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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.

“Hindis” in Istanbul: Field Notes on the Making of an Archival Subject

Items Admin·February 27, 2014

Rishad Choudhury is a 2012 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Cornell University. In this Research Snapshot, he examines the political and religious worlds that emerged from traffic…

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.