Overseas_Doctoral Dissertation

Examples of Funded Projects

Imagined Democracies, Nocturnal Communities: The Production of Political Space in Cote d'lvoire; Strategies for Survival: Women, Power, and HIV Risk in Uganda; Spirit Possession in Northern Brazil; The Exus of Umbanda Forest Conservation and Common Property Management in Oaxaca, Mexico; Continuity and Change: Cooperatives in Contemporary Rural China; Strangers in their Homeland: The Ethnic Adaptation of Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants and the Japanese Sociopolitical Response Towards Co-management; Conservation, Indigenous Communities and the Philippine State Disease; Social Change and Gender Among the Huli of Papua New Guinea; Language and Identity in Ukraine: The Politics of Interaction Propaganda vs. "Stalinization" of the Soviet Press, 1922-1930; Commemoration of Nation and Class in Two Palestinian Villages; Educating Ethnicity: Cypriot Conflict and the Revision of History; Education and Youth Culture in Kerala, South India, Trekking Tourism, Traditionalism and Development in a Nepali Village; Women's Political NGOs in the Emerging Democracy of Ghana; and Community Building among Indonesian Transmigrants: The Challenges of Ecological Sustainability and Social Harmony.

Program Accomplishments

In fiscal year 2005, 153 fellowships were awarded to graduate students.