholic Joy, Resistance, and Liberation
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Pandya, Jiya
Princeton University
Modern South Asia, Disability History
Broken Bodies, Handicapped Nation: Conceptualizing Disability and Welfare in Indian Nation-Building, 1920s-1990s
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Scahill, Katherine
University of Pennsylvania
Sound Studies, Religious Studies, Buddhist Studies
The gendered politics of religious authority in Thai Buddhism: Voice, embodiment, and sonic efficacy in the movement for female monastic ordination
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Shaia, Fred
Brown University
International Relations
Equity in a Warming World: The Global South and the Making of the International Climate Regime, 19722022
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Thakur, Nimisha
Syracuse University
Anthropology
River song: Riverine ethics and autonomy on the Brahmaputra floodplains
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Webber, Mariah (Carpenter/Newcombe Fellow)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Feminist Studies
Capturing Intimacies: Collaged Explorations of Black Sexuality in Strip Club Culture
2023 Fellows
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DeMaio, Matt
George Washington University
Anthropology
Made to Move: Placemaking and Accumulated Attachments among Palestinian Refugees from Syria
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Dorjee, Tenzin
Columbia University in the City of New York
Political Science
Religious Routes to Conflict Mitigation: Buddhism, Nationalism, and Radicalization in the Sino-Tibetan Conflict
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Gavin, Dustin
Yale University
Religious Studies
If You Buck: The Politics and Poetics of Majorette Dance
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Hansen, Ben
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
History
Between Trepidation and Hope: Palestinian Christians after the Arab Conquests (c. 650-750 CE)
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Henry, Kelsey
Yale University
American Studies
Racing the Life Course: Anti/Black Epistemes and Ethical Foreclosures in Child Development Science, 1830 – 1980
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Kabdylkhak, Nurlan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
History
Muslim Institutions and Scholars of the Kazakh steppe under the Russian Tsars
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Komal, Zunaira
University of California-Davis
Anthropology
Translating the Symptom: Military Psychiatry, Islamic Cures, and Divine Calamity in Azad Kashmir
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Koujah, Rami
Princeton University
Near Eastern Studies
Islamic Legal Personhood: An Intellectual History
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Lally, Erica
Georgetown University
History
“A Grave Menace”: The American Protective League, Citizenship, and Surveillance during the First World War
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Laurenzi, Isabelle
Yale University
Political Science
“Critical Ambivalence, Intimacy, and The Politics of Transformation”
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Law, Sam
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Anthropology
Building a Dignified Life: Urban Autonomy and the Art of Living Otherwise
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Majumdar, Aparajita
Cornell University
History
Planting Recalcitrance: Nature, Knowledge, and Heritage in a South Asian Borderland
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Mehta, Gaurika
Columbia University in the City of New York
Religion
Bearing the Burden of History: Religion and the Minority Ethics of the Indo-Caribbean Madrasi Diaspora
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Monque, Pedro
CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Philosophy
Extractivism and the Defense of Life and Territory: An Account of Latin American Environmental Thought
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Moraes Traldi, Daniela
CUNY Graduate School and University Center
History
God, Fatherland, Family: Integralismo and the Making of the Far-Right in Twentieth-Century Brazil
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Muci Barradas, Isabela
Princeton University
Art and Archaeology
The Polyphonic Forest: Photographing the Amazon, 1970-1989
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Myriam Fitoussi, Margaux
Columbia University in the City of New York
Anthropology
Jewishness and Fractured Genealogies in Tunisia
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Peruzzi Sancio, Ariana
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Rackham
Theorizing Displacement: On Involuntary Migration, Refugeehood, and the Right to Remain
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Rolfsen, Avenel
Indiana University-Bloomington
History
“We Won’t Wait for the State”: Humanitarianism, Solidarity, and Charity in Senegalese History, 18801970
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Wical, Will
University of Maryland-College Park
Anthropology
The Embodied Emotional Experiences of Black Men Participating in a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program
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Wyer, Sean
University of California-Berkeley
Italian Studies
Constructing Convivenza: Multicultural Heritage and Cosmopolitan Rhetoric in Contemporary Palermo
2022 Fellows
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Budhathoki, Thir
University of Arizona
English Literature
Linguistic Justice in Writing Studies: A Decolonial Perspective
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Clements, Henry
Yale University
Middle Eastern Studies
History and the Struggle for Distinction: The Syriac Christians of the Ottoman Empire
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Elster, Michael
CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Anthropology
Coming of Age in the Clinic: Ethics and Politics of Transgender Care in New York
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Ferguson, Magnus (Robert M. Adams-Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow in Philosophy)
Boston College
Philosophy
On Responsibility for Others’ Harm
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Fox-Knudtsen, Karlie
Cornell University
Anthropology
Mud Spirits and Blood Power: Ethics as materiality in Kondholand
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Girard, Gabrielle
Princeton University
Modern World History
Modeling Democracy: The Global History of an Argentine Human Rights Experiment
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Greenberg, Sarah
Cornell University
Political Science
The Law is Not in Heaven: Authority and Covenant in Jewish Political Thought
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Halcomb, Laura
University of California-Santa Barbara
Sociology
Pricing life: money and morality in US healthcare
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Hsu, Mu-Lung
Arizona State University-Tempe
Religion
Engaging Suffering: Free Funeral Service Societies and a Socially Engaged Buddhist Soteriology in Contemporary Myanmar
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Joslyn, Daniel
New York University
American History
Dreamers of a New Age: God, Sex, and Socialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Kesse, Eric
Michigan State University
Modern World History
Living with Water: Environment, Slavery, and Spirituality in a West African Stilt-House Community— Nzulezo, c. mid-1700—1870s
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Kinstler, Linda
University of California-Berkeley
Modern World History
The Afterlives of Oblivion
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Levin Schwartz, Natali (Carpenter-Newcombe Fellow)
University of California-Santa Cruz
Political Science
Testimony, Resistance, and Sexual Violence: Towards a Political Theory of Testimony as Democratic Practice
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Mukherjee, Meghna
University of California-Berkeley
Sociology
Immaculate Re-Conception: Redefining Health and Reproductive Risk Using Prenatal Genetic Testing
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Nairang, Arif Hayat
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Anthropology
Halat chi kharab: Playful Existence in the Time of Political Violence
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Prendergast, Emma
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Philosophy
The Moral Authority of Citizens
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Rahman, Faiza
Emory University
Religion
Islamic Period: Menstruation and Muslims in Pakistan
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Rodrigo Gonzales, Paloma
CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Anthropology
From Stained Souls to Stained Skins: The Presence of Religious Epistemologies in the Typification of Peruvian Bodies
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Smith, Rachel
University of California-Los Angeles
Modern World History
The Jews of Yesteryear: Ethnography and the Politics of Representation in the Late Ottoman World
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Sohail, Jagat
Princeton University
Anthropology
Life After Hospitality: Practices of Foreigner Incorporation in Berlin
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Strayhorn, Joshua
Duke University
American History
Somewhere to Lay My Head: Black Religion, Mobility, and Migration in North Carolina, 1860-1890
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Vale, Mira
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Sociology
Data Values: Moral Entrepreneurship in Digital Health
2021 Fellows
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Alnusf, Marzouq
Northwestern University
Philosophy
Global Racial Capitalism: How Race Matters to Global Justice
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Berndt, Nathaniel
Duke University
Modern World History
Descendants of Zabarkan, Citizens of the World: A History of Cosmopolitan Imagination in Decolonizing Niger, 1958–1974
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Black, Valerie
University of California-Berkeley
Anthropology
Dehumanizing Care: An Ethnography of Mental Health Artificial Intelligence
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Brick, Shannon
CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Philosophy
Rehabilitating Authenticity
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DeGolan, Erez
Columbia University in the City of New York
Religion
Affect in Power: Public Joy in Roman Palestine and the Lived Experience of the Rabbis
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Hall, Amanda
Yale University
American History
Global Racial Capitalism: How Race Matters to Global JusticeTriumph: Grassroots Activism against Apartheid and the Global Challenge to Anti-Black Racism, 1971– 1991
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Hammad, Omar
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Sociology
Digital Islam: The emergence of US Muslim counterpublics on social media
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Hariharan, Anusha
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anthropology
“In Solidarity”: Feminist Friendship, Care and Ethical Life in Southern India
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Kliger, Gili
Harvard University
Modern World History
Colonial Reformation: Religion, Empire, and the Origins of Modern Social Thought
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Kulisz, Abigail
Indiana University-Bloomington
Religion
Sacred Friendship, Holy Hatred: Christian-Muslim Encounters with the Book in the Medieval Middle East
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Llaguno Nieves, Tatiana
The New School
Political Science
Paradoxes of Dependence: Towards a Political Theory of Our Dependent Condition
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Ndiaye, Gana
Boston University
Anthropology
“Plastic Migrants”: Race, Performance, and the Making of a Senegalese Muslim Community in Brazil
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Riley, Alexis
The University of Texas at Austin
Performance Studies
Patient Acts: Performance, Disability, and the Making of Mad Memory
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Rose, Kevin
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Religion
Living Green: The Neoliberal Climate of Protestant Environmentalism
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Sheu, Sherri
University of Colorado Boulder
American History
“Parks to the People”: The National Park Service and the Long 1960s
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Stamper, Aaron
Princeton University
Early World History
Reconfigured and Remade: A Sensory History of Islamic Granada’s Reformation as a Civitas Christiana, 1474–1614
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Steers-McCrum, Alexander
Northwestern UniversityCUNY Graduate School and University Center
Philosophy
What Does “Native” Mean? Disentangling and Decolonizing Settler Terms and Categories
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Taylor-Seymour, Raffaella
University of Chicago
Anthropology
Intimate Rites: Localizing Queerness through Ancestral Spiritualities in Contemporary Zimbabwe
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Urbanski, Claire
University of California-Santa Cruz
Gender Studies
On Sacred and Stolen Lands: Desecration and Spiritual Violence as United States Settler Colonialism’
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Weinberg, Tara
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Modern World History
Land ‘Bonds’: Imaginaries of Property Ownership in South Africa, 1900–1994
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Wisniewska, Karolina
University of Arizona
Philosophy
Identity, Inequality, Injustice
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Wright, Kristine
Princeton University
Religion
Bodies of Light and Knowledge: Mormon Women, Religious Authority and Theologies of Health
2020 Fellows
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Barringer, Justin
Southern Methodist University
Graduate Program in Religious Studies
Protest and Politics: A Biographical Theology of Bayard Rustin, Friendship, Charity, and Economic Justice
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Davis, Tyler
Baylor University
Religion
Spirit in the Whirlwind: Discernment, Divine Activity and the Limits of Political Theology
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Demaree-Cotton, Joanna
Yale University
Philosophy
Rehabilitating Moral Agency in the Age of Cognitive Science
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Ellis, Isaiah
University of North Carolina
Religious Studies
The Southern Gospel of Good Roads: Religion, Race, and Mobility in the United States, 1880-1930
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Feiss, E.C.
University of California, Berkeley
History of Art
Maximum Feasible Participation: Art in the War on Poverty, 1959-1973
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Friend, Juliana
University of California, Berkeley
Anthropology
“Don’t Click Here!” Porn, eHealth and Radical Ethics of Care in Senegal
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Hashmi, Zehra
University of Michigan
Anthropology and History
Identifying Kin: Biometric Belonging and Databased Governance from Colonial South Asia to Postcolonial Pakistan
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Kaur, Manpreet
Columbia University
Religion
A Performance History of Farid
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Kornstein, Harris
New York University
Media, Culture, and Communication
Queer Enchantment: Contours, Cruising, Crystal Visions, and Other Queer Tactics for (Not) Being Seen
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Lesley, Elena
Emory University
Anthropology
Testimony as Moral Performance: Productively assembling the Khmer Rouge past amid ongoing political violence in Cambodia
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Fresko Madra, Lara
Cornell University
History of Art and Visual Studies
The Persistence of Violence: Heterochronic Imagination and Historiography in Contemporary Art from Turkey (1990-2020)
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Menashe, Tamar
Columbia Univeristy
History
The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany, 1495-1690
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Pinedo-Padoch, Sofia
Princeton University
Anthropology
Life After Death in New York City: An Ethnography of Public Administration
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Rossler, Cody
SUNY Stony Brook University
History
Race Science on Tour: Instructing Publics in Provincial Britain, 1830-1870
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Teeters, Lila
University of New Hampshire
History
Native Citizens: The Fight For and Against Native Citizenship in the United States, 1866-1924
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Thornton, Thomas
The Johns Hopkins University
Anthropology
A Pastoral Prison: Ethics, Violence, and Place in Cotton County, Alabama
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Tran, Tara
Johns Hopkins University
History
Hospitality Engendered: Women’s Bodies, Empire, and Humanitarianism in Colonial Cambodia
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Wilkinson, Annie
University of California, Irvine
Anthropology
Securing the Family: Transnational Anti-Gender Activism in Mexico
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Xiao, Hai
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Geography
Spirituality and Subjectivity: Making Sense of Lived Experiences in an African City
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Yang, Guangshuo
Northwestern University
History
Between the Animal Kingdom and Modern States: Buddhist Animal Protectionism and the Making of Modern China