12 anthro students get $285,000 in GC Dissertation Fellowships

This year was a particularly successful harvest for our cultural anthropology Ph.D candidates!

  • Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000)

Zeynep Ozbarlas for “New Age Spirituality in Post-Secular Turkey: Navigating Secular Sensibilities and Neoliberal Ideology”

  • Carell Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000)

Stephanie Cruz De Echeverria Loebell for “Staying – National Ideology and the Experience of Non-migrants in a Historic Region of Migration in Mexico”

  • The Center for Place, Culture and Politics Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000)

Juliana Valente for “Writing Oneself into the Brazilian Nation: The Use of IDs by Criminalized Youth”

  • The Center for Place, Culture and Politics Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000) with Dissertation Year Fellowship ($15,000)

Nikhil Ramachandran for “Alter-Politics of Urban Commoning within Racial Capitalism: An Ethnography”

  • The Committee for Globalization and Social Change Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000) with Dissertation Year Fellowship ($15,000)

Burcu Ozdemir Demir for “Wounded Ecologies: Political Life of Water in Upper Tigris Basin”

  • Dissertation Year Fellowship ($25,000)

Onaiza Arshad for “Mediating National Pasts: Image and Built-Form in Andaroon-Shehr, Lahore”

Karen Hui for “Anxious Futures: Middle Class Parenting in Contemporary China”

Deborah Philip for “Home in the Colony and Postcolony: The Burghers, Sri Lanka and the Longing for Place”

Julian Ross for “Germany’s New Jewish Question: Illiberalism, Secularism, and Religious Difference in Jewish Welfare”

Shibanee Sivanayagam for “Palmyrah Politics: Articulations of Ethnicity, Caste, and Class in Northern Sri Lanka”

Paulo Suárez for “City of Tenants: Finance Capital, Rental Housing, and the Political Subject in Los Angeles”

  • Marilyn J. Gittell Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000)

Emine Busra Unluonen for “Living Irreverently: Aesthetics and Politics of Populism in Turkiye”


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