Aimi Hamraie, an alumnus of the Dissertation Proposal Development Program, is an assistant professor of medicine, health, and society and American studies at Vanderbilt University who focuses on critical disability studies. They…
political science
From Our Fellows
Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: A Stepping Stone for Emerging Scholars in Africa
From Our Fellows
Tammany Hall in India, the Rise of Machine Politics: A Conversation with Tariq Thachil
by Emily Carroll and Adriana Stephan
In the first of the International Dissertation Research Fellowship 20th Anniversary interview series, Emily Carroll and Adriana Stephan speak with 2007 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient Tariq Thachil.
From Our Fellows
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.