
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
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Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows, 2018
Joseph Bartzel ● Indiana University Bloomington, religious studies
From Riot to Reconciliation: The Ferguson Commission and the Future of St. Louis
Brian Bond ● The Graduate Center, City University of New York, ethnomusicology
A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Ethics, and Islamic Reform in Kachchh, Gujarat
Fernanda Bretones Lane ● Vanderbilt University, history
Spain, the Caribbean, and the Making of Religious Sanctuary
Onder Celik ● Johns Hopkins University, anthropology
Subterranean Dreams: Hunting for Armenian Treasures in the Post-Genocide Landscape
Reyhan Durmaz ● Brown University, religious studies
Stories, Saints, and Sanctity between Christianity and Islam
Alexander Englert ● Johns Hopkins University, philosophy
Evolving the Highest Good: A Study of a Kantian Idea
Rachael Givens Johnson ● University of Virginia, history
Taught by Senses or Conquered by Words: Baroque and Enlightenment Catholicism in the Spanish Eighteenth Century
Amy Hanes ● Brandeis University, anthropology
Caring for Their Sake: Interspecies Care, Race, and Conservation in Cameroon’s Chimpanzee Sanctuaries
Amy Kennemore ● University of California, San Diego, anthropology
Searching for Indigenous Justice: Navigating the Value of Legal Pluralism in the Uncertain Terrain of the Bolivian Andes
Teresita Lozano ● University of Colorado, Boulder, ethnomusicology
Songs for the Ghosts, Saints for the Undocumented: Mexican Cristero Corridos and Transborder Immigration Discourse
Ariella Messing ● Johns Hopkins University, health policy and management
Hyde and Go Seek Funding: Grassroots Abortion Funds in the United States
Jeffrey Nicolaisen ● Duke University, religion
Equality of Life: Thinking with Multi-Species Relationships in Taiwan
Nasrin Olla ● Cornell University, English
Clamoring for Opacity: Contemporary African American Literature
Heath Pearson ● Princeton University, cultural anthropology
The Carceral Outside: Land Loss & Governance in an American Prison Town
Alix Riviere ● Tulane University, history
Bittersweet Childhoods: Enslaved Youth in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana and Martinique
Douaa Sheet ● The Graduate Center, CUNY, anthropology
The Influence of Differential Conceptions of “Dignity” on Transitional Justice Efforts in Post-uprising Tunisia
Larisa Svirsky ● University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, philosophy
Responsibility and Relationship
Erin Torkelson ● University of California, Berkeley, geography
Taken for Granted: Geographies of Social Welfare in South Africa
Isak Tranvik ● Duke University, political science
Existential Revolution: Democracy, Citizenship, and the Source of Popular Politics
Smriti Upadhyay ● Johns Hopkins University, sociology
Sacrifice, Selflessness, and Struggle: Religious Mobilization and the contemporary Indian Labor Movement
Emily Wright ● Tulane University, history
The Female Apostles of the South: Protestant Women’s Religious Activism in the Antebellum Gulf South