IDRF fellows discuss Ronit Ricci's book Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia, based on research conducted during her International Dissertation Research Fellowship and completed with…
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Piracy and the Narrative of Recognition: The View from Somaliland
by Jatin Dua
Jatin Dua is a 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Duke University. In this Research Snapshot, he examines the high profile incidents of piracy off the coast of East Africa, and his research resituates piracy within histories of the Indian Ocean and longstanding attempts to redefine sovereignty and legality within this oceanic space. The Research Snapshots series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.
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Brothers in the Road: Migration and the Globalization of Love
by Noelle Brigden
Noelle Brigden is a 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Cornell University. In this Research Snapshot, she examines how the informal institutions that sustain undocumented migration adapt to changes in border policing, tracing developments from villages in El Salvador into Guatemala and Mexico and up through the United States. The Research Snapshots series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.
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A Contested Past and Present: Australian Trees in South Africa
by Brett Bennett
Brett Bennett was a 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient. In this Research Snapshot, he explores how state scientific programs in Australia and South Africa encouraged the introduction of exotic species of trees into each region. The Research Snapshots series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.
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Chile’s Reconstruction: “Not The Reality They Show On TV”
by Marian E. Schlotterbeck
Marian Schlotterbeck is a 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Yale University. In this Research Snapshot, she returns to southern Chile a year after the devastating 8.8 earthquake and explores the radicalization of political projects and social movements in the province of Concepción in the 1960s and 1970s. The Research Snapshots series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.
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I Do Not Fear from this Uprising but I Fear for It
by Omar Cheta
2009 SSRC-IDRF Fellow Omar Cheta recently spent twelve months in Cairo conducting archival research. He was born in Egypt, attended the American University in Cairo as an undergraduate, conducted pre-dissertation research in Cairo, and then went on to spend his IDRF tenure in Cairo as well.
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More Than a Political Revolution
by Samantha Iyer
2010 SSRC-IDRF fellow Samantha Iyer was in Cairo when Egypt’s uprising broke out in mid-January. Her IDRF and Fulbright-sponsored dissertation research explores the intellectual and political economic history and pre-history of US international food aid to Egypt and India.
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“Thank God for Mitch”: Development Lessons from Post-Mitch Honduras for Post-Earthquake Haiti
by Ryan Alaniz
Ryan Alaniz is a 2009 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. In this Research Snapshot, he examines the international community’s efforts at post-disaster reconstruction in Honduras and Haiti, comparing the two nations and their respective challenges. The Research Snapshots series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.
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IDRF Book Exchange: In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
by Mark Carey, Jessica O’Reilly, Sandra Moog and Emily Yeh
IDRF fellows discuss Mark Carey's book In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers, based on his IDRF research and completed with support from the SSRC-IDRF Book Fellowship.