Ali, Mohammad Mehdi

University of Southern California

Religion

Abrogating the Word of God: Divine Justice, Moral Autonomy, and the Ontology of God in Classical Islam

My dissertation will demonstrate how competing visions of the moral attributes of God powerfully illuminate the relationship between theology and law in the Islamic tradition.

Arcila-Valenzuela, Migdalia (Robert M. Adams – Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship in Philosophy)

Cornell University

Philosophy

Praise, Pride, and Pedestals: The Ethics and Moral Psychology of Black and Indigenous Movements in Colombia

My dissertation investigates the social practices and political arrangements that embody the positive emotions of praise and pride. In particular, it focuses on the role of these emotions in the struggle for social justice among Black and Indigenous communities in Colombia.

Buckner, Ray

Northwestern University

Religion

Sensual Materialities: Buddhist Art-Making and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok

My project is an ethnographic study of thirty queer and transgender contemporary Thai Buddhist artists in Bangkok that employs participant observation and semi-structured conversations to demonstrate how artists strengthen and re-shape their relationships to their bodies, their genders, and the Buddhist path through art-making.

Burke, Julia

Columbia University

Modern World History

Irregularities of the System: Women and Their Abortions in Nineteenth-Century Britain

My project explores how the practice of abortion was changed by industrial capitalism, and when and why the crime of abortion was invented, through the lives of women who had them.

Chakraborty, Debadatta

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sociology

Hindutva and Hinduphobia: Gendered-racialized youth mobilization and religious-nationalist politics of the Indian diaspora in the US

This project investigates how Indian diasporic youth in the US, often inspired by multicultural perspectives and racial-religious tolerance, understand the Hindu nationalist movement and how the movement mobilizes the youth, both as supporters and as resisters.

Clingman, Ben

University of Colorado at Boulder

American History

Dreams of an Indigenous West: Migration, Sovereignty, and Nationhood in the Early American West

Dreams of an Indigenous West explores the centuries-long contest between Indigenous nations, European empires, and the United States for control over the future of the American West.

Denaud, Emilie

University of California, Santa Barbara

World Literature

Plant-Based Diets and Animal-Centric Thinking Throughout the African Diaspora from 1930 to the Present-Day

My dissertation examines the role of animal and environmental ethics in key anti-racist and anti-colonial movements –including Rastafari, the Nation of Islam, the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-futurism, and Womanism.

Hasan, Nomaan

Brown University

Anthropology

Experiments in Cultural Difference on the Last Days of Liberalism

My project examines how ordinary citizens forge a common political ground across differences in the face of escalating social polarization.

Herrmann, Mitchell

Yale University

Art History

The Art of the Living: Biological Life and Aesthetic Experience in the 21st Century

Over the past decade and a half, an ensemble of influential artists has employed living organisms in their ecological artwork, thereby posing the question– what forms might an aesthetic experience of nature take when it no longer privileges the human observer, but rather cultivates an equality and reciprocity between all life?

Imran, Muhammad Osama

University of Minnesota

Anthropology

Breaths of Extimacy: Spectral Madness, Certainty, and Conspiracy in Sufi Ethics

My research focuses on how certainty and suspicion co‑constitute each other in Sufi ethics

Joshi, Kunal

Johns Hopkins University

Anthropology

Keepers of Myth and Memory: Genealogies of Tradition in a North Indian Pilgrimage Town

While commonsense descriptions of pilgrimage priests as ‘swindler-middlemen’ preying on hapless pilgrims abound, in this dissertation project I ask what happens if we take rural pilgrims’ ritual traditions seriously—as ethical projects, say, or as projects of self-fashioning—and show how this not only affords a richer conceptual frame within which to view these interactions, but also demonstrates something of the role of pilgrimage itself as a discursive domain.

Keser, Emre

University of California, Santa Cruz

Middle Eastern Studies

Man/Monster/State: Genealogies of the Nation-State and the (In)Human in the Late Ottoman Empire

The history of the late Ottoman Empire and its hauntings in the present-day Turkey provide an illustrative case for how secular nation-state formations monstrously create and re-create monsters to slay and how, in return, these monsters find a way to return to unsettle these formations’ allegedly natural borders and claims to homogeneity.

Lana, Sofia

University of California, San Diego

Anthropology

Reproducing Colonial Value Systems through Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Contested Landscapes in the Argentine and Bolivian Andes

My comparative ethnography in the arid Andes of Bolivia and Argentina explores the lived experiences of multiple actors near melting glaciers, focusing on resource, land, and knowledge production disputes.

Lopez Andraca, Arisbel

The University of Texas at Austin

World Literature

Cuban Religions of African Antecedents During the Recent Religious Revival Process (1985 to present): Practices and Representations.

My research explores the role of Cuban religions of African antecedents in the post-1985 religious revival and how their philosophical-literary systems have responded to the official paradigm shift from prohibition/persecution to freedom/tolerance.

Orozco-Espinel, Paula

University of Pittsburgh

Modern World History

From Family Planning to Reproductive Rights: Women in the History of Birth Control in Colombia, 1964-1994

My dissertation tells the story of how in the second half of the 20th century Colombian female healthcare providers took the country from the object of internationally orchestrated policies aimed at controlling population growth, to a global leader in reproductive rights by forging unlikely alliances with local actors from catholic priests to feminist leaders.

Perfetti, Ross

University of Pennsylvania

Anthropology

A Syndrome of Care: Examining the Afterlife of Medical Progress

My dissertation project is about how recognition of the longer-term impacts of critical care medicine on patients, families, and those who care for them have reshaped the ethics and accountabilities of ICU care.

Seigler, Carolina P.

Princeton University

Sociology

A multi-method examination of sexual misconduct in religious organizations

My research reveals a counterintuitive pattern: church hiring committees are more likely to pursue pastor candidates who have committed sexual misconduct in the past than equally qualified candidates who make no such admissions.

Sood, Srishti

George Washington University

Anthropology

Sacred Waters, Contested Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Restoring the River Ganga in India

My research examines the challenges to restore the sacred river Ganga in India, looking at how development prerogatives, religious practices, and social differences shape environmental action.

Yanez, Tara

Tulane University

Sociology

Women-Led Strategies of Security and Justice in Latin American Urban Peripheries

My dissertation explores how women in Latin American urban peripheries respond to criminal and state sanctioned violence through the creation of localized systems of justice and security to protect and add value to the lives of their loved ones.

Yoder, Richard T.

Penn State University

Modern World History

Unorthodox Flesh: Gender, Religious Convulsions, and Charismatic Knowledge in Early Modern France

I study a Catholic cult in eighteenth-century France that empowered lay women and privileged the voices and experiences of the disabled in new ways.

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

Alterwaite, Arielle Xena

University of Pennsylvania

History

Empire of Debt: Haiti and France in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

Alves, Italo (Robert M. Adams-Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow in Philosophy)

Loyola University Chicago

Social Philosophy and Aesthetics

The Social Aesthetics of Recognition

Croteau, Chantal

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Sociocultural Anthropology

Contentious Relations: Kinship, Personhood, and Extractive Industry in Thailand

Davennes, Aurelien

University of Southern California

American Studies; Cultural Anthropology

Vodou in Magic City: Migration and Subjective Formation Among the Haitian Diaspora of Miami

Diehr, Christene

University of California, Berkeley

Medieval Europe

Paying your dues: the birth of the tithe in Carolingian Francia

Dinenis, Nikianna

Princeton University

Early Modern Europe

Women Readers in the Holy Roman Empire, 1400-1600

El-Shafei, Alaa

Columbia University

Middle Eastern Studies

Convicts on the Nile: Prisons and the Making of Modern Egypt

Freeman, S.

University of California, Berkeley

Geography

Quantifying Mobility: The Politics of Humanitarian Data Collection in South Sudan

Garcia, Miranda

University of Michigan

Sociocultural Anthropology

Entrepreneurs and the Search for Dignity in Post-Castro Cuba

Hoover, Hannah

University of Michigan

Archaeology

Networking Households, Building a Nation: A Study of Yamasee Towns in Colonial South Carolina

Isaacson, Clio

Rutgers University

History

Women of the Nahuatl Annals: Writing the Lives of Women in Late Pre-Hispanic and Early Colonial Mexico

Lawson, Sierra (Carpenter/Newcombe Fellow)

UNC Chapel Hill

Religion and Culture

Spilled Milk, Spilled Blood: Breastmilk, Genealogy, and Religion in Transatlantic Spanish Empire

Marquardt, Savannah

Yale University

History of Art, Archaeology, Classics

Chthon: Material Eschatology and Burial in Colonial Southern Italy (5th-4th c BCE)

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

Ng, Kelvin

Yale University

Southeast Asian history; Indian Ocean history

Vernacular Equality: Migration and Resistance in the Indian Ocean, c. 1920–1950

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

Pandya, Jiya

Princeton University

Modern South Asia, Disability History

Broken Bodies, Handicapped Nation: Conceptualizing Disability and Welfare in Indian Nation-Building, 1920s-1990s

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

Shaia, Fred

Brown University

International Relations

Equity in a Warming World: The Global South and the Making of the International Climate Regime, 19722022

Thakur, Nimisha

Syracuse University

Anthropology

River song: Riverine ethics and autonomy on the Brahmaputra floodplains

Webber, Mariah (Carpenter/Newcombe Fellow)

University of California, Santa Barbara

Feminist Studies

Capturing Intimacies: Collaged Explorations of Black Sexuality in Strip Club Culture

DeMaio, Matt

George Washington University

Anthropology

Made to Move: Placemaking and Accumulated Attachments among Palestinian Refugees from Syria

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

Gavin, Dustin

Yale University

Religious Studies

If You Buck: The Politics and Poetics of Majorette Dance

Hansen, Ben

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

History

Between Trepidation and Hope: Palestinian Christians after the Arab Conquests (c. 650-750 CE)

Henry, Kelsey

Yale University

American Studies

Racing the Life Course: Anti/Black Epistemes and Ethical Foreclosures in Child Development Science, 1830 – 1980

Kabdylkhak, Nurlan

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

History

Muslim Institutions and Scholars of the Kazakh steppe under the Russian Tsars

Komal, Zunaira

University of California-Davis

Anthropology

Translating the Symptom: Military Psychiatry, Islamic Cures, and Divine Calamity in Azad Kashmir

Koujah, Rami

Princeton University

Near Eastern Studies

Islamic Legal Personhood: An Intellectual History

Lally, Erica

Georgetown University

History

“A Grave Menace”: The American Protective League, Citizenship, and Surveillance during the First World War

Laurenzi, Isabelle

Yale University

Political Science

“Critical Ambivalence, Intimacy, and The Politics of Transformation”

Law, Sam

The University of Texas at Austin

Department of Anthropology

Building a Dignified Life: Urban Autonomy and the Art of Living Otherwise

Majumdar, Aparajita

Cornell University

History

Planting Recalcitrance: Nature, Knowledge, and Heritage in a South Asian Borderland

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

Monque, Pedro (Robert M. Adams – Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship in Philosophy)

CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Philosophy

Extractivism and the Defense of Life and Territory: An Account of Latin American Environmental Thought

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

Muci Barradas, Isabela

Princeton University

Art and Archaeology

The Polyphonic Forest: Photographing the Amazon, 1970-1989

Myriam Fitoussi, Margaux

Columbia University in the City of New York

Anthropology

Jewishness and Fractured Genealogies in Tunisia

Peruzzi Sancio, Ariana

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Rackham

Theorizing Displacement: On Involuntary Migration, Refugeehood, and the Right to Remain

Rolfsen, Avenel

Indiana University-Bloomington

History

“We Won’t Wait for the State”: Humanitarianism, Solidarity, and Charity in Senegalese History, 18801970

Wical, Will

University of Maryland-College Park

Anthropology

The Embodied Emotional Experiences of Black Men Participating in a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program

Wyer, Sean

University of California-Berkeley

Italian Studies

Constructing Convivenza: Multicultural Heritage and Cosmopolitan Rhetoric in Contemporary Palermo

Budhathoki, Thir

University of Arizona

English Literature

Linguistic Justice in Writing Studies: A Decolonial Perspective

Clements, Henry

Yale University

Middle Eastern Studies

History and the Struggle for Distinction: The Syriac Christians of the Ottoman Empire

Elster, Michael

CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Anthropology

Coming of Age in the Clinic: Ethics and Politics of Transgender Care in New York

Ferguson, Magnus (Robert M. Adams-Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow in Philosophy)

Boston College

Philosophy

On Responsibility for Others’ Harm

Fox-Knudtsen, Karlie

Cornell University

Anthropology

Mud Spirits and Blood Power: Ethics as materiality in Kondholand

Girard, Gabrielle

Princeton University

Modern World History

Modeling Democracy: The Global History of an Argentine Human Rights Experiment

Greenberg, Sarah

Cornell University

Political Science

The Law is Not in Heaven: Authority and Covenant in Jewish Political Thought

Halcomb, Laura

University of California-Santa Barbara

Sociology

Pricing life: money and morality in US healthcare

Hsu, Mu-Lung

Arizona State University-Tempe

Religion

Engaging Suffering: Free Funeral Service Societies and a Socially Engaged Buddhist Soteriology in Contemporary Myanmar

Joslyn, Daniel

New York University

American History

Dreamers of a New Age: God, Sex, and Socialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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

Kinstler, Linda

University of California-Berkeley

Modern World History

The Afterlives of Oblivion

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

Mukherjee, Meghna

University of California-Berkeley

Sociology

Immaculate Re-Conception: Redefining Health and Reproductive Risk Using Prenatal Genetic Testing

Nairang, Arif Hayat

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Anthropology

Halat chi kharab: Playful Existence in the Time of Political Violence

Prendergast, Emma

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Philosophy

The Moral Authority of Citizens

Rahman, Faiza

Emory University

Religion

Islamic Period: Menstruation and Muslims in Pakistan

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

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

Sohail, Jagat

Princeton University

Anthropology

Life After Hospitality: Practices of Foreigner Incorporation in Berlin

Strayhorn, Joshua

Duke University

American History

Somewhere to Lay My Head: Black Religion, Mobility, and Migration in North Carolina, 1860-1890

Vale, Mira

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Sociology

Data Values: Moral Entrepreneurship in Digital Health

Alnusf, Marzouq

Northwestern University

Philosophy

Global Racial Capitalism: How Race Matters to Global Justice

Berndt, Nathaniel

Duke University

Modern World History

Descendants of Zabarkan, Citizens of the World: A History of Cosmopolitan Imagination in Decolonizing Niger, 1958–1974

Black, Valerie

University of California-Berkeley

Anthropology

Dehumanizing Care: An Ethnography of Mental Health Artificial Intelligence

Brick, Shannon

CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Philosophy

Rehabilitating Authenticity

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

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

Hammad, Omar

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Sociology

Digital Islam: The emergence of US Muslim counterpublics on social media

Hariharan, Anusha

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anthropology

“In Solidarity”: Feminist Friendship, Care and Ethical Life in Southern India

Kliger, Gili

Harvard University

Modern World History

Colonial Reformation: Religion, Empire, and the Origins of Modern Social Thought

Kulisz, Abigail

Indiana University-Bloomington

Religion

Sacred Friendship, Holy Hatred: Christian-Muslim Encounters with the Book in the Medieval Middle East

Llaguno Nieves, Tatiana

The New School

Political Science

Paradoxes of Dependence: Towards a Political Theory of Our Dependent Condition

Ndiaye, Gana

Boston University

Anthropology

“Plastic Migrants”: Race, Performance, and the Making of a Senegalese Muslim Community in Brazil

Riley, Alexis

The University of Texas at Austin

Performance Studies

Patient Acts: Performance, Disability, and the Making of Mad Memory

Rose, Kevin

University of Virginia-Main Campus

Religion

Living Green: The Neoliberal Climate of Protestant Environmentalism

Sheu, Sherri

University of Colorado Boulder

American History

“Parks to the People”: The National Park Service and the Long 1960s

Stamper, Aaron

Princeton University

Early World History

Reconfigured and Remade: A Sensory History of Islamic Granada’s Reformation as a Civitas Christiana, 1474–1614

Steers-McCrum, Alexander (Robert M. Adams – Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship in Philosophy)

Northwestern UniversityCUNY Graduate School and University Center

Philosophy

What Does “Native” Mean? Disentangling and Decolonizing Settler Terms and Categories

Taylor-Seymour, Raffaella

University of Chicago

Anthropology

Intimate Rites: Localizing Queerness through Ancestral Spiritualities in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Urbanski, Claire

University of California-Santa Cruz

Gender Studies

On Sacred and Stolen Lands: Desecration and Spiritual Violence as United States Settler Colonialism’

Weinberg, Tara

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Modern World History

Land ‘Bonds’: Imaginaries of Property Ownership in South Africa, 1900–1994

Wisniewska, Karolina

University of Arizona

Philosophy

Identity, Inequality, Injustice

Wright, Kristine

Princeton University

Religion

Bodies of Light and Knowledge: Mormon Women, Religious Authority and Theologies of Health