FY 2014 Summary Data

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program

DDRA Applicant Data

World Area Number of Applicants by 

World Area

Total Requested 

Funding by World Area

Average Requested 

Funding by World Area

Africa 78 $2,799,540 $35,892

Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia 49 $1,861,413 $37,988

East Asia 45 $1,739,209 $38,649

Near East 37 $1,544,702 $41,749

South Asia 53 $2,232,157 $42,116

Southeast Asia 28 $1,084,329 $38,726

Western Hemisphere 94 $3,264,326 $34,727

Grand Total 384 $14,525,676 $37,827

Institutional Type Number of Institutions Number of Fellows Funding

Public Institutions 24 55 $1,963,783 

Private not-for-profit Institutions 13 28 $972,959 

TOTAL 37 83 $2,936,742 

FUNDING REQUESTS/ALLOCATION Dollars

Total Funds Requested $14,525,676

Total Program Funds Allocated $2,936,742
Fellowship Data

World Area

Number of 

Awards by World 

Area

Total 

Funding by 

World Area

Average 

Fellowship 

Amount

World Area 

and Gender

Africa 27 $823,237 $30,490 F=19; M=8

Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia 4 $166,879 $41,720 F=1; M=3

East Asia 15 $467,290 $31,153 F=9; M=6

Near East 3 $152,854 $50,951 F=1; M=2

South Asia 10 $398,249 $39,825 F=6; M=4

Southeast Asia 8 $357,764 $44,721 F=3; M=5

Western Hemisphere 16 $570,472 $35,655 F=11; M=5

Grand Total 83 $2,936,742 $35,382 83

FY 1964-2014 FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED

World Area Number of Fellowships

Africa 809

Western Hemisphere 989

Central/Eastern Europe 

and Eurasia

908

East Asia 833

Near East 600

South Asia 564

Southeast Asia 561

Western Europe 76

Multi-Country* 186

TOTALS 5,340

*Note: Multi-country designation is obsolete. Now, principal country of research is designated.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Awards by State

State/Institution City Fellowship Amount

Number 

of Fellows

California $774,841 21

Stanford University Stanford $51,862 2

University of California, Berkeley Berkeley $285,670 7

University of California, Davis Davis $69,669 2

University of California, LA Los Angeles $327,818 8

University of California, San Diego San Diego $11,861 1

University of California, San Francisco San Francisco $27,961 1

Colorado $43,348 2

University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder $43,348 2

Connecticut $29,508 1

Wesleyan University Middletown $29,508 1

District of Columbia $123,295 3

George Washington University DC $41,442 1

Georgetown University DC $81,853 2

Florida $40,980 1

Florida International University Miami $40,980 1

Hawaii $41,793 1

University of Hawaii Honolulu $41,793 1

Illinois $210,080 7

Northwestern University Evanston $38,043 2

University of Chicago Chicago $147,924 4

University of Illinois Champaign $24,113 1

Kansas $30,144 1

University of Kansas Lawrence $30,144 1

Kentucky $33,984 1

University of Kentucky Lexington $33,984 1

Massachusetts $197,261 5

Boston University Boston $103,508 3

Harvard University Cambridge $93,753 2

Maryland $55,932 2

Johns Hopkins University Baltimore $55,932 2

Michigan $261,435 8
State/Institution City Fellowship Amount

Number 

of Fellows

Michigan State University East Lansing $148,8964

University of Michigan Ann Arbor $112,5394

Missouri $23,7181

Washington University St. Louis $23,7181

North Carolina $89,0993

Duke University Durham $89,0993

New Jersey $28,0301

Princeton University Princeton $28,0301

New York $236,1225

Columbia University New York $48,5921

Cornell University Ithaca $187,5304

Ohio $106,9763

Ohio State University Columbus $106,9763

Oregon $29,0961

University of Oregon Eugene $29,0961

Pennsylvania $67,3473

Rutgers University New Brunswick $20,3461

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia $19,5791

University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh $27,4221

Tennessee $59,8832

Vanderbilt University Nashville $59,8832

Texas $40,2061

Rice University Houston $40,2061

Virginia $26,3221

University of Virginia Charlottesville $26,3221

Washington $80,7152

University of Washington Seattle $80,7152

Wisconsin $306,6287

University of Wisconsin Madison $306,6287

Total 37 $2,936,742 83
FY 2014 World Areas - Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program

Language and Area 

Studies 

Specialization 

Country(ies) of 

Research

Additional 

Research 

Sites

Language(s) of 

Research

Major Academic Discipline Number 

of 

Fellows

Funds

Africa Democratic 

Republic of the 

Congo

n/a French Political Science 1 $19,359

Africa Ethiopia n/a Amharic Environmental Studies 

Anthropology

2 $61,961

Africa Ghana n/a Akan Twi; 

English

African Art History; Sociology 2 $53,643

Africa Kenya n/a Swahili Anthropology 2 $79,676

Africa Mali n/a Bambara Public Health (International 

Health)

1 $16,052

Africa Morocco; 

France

n/a Arabic History 1 $33,640

Africa Mozambique Portugal; 

Spain

Portuguese History; African Literatures and 

Cultures

2 $ 75,613

Africa Namibia South 

Africa; 

Zambia; 

Angola

English History 1 $25,636

Africa Nigeria England Yoruba Arabic Educational Administration; 

Medical Anthropology; History

3 $93,520

Africa Senegal Mauritius; 

France

French Wolof Geography; Educational Policy 3 $ 93,333

Africa South Africa n/a isiZulu; English African History 2 $ 86,760
Language and Area 

Studies 

Specialization 

Country(ies) of 

Research

Additional 

Research 

Sites

Language(s) of 

Research

Major Academic Discipline Number 

of 

Fellows

Funds

Africa Tanzania n/a Kiswahili 

Swahili

Anthropology; Sociocultural 

Anthropology

5 $ 141,776

Africa Uganda n/a Acholi; English Educational Policy Studies and 

Development Studies; 

Anthropology

2 $42,268

Africa Total: 27 $823,237
Language and Area 

Studies 

Specialization 

Country(ies) of 

Research

Additional 

Research 

Sites

Language(s) 

of Research

Major Academic Discipline Number 

of 

Fellows

Funds

Central/Eastern 

Europe and Eurasia

Mongolia n/a Mongolian Anthropology - Archaeology 1 $34,900

Central/Eastern 

Europe and Eurasia

Poland Czech 

Republic

Polish Political Science 1 $42,814

Central/Eastern 

Europe and Eurasia

Romania Moldova Romanian Sociology 1 $50,953

Central/Eastern 

Europe and Eurasia

Ukraine Poland Polish and 

Latin

History 1 $38,212

Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia Total: 4 $166,879
Language and Area 

Studies 

Specialization

Country(ies) of 

Research

Additional 

Research 

Sites

Language(s) 

of Research

Major Academic Discipline

Number 

of 

Fellows

Funds

East Asia China Hong Kong; 

Taiwan

Chinese 

Mandarin 

Tibetan

History China Studies 

Political Science Linguistics; 

Environmental Science 

Religious Studies

9 $261,852

East Asia Japan n/a Japanese History Psychology 3 $107,759

East Asia South Korea Japan Korean Anthropology; Geography 

(Development Studies); 

Asian Languages and 

Cultures

3 $ 97,679

East Asia Total: 15 $467,290
Language and Area 

Studies 

Specialization

Country(ies) of 

Research

Additional 

Research 

Sites

Language(s) 

of Research

Major Academic Discipline

Number 

of 

Fellows

Funds

Near East Israel Occupied 

Palestinian 

Territories

Arabic Political Science (second 

discipline: Anthropology)

1 $53,194

Near East Mauritania Morocco; 

Spain

Arabic Arabic and Islamic Studies 1 $56,019

Near East Oman India; 

Tanzania; 

United 

Kingdom

Arabic History 1 $43,641

Near East Total: 3 $152,854
Language and Area 

Studies 

Specialization

Country(ies) of 

Research

Additional 

Research 

Sites

Language(s) 

of Research

Major Academic Discipline

Number 

of 

Fellows

Funds

South Asia Bangladesh India Bangla 

Bengali

Geography; Development 

Sociology

2 $63,619

South Asia India Germany; 

United 

Kingdom

Bangla Hindi 

Kannada 

Persian

South and Southeast Asian 

Studies Ethnomusicology 

History of Science Religion 

Anthropology Religious 

Studies

6 $294,943

South Asia Nepal China 

(Tibet)

Nepali Anthropology and 

Education; Geography

2 $39,687

South Asia Total: 10 $398,249
Language and Area 

Studies 

Specialization

Country(ies) of 

Research

Additional 

Research 

Sites

Language(s) 

of Research

Major Academic Discipline

Number 

of 

Fellows

Funds

Southeast Asia Vietnam France Vietnamese History; Comparative 

Literature

3 $ 192,253

Southeast Asia Indonesia n/a Indonesian Ethnomusicology; South 

and Southeast Asian Studies

2 $52,751

Southeast Asia Malaysia n/a Malay Ethnomusicology 1 $29,762

Southeast Asia Thailand n/a Thai Geography 2 $82,998

Southeast Asia Total: 8 $357,764
Language and 

Area Studies 

Specialization

Country(ies) 

of Research

Additional Research 

Sites

Language(s) of 

Research

Major Academic Discipline

Number

of 

Fellows

Funds

Western 

Hemisphere

Argentina Brazil; Portugal; 

Spain

Spanish Art History; History 2 $83,100

Western 

Hemisphere

Brazil Chile Paraguay Portuguese Geography; History Political 

Science

4 $175,789

Western 

Hemisphere

Dominican 

Republic

n/a Spanish History 1 $27,013

Western 

Hemisphere

Ecuador n/a Spanish Anthropology 1 $27,422

Western 

Hemisphere

Haiti France Haitian Creole History 1 $49,852

Western 

Hemisphere

Mexico n/a Spanish Art History 1 $33,238

Western 

Hemisphere

Paraguay n/a Guarani Geography 1 $23,240

Western 

Hemisphere

Peru Bolivia Quechua 

Spanish

Anthropology 

Anthropology/Archaeology Art 

History History Political Science

5 $150,818

 Western Hemisphere Total: 16 $570,472

Number of Fellowship Awards: 83

Total Funds Awarded: $2,936,742
FY 2014 FULBRIGHT-HAYS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH ABROAD (DDRA) PROGRAM FELLOWS

AFRICA

Institution of Higher 

Education

First 

Name Last Name Major Academic Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

University of California, 

San Diego John Dulin Anthropology Ethiopia Amharic 

How Religious Productions 

of Space Shape Intergroup 

Relations in Northwest 

Ethiopia

George Washington 

University Kathryn Ranhorn Anthropology Tanzania; Kenya Swahili Human Origins in East Africa

Cornell University Brian Rutledge African History South Africa isiZulu Black sightseers and print 

media in urban South Africa

Ohio State University Noah Dunham Anthropology Kenya Swahili

Feeding Ecology and 

Conservation of Black and 

White Colobus Monkeys in 

South Coastal Kenya

University of Chicago Matthew Knisley Anthropology Tanzania Kiswahili

An Archaeology of the 

Natural - Historical 

Landscapes of the Sandawe 

Homeland - Central Tanzania

Washington University Adrienne Strong Anthropology Tanzania Swahili

Bureaucracy Life and Death 

on the Maternity Ward of a 

Tanzanian Hospital

University of Wisconsin Sarah Stefanos Environmental 

Studies Ethiopia Amharic Cotton and Diaspora and Ethiopian Development

University of Wisconsin Amy Porter Educational Policy Senegal Wolof

Poverty and EnterpriseNegotiating 'Good' Economic 

Practice in Dakar-Senegal
Institution of Higher 

Education

First 

Name Last Name Major Academic Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

University of Wisconsin Nancy Rydberg

Educational Policy 

Studies and 

Development Studies

Uganda Acholi

'If you Educate a Girl You 

Educate a Nation' - Local 

Engagements with Global 

Girls' Education Discourses 

in Post-Conflict Northern 

Uganda

University of California, 

Los Angeles Dwight Carey Art History

Senegal; 

Mauritius; 

France

French

Creole Architecture and 

Global Trade in the French 

Colonial World

University of California, 

Los Angeles Ashley Fent Geography Senegal French

Fragile Architectures of the 

Anthropocene-Urban 

Construction and 

Environmental Regulation in 

Dakar

Stanford University Stephanie Quinn History

Namibia; 

South Africa; 

Zambia; 

Angola

English

Developing Separate 

Development - War 

Capitalism and Governance 

in the Internationalizing of 

the Namibia Question

University of Michigan Allison Martino African Art History Ghana Akan Twi

Stamping History - Stories of 

Social Change in Ghana's 

Adinkra Cloth

University of Michigan Sara Katz History Nigeria; 

England Arabic Yoruba Muslims in Ibadan Nigeria

University of Michigan Anna Mester African Literatures 

and Cultures

Portugal; 

Spain; 

Mozambique

Portuguese

Rethinking IndependencePrisons as metaphors of 

decolonization
Institution of Higher 

Education

First 

Name Last Name Major Academic Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

Boston University Lillian Havstad History Mozambique; 

Portugal Portuguese

The Missing Middle--Urban 

Foodways and the 

Emergence of an African 

Middle Class in Maputo 

Mozambique-Early 

Twentieth Century to 

Present Times

Boston University Martha Lagace Anthropology Uganda English Risky Responsibility in 

Northern Uganda

Boston University Philip Rotz History

United 

Kingdom; 

Switzerland; 

South Africa

English

Mosquito Municipality -

Dengue Fever in Durban and 

the Sugar Belt

Northwestern

University Jessica Pouchet Anthropology Tanzania Kiswahili

Conservation and 

Conversation - Language and 

the Politics of Participatory 

Forest Management in 

Tanzania

Northwestern 

University David Peyton Political Science

Democratic 

Republic of 

the Congo

French

Municipal Development and 

the Congolese State Building 

Project

University of California, 

San Francisco Adeola Oni-Orisan Medical Anthropology Nigeria Yoruba

Mothers and Miracles -

Pentecostalism Maternal 

Mortality and the Fifth 

Millennium Development

Goal

Michigan State 

University Rachel Elbin Anthropology Kenya Swahili

Producing and Contesting 

the Kenyan State. 

Developmentalism and the 

Rule of Law along Kenya's 

Northern Coast
Institution of Higher 

Education

First 

Name Last Name Major Academic Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

Michigan State 

University Adrienne Tyrey History Morocco; France Arabic

Between God and 

Modernity- Berber Language 

Education in Morocco from 

the Protectorate to the 

Present

Michigan State 

University Felix Umeana Educational Administration Nigeria Yoruba

Parental Engagement with 

Schools and Students in 

Nigeria

University of California, 

Berkeley Lindsay Bayham Sociology Ghana English Social Ties and Socioeconomic Mobility in Ghana

Johns Hopkins 

University Emily Hurley

Public Health 

(International 

Health)

Mali Bambara

Addressing the challenge of 

retention in HIV care 

through improved patientprovider communication in 

Mali

University of California, 

Davis Jane Saffitz Sociocultural Anthropology Tanzania Swahili

The politics of pigment in 

Tanzania - NGOs albino 

rights and the trade in albino 

body parts
CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE AND EURASIA

Institution of Higher Education First 

Name

Last 

Name

Major Academic 

Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

Ohio State University Peter Tunkis Political Science

Poland; 

Czech 

Republic

Polish

Safety in numbers - Group linkages 

and the persistence of party 

switching

University of Chicago Emma Hite Anthropology -

Archaeology Mongolia Mongolian

Human-Animal Relationships of 

the Xiongnu Empire at Baruun 

Mukhdagiin Am in Central 

Mongolia

Georgetown University Michael Polczynski History, PhD Ukraine; 

Poland

Polish and 

Latin

Antemurale Christianitatis 

Memalik i Mahurse. The Bulwark 

of Christendom and the Well 

Protected Domains of the early 

modern Polish Lithuanian and 

Ottoman frontier

University of Washington Walker Frahm Sociology Romania; 

Moldova Romanian Brokers Beyond Borders
EAST ASIA

Institution of Higher 

Education First Name Last Name

Major 

Academic 

Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) of 

Research Topic

University of Oregon Erik Glowark History Japan Japanese

The Christianization of KyushuA World-Historical 

Interpretation of the Early 

Modern Jesuit Apostolate in 

Japan

Ohio State University Heather Fair Environmental 

Science

China; Hong 

Kong

Mandarin 

Chinese

Glacier Stream Conceptual 

Model and Physiological 

Mechanisms of Aquatic Insects

Princeton University Megan Steffen Anthropology

People's 

Republic of 

China

Chinese 

Mandarin

China on the Move. Mobility. 

Accidents. and Unpredictability 

in the PRC

University of Virginia William McGrath Religious 

Studies

People's 

Republic of 

China (PRC)

Tibetan On the Establishment of 

Orthodoxy in Tibetan Medicine

University of California, 

Los Angeles Tommy Tran

Asian 

Languages and 

Cultures

South Korea; 

Japan Korean

Mapping the Center of the 

Earth- Globalization and Local

Identity in Cheju Island

University of California, 

Los Angeles Amy Gordanier History China Chinese

Shows on the Road--

Professional Networks and 

Opera Performance in Qing 

China

Stanford University Andrew Elmore History

People's 

Republic of 

China; Hong 

Kong; Taiwan

Mandarin 

Chinese

Recreating Masculinities in 

Modern China

University of Illinois Agnes Sohn Anthropology South Korea Korean

Global business hub or back-tothe-land - Re-making 

development on Cheju Island

University of Kansas Katrina Connell Linguistics China Mandarin 

Chinese

The role of tone in second 

language Chinese word 

recognition
Institution of Higher 

Education First Name Last Name

Major 

Academic 

Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) of 

Research Topic

Michigan State 

University Helen Kaibara History Japan Japanese

Creating a Japanese American 

'Model Minority' in the Context 

of International Diplomacy

University of Hawaii Alexander Krieg Psychology Japan Japanese

Self-Construal Selective 

Attention and East-West 

Differences in Social Anxiety

University of California, 

Berkeley Elise Youn

Geography 

(Development 

Studies)

South Korea Korean

Questioning Development -

New Life Movements in PostDemocratization South Korea

Johns Hopkins 

University Amanda Kerrigan China Studies China Mandarin

Medical Chaos and Institutional 

Change in China's Health Care 

System

Harvard University Christopher Foster

East Asian 

Languages and 

Civilizations 

(Chinese 

History)

People's 

Republic of 

China

Mandarin 

Chinese

Cang Jie Created Writing - A 

Model for Text Production in 

Early China

Duke University Cindy Cheng Political 

Science China Mandarin The Politics of Food Security
Near East

Institution 

of Higher 

Education

First 

Name

Last 

Name

Major Academic 

Discipline

Country(ies) of 

Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

University 

of Chicago Jeremy Siegman

Political Science 

(second 

discipline: 

Anthropology)

Israel; Occupied 

Palestinian 

Territories

Arabic Commercial Frontier - Normalizing Israeli 

Settlement in the Occupied West Bank

Georgetown 

University Laura Goffman History

Oman; India; 

Tanzania; United 

Kingdom

Arabic Education Militarization and the Formation of 

National Identity in Twentieth-Century Oman

Harvard 

University

Arthur 

David Owen Arabic and Islamic Studies

Mauritania; 

Morocco; Spain Arabic

Forms and Sources of Obligation - Ibn Hazm's 

Practical Science and the History of Legal 

Syllogistic
SOUTH ASIA

Institution of 

Higher Education

First 

Name Last Name Major Academic Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

Rutgers 

University Alison Horton Geography Bangladesh Bangla The conditional cash transfer education stipend in Bangladesh - Is it truly pro poor 

University of 

Pennsylvania Miranda Weinberg Anthropology and Education Nepal Nepali Schooling Languages - Learning to Speak as Educated Indigenous Citizens in Nepal

Cornell University Kasia Paprocki Development 

Sociology

Bangladesh; 

India Bengali

Big Shrimp Rising Waters - Development 

Dispossession and Resistance in 

Bangladesh

University of 

California, Los 

Angeles

Camille Frazier Anthropology India Kannada Agricultural Crises and Sustainable Futures 

in Bangalore India

University of 

California, Los 

Angeles

Jeffrey Roy Ethnomusicology India Hindi

Music in Liminal Spaces--Gendered 

Performance in India's LGBTQ and Hijra 

Communities

University of 

Colorado, 

Boulder

Galen Murton Geography

Nepal; 

China 

(Tibet)

Tibetan

Himalayan Highways - Co-producing 

Identities, Markets, and Geopolitics in 

Highland Nepal

Columbia 

University Yogendra Trivedi Religion India Hindi

In Song and Stone - Performance and 

Community Formation in the Early 

Swaminarayan Sampraday

University of 

California, 

Berkeley

Lisa Brooks History of

Science India Hindi A Sensory History of Touch in Ayurvedic Medicine

University of 

California, 

Berkeley

Rebecca Whittington

South and 

Southeast Asian 

Studies

India Bangla Tug-of-ear. The play of dialect in Bengali 

and Tamil modern literature

Duke University Hunter Bandy Religious Studies

India; 

Germany; 

United 

Kingdom

Persian

'Religion in the Empirical Age' Natural 

Speculation in the Sixteenth and 

Seventeenth-Century Islamicate Deccan
SOUTHEAST ASIA

Institution of Higher 

Education

First 

Name

Last 

Name

Major Academic 

Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

University of Wisconsin William Shattuck Geography Thailand Thai

Rubber Mobs in Nakhon Si 

Thammarat - Roadblocks 

toward political change

University of Wisconsin Brett Reilly History France Vietnamese The State of Vietnam

University of Wisconsin David Chambers Geography Thailand Thai The creation of 'good' space 

among Thailand's Hmong

Wesleyan University Maho Ishiguro Ethnomusicology Indonesia Indonesian

Saman Dance in Diaspora 

Presence of Female Saman 

Dance as Expressions of Piety 

Cultural Identity and Popular 

Culture 

University of California, 

Berkeley Sophia Warshall South and Southeast Asian Studies Indonesia Indonesian

Translating the Buddha -

Indonesian reliquaries and 

the vimala usnisa dharani

University of California, 

Berkeley Kevin Li History Vietnam; France Vietnamese

Crime Criminality and the 

State-A Social History of 

Southern Vietnam

University of California, 

Berkeley Trinh Luu Comparative Literature

Vietnam; 

France Vietnamese Law Literature and the State in Postsocialist Vietnam

University of 

Washington Joseph Kinzer Ethnomusicology Malaysia Malay

Transnational Islamic 

Narratives and Malay Culture 

Bearers in Malaysian 

Traditional Music Education
WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Institution of Higher 

Education

First 

Name Last Name

Major 

Academic 

Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

Cornell University Catherine ReyesHousholder

Political 

Science Brazil; Chile Portuguese

Presidentas and Women's 

Representation in Brazil and 

Chile

Cornell University Mariana Giusti Political 

Science Peru; Bolivia Spanish

Failure to Represent - Social 

Networks and Party Building in 

the Andes

University of Kentucky Nathaniel Millington Geography Brazil Portuguese Fluvial Urbanism in a City of 

Floods 

University of Chicago Savannah Esquivel Art History Mexico Spanish The Splendor of Ornament in 

Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Vanderbilt University Kara Schultz History

Argentina; 

Brazil; 

Portugal; 

Spain

Spanish

African Buenos Aires-SlaverySmuggling-and Culture in an 

Atlantic Port

Vanderbilt University Scotti Norman Anthropology/ 

Archaeology Peru Spanish

Understanding Cultural 

Transformation Through 

Revitalization - Taki Onqoy and 

Resistance in the Early Colonial 

Period 

University of Wisconsin Jacob Blanc History Brazil; 

Paraguay Portuguese

Contested Development -

Itaipu and the Meanings of 

Land and Opposition in Military 

Brazil

Florida International 

University Micah Oelze History Brazil Portuguese The Symphony of State - Sao Paulo's Department of Culture

University of California, Los 

Angeles Winter Schneider History Haiti; France

Haitian 

Creole Tracing History in Rural Haiti 

University of California, Los 

Angeles Julia McHugh Art History Peru Spanish

Dressing Andean Spaces. 

Textiles Painting and 

Architecture in the Colonial 

Imagination
Institution of Higher 

Education

First 

Name Last Name

Major 

Academic 

Discipline

Country(ies) 

of Research

Language(s) 

of Research Topic

University of Pittsburgh Trisha Netsch 

Lopez Anthropology Ecuador Spanish

Intercultural Communication 

and Authoritative Knowledge in 

a Plurinational Health Care 

Setting

University of Michigan Allison Caine Anthropology Peru Quechua

Herders and 

Socioenvironmental 

Transformations in the 

Cordillera Vilcanota of Peru

University of Colorado, 

Boulder Joel Correia Geography Paraguay Guarani

Contested TerritoriesInvestigating the Impact of the 

Inter-American Court of Human 

Rights on Indigenous Land 

Claims in Paraguay

University of California, 

Davis Mark Dries History Peru Spanish

The Mercurial Menace. Worker 

Health and Indigenous Labor in 

the Mercury Mines of Colonial 

Huancavelica Peru

Rice University Caroline Wolf Art History Argentina Spanish

Elite Constructions- Nationalist 

Architecture and Minority 

Immigrant Patronage in 

Modern Argentina

Duke University Christina Davidson History Dominican 

Republic Spanish

Converting Spanish Hispaniola -

The Transnational Genealogies 

and Racial Politics of 

Protestantism in the Dominican 

Republic

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