In 2012, the SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program convened the Ecological History research field, a cohort of twelve graduate students and two faculty advisers. Now, nearly six years later, the cohort…
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From Our Fellows
The Text, the Law, and the Classroom: An Interview with Ahmed El Shamsy
by IDRF Program
As part of the 20th anniversary series, the IDRF staff speaks with 2006 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient Ahmed El Shamsy.
From Our Fellows
Weekends in the Clover: Imagining Colonial New South Wales
by Maura Capps
Maura Capps is a 2013 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at the University of Chicago. In this Research Snapshot, she examines how Enlightenment-era high husbandry, with its arsenal of sown grasses, traveled throughout Britain’s settler empire. 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.
From Our Fellows
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.
From Our Fellows
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.
From Our Fellows
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.
From Our Fellows
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.