NOTE:
Dissertation titles are subject to change. The titles reflected here were correct at the time the awards were made.
The Charlotte W. Newcombe
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The 2009 Newcombe Dissertation Fellows*
Azra Aksamija • Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Our Mosques Are Us: Rewriting National History of Bosnia-Herzegovina through Religious Architecture
Meryl Bailey • History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Darkness into Light: Charity, Violence, and the Art of Venice’s Scuola di San Fantin
Amos Bitzan • History, University of California, Berkeley
Jewish Representations of Violence in the First World War and its Aftermath
Francis Bradley • History, University of Wisconsin
The Social Dynamics of Islamic Revivalism in Southeast Asia: The Rise of the Patani School 1785-1909
Heath Cabot • Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Translating Law and Lives: Asylum and Legal Aid in Athens
Christopher Cantwell • History, Cornell University
The Word Made Flesh: The Adult Bible Class Movement and the Transformation of Evangelical America
Nusrat Chowdhury • Anthropology, University of Chicago
The Phulbari Movement: Value and Violence in Bangladeshi Democracy
Melanie Dean • South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Mediating Consumption: The Evil Eye in Post-Liberalization Tamil Nadu, India
Epifanio Sonny Elizondo • Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
The Pleasures of Agency: Kant on Morality and Happiness
Alison Greene • History, Yale University
Religion and the Great Depression in Memphis and the Delta
Elizabeth Holzer • Sociology, University of Wisconsin
I am only looking up to God: Protest, Repression and Homecoming in a West African Refugee Camp
Pinky Hota • Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Affect, Piety and Violence: Kandha tribal participation in Hindu Nationalism
Stanislaus Husi • Philosophy, Rice University
Building Reasons
Ayesha Irani • South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Bengal's Muhammad:Competition, Appropriation, and Identity Formation in the Nabivamsha
Seth Kimmel • Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Readings in Common: Assimilation and Interpretive Authority in Early Modern Spain
James Klepek • Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona
Against the Grain: Biotechnology Regulation and the Politics of Expertise in Post-War Guatemala
Wendy Lee • English, Princeton University
Failures of Feeling in the British Novel from Clarissa to Middlemarch
Veronica McComb • American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
The Bonds of Faith: Religion and Community among Nigerian Immigrants to the U.S., 1965-present
Christiana Olfert • Philosophy, Columbia University
Building the Soul: Aristotle's Constitutive View of Virtue
Christopher Raymond • Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin
Shame, Reason, and Virtue in Plato's Ethics
Wendy Roberts • English, Northwestern University
Do You Hear What I Hear? Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America
Karim Sadek • Philosophy, Georgetown University
Islamic Democracy: The Struggle for and Limits of Recognition
C. Pierce Salguero • History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Buddhism & Medicine in Early Medieval China: Disease, Healing, and the Body in Crosscultural Perspective
Victoria Smolkin • History, University of California, Berkeley
How Gods Are Born, Live, and Die: Soviet Atheist Education, Rituals, and the Socialist Way of Life
Amy Sousa • Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Deceptively Normal: Knowledge, Pharmaceuticals, and Psychiatry in North India
Saiful Umam • History, University of Hawaii
God's Mercy is not Limited to Arabic Speakers: Localizing Islamic Orthodoxy in Northen Coastal Java
Beth Uzwiak • Anthropology, Temple University
Mediating Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Nationalism, Gender, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim-Making in Belize
Laura Warren Hill • History, State University of New York, Binghamton
Strike The Hammer While the Iron Is Hot: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, NY, 1945-1975
Leandra Zarnow • History with Doctoral emphasis in Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bella Abzug and the Promise of Progressive Change in Cold War United States