CLIR Names 2018 Mellon Dissertation Fellows
The fellowships are intended to help graduate students in the humanities and related social science fields pursue research wherever relevant sources are available; gain skill and creativity in using primary source materials in libraries, archives, museums, and related repositories; and provide suggestions to CLIR about how such source materials can be made more accessible and useful.
The fellowships carry stipends of up to $25,000 each to support dissertation research for periods ranging from nine to twelve months.
Jessica Bachman
Books Across Borders: Science, Cold War Culture, and Soviet Book Reading in Postcolonial India, 1954-1991
University of Washington
Carly Boxer
It owiþ to be lokid: The Visual Culture of English Medicine, 1348-1450
University of Chicago
Susan Eberhard
Marks of Exchange: American Silver, Chinese Silverwares and the Global Circulation of Value
University of California at Berkeley
Idriss Fofana
The “Chinese Solution” to the Labor Question in Africa: A Legal History of Chinese Labor Migration to the Congo Free State, 1860-1911
Columbia University
Qian He
Spectacular Antagonism: Class Struggle, Exposure, and Cinema as Show Trial in China, 1925-1985
University of Washington
Zhuqing Hu
Music and Qing Imperial Formations (c. 1680-1820): Negotiating Historiography and Ethnography in Global Music History
University of Chicago
Karin Mei Li Inouye
Performing Jiang Qing (1914-1991): Gender Politics in Modern Chinese Visual Culture, Film, Theater, and Literature
Stanford University
Adrienn Kacsor
Migrant Communism: Hungarian Artists in the Service of Soviet Internationalism, 1919-1956
Northwestern University
Mallory Matsumoto
Sharing Script: The Transmission of Scribal Practice Among the Classic Maya
Brown University
Ania Nikulina
Ukrainian Ballet: a Site of Conflict between Neo-Imperialism and Post-Soviet Nationalism
University of California, Riverside
Eilin Perez
The Half-Life of Sovereignty: North Korea and Solidarity Movements of the Global South, 1960- 1989
University of Chicago
Ekaterina Pukhovaia
State-building in Early Modern Zaydi Yemen (15th–early 17th century)
Princeton University
Andrea Rosengarten
Resistance and Racial Fluidity in Colonial Namibia: The Case of Nama Ethnogenesis, c. 1820-1985
Northwestern University
Andrew Starling
"Theological Quarrels and Wars of the Pen": Jansenism, the Rise of Mass Media, and the Fall of the Old Regime
University of Pennsylvania
Antony Wood
The Problem of the Nation in an Age of Revolution: Transnational Radical Debates on Sovereignty, Race, and Class in Latin America, 1923–1934
New York University
